Posted on 05/08/2009 8:21:45 AM PDT by pissant
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - The headlines are all over the internet, suggesting that Marie Osmond has a gay daughter and that the singer supports same sex marriage.
And that's exactly what Osmond seemed to be saying in a radio interview which aired in Los Angeles Tuesday.
In that interview, Marie Osmond talks openly about her daughter, her faith and gay marriage.
And her comments do seem to suggest she supports what the LDS Church does not.
Marie Osmond told KOST 103.5 in Los Angeles,
"One of the things that we have to be careful of is that we don't create hate. Because people believe certain things and we can’t make everyone become homogenized."
Osmond found herself on the radio responding to recent reports that her daughter is gay.
And while Marie Osmond's assistant told ABC 4 the singer would not comment on this further, the radio interview soon led to a discussion of same sex civil unions and marriage.
Marie Osmond: "Everybody has a right to believe what they believe. But I do think everyone has a right to have civil rights."
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Soon ‘homogenized’ is going to take on an entirely different meaning.
I think we’re all suffering from being ‘homogenized’ right now in this country.
What about homogenized milk? Go back to raw milk?
Does the Mormon church consider marriage a “civil right” or an institution ordained by God?
how profound.
I know some Gay people from my neighborhood. They vote at the same place I do.
Hmm. Well, I guess she actually is the ditz I’ve always suspected she was.
She has always seemed to me to be a self centered dim bulb. She leaves a few blocks from me, in the same stake. A few years ago, she gave a talk at a stake meeting I attended, and I revised my opinion of her upward because she seemed pretty well-grounded.
Seems like I was right the first time.
She has had a messed up family life. Two divorces. It has always seemed to me that both guys were kind of gold-diggers, so maybe it wasn’t her fault. But she has been the breadwinner, while raising a houseful of kids. So,one of her daughters has decided she’s gay, probably to get attention, or because it’s trendy.
Anyway, just because one of your kids screws up doesn’t mean that you abandon all standards to accommodate the kid.
This could just as easily be taken as a comment regarding 'hating' those that oppose same-sex-marriage assuming they hate homosexuals. The meaning of this is filtered by the listener and has many possible inferences.
That’s “lives a few blocks from me.” You’d think I’d proofread before I hit the post button, not afterward.
Not gay. Queer
To us Mormons, marriage is a god-created institution.
And I’m sure Marie would agree that everyone has a right to lose weight, too.
Gee. What a concept.
I don't think having access to food, housing, cable TV, air conditioning, or the marriage partner of your choice would necessarily be on that list of actual "civil rights" that government is obligated to ensure on your behalf.
and so to many of the rest of us with our churches
gays might as well lobby for baptism and communion to also be “civil rights”
why a simple delineation between church and state does not bolster us and defeat this truculent demand for perverted unions to be publicly blessed .. is beyond me
If she’s so tolerant I assume she’s in favor of Mormon polygamy, too. Please, Marie, tell us you are not a bigoted polyphobe.
The libertarian view is that government should bow out of marriage entirely. But societies have given special legal status to marriage to provide stable environments for the raising of children. Under U.S. law, marriage has been considered a “fundamental right.” I’ve never heard the Mormon Church leadership come out in support of the libertarian view. Judging from everything the Church has done to protect marriage law, I can only conclude that the Church supports retaining this special legal status, but only for man and woman.
"And God spoke all these words, saying: 'I am the LORD your God…
ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.'
TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.'
THREE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.'
FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.'
FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.'
SIX: 'You shall not murder.'
SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.'
EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.'
NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'
TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.'
What’s next, legalized incest? Hmmm. Donnie and Marie. Donnie and Marie. Has a nice ring to it.
My daughter helped provide security at a Marie Osmond appearence about a year ago, and she was not impressed. Ms Osmond made representations to the audience which weren’t true (claimed her kids were all backstage, when at least one was not). After the performance, she sat in her dressing room, placing gift orders over the telephone, for an extended period, while the security staff waited for her to finish so that they could go home.
OTOH, my daughter speaks highly of Wayne Newton, for whom she provided similar security duties.
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