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Bush's gay-marriage tack risks clash with his base (and a poll)
usa today ^ | 12/17/03

Posted on 12/17/2003 8:08:22 PM PST by knak

Edited on 04/13/2004 1:41:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antifamily; culturewar; family; familynotvillage; gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; homosexualvice; marriage; prisoners; protectmarriage; protectthefamily; romans1; sin; vicenotvirture; westerncivilization
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To: Howlin
"Now I see it's an Unappeasable."


. . . 'nuf said!!
21 posted on 12/17/2003 9:44:00 PM PST by DrDeb
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To: AdequateMan
If we ignore this, we are no different from the Ayatollahs of Iran.

Concerning issues of sex, some people on this forum aren't any different from the Ayatollahs

They'd love to have the government prosecute people for premarital sex, adultery, gay sex, having dirty pictures, doing it in unusual positions , etc

22 posted on 12/17/2003 9:46:28 PM PST by WackyKat
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To: DrDeb
better quit while you are behind "dr", littlejeremiah has you pegged IMHO.

I am glad that you think the President has a good heart on this issue. I think so too. But a good heart vis-vi beliefs without a good heart vis-a-vi the courage to risk some political capital advancing those good beliefs is no help at all. Its moral cowardice.

We will see what he will do.
23 posted on 12/17/2003 9:50:05 PM PST by Ahban
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To: little jeremiah
What exactly did W say to make you people flip out like this. :/
24 posted on 12/17/2003 9:56:06 PM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: AdequateMan
Your arguments, although they sound logical and reasonable, are not. Here are the reasons why:

I think the use of a term like "sodomite" is fine for a religious discussion, but its use in a political discussion destroys any notion of reasonable discourse, and is the type of labeling usually used by liberals to prevent disagreeing voices from being heard.

Think about how liberals use terms like homophobe, bigot, insensitive, neo-con and others.

Although I agree that "sodomite" is not a useful term for political discussion, it is not for the reasons you cited. It is a loaded term, which riles the pro-sodomites into conniption fits of hatred. Why, you might ask? Because it is merely truthful and descriptive. A sodomite is one who practices sodomy. Cut and dried. The words "homophobe, bigot" etc are a different class of words. Homophobe is an invented word, to shut up the opposition. Bigot is a real word, but used in an dishonest way, for the sole purpose of painting anyone who disagrees with the "gay" agenda as a KKK type.

By using the term "sodomite" you have done the same thing.

You are placing yourself on the pro-homosexual agenda side with this statement, although you may not mean to be. See my explanations above.

Personally, I consider myself a true constitutional conservative.

If you are a true constitutional conservative, then the founders of this country must have all been lunatics, since up until the advent of the homosexual activist movement, anyone espousing the thought of same sex marriage would have been scorned and perhaps been placed in a mental institution.

The way I see it, if heterosexual marriage can provide for legal benefit such as shared household health coverage or death benefits and the legal sharing of resources without probate and wills, then the constitution must extend these same rights to others.

So according to your logic, all these benefits should also be available to anygroup of people who want them. Why limit it to two men or two women? Why can't they be related by blood? Why can't it be available to three or five or ten people?

. Think about this- if you can limit the rights or privileges of groups you disagree with simply because you are in the majority,

How in he!! are anyone's rights being limited? If you agree with the "gay" activists that their rights are being denied, then you must think that mere behavior constitutes a group that then can moan about their rights being denied. Today it's homosexuals, tomorrow it will be polygamists, then pedophiles. It's in the workds already.

then 20 years from now when the world is godless and lost, will you idly accept it when religious or heterosexual monogamous people's access to services is restricted?

Services? What do you mean? Religious services? If the government starts interfering with religous services then it's immediately the second Civil War.

is that in the constitutional republic the majority MAY NOT use its influence to restrict or disallow privileges to the other groups.

Yes, but that word "groups" has never before been twisted to mean an amorphous group based solely on their perverse sexual desires and acts.

