When you entered the Rhode Island State House, this is the first thing you saw!
Posted on 03/28/2013 8:15:43 PM PDT by daniel1212
Last Thursday's public hearing was effectively ground zero for "gay marriage" in Rhode Island. The hearing started early Thursday evening and lasted over 12 hours, until the following morning. Both sides were there in force.
But the biggest impression in the State House that night was definitely made by the pro-family forces. The huge demonstration by the Hispanic community completely overwhelmed the homosexual activists who thought they would be dominating that day! It was an incredible sight.
When you entered the Rhode Island State House, this is the first thing you saw!
As reported last week, if the "gay marriage" bill gets through the Senate Judiciary Committee, it will most likely become law. It has already passed the House, and the full Senate would likely pass it. But it's unclear whether a majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee supports the gay marriage bill, which is why this was such a crucial hearing for both sides.
Also before the committee is a rather odd constitutional amendment that was just recently filed days before the hearing. It would write "gay marriage" into the Rhode Island Constitution, with some supposed "protections." But the amendment has a long path ahead of it, including a popular vote, and faces a fair amount of opposition. The "gay marriage" bill is what's on everyone's mind right now.
Even before the hearing began, both sides gathered in the main rotunda of the State House to demonstrate. A group of homosexual activists gathered in the middle to hold signs, chant, yell, sing their 60's "civil rights" songs, and basically intimidate people. It's their usual shtick which we seem to see everywhere.
But this time they were completely surrounded by hundreds of passionate pro-family people organized by the Hispanic Ministers Association of Rhode Island and the Faith Alliance of Rhode Island coalition, who gathered in that same area.
As the homosexuals in the center of the area started singing and
chanting, the pro-family Hispanics came in and surrounded them
The pro-family Hispanics were not about to be intimidated. Their whole belief system was on the line. They basically took over the State House with their pro-religion, pro-traditional marriage message. Frankly, we've never seen anything like it. Even our video (below) hardly does it justice.
The homosexual activists in the middle area started things off, waving their signs, chanting, and singing and clearly thinking that the growing pro-family crowd of men, women, and children around them would politely cower and back off. But the pro-family crowd, by now spilling over into the hallways and up on the second and third floors looking down, answered with a rousing chorus of "Amazing Grace." That was followed by more singing and chanting, and it got louder and louder!
It was a sea of pro-family activism, greatly outnumbering the "gay marriage"
supporters!
Nobody in the Rhode Island State House had any doubts that our side meant business! Before long, the homosexual activists pretty much gave up.
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Singing "Amazing Grace" |
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It's refreshing to see pro-family people who are unafraid to say it as it is. |
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SEE THE VIDEO of this incredible rally!
As the rally was heating up in the State House atrium, up on the third floor the hearing began -- the start of a 12-hour marathon.
The Rhode Island Legislature conducts its public hearings better than many other states. (MassResistance has testified there several times over the last few years.) They hold them in the evenings when it's convenient for people to come. Everyone is limited to approximately three minutes, including "important" people. They are pretty good about sticking to the order of the signup sheets, and they try to be fair about alternating between pro and con testifiers, which they call up in groups of three or four. The committee members try to be respectful to the testifiers, and often all the members actually show up and sit through all of it. Anyone who's testified in a state like Massachusetts could tell you that often none of that happens here!
In addition, the hearing room is quite small. So they had set up three overflow rooms with a large-screen TVs. The State House broadcasts its public hearings live over cable-TV throughout Rhode Island.
The homosexual lobby was very well organized. They had staff members with clipboards throughout the State House to sign up people. Our side had nothing like that, but the local National Organization for Marriage (NOM) people had helped bring in quality testifiers (such as college professors and various expert witnesses). And there were a lot of other good people on our side who came on their own.
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Very organized. As the elevator doors opened on the third floor to go to the hearing room, one was immediately approached by a staffer for the homosexual lobby. And they were just about everywhere. |
From our observation, the quality and variety of the pro-family testimony was far superior to that of the pro-homosexual activists.
David Parker came and gave a powerful description about the effects of "gay marriage" on the schools in Massachusetts. He told them about the how his Kindergarten son was taught about homosexual romantic relationships, without parents' knowledge or consent, and how a Federal Judge acknowledged that "gay marriage" in Massachusetts gave schools an obligation to do that.
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VIDEO: David Parker's testimony. |
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Dr. Susan Yoshihara is senior vice president and director of research at Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-FAM).
