Posted on 04/13/2006 8:07:57 AM PDT by WildPlum
WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of gay and lesbian parents hoping to take their families to the annual White House Easter Egg Roll plan to start lining up Friday evening to make sure they get tickets for the Monday event.
Thousands of tickets — an estimated 16,000 last year — are given away on a first-come-first-come basis beginning at 7:30 a.m. Saturday.
National Park Service officials said Wednesday that children of all ages may attend as long as there is at least one child 7 years old or younger, and no more than two adults per group.
First lady Laura Bush's office issued a statement saying all families are welcome to attend.
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"That being said, if the Secret Service starts tackling kids with leis on the White House Lawn, as some here would seem to want, this might become a bit more memorable."
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No, it isn't. It's another nexus in a battle over a major social issue, and a test of whether a society can maintain its belief system in the face of a determined attack by a wealthy, connected, conspiratorial, antipathetic, and hostile minority as small as 3% of the population.
We didn't kill two hateful military empires in World War II only to lose our own country to a homosexual cabal -- but that is what is going on.
My grandfather would have eaten rat poison rather than see the country debauched by the gays.
Or is that "just noise" to you?
Comment #403. The only way to prevent a political demonstration when demonstrators insist on demonstrating is by arresting the demonstrators. Can you think of an alternative?
Moral principles are all about what legislation is about. The Bible is one source of inspiration. That is what the founders thought, and that is true to this day. Trying to corral the founders into the debate about the role of religion in the public square today, won't get one far. The founders thought that the voters should enact wise legislation, and good moral character was essential to that, and should be fostered. That is my take. The game of capturing George Washington or Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson, of James Madison, who each had their own take about religion, although not all that different, and all would be amazed about the religious fervor of some today, vis a vis the public square, into today's religious boxes, is errant.
Gay parents showing up at the egg roll, as something important, is noise, to me, even if some sound off in a noxious way. Our precious Republic, our culture, the willingness of our people to procreate, to keep our Shining City on a Hill, alive and vital, will survive, long after I am dead, long after.
No only to we have to tolerate, not only do we have to acknowledge, but we have to approve and endorse or we are bigots.
signed
Your wish is wonderful, but we're not procreating. We're short of replacement except among minorities, and we're importing millions of strangers who wave foreign flags and demand citizenship be surrendered to them.
Things aren't going very well, and the "moral deregulation" of American society by liberals in the 1940's - 1990's is the main reason why.
They broke our moral compass and sneer at replacing it -- Marxism is enough, for them.
That's an urban legend. Disney does not plan, sponsor or promote the Gay Days. They just won't discriminate who they sell tickets to.
Looking at the society in which the Founders and their immediate descendants lived, it was far more formally Christian than is contemporary America. Churches were the primary educators of the young, with virtually all colleges having religious origins. Many states had test oaths for public office that forbade atheists, and in some cases non-Christians, from holding public office. Until the early 20th Century, blasphemy was a crime, divorce was only granted in cases of adultery or desertion, and sexual relations outside of marriage were prohibited, as were abortion, birth control, and pornography. Such prohibitions were established in English common law and remained in force until the last century.
It is worthy to note that none of the Founders, even heterodox ones like Franklin and Jefferson, never lobbied to overturn these laws, for even if they may have rejected the miracles in the Bible, they accepted at least the utility of the moral code therein. For example, Jefferson authored a bill that would have made castration the punishment for sodomy. Virginia's punishment, though harsh, was less than the death penalty imposed by Connecticut, South Carolina, Vermont, and New York for the same crime.
The secularization of American society and the cordon sanitaire between government and Biblical principles that currently exists are ahistorical and have no roots in the writings of the Founders, irrespective of their personal religious beliefs. Rather, it has its roots from several sources, such as the legal positivism derived from philosophers such as William James, the Social Gospel movement in liberal Protestantism and its corollary in liberal Catholic social thought, the cultural Marxism deriving from the Frankfurt School in which the New Left is rooted, and deconstructionism common to postmodernism.
If you wonder how this nation has gotten to the point where perverts are welcome to Easter egg hunts, do not look to Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, etc., and their philosophical forbears like Locke, Blackstone, and Montesquieu. Look rather to John Dewey, William James, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Earl Warren, Alfred Kinsey, Herbert Marcuse, and Jacques Derrida.
horse manure.
Disney facilitates, disney gives special discounts and contail parties. DISNEY PERMITS THE USE OF DISNEY LOGOS AND CHARACTERS TO PROMOTE THE EVENT.
Disney KNOWS when the event will take place, Disney gives special discount rates and room blocks.
Disney would have no problem advising people scheduling family vacations that a sexually objectionable group is going to be having an event at the parks on one particular weekend.
The highly plausible guess we might venture as to Jefferson's own personal view is that which he stated three years later in his 1781 Notes on the State of Virginia, referring to sodomy, among other things: "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others."
Moreover, it is worth noting that the 1778 attempt to standardize Virginia criminal law was rejected by the legislature. Instead, a 1792 statute maintained the British common law punishment of death, and then an 1800 revision knocked this down to 1-10 years in prison. Aside from that, let us also ignore, as is typical, that the official 1810 guideline to authorities seeking indictment for sodomy under the Virginia statute made clear that it was envisioned for and applied to instances of forcible assault, and that primarily with juvenile victims in mind.
LOL .............. maybe add lighting a new fire at sunrise and the ringing of bells.
That isn't what this is about. It is about homosexual activists commandeering a sweet, innocent children's event for the purpose of making their political point concerning their sexual preference.
The fact that they are attending the even as gay parents, rather than just parents, bears that out.
This isn't about their kids having fun with Easter eggs. It's about the gays getting their political point across.
If you're comparing a grandfather, a son and a grandson to a homosexual couple, then there is no point in discussing this with you.
Whew!!! Well, he had that coming. 8^D
Man, is this a fun thread! LOL
That doesn't sound like the kind of thing Mr. Blackwell would write about, since he does the catty "Worst Dressed List" of celebrities every year.
Could you possibly have made an interesting Freudian slip in saying Blackwell, instead of referring to Blackstone, the author of the classic "Commentaries" on the common law? :)
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