Posted on 03/07/2004 3:47:51 PM PST by Thebaddog
February 24, 2004 President George W. Bush The White House Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. President,
I could not avoid you tonight as your support for a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage blared throughout the airport lounge via CNN. As I listened to your confusing messages about family and values and politics, I shared sadness with my fellow travelers about your continuing fear-driven approach to leadership. Your defense of traditional marriage rang hollow; rather, it was a poor endorsement for discrimination, ignorance and your conservative political base.
Uncharacteristically, I decided not to be angry, offended or cynical. Rather, I desperately want to understand you and your allies on this issue, and take the high road in that engagement.
So I invite you, Laura and your daughters to spend a day with my family and explain why you are championing such a cause.
Spend a day with my life partner of 24 years who is one of the most remarkable human beings you'll ever have the privilege of meeting. A public school teacher, Bob has spent his life inspiring students and parents alike with his commitment to a values-laden and creative approach to learning, serving as a strong life-changing role model for countless young at-risk city kids over the years.
Spend a day with our energetic and cheerful seven year-old son Ben. Ben will treat you to an active day full of homework, piano lessons, lego projects, friends, chores, soccer and baseball. Fully steeped in the values of love, sharing, friendship and learning, Ben is immensely proud of his two adoring and engaged parents, and wonderfully enriched by a diverse and supportive neighborhood.
Spend a day with our extraordinary community of friends and neighbors, who reflect the America of today and the future - mixed in race, language, background, family structures and ideas - but united in their deep commitment to our children, to creating a better future, to loving our country and to enjoying the richness of life.
Spend a day with our extended family that has supported us with unconditional love through good times and bad. Our parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins, nieces and nephews spread around the country form the foundation of our world. Over the years we have celebrated countless joyous holidays and celebrations together, as well as helping them in endless ways through illnesses, financial problems, divorces, and other family dramas.
Spend a day with us as we engage in our community as a family and as individuals, as we actively volunteer at Ben's school, as we have headed up the local United Way, and as we have worked tirelessly with many community organizations to improve the lives of our less-fortunate neighbors. Come join us as we sing and pray in church together.
Spend the day with me as the CEO of a fast-growing global digital media company who understands the economic interests of supporting stable communities and families, who must create a vibrant 21st century inclusive workforce through rigorous recruiting and non-discriminatory practices, and who is forever seeking that elusive family-life-work balance.
Spend the day with us as we explain to our son, his friends and cousins, why the world can be a fragile place where people do bad things out of ignorance and fear, where people hate people for silly reasons, where leaders abuse power for political gain at the expense of innocent folks, and where people waste enormous emotion and energy on side issues when domestic and child abuse, poverty, racism, divorce and inadequate health care - the issues truly threatening the American family - go unattended.
Mr. President, please come spend a day with us. And then, over our evening family meal, after we have given our nightly thanks to our loving and hate-free God, explain to this same-sex household just what family values you are defending for the future of America.
Sincerely, Steve Davis Seattle, Washington
And what amendment bans same sex marriage?
Dear Ms Esteban:
Why don't you describe what you and your partner do during a sexual encounter. On second thought, most of us have weak stomachs, so please don't.
Jesus said: "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore, they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." -from THE BIBLE: Matthew 19:4-6
And God in Heaven, who loves them despite their sin and perversion, has indicated...for their own good...that what they are doing is just that, sin and perversion. But He also gives them their free will and they are acting it out against that same loving God.
It is not He, a God of truth, who is not loving...it is they who choose so abjectly to disobey Him and then flaunt it in His face as if though He would approve.
Very sad.
I think it's what Bob and Steve have planned for later that evening that rightly bothers many people.
If society recognizes this destructive, disintegrative behavior as "marriage," it will be fostering the destruction of more and more people.
Men and women who are psychologically incapable of marriage, or of parenting, or who renounce marriage for some other motive, such as a religious motive, can foster their own personal integrity by choosing not to use their generative faculties. Anyone who DOES use them for a purpose other than in acts which CAN by their nature result in the generation of new life, will experience a loss of personal integration.
This process of disintegration is not obvious in its immediate effects or earliest stages, but look around in society, and effects are quite visible. People who use contraception, those who commit sodomy, and those who masturbate (usually referred to more delicately as "purchasers of pornography") all are doing fundamentally the same thing: incoherently pursuing SOME of the desirable effects of sexual activity, while denying that these activities have meaning only because the human person is called to be either a mother or a father.
People find MEANING through acts and experiences which have a PURPOSE. Our society's widespread indulgence in meaningless, purposeless acts (contraception, sodomy, and masturbation) is responsible for the ultimate sacrament of meaningless, abortion, by which people declare that an actual, growing, living human being is without purpose or meaning. In each abortion, a particular human being is declared POINTLESS, and thus there is no reason not to squash it.
Here is the fact that they keep missing. He can't marry a man. I can't marry a man. Same rights, same limitations. No discrimination.
miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure war criminal
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