Is THIS Discrimination?

special to FreeRepublic ^ | [March 2, 2004] | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[mondonico]

bump for later

[FUMETTI]

I gag when I hear gays call their relationships "committed." Yeah, they should be committed...to Bellevue. Seriously, just because someone thinks they love someone of the same sex beyond family/friendship to include sexual contact, it no longer is love but in fact a perverse lust masquerading as love. Committed? Friends of the same sex can be committed to doing whatever they can to keep their friendship strong, but I don't think gay "marriage" will ever be totally accepted because, as the article says and what I have already maintained, it is not marriage at all and never will be. You can paint a rock gold but it essense it will never be anything more than a painted rock and not a gold nugget. Thus, gay "marriages" are nothing more than legalized jokes.

[happygrl]

Actually you are making the error of confusing discriminating with being univerally bad. For example your mom [or you wife] certainly hope you are discriminating about who you spend the night with.

Actually, this is the very point the CBB made in his essay.

You need to reread it, not skim it.

[blackie]

Billybob ~ bump!

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists and the democrats are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[Congressman Billybob]

The article you posted as a reply in this thread is gruesome, pathetic, important, and useful. Despite the rough reading, I appreciate the fact that you put it up.

John / Billybob

[KC_for_Freedom]

You can paint a rock gold but it essense it will never be anything more than a painted rock and not a gold nugget. Thus, gay "marriages" are nothing more than legalized jokes.

I discriminate every day, discrimination is a good thing, it means I still have some freedom. We need the constitutional ammendment.

[Old Professer]

I don't care how good you can ride or what you paid for those boots and the hat, just get down off my pig.

[rockrr]

Reduced to its essence, your congress-critter is actively discriminating - against YOU!
By assenting to, and endorsing SOME interests, against the expressed interests of others (including you!), he discriminates against you.
What a putz......

[Happy2BMe]

Thank you, sir.

Bear in mind, the gay agenda is not stopping at single partners.

Multiple partners are the goal, pedopheilia will be rampant.

[Sonny M]

You are the parents of a teenaged son. He shows up with a girlfriend who has a half dozen visible body piercings and possibly others not visible. She cheerfully notes that her movie credits include a low-budget release, “Doris Does Duluth.” Do you discourage that relationship?

I ditch my son and try and pick up the girl.

[farmfriend]

Thanks for the ping.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks. My pleasure ! ;^)

[King Prout]

Outstanding.

My thoughts on the issue: get government at all levels entirely out of the marriage business. bane the government from ever defining marriage in any way, shape or form - allow that power to revert to the People in the form of cultural tradition and religion.

Limit the government to issuing "Union" licenses - to ALL applicants. The license bears only on joint-property and inheritances.

Illustration:
Dick and Jane want to get hitched.
They go to their local courthouse and fill out an appication fro Union.
The JOP mumbles his arcane legalistic gobbledygook.
Poof - Dick and Jane are Unified.
As Dick and Jane are ardent Christians, they head down to the First Baptist Pentacostal Church of Christ to be *married*.
The preacher mumbles his arcane theological mumbojumbo.
POOF! Dick and Jane are now MARRIED.

meanwhile, across town...

Tom and Harry want to get hitched.
They go to their local courthouse and fill out an appication for Union.
The JOP mumbles his arcane legalistic gobbledygook.
Poof - Tom and Harry are Unified.
As Tom and Harry are ardent neopagans, they head down to the Grand Rebirth Universal House of Gaia to be *married*.
The priestess mumbles his arcane theological mumbojumbo.
POOF! Tom and Harry are now MARRIED.

Legal parity - to the extent and ONLY to the extent the government has any legitimate interest - is thus established.

Neither pair is denied the "right" to call themselves "married" - but neither side can use the government as a sledgehammer to force the OTHER pair to bow down and honor something they find repugnant.

[Rebellans]

Excellent article! This should be sent to every journalist and talking head in the nation.

[Congressman Billybob]

Thank you, and thank the others on this thread who've commented on this thread. Following up on your suggestion, anyone who thinks this column should be placed in the hands of any media people you know, feel free to do that, with my compliments.

John / Billybob

[MissAmericanPie]

Homosexuals should be in prison, not running around in leather collars half nude in parades. Society has a right to determine what is preverse and illegal. Society has a right and a duty to promote it's own health and wellbeing.

Homosexuality was a crime in most states before activist judges got in on the act, as was abortion. For decades now we have endured judicial and federal social engineering to our detriment and harm. Congress better get off it's rear and begin to impeach or there will be another of a long list of reasons not to vote Republican.

[stopem]

Gee maybe the Mormons didnt realize that this was discrimination or that their rights were taken away.
Maybe they will demand their rights to polygamy or polyandry.
And the beat goes on. Where will it end? No one seems to know.
I really thought Bush was on to something with the amendment BUT.......maybe not, he sure isnt getting any support from the GOP on this.....disappointing!!

[tpaine]

Congressman Billybob in the United States, first in its colonies and later in its states, the definition of marriage for almost four centuries has been one man with one woman. The only exception to this was among the early Mormons, who accepted polygamy. However, after Congress passed the Mann Act which criminalized polygamy and was upheld in the Supreme Court, the Mormon Church changed its definition of marriage to the classical one. -billybobby-

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Bob-billy , you really should do a little research before pontificating on history..
The Mormon Church "changed their definition"/mind about separation of church & state back in the 1890's, in order to get Utah admitted as a State in the Union.
Congress rightly refused them statehood until they could come up with an acceptable state constitution that supported a republican form of government, -- rather than a theocracy.
5 tpaine

Gee maybe the Mormons didnt realize that this was discrimination or that their rights were taken away.

What rights? Do you believe they have a 'right' to set up a state government that discriminates against non-believers in their religion?
Sorry, -- but that's not how a republican form of government works.

Maybe they will demand their rights to polygamy or polyandry. And the beat goes on. Where will it end? No one seems to know. I really thought Bush was on to something with the amendment BUT.......maybe not, he sure isnt getting any support from the GOP on this.....disappointing!!

I find it encouraging that most have the wisdom to realize that we shouldn't amend our constitution for such petty reasons.. Traditional marriage can be defended by using the constitution as it exists.

[tpaine]

Homosexuals should be in prison, not running around in leather collars half nude in parades. Society has a right to determine what is preverse and illegal.

Yep, running about it public in leather collars half nude can be declared perverse & illegal.. Indeed; "Society has a right and a duty to promote it's own health and wellbeing."

But we long ago wrote a Constitution with a Bill of Rights's to a private life, with liberty, and to private property.
- Therefore, -- we can't just throw queers in prison for being weird.

Homosexuality was a crime in most states before activist judges got in on the act, as was abortion.

Such prohibitive type laws frequently violate our BOR's in their enforcement. Thus, judges strike them down on that basis..

For decades now we have endured judicial and federal social engineering to our detriment and harm.

States also indulge in "social engineering", and such 'laws' are equally unconstitutional.

Congress better get off it's rear and begin to impeach or there will be another of a long list of reasons not to vote Republican.

I agree. Impeach the judges & politicians who violate our liberties.. -- And leave our constitutional basics as written.

[MissAmericanPie]

Your kind of poppy cock is the yeast in the loaf that destroys a nation. You seem to be overlooking the writings of many of the authors of the constitution who plainly stated that this form of government has no chance of lasting unless it is administered by a moral people.

Moral people define a healthy society, not perverts and their promoters.