Prop 8| California Marriage Amendment Trial
Something to remember from Playful Walrus:
At trial, Walker intends to ask lawyers on both sides to present the facts underlying much of the political rhetoric surrounding same-sex marriage. Among his questions are whether sexual orientation can be changed, how legalizing gay marriage affects traditional marriages and the effect on children of being raised by two mothers or two fathers.
These questions reveal a bias. The question should center on the facts of how we adopt laws and whether those laws violate the Constitution. It doesn’t matter whether or not sexual orientation can be changed (though it is interesting to see people deny the existence of people I have met) – there are conditions people have that keep them from getting a driver’s license, too; counterfeits devalue the authentic; and when a child is raised by “two mothers”, the child doesn’t have the bonding experience and modeling of a father, and when a child is raised by “two fathers” the child doesn’t have the bonding experience and modeling of a mother. If neither fathers nor mothers are important, then we’re one step closer to the government owning our kids, aren’t we?
January 12, 2010
Marriage Wins in Maine
The people rejected the legislature’s change in definition. Thank you Maine.
“Gay marriage has now lost in every single state — 31 in all — in which it has been put to a popular vote.”
and here:
“Proponents of same-sex marriage, unlike in California’s Prop 8
, can’t blame Maine on Mormons, on African Americans who turned out for Barack Obama, or on confusing ballot wording. Their issue loses when the people decide. And it loses every time”
2 comments November 4, 2009
Maine (small update) and a good essay
You should read these posts:
The school counselor in Maine whose job is threatened for speaking out about neutered marriage.
November 2, 2009
Music Video: Taylor Swift Fifteen
‘Cause When You’re Fifteen and Somebody Tells You they Love you, You’re gonna Believe Them.
You take a deep breath and you walk through the doors
It’s the morning of your very first day
And you say hi to your friends you ain’t seen in a while
Try and stay out of everybody’s way
It’s your freshman year and you’re gonna be here
For the next four years in this town
Hoping one of those senior boys will wink at you and say
“You know, I haven’t seen you around before”
‘Cause when you’re fifteen and somebody tells you they love you
You’re gonna believe them
And when you’re fifteen feeling like there’s nothing to figure out
Well, count to ten, take it in
This is life before you know who you’re gonna be
Fifteen
You sit in class next to a redhead named Abigail
And soon enough you’re best friends
Laughing at the other girls who think they’re so cool
We’ll be outta here as soon as we can
And then you’re on your very first date and he’s got a car
And you’re feeling like flying
And you’re momma’s waiting up and you’re thinking he’s the one
And you’re dancing ’round your room when the night ends
When the night ends
‘Cause when you’re fifteen and somebody tells you they love you
You’re gonna believe them
When you’re fifteen and your first kiss
Makes your head spin ’round
But in your life you’ll do things greater than
Dating the boy on the football team
But I didn’t know it at fifteen
When all you wanted was to be wanted
Wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now
Back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday
But I realized some bigger dreams of mine
And Abigail gave everything she had to a boy
Who changed his mind and we both cried
‘Cause when you’re fifteen and somebody tells you they love you
You’re gonna believe them
And when you’re fifteen, don’t forget to look before you fall
I’ve found time can heal most anything
And you just might find who you’re supposed to be
I didn’t know who I was supposed to be at fifteen
Your very first day
Take a deep breath girl
Take a deep breath as you walk through the doors
1 comment October 27, 2009
Schwarzenegger Breaks Trust of Voters: Signs Harvey Milk Day and Allows Recognition of Out-of-State Neutered Marriage
From Beetle:
“After a long midnight session with legislators, Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed SB 572 legislation that appoints May 22 as “Harvey Milk Day” in California public schools AND and SB 54 that recognizes same-sex marriages performed out of state.
The signing of these two bills is a slap in the face to voters who have consistently rejected same sex marriage and pushing homosexuality in schools.” [Read all about it here]
October 13, 2009
Video: Chai Feldblum says “Gay Sex is Moral”
In the video, Obama’s pick for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lays out her plan for using morality as a weapon in mainstreaming gay sex.
More on Chai (lifted from Beetle Blogger):
EEOC nominee equates ‘two sisters living together’ with married couple
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE….
‘Gay’ sex morally good, says Obama pick
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE….
Chai R. Feldblum Endorsed Polygamy
http://www.catholic.org/politics/stor…
Chai R. Feldblum “Gay Sex Is Equal To Heterosexual Sex”
http://www.catholic.org/politics/stor…
White House Announces Chai R. Feldblum
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_o…
Obama nominee praised polygamy
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE….
Blogs
http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/200…
http://www.lonelyconservative.com/200…
Commentary
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE….
1 comment October 11, 2009
Marriage: Maine Needs Donations
More Donors Needed| Maine’s Population Is Less than the City of Sacramento
From FireflyDove
Stand For Marriage Maine needs help! Their coffers have run completely dry and we still have a month to go in the campaign. Maine is the second state that has had the opportunity to actually vote on their marriage law. If we lose in Maine, the opposition will be able to say that people voted gay marriage in.
I was on twitter yesterday and saw a link go by with the comment “I’m obsessively compulsively hitting refresh—donations are pouring in for equality!” I went to the link and they had a goal of 30,000.00 with a graphic showing how much had been donated. I looked at the number and hit refresh. Every time I refreshed, the number increased. In the five minutes that I monitored the page, the amount had risen thousands of dollars. Imagine what damage they can do with that kind of firepower unopposed.
The opposition is martialing it’s forces and donations are pouring in to their coffers from gay marriage advocates all over California and other states nationwide. After their stinging loss in California, they can’t afford to lose Maine. They’re pouring all their attention and resources into the state hoping to tip the election. There is a dire need for donations. We can’t afford to lose this fight. You can’t protect marriage with empty air. Please forward this message to friends, neighbors, churches, ANYONE who can help! and let’s get them the help they need to win.
Stand for Marriage Maine’s Campaign page is here, click to donate: http://www.standformarriagemaine.com/
Send this out to anyone you know who also might be able to help! A little from many can go a long way.
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October 1, 2009
Marriage Updates: Maine, Washington, Michigan, New Jersey| and “coming out” videos for California schools
Marriage updates:
See UFI’s article here. and here (for NJ).
“Coming Out” videos for Public Schools:
See Stand’s post: here (she’s also posted one of the videos, it’s disturbing).
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September 29, 2009
Question 1: What you can do to help Maine
Help a State Out
From the Digital Network Army:
The battle in Maine is heating up. Earlier this summer, the state legislature voted to neuter marriage in the state. Because enough signatures were gathered, the citizens will get to vote this November to veto the law. But they need help.
Because most/all of us do not live in Maine, our goal is to help get information out.
One way we can do this is by bumping up pro-marriage sites (so that when Maine citizens do a Google search, they are able to find good sources of information).
What you can do:
1. The most important thing we can do is donate to the Stand For Marriage cause. Click here and then here.
2. Post the Stand for Marriage button on your blog. Because it links to the "Stand for Marriage" site, it will help its rankings and searchability. Copy and paste the following code into a text box (for wordpress), or an html box (for blogger):
<a href="http://www.standformarriagemaine.com/"><img src="http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp287/digitalnetworkarmy/yeson1small.jpg" border="0" alt="maine"></a>
3. If you don’t want the button, you can just link to the site in your sidebar: http://www.standformarriagemaine.com/
3 comments September 25, 2009
