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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YOU evoke God YET relate those created in HIS image to ANIMALS?
YOU need to get a clue. Animals also eat their young etcetera etcetera -you arguments are humanistic and morally relative. You want to evoke God THEN damn well evoke His Word or shut up!
Get a spine and get a clue -Satan likes useful idiots...
The consumers of feces, male homos, have spread infectious diseases across the world. They are in fact, the #1 vector for the spread of infectious diseases. When public health is threatened by abnormal behavior, it is time to squash it like a bug of vermin. The homowood portrayal of these deviants is not reality.
The consumers of feces, male homos, have spread infectious diseases across the world. They are in fact, the #1 vector for the spread of infectious diseases. When public health is threatened by abnormal behavior, it is time to squash it like a bug of vermin. The homowood portrayal of these deviants is not reality.
“About Freedom” NO— no person, or group, can be allowed to threaten the public health yaelle, not even you or your friends.
IATZ. Good riddance!
:-D
That is actually not true. There are acts that are more disgusting, but the Phil Leotardos of the world would
probably off me for saying any more than that.
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