Posted on 12/16/2007 7:55:56 PM PST by Coleus
New Jersey's well organized gay rights advocates are finding their adversaries are also getting prepared for a coming legislative debate over gay marriage. The National Organization for Marriage, established earlier this year in Princeton, made itself known over the past few weeks with radio advertisements urging people to call their lawmakers to tell them that allowing gay couples to marry would undermine the institution.
The group set up in left-leaning New Jersey because it is one of a few states where there's a realistic chance in the next few years that lawmakers will vote to allow gay marriage. That makes it a battleground for the issues nationally. "If our side continues to increase in its activism, I think we can stop this in 2008," said Brian Brown, the executive director of the new organization.
Steven Goldstein, the chairman of Garden State Equality, said the emergence of the new group shows how close New Jersey is to becoming the first state to enact a law to allows gay couples to marry. "We're not surprised at the right wing's panic," he said. "We're ready for this battle." The only state that currently lets gay couples marry is Massachusetts _ and that was because of a ruling from the state's top court.
Last year, New Jersey's state Supreme Court declared that gay couples should have the same legal rights as married couples. The Legislature responded adopting a civil unions law, which allows those benefits _ but stops short of allowing gay couples to wed. Goldstein and his allies have promised since then that they would keep pushing for full marriage. But instead of going to the courts again, he vowed to go first to the state Legislature.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Our “society” has colletively GONE INSANE!
After homosexual “marriage” and homosexual adoption, how long will it be before it becomes a “right” for homosexuals to send “their” adopted children to “homosexual-only” schools, at taxpayer expense, of course?
Merely being “pro-homosexual” as the public schools are now will never be enough.
“National Organization for Marriage”?
That sounds like a NOM de guerre to me.
LOL!
Romans 1:25-27 tells us that same-sex sexual relationships are a consequence of idolatry. In other words, such relationships are a consequence of disobeying the 1ST COMMANDMENT, a major aspect of the GREATEST COMMANDMENT, to love God with all our being.
Homosexuals should keep in mind, however, that the good news of the gospel is not about how God despises same-sex sexual relationships. In fact, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 tells us that certain members of that church had formerly been slaves to such relationships but had been cleansed in Jesus’ name. So these former homosexuals had evidently repented and accepted God’s grace to straighten their lives out.
John 3:16
Revelation 3:20
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