Posted on 10/16/2009 11:36:27 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
In a column on Catholic Online, Deacon Keith Fournier reacts to Obama's speech to the Human Rights Campaign, an anti-natural family advocacy group, saying that "[Alleged] President Obama sent the signal. He will not defend authentic marriage." In the article that follows he provides an excellent summary of the natural right arguments that justify the Catholic Church's stand against so-called "homosexual marriage." I highly recommend it.
On one point, though, I must take issue with the impression Deacon Fournier's article creates. It is written as if a doubtful world was waiting for some indication of Obama's determined refusal to defend the natural family.
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Prior to his participation in the race for the Democrat nomination for the U.S. Senate seat in Illinois in 2004, there was some suspicion that he actually cared to defend the natural family. But in February 2004, he sent a letter to an Illinois newspaper that caters to the homosexual community declaring his staunch opposition to the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal legislation aimed at protecting the right of state governments to decide the definition of marriage at the state level without dictation from the federal bench:
For the record, I opposed DOMA [the Defense of Marriage Act] in 1996. It should be repealed, and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying. This is an effort to demonize people for political advantage, and should be resisted.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
What a worm is the Bummer.
Thanks for posting.
Alan Keyes is an authentic black man, an authentic Christian and an authentic American. The opposite of Zer0. See my tagline.
Obama has a homosexual position?
I certainly hope a future President Palin will appoint Keyes to something that makes the Democrats faint.
He’s not that wonderfully effective as a stand-alone politician who has to get popular votes. He comes across as odd. I voted for Keyes when he was up in Illinois, but there’s only so much you can expect out of the Land that has Forgotten Lincoln.
Now, that is pregnant with possibilities....
Oh... I have it...
“Christianity CZar”
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