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2006/5/25

Protecting Marriage and Traditional Families: It's time to make a stand

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@ 02:51 PM (42 months, 19 days ago)

Last week, Jack Cafferty gave a short report on CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.  I don't usually watch the news (I prefer to read) and I never watch the Communist News Network because the bias is apparent it is an insult to my intelligence.  Here is the text of Cafferty's comments:                                                                                                                                               

Wolf, Today’s lesson in hypocrisy comes to us courtesy of the Senate Judiciary Committee. They met in a different private room behind closed doors today and approved a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage. at one point the thing got pretty ugly. A shouting match, between the Republican Chairman Senator Arlen Spector and Democratic Senator Russ Feingold, who said he was against the Amendment as well as Spector’s decision to hold the vote in a private room out of the public’s view.

These guys are shameless. Feingold eventually stormed out telling Spector “I’ve enjoyed your lecture Mr Chairman. See ya.”

Senator Spector in a real show of courage, says that he is “totally opposed to the Amendment”, but he voted for it anyway saying that it deserves a debate in the Senate. Majority Leader Bill Frist says the full Senate will now debate a Constitutional Amendment which has absolutely no chance of passing. Frist hopes to have a vote by June 5th.

This is all being done by the republican majority in an effort to appeal to Right-wing nuts in the Republican Party ahead of the upcoming mid-term elections. Ignore all of the pressing issues facing the country, and instead go grovel at the feet of the lunatic fringe. Senator Frist should be very proud of himself. That’s leadership. Here’s the question: Is now the time for the Senate to consider a constitutional Amendment on gay marriage?”

You will notice the fair and balanced treatment given to conservatives on CNN.  Nice.  Definitely, no liberal media bias there...(eye roll)  Here's a fact for Mr. Cafferty, the "lunatic fringe" on the right outnumbers Gay Americans to the extent that your left fringe has to subvert democracy through activist judges to get social approbation.  Let's get real here, Jack!  For a group so enthralled with protecting the disenfranchised, you are perfectly willing to ignore the votes of the large majority of Americans who recognize homosexuality as the social illness that it is.

The simple truth here is this:

This Judiciary Committee approval comes two days after Georgia Superior Court Judge Constance C. Russell single-handedly invalidated the Georgia Marriage Protection Amendment, which was passed by 76% of Georgians at the ballot box. Social engineers of the activist judiciary movement want to remake our nation in their preferred image and they are disenfranchising every voter that disagrees with the far left's anything goes system of ethics and morality.  Click here to speak out for family values.

 

 

2006/5/4

How many same-sex couples are actually getting married?

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@ 05:11 PM (43 months, 9 days ago)

Family Leader has written an interesting article discussing the results of a recent study analyzing same-sex marriage.  Turns out that all that talk about same-sex couples wanting to make a long-term commitment through legalized marriage is even more baseless than Bill Clinton's claims not to have had sex with "that woman".  Check it out:

Same-sex Couples—No Rush to the Altar

Do homosexuals really want to marry?  Does marriage suit the homosexual lifestyle?

Despite the intense push by homosexuals to legalize same-sex "marriage," a recent study shows that very few have made that commitment in the four countries and one American state where it is legal.

A new study by the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, headed by Maggie Gallagher, shows that the percentage of homosexuals opting for "marriage" is small.

In the Netherlands where gay "marriage" was legalized in 2001, between 2.6 percent and 6.3 percent of homosexuals have been "married."  In Belgium, where it was legalized in June 2003, the estimate of same-sex "marriages" is between 1.9 and 4.7 percent.  The study estimates that in Massachusetts (legal since May 2004) between 5.9 and 16.7 percent of homosexuals have been "married."  In British Columbia, Canada, the estimate is between 2.8 and 14.3 percent. 

The figures vary because it is not known precisely how many homosexuals live in each location, but is based on a generous estimate of 5% of the population being homosexual.  If the homosexual population is larger, then the percentage of those who have "married" is even smaller.

"Trend data is extremely limited, but the available data suggest that the number of gay marriages tends to decrease after an initial burst (reflecting pent up demand)," the IMAPP study says. "Whether same-sex marriage will emerge as common or normative among gays and lesbians, or fade as time and novelty passes, cannot yet be determined."

What is clear is that legalizing same-sex "marriage" drastically changes societal norms, undoing the definition of marriage-which has already become fragile in our society where one in three children are born out of wedlock--and altering school curriculums to indoctrinate children into the homosexual lifestyle. Thus, it appears that legalizing same-sex "marriage" is a benefit to few and a detriment to many.