"As Rob Portman demonstrated Friday, coming out in support of gay marriage, it's one thing when it's other people's kids. Other people did not raise them correctly. Other people did not play Mozart to them in the womb and force educational puzzles on them. Other people gave them too much sugar at mealtimes and did not teach them the Golden Rule. If your son makes noise on an airplane, it is because his ears are having difficulty adjusting to the altitude. If other people's children make noise on airplanes, it is because they are tiny menaces who should be shut down at any cost. If other people's children want to get married to their significant others and have the same rights as anyone -- well, that is too bad for them. If yours do, that's quite different.
You raised them right."*
Republican Rob Senator has changed his mind about gay marriage after his son came out. Is this a victory? Or an example of Republican selfishness? Why didn't gay rights matter until it was personal? Do Republicans lack an "empathy chip?" Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz (Host, Turner Classic Movies), and John Iadarola (Host, TYT University) discuss.
You can sugar coat a big pile of shit and call it anything you want, but it's still a big pile of shit! If marriage was the only thing these radical degenerates wanted they'd take their trophy and go home, but it's not all they are after, marriage with the same sex is just the beginning of their perverted demands, and a pandora's box they will wish they had never opened. ~ jmho! Murron
Phil Burress, head of Citizens for Community Values, the Cincinnati-based group that led the successful 2004 campaign to ban gay marriage in Ohio, sent out an email saying,
“As the military prepares for war, so must we!” The missive contains a picture of a wedding cake topped by two tuxedo-clad men.
“The homosexual activists have begun a petition campaign to repeal the Ohio 2004 Marriage Amendment that defines marriage between one man and one woman and replace it with verbiage to legalize same-sex marriage in Ohio,” Burress said.
He added that more is at stake than marriage, however, including:
“allowing homosexuality and same-sex marriage to be taught in the public schools beginning in the first grade ...
people to be fired from their jobs for expressing religious objections to same- sex marriage ...
and churches and religious people who don’t believe in same-sex marriage to be demonized, harassed and threatened.”
The German Nazis used to spew the same scapegoating crap about the variety of people they wanted to get people to fear. Get people afraid, then they might be willing to swallow a whole political agenda.
Creating a scapegoat and wedge issue to pry people from common sense is an old game. I support marriage for all who want it, and don't begrudge people for the love they have for another human being.
