Posted on 06/18/2005 9:11:53 AM PDT by 26lemoncharlie
Demanding AFL-CIO drop resolution backing same-sex marriage
Pro-family groups are joining forces to demand labor unions rescind a recent resolution backing same-sex marriage.
The groups sent a letter to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, asserting the resolution threatens the rights of workers who support traditional marriage and families, reported Agape Press.
The AFL-CIO Executive Committee's March 3 resolution, which labor officials unanimously adopted, opposes federal and state constitutional amendments to define marriage exclusively as a union between a man and a woman.
The resolution reiterates the AFL-CIO's "longstanding support for the full inclusion and equal rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the workplace and society."
The Executive Committee says a federal Marriage Protection Amendment and its state counterparts "threaten the rights of working people by creating an environment across the nation that is hostile to the rights of domestic partners, regardless of their sexual orientation."
But the coalition of pro-family leaders contends it's the AFL-CIO that is threatening the rights of its workers who support traditional marriage and families.
American Family Association chairman Don Wildmon says the family values advocates who signed the letter to the national labor organization are united in their purpose "to protect one-man, one-woman marriage and defend the precious liberties of faithful Americans who belong to an AFL-CIO-affiliated union."
The family groups believe a majority of workers would vehemently oppose the resolution.
Addressing Sweeney, the pro-family leaders write: "We firmly believe that the overwhelming majority of dues-paying union members who finance the national AFL-CIO and its organizational, political and lobbying activities strongly oppose so-called homosexual 'marriage' as well as the broader political agenda of homosexual and 'transgender' activists."
The coalition also is concerned that under the resolution, union dues and fees collected as a condition of employment could be used to help pay for political and lobbying activities designed to advance homosexual and transgender activists agendas.
The coalition wants the Executive Committee to rescind the resolution at the AFL-CIO's upcoming July 25-28 annual convention in Chicago.
The coalition, with more than three dozen national and state organizations, includes the heads of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Catholic Vote, the Coalition of African American Pastors and a number of Christian television and radio networks.
Several prominent religious and conservative leaders are represented, including Beverly LaHaye of the Beverly LaHaye Institute, Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation, Janet Folger of Faith2Action, and Linda Chavez, who was President Bush's original nominee for secretary of Labor.
The letter's other signatories include three Christian legal foundations, seven AFA state affiliates and half a dozen affiliates of James Dobson's Focus on the Family.
Among the Focus on the Family affiliates is Citizens for Community Values in Cincinnati, led by former AFL-CIO union negotiator Phil Burress.
Burress's successful Ohio marriage amendment was widely credited with helping President Bush win the crucial swing state in the November 2004 presidential election.
In their letter, the pro-family leaders insisted that on the issue of marriage, they speak for most of the union federation's 13 million members. The coalition cited polls indicating a strong majority of union households last year voted in favor of state marriage protection amendments, which were approved by voters in 14 states, including heavily unionized states such as Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, Oregon and Nevada.
The pro-family leaders have a countermeasure prepared in case the Executive Committee refuses to rescind the resolution.
The signatories say they are committed to ensure that legal counsel and representation will be provided at no charge to any union members who withhold funding from the national AFL-CIO and its affiliate unions as a response to the resolution.
What I want to see is a Teamster in a dress.
It's hard to see what AFC-CIO gains by this. There can't be all that many same-sex couples in the unions, that it would be worth adding to contract demands that are already putting union members out of work.
Weird.
What AFL-CIO?
Aren't they midway through a meltdown?
What other evidence is needed that unions are just socialist fronts. What does homosexuality have to do with workers rights, as workers? Next they will demand no work assignments where they might get a run in their hose.
The unions, including all government workers, the MSM, foreign campaign contributions (I include Soros as a foreigner), the Campaign Finance Law, illegal aliens, dead voters, and on and on that support the Democrats. It is a miracle we defeat those people.
What does homosexuality have to do with workers rights, as workers?
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It has nothing to do with "Workers Rights", because they don't plan on working very long. They do plan to get medical and DISABILITIY benefits for their HIV probabilities and Psychological Problems! This is all caused by their inappropriate and unacceptable lifestyles. We are being FORCED to take care of them! That's the goal!
I agree that is part of the goal. I think the larger goal is a socialist USA taking care of everybody and taxing those filthy rich people. The fact that they will eliminate rich people is a bridge they will cross later. That may even force them into full fledged Communism, something they are reluctant to do. Wink, wink.
I agree with that:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1425902/posts?page=24#24
Thanks for the link. Excellent thread. Yesterday, oops, Friday, the House passed an amendment to the State Department appropriations bill forbidding the U.S. from accepting or participating in any UN tax on American citizens. The UN apparently intends to try to pass a global tax on all countries to support itself.
This is just the beginning for the Taxing powers of the UN. This is the initial shift of th eNew World Order. Once that becomes the NORM, then there will be other NORMS and just as they have eroded away our rights to freedom of speech with the HATE CRIME LAWS, other laws will be enacted or old laws ignored for the New World Order Interpretaion. Sound familiar???
The US Constitution will become irrelevant. The Already Failed European Constitution, which states that the citizen rights come from the Government unlike the US Constution, which states that our Unalienable Rights come from GOD. There is quite a difference their!!
So, we are basically right around the corner from the New World Order. Now we can see why the AL Gore's of the Left Wing Movement go balistic with the election of GW Bush, and the Iraqi War. It threw them way off schedule. We had all been lulled into a sort of somnambulistic stupor in the land of Cumbayah!!! I love you, You Love me!! 9/11 was the Alarm clock!
What would AL Gore have done to find our enemies, go to the UN!!! That would have been handled with a flair of Clintonesqu diplomacy and we would have been the JOKE!!!
It's getting to be time that these US Senators and Representatives start being concerned about being Americans and not just paying us, the American People, lip service.
Sorry Mod, wrong thread for POST 9, please pu;; it if yyou can. Thanks!
You and I are observing the same events and see the same plot behind them. FDR/Truman were interrupted by Eisenhower, LBJ by Nixon, Carter by Reagan, Clinton by Bush, yet the progress of the left has been steady and relentless. This time they seem to be in a balls to the wall, no holds barred kamakaze mode as if it is really do or die for them. I think it is more likely do or die for us. They have the ball on the one yard line and are in a frenzy to get it across the goal.
For half the American public common sense seems to have flown. I suppose it is easy to understand when the Democrats have no scrupples, foreign money in the form of Soros and foreign governments (I doubt the Chinese and Indonesians abruptly stopped after the '96 election), almost the entire media, the school systems from top to bottom, the labor unions from the private and public sectors, the majority of the minorities, all of Hollywood and much of the entertainment and music industry, are all working to impose the agenda of the left. That leaves half of America with the help of the internet and talk radio as the David fighting Goliath. It is amazing that we have done as well as we have
However, now is the time for us to work harder than ever as it may be our last shot.
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