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Dr. Susan Yoshihara testifies before the committee. |
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She brought out politically incorrect scientific findings and didn't hold back:
"Some people claim that it makes no difference whether a child is raised by her mother and father or raised by a adults engaged in a homosexual lifestyle. Some go even further and say that two lesbians make better parents than a single mom or a mother and a father together. Any scholarly basis for such claims has been shattered by the latest and best social science research . . ."
Read her entire testimony HERE
She noted that children with lesbian or "gay" parents fared worse on many measured outcomes, and in no category did they do better.
And in addition, Brian Camenker of MassResistance testified about the chilling contents of our booklet, "What same-sex 'marriage' has done to Massachusetts." He also gave a copy to each member of the Committee.
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Brian Camenker of MassResistance holds up "What same-sex 'marriage' has done to Massachusetts" while testifying before committee. Just before he spoke he gave a copy to each of the ten committee members. |
The homosexual lobby trotted out their same old tired routines. There were the teachers, union activists, parents, pagan church people, and activists, mostly with emotional diatribes about "loving families," civil rights, "fairness," "equality" etc. After a while it all seemed to run together.
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"Gay" demonstrators in the State House |
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And of course, the homosexual lobby's PR machine was humming along. At one point some reporters and TV cameramen came into the hearing room. Shortly afterwards, a group of pro-gay testifiers was called up, which included a 12-year-old boy. The boy read an emotional tribute to his "two moms" and urged the committee to do the right thing and pass the bill. The next day, the boy and his testimony were miraculously in the news all over New England and beyond.
It was a long night.
Rhode Island legislative committees often take a vote immediately after a hearing ends. For this hearing - for these two bills - they decided beforehand to vote at a later time.
When will they take their vote? As the Providence Journal said last Friday:
Chairman Michael McCaffrey said this week that members will "digest the testimony" and then he will "sit down with the Senate president and the majority leader and we'll see when they want to schedule the bills for a vote."
But the information we're now getting is that a vote could take place early next week, probably on Tuesday. Right now it looks very close. The 10-member Committee needs majority for either of these bills (not a tie) to move them forward. Otherwise, the bills die for this session.
Of course, the pressure hasn't ended. The day after the hearing, the homosexual lobby group "Rhode Islanders for Marriage Equality" set up a phone bank to call the members of the Committee with a flood of calls.
Pro-family activists and church leaders stepped up with their own lobbying efforts. National Organization for Marriage is coordinating statewide efforts, along with the Rhode Island Ministers Alliance. That committee will definitely hear from our side in a big way.
We'll let you know what happens!
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A state-wide group of liberal Jews had published a statement supporting "gay marriage." So some Orthodox rabbis came to the State House to show support for actual Biblical values. |
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The pro-family crowd was everywhere that day! |
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I am getting sick to death of homosexual activists, which in reality are anti-heterosexuals.
Great news Daniel!
Uh oh, Liberal victim groups squaring off against each other. Liberals will side with the gay activists, but they won’t tell off Hispanic gay marriage opponents like they do white gay marriage opponents. To tell off Hispanics, in Liberal eyes, would be racist.
Amazing! Wow! This made my night. Thanks for sharing it. In Rhode Island of all places.
This kind of thing gives me hope, that if indeed the SCOTUS made homo-marriage the law of the land, the opposition would be like the pro-life movement, strong and unyielding.
Look at the Hispanics who actually give a damn about this institution. We should be taking this issue to them and using it as an inroad to convert more people to conservatism.
Props to the real Jews as well, denouncing the JINOS.
If the judges impose this on the country, there is going to be uproar in a lot of places that will make this wonderful display of courage in Rhode Island look like a quiet book club meeting.
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Could a Supreme Court decision forcing gay marriage upon the nation like Roe vs. Wade did for abortion bring a lot of blacks and Hispanics into the GOP fold?
....”The huge demonstration by the Hispanic community ‘completely overwhelmed the homosexual activists’ who thought they would be dominating that day! It was an incredible sight.”
Cool....
Interesting, but too little, too late. If such social issues have any importance to Latinos, they should have been voting differently starting 30 or 40 years ago. The Dims know they’ve got 70%+ of their votes so this will have little or no impact.
God LOVE’em!
And...for your listening pleasure:
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They haven’t had much problem telling off Hispanic George Zimmerman.
Thanks and good night.
Way to go Hispaniards!
Now remember why you need to vote Republican.
Thanks...just posted to my Facebook...maybe some of the Obidiots will see it....since the MSM will NEVER report this.
It is NEVER! too late!!!
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
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