Posted on 01/28/2006 12:51:09 PM PST by wagglebee
The raging debate over homosexual marriage took another interesting turn this week when Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge M. Brooke Murdock struck down Maryland's state law defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The decision, handed down Jan. 20, claimed that Family Law §2-201 unfairly abridged the fundamental marriage rights of the nine homosexual couples who filed the lawsuit.
Judge Murdock was not satisfied with merely striking down the state statute, however. In her written opinion, the circuit court judge went several steps further by claiming that the prohibition of same-sex marriage in no way "rationally relates to a legitimate state interest." Murdock also dismissed the notion that same-sex marriage has any negative influence on traditional marriages or the nuclear family, or that "tradition and social values alone" can bolster what she deemed a "discriminatory statutory classification."
Regrettably, such rationale neglects one of the most critical elements in the emotionally charged debate over same-sex marriage and homosexual behavior in general public health. As witnessed by Judge Murdock's decision, the issue of health is often turned aside in favor of arguments that hinge more on politics than fact. The problem with such a trend is obvious the health ramifications of homosexual behavior should be at the forefront of the public policy debate, not on the periphery.
That is the principle reason conservatives should concentrate on both the cultural consequences of homosexual behavior and the public health ramifications. Such an argument will be a winner every time, especially when the facts are clearly presented.
For those who doubt, consider the evidence:
These findings are not those of conservative pro-family advocacy groups, but of non-partisan, non-political medical journals and organizations devoted to protecting public health. What conclusion can logically be reached other than that homosexual behavior is both hazardous to the public at large and often deadly to those who practice it?
For those who promote homosexual behavior in the name of love and tolerance, it's time to take a hard look at the facts surrounding the lifestyle. If someone is suffering from terminal cancer, is hiding the diagnosis and potential treatments of the disease the loving thing to do? Homosexuality is a cancer that affects every area of life from the psychological to the spiritual yet the medical facts are commonly swept under the carpet by politically motivated medical organizations and liberalism as a whole.
Those both inside and outside government ranks who truly value human beings created in the image of God will recognize the importance of being candid about the deadly health risks associated with homosexual behavior. Unlike modern interpretations of tolerance, true agape love has the ultimate physical, psychological and spiritual well-being of the individual at heart.
The good news is change is possible, but it starts with honesty. Homosexuality is not a benign lifestyle preference, but a death-sentence made possible by government neglect of public health concerns. Tragically, Judge Murdock's ruling is another despicable example of a jurisprudence that is eroding the public welfare in the name of tolerance.
So very true!! And these same people are working in our hospitals, restaurants, grocery stores, and every other field where fluid and blood are a risk to the public health. Hep B, lives on surfaces for 10 days, unless straight bleach is applied. How many hotels do you know that use that when cleaning...........the entire room! We won't go into parasites that can be found there. And anywhere else they go.
The judicial tyrants are putting the public at risk, every single day in so many ways they can't be counted. As are the Democrats/Libs
"Unfairly"? "abridged the fundamental MARRIAGE RIGHTS of...homosexual COUPLES..."?
I'm just a poor layperson here but as to my understanding of law, does not there have to be a PRECEDENT upon which a decision such as this is based? And where is that if there even IS one? I so far have not ever heard of any popular vote that agreed to "marriage rights" of/for "homosexual couples" that could even be "abriged", much less were abriged. And what represents "unfairly" as to how those nonexistent "marriage rights" for these "homosexual couples" were "abriged"?
This sort of nonsense is exactly why this WOMAN ("judge") and those similar set into stone the awful stereotypes about women and women's stereotypical "inability to reason logically". Because THIS ONE certainly can't and yet, there she is, "judging" away.
And yet, such a decision she's wrought! Can anything be any more NON sensical than what she's done here? Overthrown the decision determine by THE VOTERS by mere subjective distemper? Please, a larger group of very potent and intelligent attorneys, please sue whoever it takes to set this aright.
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