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GOP Senator asks Loretta Lynch: "Why is Gay marriage OK, but Polygamy isn't?"
Huff Po ^

Posted on 01/29/2015 6:46:13 AM PST by Din Maker

During Loretta Lynch's confirmation hearing Wednesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tried to take the attorney general nominee down the slippery-slope argument often made against the marriage equality movement by inquiring what the legal difference is between marriage of same-sex couples and that of three or more people.

'What is the legal difference between a state -- a ban on same-sex marriage being unconstitutional but a ban on polygamy being constitutional?" he inquired at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. "Could you try to articulate how one could be banned under the Constitution and the other not?"

Lynch, who is the current U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, didn't take the bait. She cited her inexperience in dealing with cases of precedent on the matter, and promised to "look forward to continuing the discussions with you."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 114th; gaymarriage; graham; homosexualagenda; lindseygraham; lorettalynch; lynch; moralabsolutes; obama
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To: Din Maker

Everybody seems to be missing the real question, what is the definition of marriage? It can’t mean anything, otherwise it means nothing. You should be able to write down a specific definition of what marriage is (and why).

Different forms of “marriage” have different consequences, so it just depends on what your standard is. It *used* to be a very high standard based on Judeo-Christian ethics. This is where the conflict really lies, our laws were always aligned with these ethics. As the atheists try to remove this traditional ethics basis from forming law we’ll continue to have chaos and contradictions in proposed changes.

I suppose my only hope is that the output of this experiment is the realization that the Judeo-Christian ethics model is the only one that works....although it’s going to be painful getting there.


41 posted on 01/29/2015 8:16:48 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Din Maker

Everybody seems to be missing the real question, what is the definition of marriage? It can’t mean anything, otherwise it means nothing. You should be able to write down a specific definition of what marriage is (and why).

Different forms of “marriage” have different consequences, so it just depends on what your standard is. It *used* to be a very high standard based on Judeo-Christian ethics. This is where the conflict really lies, our laws were always aligned with these ethics. As the atheists try to remove this traditional ethics basis from forming law we’ll continue to have chaos and contradictions in proposed changes.

I suppose my only hope is that the output of this experiment is the realization that the Judeo-Christian ethics model is the only one that works....although it’s going to be painful getting there.


42 posted on 01/29/2015 8:16:51 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Army Air Corps

communists and liberaltarians have en wanting this for some time


43 posted on 01/29/2015 8:17:11 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Din Maker
"Lynch, who is the current U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, didn't take the bait."

In other words, she had no answer. Her handlers didn't prepare her for the question. Huff Po spins this as savvy; what a joke.
44 posted on 01/29/2015 8:31:11 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Din Maker

When she said that she thinks illegals have a right to American jobs, someone should have asked, “Under your Justice Department, what laws will I be allowed to break with impunity, or even be rewarded for breaking?”


45 posted on 01/29/2015 8:33:28 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

I’d like to know why the feds ignore their own laws like drugs in states an immigration while not defending DOMA.


46 posted on 01/29/2015 8:37:26 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Din Maker

I don’t think we can stop the far left fringe from forcing anything-goes “marriage” on America, although perhaps we can push back once it causes problems. What they cannot do is force us to pretend that gay “marriage” and polygamy have anything to do with real marriage beyond the free stuff that people are hoping will come with this fictional but legal status.


47 posted on 01/29/2015 8:55:11 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: circlecity

AND any pedophile can demand the same rights by invoking the mantra of the LGBLSMFT crowd” it is my sexual orientation”


48 posted on 01/29/2015 9:01:49 AM PST by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: Din Maker

Is Trey Gowdy going to get to ask any questions? Sure hope so.


49 posted on 01/29/2015 9:02:41 AM PST by Guardian Sebastian (Mother of God, pray for us and our country.)
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To: Personal Responsibility; All
After that, it’ll be incest, children, animals and inanimate objects...

Animals? Wait a minute; one United States Senator, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, has already admitted to doing "indecent things" with animals, back in the day. Is Mississippi the only State in the Union that permits bestiality?
50 posted on 01/29/2015 9:06:16 AM PST by Din Maker (New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez in 2016)
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To: Din Maker

>>Is it now a pre-requisite that one be an Affirmative Action Black person in order to be Attorney General of the U.S.?

Once an office has been held by a black, putting a white person in would be RAY-CESS!


51 posted on 01/29/2015 9:07:30 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Din Maker
Are these Lynch hearings being aired or streamed anywhere? Is there a continuation of the hearing today?

Leni

52 posted on 01/29/2015 9:07:32 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: mulligan; All

Well, I’m not pro-polygamy, and while I agree with the moral decay of America, remember the Patriarchs in the Bible (Abraham, Jacob, Moses and many others) had more than one wife. So, apparently it was o.k. with God at one time.


53 posted on 01/29/2015 9:12:00 AM PST by Din Maker (New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez in 2016)
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To: Steve_Seattle

I thought the same thing. She didn’t take the bait because she didn’t have an answer.


54 posted on 01/29/2015 9:13:22 AM PST by Din Maker (New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez in 2016)
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To: Guardian Sebastian; All
Is Trey Gowdy going to get to ask any questions? Sure hope so. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Who shives a git? IMO, Trey Gowdy has become a media whore; who only shows up when the cameras are turned on. I lost all respect for Gowdy when he did not have the balls to show up for the vote on Speaker of the House.
55 posted on 01/29/2015 9:16:52 AM PST by Din Maker (New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez in 2016)
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To: MinuteGal

Sorry; I don’t know.


56 posted on 01/29/2015 9:18:23 AM PST by Din Maker (New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez in 2016)
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To: All
Does anyone know if these hearings are being aired or streamed somewhere...and if there's a hearing today?

Leni

57 posted on 01/29/2015 9:21:51 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: Din Maker

They should have followed that up though and let up until they got an answer.

The tables have only turned because the left have been promoting it and the republicans as well as many of voters will not speak up to their neighbors, friends and family.


58 posted on 01/29/2015 9:22:21 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: MinuteGal

Just saw this. You can check it out; I’m at work and can’t do so right now. Apparently the hearings are on C-SPAN.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3251905/posts


59 posted on 01/29/2015 9:32:42 AM PST by Din Maker (New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez in 2016)
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To: circlecity

Since there is no test or requirement of sexual activity in a marriage, there is no reason why fathers and sons, or mothers and grand-daughters, or even fathers and daughters should be prohibited from marrying each other, given the new elastic understanding of marriage.


60 posted on 01/29/2015 9:40:46 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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