If Madison saw fit to make our country a model after God's own creation, with freedom rather than restriction,

You are being extremely disingenuous (or ill-educated) to bring in Madison - if he were here to speak for himself, I very much doubt he would step up in favor of two men marrying each other because they are addicted to anal sex.

then who the hell do you think you are to throw it away and go with mob rule?

So maintaining some basic standards of traditional morality and support of the natural family is now "mob rule"??? You're getting carried away here.

If we ignore this, we are no different from the Ayatollahs of Iran.

Ah, now we're Ayatollahs, because we want to continue in accepting "marriage" to mean "marriage" and not change it to mean "two men having anal sex but very likely not even being monogamous" or "two women doing strange things with implements and one of them being artifically inseminated".

(Sorry for the length, anyone who reads this, but his points cried out for a rebuttal.)

25 posted on 12/17/2003 9:57:16 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: DrDeb
Your reply to baxter999 appeared to me as though you were supported the "gay" agenda, since he appeared to be in opposition to sodomy disguised as marriage. I take back what I said if you are opposed to "gay" marriage and the rest of the list. I jumped the gun with my criticism, apparently, for which I apologize.
26 posted on 12/17/2003 10:00:58 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: Constantine XIII
There are zealots here who claim to be fighting the homosexual agenda. In doing so there is no right or benefit they would "allow" individual homosexuals. They paint them all with ths same brush. They have posted psuedoscience and will try to overwhelme you with "facts" if you disagree.

Their ping list is long, but they all sound like the same person. Many who disagree with them just ignore them, but some of us like to point out their fanaticism from time to time so that casual readers will know that freepers are not all extremists.

27 posted on 12/17/2003 10:03:20 PM PST by breakem
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To: breakem; Constantine XIII; scripter; EdReform
Just to let you know (Constantine), breakem for some reason can't tolerate those of us on FR (which includes the owner of this forum, BTW) who are opposed to the promotion of the homosexual agenda. There is a wealth of information about the dangers of same sex acts, the miseries attendent to it, the dangers to children raised by two people of the same sex acting as parents, the psychopathology of same sex attraction, and so on.

Breakem - you get mad and criticize scripter and others, but never have I seen you present any information supporting your support of the homosexual agenda. You call us fanatics and haters and so on, but you don't provide any factual rebuttals.

I and scripter and others here do not hate homosexuals. The opposite. I wish them to become happy people and I hope they stop trying to destroy the natural institution of the family, which will hasten the destruction of our civilization. As said very clearly today by Mike Savage. He pointed out that right after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, one of the first things the communists did was try to dismantle the institution of family - they wanted the children to be raised by the state. Same thing with Hitler - he wanted to destroy the authority of the parents, through Hitler Youth, pure Aryan breeding farms where the future Nazi homosexual militaristic elite would be conceived.

Michaelangelo Signorile - a noted spokesman for the "gay" intelligentsia, and a contributor to the NY Times, has written that the homosexuals really could care less about matrimony. He admits that their real desire to have same sex marriage is to destroy the meaning of marriage and family, to usher in a pan-sexual free for all, and in order to do this, children need to be influenced by homosexuals from an early age. Therefore natural mother/father family life has to be destroyed. This is his admitted reason, not my imagining.
28 posted on 12/17/2003 10:16:05 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah
You're ridiculous. Let's take your last paragraph. I know two women who married each other in their church. They have a 3 year old girl who seems well mannered and well adjusted. Is it their motivation to destroy marriage or do they just love each other and the girl? The point is, you don't know them and you quote some guy who claims to know what motivates homosexuals to get married. Do you know how ignorant and extreme you are.

The point is I don't oppose everything some homosexuals want. If they want to serve in the army, no problem. If they want to come to the local grammer school and pick kids out of the herd to be their sex slaves. Of course not!

I've said this before and I'll repeat it with the hope you will finally understand. The country is based upon individual rights and responsibilities. The "agenda" is not the agenda for all homosexuals. Many items were proposed by what many homosexuals consider to be extremists. You can't lump all people into one category and then rail against them all. It's unamerican, disingenuos and immoral, as far as I'm concerned.

