Mt. Soledad Memorial Another Win
Posted on 08/04/2006 3:20:58 AM PDT by restornu
"Yes, Virginia. There is a slippery slope." Same-sex marriage advocates claim that their agenda won't deconstruct marriage for all of us. Not so. A revealing website called Beyond Marriage lays out a plan, approved by 250 scholars, to undo marriage.
They write, "Marriage is not the only worthy form of family or relationship, and it should not be legally and economically privileged above all others." Translation: Marriage should lose its protected status in our society.
1- "Legal recognition for a wide range of relationships, households and families-regardless of kinship or conjugal status." Translation: Legalize polygamy and polyamory (multiple and simultaneous sexual partners) as well as other relationships.
2- Separation of church and state in all matters, including regulation and recognition of relationships, households and families. Translation: Make marriage strictly a religious institution not protected and encouraged by the state.
3- Freedom from state regulation of our sexual lives and gender choices, identities and expression. Translation: Pedophiles go free. Prostitution not illegal.
Instead of "one-size-fits-all marriage" as they call it, they seek recognition for any number of unions including:
1- Children being raised in multiple households or by unmarried parents. Translation: Stability and commitment are things of the past.
2- Households in which there is more than one conjugal partner. Translation: The more the merrier.
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For 17 years, the ACLU has fought to remove the 29-foot Mount Soledad war memorial in San Diego because it is shaped like a cross. Wednesday night, the Senate voted unanimously to transfer the land beneath the Mount Soledad war memorial to federal control in an effort to avoid a court-ordered removal of the cross. The House earlier in July also voted overwhelmingly for this move. The legislation preserves the cross by vesting title to the federal government, so the embattled city will no longer be the target of the lawsuit. Instead the Department of Defense will manage the monument. Expect to see the ACLU now move to sue the Pentagon for the removal of the cross. For now, however, we have a win, and we are grateful that grassroots groups have arisen so that men and women who have served in war can continue to be memorialized. Child Custody Protection Act Still Held Hostage
The public, the House of Representatives, and the Senate all agree with healthy bi-partisan majorities that minor children shouldn't be transported across state lines in order to have secret abortions. Yet, as soon as the bill passed in the Senate, including 14 Democrats who voted for the bill, the Democratic caucus killed the bill by blocking it from being referred to the conference committee. Thursday morning, with the clock ticking before the bill is killed by this procedural maneuver, Senator Frist called again for consent to send the bill to conference. A bill that has passed the House and Senate in different versions must go to conference for the differences to be reconciled before it is sent to the President for signature.
Go figure. Senator Harry Reid voted for the bill, but now is a spokesman to block it.
Perhaps he can always claim, "I voted for this bill, before I voted against it."
Marcus Brutus or is that Judas Iscariot I guess either one will work!
The whole mess of court ordered legalized abortion, sodomy, partial birth abortion, civil unions, started with Griswold vs. Connecticut 1965 which declared birth control a right to married couples. Planned Parenthood brought the suit. Scotus found the right hidden under penumbras and emanations of the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 9th Amendments. We've already slid down the slope, there is little left in the ride to polygamy, etc.
What are the primary reasons given by supporters of same-sex "marriage"? Given that anyone can share living quarters with anyone else, what are people demanding when they demand that government officially bless their "union"?
Human Rights Campaign is one of the leading advocacy groups for homosexuals. On their web page "Top 10 Reasons for Civil Marriage", the number one reason is:
"There are at least 1,049 protections, benefits and responsibilities extended to married couples under federal law,"
And in listing the most important of those 1,049 are ones relating to money: taxes, fringe benefits, Social Security, and estate taxes.
(ref: http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Center&CONTENTID=13886&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm)
If it were not for the fact that government has intruded in our lives via the income tax system, there would be far less compelling reasons to support homosexual civil unions.
When government taxes something, like income, and then decides to grant exemptions, exclusions, credits and protections for people who are "married", it must define exactly who is married and who is not, who is a spouse, who is a offspring, who is a heir, who is included and who is excluded.
Because of the sheer impact of these definitions and rules, they are adopted as the standard by every minor party: the state tax regulations follow the federal, as does the local tax authority. Worse, employers and the employer's insurance company uses these definitions.
Who gets blessed by tax exemption of fringe benefits and who does not is a matter more of the Tax Code and IRS implementing regulations than of any other source.
As George Washington famously said, "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." Supporters of big and Bigger government are responsible for the demands of those wanting "civil unions". And Bigger Government is not possible without the present tax system.
This is yet one more reason to replace the present tax code with the Fair Tax, a tax that does not require government to intrude into private relationships to define how much tax a person owes.
Lol, looks like the pings didn't work.
Thanks. I be brain dead.
Ahem - HERE's the pingout coming atcha now.
(An alert freeper alerted me to my mistake.)
See here for the mission statement of Beyond Marriage:
http://www.beyondmarriage.org/full_statement.html
If this keeps up Sodom and Gamorah are going to be owed an apology.
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