Senator Ted Kennedy: "A vote for this (marriage) amendment is a vote for bigotry pure and simple."

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[topher]

Kennedy is CINO - Catholic/Christian in Name only.

(Maybe it is time the Catholic Church excommunicates Ted)

[highlander_UW]

Every time it comes to an actual vote by the citizens of the US the definition of one man and one woman marriage is overwhelmingly returned. Will Kennedy please go on TV and tell Americans that it is his Democrat opinion that they are all racists and bigots?

[topher]

I forgot to paste in the link to the article on LifeSite News:

Senator Ted Kennedy: "A vote for this (marriage) amendment is a vote for bigotry pure and simple." - http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jun/06060601.html>

[topher]

(Pardon the following sarcasm...)

Quiet! It is people like Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy that is helping to keep more and more conservative politicians in power as rank and file Democratics get more and more fed up with their party.

After all, it was President Bill Clinton that helped elect a Republican majority in the House and Senate.

Just make sure Ted has plenty of his father's bootleg liquor for him to drink, and the words from Ted Kennedy's mouth will help preserve the American way of life...

(I am sure many Gay voters love Ted -- in more ways than one -- for his stand on Gay rights...)

[XR7]

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

Every time it comes to an actual vote by the citizens of the US the definition of one man and one woman marriage is overwhelmingly returned.

Yeah, but this is an issue for the states. This is a political ploy pure and simple. There are more important issues than this and flag burning at the moment and I really wonder if the target audience is the same who would have been thrilled by their $100 gas rebate check.

Kennedy is just playing along. We should be thankful for him.

[Las Vegas Dave]

If Teddy had been driving a Volkswagen Beetle, he may have been a president....

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Is there really any mystery to why this family is cursed.

[Past Your Eyes]

Cursed? We're the ones who are cursed...with them.
:(

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Yeah, but this is an issue for the states.

And the state legislatures can vote to reject or ratify such an Amendment...

Are you afraid of how the states will vote?

[freeangel]

Well, of course he would say that. How many of the kennedys have managed to stay faithful even to one wife. And I can't help but think, there may be more than women hiding in their closets.

[highlander_UW]

Yeah, but this is an issue for the states.

Well, that is certainly one fairly commonly stated view. Even if one were to agree, the problem is not what transpires in the states but what transpires in the hands of activist judges who decide it's within their discretion to toss out the will of the people to promote their personal political agendas. If there weren't activist judges I'd bet this wouldn't be on the front pages today.

[Night Hides Not]

Quiet! It is people like Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy that is helping to keep more and more conservative politicians in power as rank and file Democratics get more and more fed up with their party.

Your words ring true even though they may be laced with a tinge of sarcasm.

Case in point: just when I think I'm done with the Republican party, I simply take a trip to the online forum populated by alumni of my university. The vitriol and hyperbole displayed towards those not on the left has been illustrative for me.

Like Teddy, these folks are helping to keep conservatives in power.

[OpusatFR]

Man...what is it with Kennedys?

First, if you are for enforcing the nation's borders, Kennedy says you are a bigot and racist.

Then, Patrick the Boozer wants to be treated "like a black person," albeit he is treated like royalty for his DUI and crash.

Now, this.

I guess if you are one of the democrat aristocracy, or just Senate royal, you can regurgitate any old soundbite and get away with it.

The racist, bigot charge just shows a complete and utter vacuity of mind and intellect.

[libertylover]

This is a political ploy pure and simple.

I disagree with you here. IMHO, it's just a matter of time before some judge declares that all the states have to accept gay "marriage" and the Supreme Court may not overturn that ruling.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Yeah, but this is an issue for the states.

That's precisely right. Congress should send the proposed amendment to the states and let them dispose of it as they will.

Those who oppose the passage of this amendment by the Congress are opposing state legislative decision on the matter. And it is one matter, nationwide, due to "full faith and credit" nationwide.

[monkapotamus]

[AmericanInTokyo]

I would LOVE to see a POPE BENEDICT-TED KENNEDY airport tarmac meeting a la John Paul II and Ernesto Cardenal in Nicaragua in 1983. JPII took none of communist Minister of Culture(Father?) Cardenal welcoming 'abrazos', stood back, wagged his finger at him on live Sandinista TV, and told him his public position was not in harmony with the Church.

This is what Ted Kennedy needs on live TV. Public humiliation based on moral clarity. I would imagine this Pope would do it, too, knowing that he must know well of Kennedy's abortion and gay positions as a public official.

[rockabyebaby]

Hey ted, have another Chivas pal........

[mc5cents]

Everything to the Swimmer is pure and simple including his drinks. (Scotch on the rocks)