Many of us on this site who understand your problem have stopped bothering to post against your onslaught of false science and fanaticism. I chose to log in every now and then and point out what you are doing.

29 posted on 12/17/2003 10:26:48 PM PST by breakem
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To: breakem
Many who disagree with them just ignore them, but some of us like to point out their fanaticism from time to time so that casual readers will know that freepers are not all extremists.

No...just homo apologists...right breakem?

30 posted on 12/17/2003 10:29:06 PM PST by I got the rope (FANATICAL FREEPER JIHAD!)
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To: little jeremiah
PS stand up for your own beliefs and stop calling for help everytime you get opposed.
31 posted on 12/17/2003 10:29:37 PM PST by breakem
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To: little jeremiah
I and scripter and others here do not hate homosexuals. The opposite. I wish them to become happy people and I hope they stop trying to destroy the natural institution of the family, which will hasten the destruction of our civilization. As said very clearly today by Mike Savage. He pointed out that right after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, one of the first things the communists did was try to dismantle the institution of family - they wanted the children to be raised by the state. Same thing with Hitler - he wanted to destroy the authority of the parents, through Hitler Youth, pure Aryan breeding farms where the future Nazi homosexual militaristic elite would be conceived.

So if we allow gay marriage, we'll all end up on breeding farms, producing homosexual Aryan babies for an army of Nazi Super-Soldiers

Wow

32 posted on 12/17/2003 10:30:52 PM PST by WackyKat
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To: breakem; little jeremiah
It's unamerican, disingenuos and immoral, as far as I'm concerned.

ROTFLMAO!

33 posted on 12/17/2003 10:31:20 PM PST by I got the rope (FANATICAL FREEPER JIHAD!)
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To: WackyKat
Watch out, you'll be labeled an "apologist."
34 posted on 12/17/2003 10:31:49 PM PST by breakem
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To: breakem; WackyKat
Worse...maybe a sodomite.
35 posted on 12/17/2003 10:33:17 PM PST by I got the rope (FANATICAL FREEPER JIHAD!)
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To: breakem
Obviously some people who self-identify as "homosexuals" are just useful idiots to the activists. But I have read Michaelangelo Signorile - have you?
36 posted on 12/17/2003 10:39:37 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: breakem
Many of us on this site who understand your problem have stopped bothering to post against your onslaught of false science and fanaticism.

I know I've gotten in my share of tussles with folks who want to turn the clock back to 1965 on how our society deals with homosexuality. The point of this thread is, (or at least originally was) what political consequences will follow from the President's statements on gay marriage. He needs the far right to rattle sabers at him, this shows the folks in the middle (whose votes he really needs badly) that he's not overreacting. The thing that makes them the most fearful is the establishment of a theocracy, of the kind that those who decry homosexual "agendas" would be quite comfortable with, if adopted.

Bush knows that every vote in the middle that he can capture is a vote taken away from Howard Dean, if the religious right chooses on principle to not give him their vote, at least he knows it doesn't go to Howie. However, I'm pretty confident that despite all the moaning and griping about what Bush has not given the religious right, they will go into that voting booth remembering all that he did give them, and how very little they got during the eight year reign of Slick.

37 posted on 12/17/2003 10:40:33 PM PST by hunter112
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To: breakem
I just figured they might want to say something about the topic. I am doing a ping list for a while... do I have your permission?
38 posted on 12/17/2003 10:42:06 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: WackyKat
I am giving examples of socialist agendas in the past who have wanted to gain control (did gain control) and one of their methods was to destroy the family, which is the foundation of civilization. The gay agenda, when studied, is socialist in goal and method.
39 posted on 12/17/2003 10:44:32 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: baxter999
Personally, I'll support any conservative candidate - even a 3rd party one - before Bush will get my vote.

And that will mean one less vote needed for Dean to move into the White House.

Brilliant strategy.

40 posted on 12/17/2003 10:45:00 PM PST by Tamzee (Pennsylvanians for Bush! Join http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PA4BushCheney/)
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