Marriage Update

Catholic Exchange ^ | March 5, 2005 | Russell Shaw

[NYer]

People who understand how bad an idea same-sex “marriage” really is owe a debt of gratitude to New York City trial court Judge Doris Ling-Cohan. Just when interest in a constitutional amendment to ban homosexual marriage seemed to be flagging, Judge Ling-Cohan's in-your-face ruling that homosexuals have a right to marry in the state pumped energy into the amendment drive.

That aside, nevertheless, Bush's reading of the current situation must be taken seriously. He put it like this:

The point is...that senators have made it clear that so long as DOMA [the Defense of Marriage Act] is deemed constitutional, nothing will happen. I'd take their admonition seriously.

DOMA is Clinton-era federal legislation enacted in 1996 to immunize states against having to recognize homosexual marriages performed in other states that allow them. (So far, Massachusetts is the only one.) Bush's point was that as long as DOMA stands, a significant number of senators will leave it at that and not attempt to amend the Constitution. The announcement that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) would be a sponsor of the amendment doesn't alter that.

DOMA is a states'-rights approach. States that want to recognize homosexual marriage can do so; states that don't, don't have to. Hardly an ideal solution, but better than nothing. But will DOMA stand in the face of legal challenges by homosexual rights groups? That's far from certain.

Note that President Bush also said of the constitutional amendment, "I do believe it's necessary." Like many other people, he realizes that the Defense of Marriage Act could be overturned by activist courts — eventually, perhaps the Supreme Court itself — gung-ho to force a newly discovered constitutional right to gay marriage on the nation.

So far it hasn't happened. Last month, in fact, US District Court Judge James S. Moody in Tampa, Florida, upheld DOMA in the first direct test of the law. But the homosexual rights groups will press on with other court cases and appeals.

Things like Judge Ling-Cohan's well-publicized decision in New York simply heighten the pressure for gay marriage. Note, by the way, that New York City's Republican Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, will appeal the ruling but supports homosexual marriage himself. This is called having your cake and offending everybody.

And the Supreme Court? Less than two years ago, it struck down state laws against sodomy, even as Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy offered assurances this had no bearing whatsoever on same-sex marriage. Who said Supreme Court justices have no sense of humor?

Currently the court is resting on its oars. It lately turned down a case challenging gay marriage in Massachusetts and another challenging a Florida ban on adoptions by same-sex couples. But don't be deceived — the Supreme Court will re-enter this thicket when it thinks the time is ripe. A case or cases testing the constitutionality of DOMA could be the occasion.

"There's one national goal, and that is to make sure Congress defeats any form of constitutional amendment seeking to prohibit same-sex marriage," the head of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Matt Foreman, told the Washington Post. Are the White House and the Senate listening? They should.

[NYer]

Russell Shaw is a freelance writer from Washington, D.C. You can email him at RShaw10290@aol.com.

[NYer]

Vatican Document On Homosexual Unions

“Homosexual unions are totally lacking in the biological and anthropological elements of marriage and family which would be the basis, on the level of reason, for granting them legal recognition. Such unions are not able to contribute in a proper way to the procreation and survival of the human race. The possibility of using recently discovered methods of artificial reproduction, beyond involving a grave lack of respect for human dignity,(15) does nothing to alter this inadequacy.”
CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING PROPOSALS TO GIVE LEGAL RECOGNITION TO UNIONS BETWEEN HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS

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[DirtyHarryY2K]

Homosexual Agenda Ping.

"There's one national goal, and that is to make sure Congress defeats any form of constitutional amendment seeking to prohibit same-sex marriage," the head of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Matt Foreman, told the Washington Post.

Because same-sex marriage is the key that will legalize and legitimize homosexual behavior. I can see it now, Kids coming home from school with literature celebrating "national gay pride month"

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[gidget7]

An Amendment would remove the "right" of the SC to hear cases regarding marriage. It is needed, desparately! If anyone doubts that, look at Canada and what they are having to go through now.

[whipitgood]

May I caption your photo?
"Hey Lot, send out those two men so we can have sex with them!"

[little jeremiah]

Gackk...now I have to go read something inspirational for an hour before I go to sleep to clean my mind off.

Amazing how the actual reality of the "gay" life is nothing like what they represent it to be for public consumption. But the water the frog is sitting in sure is getting hot.

[Mockingbird For Short]

Can't help but think of the sex-change operations I saw on TV last night--- the men who "became" women. HA! Unless a man can change himself sufficiently that he can have monthly periods, cramps, and go back far enough in time, say, to like 4 years old, and go through all the happy AND extremely difficult experiences that both prepubescence and adolescence entail for a girl, he will NEVER be a woman. (And I'm sure the opposite is true as well.)

[SaltyJoe]

Another distressing thing is that abortion still exists in spite of the pro-life movement. All it takes is for the judges to reverse this abomination. God is handing us over to our sin that we will reap what we've sown (and haven't sown, ie birth doctors to cure AIDS, cancer, etc.; birthing those who would be our true love; birthing people that would compliment our lives). I pray His Mercy spares the sorrowful, and that I may have a heart that loves as He Loves.

[gidget7]

He will also be forever genetically a male, no matter how many operations he has.