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Tammy Bruce: Respecting Marriage and Equal Rights
FrontPage Magazine.com ^
| February 25, 2004
| Tammy Bruce
Posted on 02/25/2004 12:22:52 PM PST by EveningStar
Whoever thought that there would be actual voiced concerns about men in America wanting to marry their goats? Is there something going on in our great Heartland that Ive missed? Instead of The L Word does Showtime have a special series just for the Midwest called "The G Word"?
Of course not.
But the debate over the idea of gay marriage has brought out concerns by one extremist end that it will lead to people marrying their livestock to Gay Gestapo charges of homophobic bigotry against those opposed to same-sex nuptials.
Neither accusation is valid, so as an independent gay woman, I think its time to make a few things clear. First of all, despite what you hear from the Gay Elite, there is not a consensus in the gay community about this issue. We do not all operate in the cultural or political equivalent of a Vulcan mind-meld.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: gaymarriage; homosexual; homosexualagenda; marriage; prisoners; samesexmarriage; tammybruce
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To: EveningStar
"...there is not a consensus in the gay community about this issue" In other words, some of them want it.
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posted on
02/25/2004 12:29:40 PM PST
by
HarleyD
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To: HarleyD
"...marrying their livestock" that is...
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posted on
02/25/2004 12:31:06 PM PST
by
HarleyD
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To: EveningStar
Clearly, the Constitution should be amended as a last resort. ] I agree, Tammy. However, because of a few activist judges and government officials, it now looks like amending the Constitution is the only resort.
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posted on
02/25/2004 12:32:02 PM PST
by
jackbill
To: EveningStar
All the arguments about a "rush to amend" the Constitution are nothing more than a smokescreen.
The process takes years.
First both houses of Congress have to pass it by a 2/3 majority.
Then 3/4, 38 of 50, states have to ratify it.
This process is hardly a rush and personally, while I want to protect traditional marriage, I don't think this amendment will happen.
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posted on
02/25/2004 12:39:05 PM PST
by
Columbine
(Bush '04 - Owens '08)
To: EveningStar
How seriously can any of us take the presidents vow to protect the sanctity of marriage when Britney Spears indulges in it for 5 minutes in Vegas? Britney's stunt devalued only Britney, not marriage. If we are to use that argument then it's time to condemn alcohol because of Ted Kennedy.
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posted on
02/25/2004 12:47:30 PM PST
by
Lizavetta
(Savage is right - extreme liberalism is a mental disorder.)
To: little jeremiah
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02/25/2004 12:49:52 PM PST
by
EdReform
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To: EveningStar
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02/25/2004 12:57:11 PM PST
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EdReform
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To: Peach
Ping
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02/25/2004 1:00:43 PM PST
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EdReform
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To: EdReform
Thanks for the Bruce ping.
Considering her book dealt so well with the radical gay agenda and their grab for our children, I'm disappointed she didn't address that issue in this column.
Certainly marriage will give a legitimacy to the radical gays who want to adopt children and I think that's dangerous.
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posted on
02/25/2004 1:20:21 PM PST
by
Peach
(The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
To: Peach
Agreed
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02/25/2004 1:24:44 PM PST
by
EdReform
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To: *Homosexual Agenda; EdReform; scripter; GrandMoM; backhoe; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; saradippity; ...
Tammy Bruce, pro and con - Homosexual Agenda ping.
Too bad she doesn't go into reparative therapy. She'd become a stronger, happier person.
If anyone wants on/off this ping list, ping me.
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posted on
02/25/2004 1:33:49 PM PST
by
little jeremiah
(...men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters.)
To: Columbine
I don't have time to research it, but my recollection is that most Amendments successfully attached to the Constitution didn't take a huge amount of time from passage in Congress to approval by the states.
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posted on
02/25/2004 1:44:36 PM PST
by
AFPhys
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To: AFPhys
Here's a link to a summary of the process for each of the amendments.
http://www.usconstitution.net/constamnotes.html A few took less than a year, some took 1-2 years and some took even longer. That time added to the process of being passed by a 2/3 majority in both houses of Congress doesn't add up to a "rush" to me.
The process is daunting. If 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of the states are willing in any situation then an amendment is in order.
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posted on
02/25/2004 1:56:55 PM PST
by
Columbine
(Bush '04 - Owens '08)
To: EveningStar
There oughtta be a rule....
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posted on
02/25/2004 2:05:35 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: EveningStar
the only thing that will make gay people whole is personal acceptance of ourselves by ourselves Jesus Christ as their personal savior
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posted on
02/25/2004 2:06:50 PM PST
by
Warren_Piece
(Evil grows and builds and eventually hits America)
To: EveningStar
Part of the fight for gay marriage is based in Sullivans lamentthat it is only governmental recognition of who are that will make us whole. Lets get realthe only thing that will make gay people whole is personal acceptance of ourselves by ourselves. Instead, we are still looking to Mommy or Daddy, now in the form of Society, to tell us were okay to sanctify, if you will, our lives and relationships. The lady seems to have analyzed it correctly. I think this is the major part - forced acceptance and "celebration" by unwilling others.
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posted on
02/25/2004 3:12:40 PM PST
by
jimt
To: EveningStar
"Neither accusation is valid"
I'm sure when people said the same thing about homosexual marriage at one point too.
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02/25/2004 3:16:02 PM PST
by
MEGoody
To: lentulusgracchus
Ping
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posted on
02/25/2004 4:34:26 PM PST
by
EdReform
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