Posted on 12/01/2011 2:28:58 PM PST by Lazlo in PA
A cozy town hall meeting with Michele Bachmann at the Waverly Pizza Ranch in Iowa took a twist Wednesday when a student questioned the GOP presidential contender’s views on same-sex marriage and of what she would do for the gay and lesbian community as president.
“All of us as Americans have the same rights, we have the same civil rights,” Bachmann told 16-year-old Jane Schmidt, who identified herself as a member of the school’s GSA, the alliance advocating for the rights of gay and straight students.
“There shouldn’t be any special rights or any special set of criteria,” Bachmann continued. “We all have the same civil rights. ”
But that didn’t sit well with the student, who said that members of the gay and lesbian community do not have the same rights because they can’t get married.
In response, Bachmann said, “There are no special rights for people based upon your sex practices.”
“There’s no special rights based upon what you do in your sex life. You’re an American citizen first and foremost and that’s it.”
Bachmann reiterated that marriage is between a “man and a woman” and that it is still “the law of the land.”
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I agree that children are malleable, that is why parents are told to bring them up in the care and admonition of the Lord. Consider how whole societies have fallen into deprave behaviors like human sacrifce and canabalism. We have to guard our hearts and minds.
The homosexuals have put words in the kids mouths at these gay alliance clubs. They give them the *talking points* that slick, educated public relations people put together. This gives them an advantage in any discussion with other kids, even adults.
A great change in behavior that has occured in this country is the widespread use of drugs. When I was in highschool in the mid-sixties there were no drugs in the great majority of schools. It was something that was considered fringe behavior and I knew no one who used drugs. Now almost everyone has someone in their extended family that uses drugs. The abnormal became normal.
Consider abortion. I never heard of anyone having an abortion now abortion has reached 50 million. When the Supreme Court put its official seal of approval on the practice it became acceptable to many people. Something that was a crime and considered murder became a *right*.
exactly...I found the “law of the land” approach lacking too.
You could tell by the girl’s face that she was listening to circular logic.
From the girls viewpoint - Michelle says...you don’t have special rights based on your sex practices.
The girl is thinking...but heterosexuals have an “extra” privelege to get married.
Everyone is missing the point.
The very definition of marriage is the union of male/female
You just can’t make it mean the opposite of what it has always meant.
we are slowing turning into a child-producing-non-heterosexual-marriage society.
The young’uns aren’t getting married - they are living together, procreating, fighting, breaking up, moving out, finding another partner,repeat.
It has become the new circle of life.
This new system provides the foster care system with plenty of kids to place into the care of homosexual couples.
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