John Fielding
On Saturday, June 20, 2009, the local Democratic Committee pushed the envelope further by voting to support hard-left Senator Daylin Leach's proposed legislation legalizing marriage for gays:
"The following resolution was passed on 6/20/2009 by the Berks County Democratic Committee:
Whereas Senator Daylin Leach recently introduced legislation that would make Pennsylvania the 7th state to legalize marriage equality;
Whereas at the same time, 13 Pennsylvania State Senators, including 2 Democrats, have signed on to John Eichelberger's bill to ban marriage equality;
Whereas both bills, the bill for equality and the bill for discrimination, are seeking more co-sponsors,
We, the members of the Berks County Democratic Committee, urge our State Senators to do two things:
1) Co-sponsor The Marriage Equality Bill (SB 935), and
2) Say no to discrimination and bigotry by refusing to co-sponsor the bill to ban marriage equality.
We, urge our State Senators to co-sponsor Senate Bill 935, a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania. S.B. 935 would allow our state to join ranks with our neighbors in Maine, Vermont, Iowa, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts by offering full and equal marriage rights to same-sex couples in Pennsylvania.
S.B. 935 would not require religious institutions to perform any marriage ceremonies or recognize any marriages that they do not wish to sanction. The legislation would dissolve all of the barriers to building families that gay and lesbian couples currently face, both at the state and federal level.
We also strongly urge our Senators to refuse to co-sponsor Senator Eichelberger's attempt to ban marriage equality and insert discrimination into the Pennsylvania Constitution."
Sorry, life is about discrimination. In fact, "discrimination" is just another word for "choice," another word near and dear to far left extremists, at least with regard to one issue.
Because left-wing extemists are the most anti-choice people in existence. Laws limit choice by definition, and left-wingers are the most legislation and litigation-happy groups I can think of. Every time their knickers get in a bunch about some social cause, nothing must do but that we must pass another law telling some individual or group that they may not choose to do something that is on the current list of liberal no-no's. Only once, in the case of the murder of unborn children, do they suddenly discover a "right-to-choose."
Law legislates morality and, therefore, regulates choice. In this case, it's just a question of whose morality: America's or Sodom's. The Berks Democrats have shown us whose morality they back.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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Poofter?? I wish you Bible-thumpin' morons would leave the GOP. You ruin it for the rest of us. There's nothing conservative about homophobia.
"Homophobia" requires fear. I do not fear them; I simply do not accept what they do. I do not accept homosexuality as a status. To reward perverse behavior with the institution of marriage is treason to the family, one of the bases of society. If the Democrats will not stand up for it, the Republicans must. If you are ashamed of that, I welcome the departure of you and your insignificant minority from the GOP.
It doesn't change the fact that there is nothing conservative about discriminating against people for their private activities that harm no other person. Furthermore, isn't the fact that gays want to get married (i.e. make a life-long committments) instead of having anonymous sex in a bath house or in the bathroom of a gay bar a victory for conservative principles?
With respect to discrimination, I agree that there is nothing peculiarly conservative about it since we all do it. It is simply that the law, in some cases, and political correctness, in others, causes discrimination in service of an unpopular viewpoint to be disallowed, the most "anti-choice" posture one can take.
With respect to it not harming others, if it harms a natural component of society, the family, it harms all of us.
Your last sentence assumes that baptizing any random conglomeration of individuals with the exalted status of "family" is conservative: it is not; it is libertarian. Conservatives and traditionalists note that, to put it crassly, God created Adam and Eve, and not Adam and Steve.
A victory for conservatism would be a recognition of same-sex marriage as the aberration that it is.
Do you really believe that Adam and Eve were real, actual people?
John, just out of curiosity what would you do if a lesbian couple moved into the house next door to you? Would you welcome them to the neighborhood? Would you try to become friendly with them? Invite them over for a barbeque? What if they had children…would you let your kids (I’m assuming you have children) play with them? Or would you totally ignore them or even worse try to get them to move?
Not totally ignore them. I would probably let my children play with theirs since I feel some sense of obligation to help their children grow up as normally as possible under the circumstances. However, that also holds true for children that do not have intact families and other abnormal situations. There are also all degrees of "friendliness," but I would not go out of my way to be unfriendly.
With respect to the "Adam and Eve" issue, why, yes, I do believe they existed. However, this is irrelevant to the point being made.
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