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Five reasons why gay marriage is a basic, conservative value (Do I really need a Barf Alert?)
Washington Times ^ | 05/22/2012

Posted on 05/23/2012 10:20:49 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

1. Gay marriage promotes personal responsibility.

2. Gay marriage promotes family values.

Marriage makes a family official. It encourages the raising of children within that family. Two parents. Isn’t that what conservatives claim to support? Marriage makes for a more stable relationship and encourages adoption of children. Heck, even Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are going to give marriage a whirl....

3. Gay marriage promotes commitment and stability.

4. Gay marriage promotes freedom.

In other words, “Free to be you and me.” Gay marriage would take the stigma out of being a gay couple...

5. Gay marriage is an example of limited governmental powers.

And that is at the heart of the conservative movement: limited government. This is why it has been amazing that so-called Libertarians like Congressman Ron Paul and his son Senator Rand Paul haven’t been big champions of gay marriage....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; libertarians; marriage; samesexmarriage
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To: Responsibility2nd

[Sarcasm alert]
I think that gays want to have their own version of marriage because they are impressed by the great success and stability of “traditional” marriages.


21 posted on 05/23/2012 11:21:20 AM PDT by docbnj
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To: Responsibility2nd

If you have a bastardized view of what marriage actually is, then it all makes sense.


22 posted on 05/23/2012 11:29:01 AM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Gay marriage promotes personal responsibility.”
How in the world does it do that? No fear of pregnancy? It is impossible for perverted homosexuals to reproduce. Nature did that. Why you ask. Simple. Nature kills off. What nature does not want.


23 posted on 05/23/2012 11:31:37 AM PDT by DMG2FUN
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To: mtg; ansel12; CodeToad; Hodar
5. Gay marriage is an example of limited governmental powers.
Doesn't this person know we are conservatives - not libertarians? There is quite a difference between the two.

 

 
 
You'd think EVERYONE knew that. Even liberals on a conservative site pretending to be conservative.


24 posted on 05/23/2012 11:38:59 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

No no no no no......homosexual “marriage” is insanity, so that automatically puts it in the Democrat’s box.


25 posted on 05/23/2012 12:01:55 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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26 posted on 05/23/2012 12:07:10 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Gay marriage would take the stigma out of being a gay couple...

Hmmm, seems that's what wrong in America today. Stigmas have been removed.

No shame, no respect for others, no self respect.

27 posted on 05/23/2012 1:02:05 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Where are the liberal commentators explaining that gay marriage is an insane abomination, not to mention a danger to children? Please send all references.


28 posted on 05/23/2012 1:53:49 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’m sorry, but I’ll always think a man is less of a man if he can say, “This is my husband.”


29 posted on 05/23/2012 2:05:32 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Responsibility2nd

I am basically a libertarian. I really don’t care what other people do as long as they are not bothering me or others.

However, every definition of marriage defines it as a union between a “man” and a “woman”. They wish to steal the definition and apply it to their abnormal behavior, and yes, I believe it to be abnormal.

I am not against these “social unions” in these cases. God will judge that (and the church should be forefront in pointing out what happens to those that practice such abominations).

However, to pervert the word “marriage” and make it mean something that it was never meant is an abomination.

Don’t legitimize your perversions by changing definitions to suit yourself. I could call a different part of my body my nose and tell you to help me blow it, but that is not right.

Blessings, Bobo


30 posted on 05/23/2012 4:28:31 PM PDT by bobo1
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To: Responsibility2nd

Is there no limit to what the deviants will claim have value? The male homos want male boys for one reason—figure it out, please.


31 posted on 05/24/2012 6:45:45 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: dragonblustar; fwdude
Some of us here have noted that here is a strong correlation between the rise of "homosexual marriage" and the weakening of traditional matrimony.

True enough.

Also true:
There is a strong correlation between the rise of secular civil marriage and the weakening of traditional matrimony.

And:
There is a strong correlation between the rise of divorcible, disposable marriage and the weakening of traditional matrimony.

And:
There is a strong correlation between the rise of contracepted marriage and the weakening of traditional matrimony.

Matrimony, in its genuine, creative, culture-forming and civilization-building form, transcends the marriage partners as individuals, is permanent-til-death, and is intrinsicaly suited to procreation by its form of physical union.

If you degrade any of those essential elements --- if you say it's just about the fulfillment of each of the individuals, it's a dissolvable bond, and its form of physical union can be intentionally non-generative --- you don't have matrimony. You have hook-ups which are civil, serial, and sterile.

That's gay marriage.

And it was gay even before the gays got into it.

Heterosexuals queered marriage. If marriage were still straight, the gays wouldn't want it.

32 posted on 05/27/2012 9:58:05 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("You can observe a lot just by watchin'." - Yogi Berra)
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