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Every time there's another landmark on the way to gay marriage, several people send me links and jubilant emails about it. They expect me to jump up and down and cheer about it, but I can barely register even polite interest.
It isn't that I don't want to be able to legally formalize a commitment to the woman of my choice. I want that more than anything else, as a matter of fact. But I've been paying enough attention to know that even if I were a man, I wouldn't have that option anymore.
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Even as the traditional expectations that used to go with marriage are dissolving, brand new ones are being invented. Nowadays, if your spouse is admitted to the hospital with brain damage caused by highly suspicious injuries, you can deny her medical care for years and then have her slowly starved to death. The alleged domineering patriarch of the 1950's did not imagine he had any right to do such a thing, and yet Democrats are attempting to pretend that being married doesn't mean fidelity, doesn't mean commitment, but does mean the right to inflict a slow and agonizing death. Andrew Sullivan actually complained that because he is gay, courts probably wouldn't recognize his "right" to have his partner starved to death. Isn't that terribly unfair?
Personally, for me the murder of Terri Schiavo was the end of my enthusiasm for gay marriage.
Brunette Republican Sex Kitten... Gay Marriage? What For?
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For a little over a year, Barack Obama has taken his message of hope to countless gymnasiums and scores of town halls across the country. And in doing so, Mr. Obama carefully constructed a politically-moderate image he hopes to ride to the front steps of the White House.
But a recent gaffe in which Mr. Obama described an unborn child as a "punishment," thus leaving open the suggestion he would condone the abortion of his unborn grandchild, has caused concerns there this moderate man is a liberal lawmaker.
Despite a relatively short career as an elected official, Mr. Obama was first elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996, the presidential hopeful has built a political record that culminated with the National Journal rating him the most liberal U.S. senator in 2007. Mr. Obama, however, has focused his presidential campaign on the broader message of restoring trust in politics, thus permitting his liberal record on issues, such as abortion, to fly under the radar.
This, however, changed during a Lancaster town hall meeting this week where Mr. Obama discussed sex education.
"Look, I've got two daughters... nine years old and six years old. I'm going to teach them first of all about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby," Mr. Obama stated. "I don't want them punished with an STD at the age of 16."
By describing an unborn child as a punishment, placing the child in the same category as an STD, Mr. Obama unleashed a tidal wave of pro-life anger and redirected attention to the Illinois senator's position on abortion.
"Our society would take a dangerous step backward from the Judeo-Christian belief that we are all created equal if we were to treat one class of humans - those born to teenagers - as a curse," argued Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America.
Even more disturbing to Kathy Coll, president of the Pro-Life Coalition, is the fact Mr. Obama uttered such words after spending his campaign claiming to be a man of faith.
"What kind of faith prevents you from seeing an unborn child as a gift?" asked Mrs. Coll.
While in the U.S. Senate Mr. Obama voted against prohibitions on carrying a minor across state lines for an abortion and recently expressed regret over a vote to save the life of Terri Schiavo, a disabled Florida woman. Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, also pointed out Mr. Obama opposed healthcare for children born of botched abortions in while in the Illinois Senate.
?"In 2003... he led the fight to oppose a bill that would have mandated health care for a baby who survived an abortion," Mr. Donohue stated.
The gaffe could be significant to Mr. Obama because a number of Pennsylvania Democrats voting in the April 22 primary are Casey Democrats, those named after the state's late Gov. Robert Casey. The Casey Democrat is traditionally a blue collar Democrat, most likely Catholic, supportive of the right to life.
To conservatives, however, Mr. Obama's comments are a glimpse at Mr. Obama's true political colors.
"I maintain to you that when he goes off the prompter, this is exactly the way he looks at it: Punished with a baby. He's no different than half the other liberals out there," stated conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh on his radio program. "All during the abortion debate, pregnancy was a disease... It certainly wasn't about the glory of life."
Obama Speaks On Morals, Values And Daughters
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Andy, if you want a new homosexual lover, just go to a gay bar and get one, you don't need to murder your old one.
And for the record, homosexuals have the EXACT SAME rights to marry that everyone else does.
From my e-mail:
“Liberal Columnist Nat Henthoff Blasts Barack Obama on Terri Schiavo Flip-Flop
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — Barack Obama made headlines last month for flip-flopping on whether or not the federal government should have helped Terri Schiavo’s family to save her life. Now, Obama is coming under fire from liberal columnist Nat Henthoff for saying he should have opposed the bill allowing the Schindler family to help their beloved daughter.
In March 2005, just weeks before Terri died from a painful 13-day starvation and dehydration death, Congress approved legislation allowing her family to take its case from state courts to federal courts in an effort to stop the euthanasia from proceeding. “It wasn’t something I was comfortable with, but it was not something that I stood on the floor and stopped,” Obama said. “And I think that was a mistake.”
Henthoff takes Senator Obama to task for the flip-flop in a column published in the magazine Forward. He called Obama’s decision to flip-flop an “irresponsible robot-like judgment “ not based on the facts of the situation Congress considered.
“He should be proud of the Senate vote he now recants—and learn a lot more about the disabled,” Henthoff wrote. “The reason Congress asked the federal courts to review the Schiavo case was that the 41-year-old woman about to be dehydrated and starved to death was breathing normally on her own, was not terminal, and there was medical evidence that she was responsive, not in a persistent vegetative state,” Henthoff explained. Full story at LifeNews.com.”