Posted on 09/18/2010 12:10:48 PM PDT by presidio9
At a time when gays have been gaining victories across the country, the Republican Party in Montana still wants to make homosexuality illegal.
The party adopted an official platform in June that keeps a long-held position in support of making homosexual acts illegal, a policy adopted after the Montana Supreme Court struck down such laws in 1997.
The fact that it's still the official party policy more than 12 years later, despite a tidal shift in public attitudes since then and the party's own pledge of support for individual freedoms, has exasperated some GOP members.
"I looked at that and said, 'You've got to be kidding me,'" state Sen. John Brueggeman, R-Polson, said last week. "Should it get taken out? Absolutely. Does anybody think we should be arresting homosexual people? If you take that stand, you really probably shouldn't be in the Republican Party."
Gay rights have been rapidly advancing nationwide since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Texas' sodomy law in 2003's Lawrence v. Texas decision. Gay marriage is now allowed in five states and Washington, D.C., a federal court recently ruled the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy unconstitutional, and even a conservative tea party group in Montana ousted its president over an anti-gay exchange in Facebook.
But going against the grain is the Montana GOP statement, which falls under the "Crime" section of the GOP platform. It states: "We support the clear will of the people of Montana expressed by legislation to keep homosexual acts illegal."
Montana GOP executive director Bowen Greenwood said that has been the position of the party since the state Supreme Court struck down state laws criminalizing homosexuality in
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“Yet when homo parades are in town, police are told to overlook it......so much for your argument.”
And that may be an issue with local law enforcement agencies and not the law itself.
I’m nobody’s judge but my own. Your laughing out loud about FR rules however shows your arrogance...
“FR is pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-marriage, pro-military, pro-traditional American conservatism”
So am I.
And you, sir or madam, are a boor.
“Because the law also prohibits them from promoting their private bedroom acts in public...”
Could you please cite the law that “prohibits them from promoting their private bedroom acts in public?”
NO IT IS NOT. IT IS UNHOLY AND FORBIDEN..
But here on FR, JimRob and the mods are.....kitty.
Now that is worthy of a LOL...
pro-traditional American conservatism” pro-family
So am I.
do you think homosexuals should marry?
homosexuals get a hold of kids and raise them?
have it taught in schools?
simple yes or no would suffice thanks
I was laughing at being threatened by a boor.
“Why this law is not always enforced is another issue.”
I suggest that the reason its not always enforced is because of either corrupt or cowardly officialdom.
A man and a man CANNOT produce a child. A woman and a woman CANNOT produce a child.
Therefore, it is an unnatural act, driven by nothing but evil lust.
It must be stopped.
You could not be more wrong.
You’ve been pushing homosexuality “big tent” crap in posts 5, 17, 25, 41, 56....... You were caught. That doesn’t make me a boor. But it does make you out of step with this forums owner.
out of curiousity why are many of your past posts indicted that you reply to yourself and talk to yourself?
Careful sister...
Jim Robinson is a boor? He wrote the post. I only reposted it.
Shoot her? Your teenage son is a minor, whom you thought threatened your childs life if he did not comply. Self defense.
do you think homosexuals should marry?
No, civil unions, but states should decide
homosexuals get a hold of kids and raise them?
gays and lesbians adopt, I honestly don’t know
have it taught in schools?
certainly not at elementary level, but having taught for many years, homosexuality does become an issue for some at puberty
and it does come up in the classroom, mostly just to admonish a student for name-calling
but this thread is about what the Montana GOP platform should or shouldn’t say
Taking faith out of the equation; it has already been demonstrated how destructive homosexual acts are on the human body. Bottom line, whether "created" or "evolved", the human body was not meant for homosexual acts.
Homosexual Unions like Marraige and Civil Unions should be illegal....Homosexuality should be a dis-couraged lifestyle and people that struggle with it, should understand that all behaviours can be met with control and restraint.
If people were never taught that stealing was wrong and illegal most people would steal with no fore-thought. We might think of doing things that we know are in-correct, wrong and immoral, but we do not have to act upon them.
Light always overcomes the darkness
Good always triumphs evil.
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