Posted on 01/12/2004 1:42:24 PM PST by Iron Eagle
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:38:58 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
I too have tried to beat back the tide. But I'm afraid the oxymoron "gay marriage" is now embedded in the vernacular.
The orwellian/marxist/counterculturists have won on this point, much as they did in framing the abortion debate as merely a matter of "choice," rather than a matter of dismembering babies.
Btw, Jim McGreevey himself is gay; this is apparently well known in NJ political circles, according to Curtis Sliwa of WABC radio.
Who do you think is paying for AIDS treatment now? Taxpayers, through research programs, and hospitals that get stiffed on bills. They raise their prices to all patients, and who pays that? Insurance companies, primarily.
And if a partner with AIDS dies, how much can the state compel out of the other partner's assets to pay remaining bills? Nothing, except where there is a marital-like responsibility to pay the bills. I get sick, I don't pay, my wife's paycheck could take the hit (I'm self employed). If we just lived together, like gay people have to outside of Vermont, her assets couldn't be touched.
Civil unions are not going to materially cost the healthcare system any more than gays do now.
Just because people who are suffering from Same Sex Attraction Disorder (which can be curable) want to play "marriage" for the STATED (by them) purpose of destroying the meaning of marriage and family...
The story of "gay" marriage isn't about "different" people who just want to "love" each other. It's about destroying the natural family, influence of parents, moral standards, and being able to influence children from the earliest age about the wonderfulness of homosexual life.
These aren't my ideas, it's what the homosexual activists themselves have said.
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