Posted on 05/26/2011 6:15:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
America now has a gay-rights majority. Gallup reports that for the first time ever, most people -- 53 percent -- favor legalizing same-sex marriage. That's up from 27 percent just 15 years ago. The nation has moved, and it's not going back.
It's nice to think that in a democracy, public policy will soon follow public opinion, with same-sex marriage becoming the norm, not the exception. But that's not how democracy works in a big, diverse federal system. On this emotional issue, the citizenry is divided, and marriage laws as well as politics will reflect that division for a long time to come.
The good news is that changing sentiments have already begun to alter the traditional conception of wedlock. Five states and the District of Columbia now allow gay marriage. Another 13 offer civil unions or domestic partnerships with some or all the benefits of marriage, according to Lambda Legal.
But the resistance is still strong and broad-based. The recent jump in support for same-sex marriage, Gallup notes, came entirely from Democrats and independents. Among Democrats, support now stands at 69 percent, with 59 percent of independents agreeing.
Republicans have not changed their minds. Only 28 percent are in favor -- the same as last year.
Realistic conservatives can't expect to prevail in the long-term battle for hearts and minds. Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, recently said, "We're losing on that one, especially among the 20- and 30-somethings: 65 to 70 percent of them favor same-sex marriage. ... We've probably lost that."
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
In every poll that matters, the public votes overwhelmingly against homosexual “marriage,” even in California.
Poor Steve, it’s terribly sad that he can’t “marry” his little friend, even though Gallup has produced a poll saying all the fans of “Glee” think they should allow it.
“In every poll that matters, the public votes overwhelmingly against homosexual “marriage,” even in California.”
Prop 8 in California passed with 52% in 2008, while most polls showed it would fail. Maine repealed “gay marriage” legislation by similar numbers last year. Oregon passed an amendment with 57% of the vote in 2004. I think the biggest margin was 86% for Mississippi also in 2004.
I think it might still pass everywhere, even lib states, but I wouldn’t be shocked if it didn’t in some states, either. In 20 years, though?
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You might say he has become a semiprofessional well-poisoner.
Earlier Chapman spew on Townhall commented on here, in this November, 2008 FR thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140323/posts
In the 2008 story, Chapman waxed liberal heart-stringy as he contemplated the desolation of children not being adopted by perverts in Florida, appealing predictably to the towering magisterium </sarc> of the infamous Division 44 of the American Psychological Association ..... which probably needs to change its name to "the American Gropological Society" or something like that. FReepers had a somewhat different take from Chapman's, but the point is, there he was, and here he is again, flogging his deviant spew on Townhall.
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Don't they mean, "Hershey Highway"?
Regardless, a poll that at its premise is flawed is irrelevant. There are no 'gay' beings let alone are there 'gay' being being denied rights. We discuss here homosexual sex and those who want special rights premised upon engaging in homosexual sex.
The perverts may be able to choose do any number of stupid and self destructive activities; however, society dose not have to accept them as normal, recognize them as equivalent, place any value in them, nor subsidize them.
Steve Chapman appears to be another leftist mouthpiece.
L/E might consider:
(a) conspiracy to defraud the IRS (stolen money is taxable),
(b) international money laundering,
(c) conspiracy to commit money laundering, and,
(d) aiding and abetting the preparation of false federal/state income tax returns,
(e) evading US banking laws.
Authorities might examine federal documents to verify falsifications (a felony); bogus allocations to gay groups (kickbacks); multiple conspiracies and transfers of funds as part of a money-laundering conspiracy.
Government audits might show off-the-books bank accounts that were accessed solely by insiders, and that government-funds were used in various illegal schemes that might have integrated:
(1) money laundering,
(2) tax evasion (stolen money is taxable),
(3) violations of US banking and currency laws,
(4) conspiracy to commit wire fraud,
(5) commercial bribery in various financial schemes,
(6) establishing secret offshore bank accounts outside the purview of the IRS and US banking laws,
(7) fraudulent and casual accounting practices,
(8) non-existent financial oversight,
(9) Having a hidden financial interest in companies faking business with Jennings,
(10) Putting phantom employees on the payroll (money laundering).
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Other crimes might include forgery, extortion, healthcare fraud, govt fraud and electronic/postal fraud, falsifying documents, making false statements to government officials, and concealment of facts on government documents.
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Was the Safe Schools Office using the Madoff MO: establishing a super-secret labyrinth of interrelated international funds, institutions and financial entities of almost unparalleled complexity and breadth......with assets and businesses in multiple places overseas that hid thievery, money laundering and tax evasion.
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Jennings might have been running simultaneous scams using govt funds:
(1) a tax evasion scheme for his gay buddies;
(2) a money-laundering scam;
(3) a protection racket for gay groups,
(4) aiding and abetting tax-exempt Gay foundations to evade US banking laws and the IRS.
(5) hiding govt money offshore, some of which was used for campaign donations (FEC fraud).
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"Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
Samuel Adams:
"I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she will. It depends on her virtue.""The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both deserve and enjoy it. While, on the other hand, if we are universally vicious and debauched in our manners, thought the form of our Constitution carries the face of the most exalted freedom, we shall in reality be the most abject slaves."
"But neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man."
I would seriously wonder what questions were asked here: I don’t care that some same-sex couple is having some wedding reception in some random part of America: I could really, honestly care less about it. In that sense, I do not care. What I do care about is whether or not you are required to bend some knee, figuratively speaking, whenever someone has to profess their sexuality. Or whether or not your public funding status is relevant to the whole matter. I also don’t care or obssess over whether or not someone is a practicing homosexual, in fact loads of them are more perhaps more worried about it than I am.
I agree that I will work the legal fight as best I can, and work to make sure conditions aren’t all so harsh for religions in America, without surrendering. But I am with you on the feeling that none of us need to surrender, in fact, we should remember bringing America to what makes it great: the fact that people, including even sexual deviants, actually can live a comparably peaceful and prosperous life here compared to elsewhere in the world.
I thought the appropriate highway sign was “Do Not Enter/You Are Going Wrong Way”.
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