Posted on 10/10/2008 6:56:11 PM PDT by goldstategop
Floridians, when you cast your ballot on the Florida Marriage Protection Amendment this year, look at Massachusetts, California – and now Connecticut.
Contrary to claims of the liars attempting to scare Floridians into voting against the marriage amendment because of the false assertions that the measure is about everything other than marriage, the Connecticut Supreme Court’s 4-3 ruling today legalizing “gay marriage” is the latest reminder of why we need Amendment 2.
This is not an academic, esoteric debate. The Florida Marriage Protection Amendment (also known as Amendment 2) is Floridians’ chance to settle the definition of marriage in our state before a few judges decide it otherwise.
The Connecticut Supreme Court’s ruling is a reminder – at the expense of marriage in that state – of what’s really at stake in Amendment 2.
“Interpreting our state constitutional provisions in accordance with firmly established equal protection principles leads inevitably to the conclusion that gay persons are entitled to marry the otherwise qualified same sex partner of their choice,” Justice Richard N. Palmer wrote in the majority opinion that overturned a lower court finding, the Associated Press reported.
“To decide otherwise would require us to apply one set of constitutional principles to gay persons and another to all others,” Palmer wrote.
Literally on the basis of one judge’s decision – the difference in the Connecticut 4-3 ruling – “gay marriage” is now required in that state, as it is now occurring in California and Massachusetts (both of which also changed the definition of marriage by the margin of one judge’s vote). We’re fooling ourselves to believe the same thing could not happen in our state at some point in the future.
The Florida Marriage Protection Amendment represents the historic definition of marriage and is similar to state constitutional amendments adopted in 27 other states in recent years. The text of the amendment says, “Inasmuch as marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized.”
The homosexual lobby, however, is bombarding the state with false advertisements claiming Amendment 2 will invalidate domestic partnerships and deny benefits to seniors. Florida Red & Blue, a group opposing the marriage amendment, launched this week a $1-million ad buy on network and cable television in Tampa, Orlando, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale-Miami and Naples-Fort Myers, according to the Orlando Sentinel. The ads distort the truth about Amendment 2, seeking to overcome support for the marriage amendment by deceiving voters.
According to several news accounts a new poll of 625 likely voters released Oct. 8 by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research found 55 percent in favor, 34 percent opposed and 11 percent undecided regarding Amendment 2. The poll has a 4-point margin of error. Constitutional amendments in Florida must receive 60 percent support for passage.
Brad Coker, managing director for the poll, said undecided voters “have generally broken strongly in the direction of the ‘politically incorrect/anti-gay’ position,” according to the Pensacola News Journal.
It’s those undecided voters that are the target of the deceitful advertising by opponents of the marriage amendment. Without the deep pockets of the homosexual lobby, supporters of marriage must rely upon grassroots activism to overcome the distortions. Yes2Marriage.org, the coalition formed to back Amendment 2, is desperately seeking volunteers across the state to work on behalf of the passage of this vital measure. Every Florida Baptist church and pastor has a vital role to play in educating and mobilizing their congregations to pass Amendment 2. Such activity does not jeopardize the church’s tax exempt status. (For more on this matter, check out the Liberty Counsel’s legal advice to pastors, available at: www.lc.org).
Amendment 2 is about marriage and only marriage. The Florida Supreme Court – no bastion of conservative jurisprudence – affirmed the amendment satisfied the “single subject rule.” The Court found, “The voter is merely being asked to vote on the singular subject of whether the concept of marriage and the rights and obligations traditionally embodied therein should be limited to the union of one man and one woman. The plain language of the proposed amendment is clear that the legal union of a same-sex couple that is not the ‘substantial equivalent’ of marriage is not within the ambit of this constitutional provision.”
Having removed three other proposed amendments from this year’s ballot, there is no reason to doubt that the Florida Supreme Court would have done the same with the Florida Marriage Protection Amendment if there was any chance it’s about anything other than marriage. That the Court permitted the marriage amendment to stay on the ballot is all the evidence needed to undermine the fabrications of opponents.
Therefore, Amendment 2 is not about domestic partnerships, denying benefits to seniors or civil rights. The Florida Marriage Protection Amendment is about marriage. This measure merely takes the definition of marriage – one man and one woman – from our state law and enshrines in our state constitution, preventing judges in the future from redefining marriage in our state.
For those who doubt it’s necessary to protect the definition of marriage in the state constitution, one need only look to the gay marriages being performed today in California and Massachusetts – with Connecticut to soon follow – because a few judges created the “right” to gay marriage. The ramifications of these decisions can be seen in Massachusetts where children are being indoctrinated with homosexual propaganda in public schools – even against the wishes of parents – because the state is now required to allow “gay marriage.”
For the sake of the well-being our society, our children, and our children’s children, do all you can to support the Florida Marriage Protection Amendment.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
McCain could earn himself some cred by lashing out at Connecticut over ruling the will of the people. Palin should too. Speak to the people where they are at. The anger is real, tune into it and offer them a promise to address it. People follow those who lead and call the charge.
Yesterday it was Connecticut and the 8200 dead voters registered. Now they legalize gay marriage.
Tomorrow they may add an amendment that those dead registered voters can marry.
Sorry, McCain and politics has fried my brain today, gotta get a laugh somewhere!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 10, 2008
YES on Prop 102/YESforMarriage.com Response to Connecticut Supreme Court Ruling
CT RULING SHOWS WHY PASSAGE OF PROP 102 CRITICAL IN ARIZONA
The Connecticut Supreme Court today overturned that state’s law defining marriage only as the union of one man and one woman. Connecticut now joins Massachusetts and California on the list of states that have had judges by a one-vote margin redefine marriage for the entire state.
Prop 102 spokesman, Kelly Molique, said the CT decision shows the importance of passing the marriage amendment in Arizona this November. “The Connecticut ruling further illustrates why Arizona needs Proposition 102’s 20 simple and clear words added to the Arizona Constitution,” Molique said. “As the Connecticut ruling shows, it’s easy for activist judges and politicians to overturn existing marriage laws. The only way to prevent that from happening is to amend the constitution by passing Prop 102.”
Prop 102 reads:
“Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state.”
“By voting yes on Prop 102, Arizonans can decide the future of marriage rather than leave the definition vulnerable to redefinition by judges or politicians,” said Molique.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
That is true—until Nov 5th. Having had a son in Boy Scouts the last ten years every year the fund raising appeals were not focused on upgrading Scout camps but rather on funding the legal costs of fighting litigation from the state and the ACLU trying to force homosexual scoutmasters into the program. That should be a warning for all churches that “discriminate” against gays. As long as you are considered a user of state services they can tell you what to do. What church doesn't use state services? If you want to get creative you could withdraw police and fire protection for churches that won't marry gays.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“strawberryblonde” sent this to me in an email earlier today
CT polls run bigtime against gay marriage - even in a liberal democrat voting state
Judges and Supreme Courts have become the unelected NAZI dictators that Thomas Jefferson said they wree becoming even in his time
What should done with NAZIS, COMMIES, SDA, and O-MUZZIES?
Sounds like a hotbed of liberalism in Connecticut!!
Even City Officials in small towns are getting big heads and go against the population now. Guess they think they can ‘make nice’ before the next election.
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Local Mayor’s son here got in adult criminal felony problemos
“Entitled” is a disease
11% of the USA has destroyed the economy and safety and civility
Cure: Run one doper for President
CHANGE will come
More than the 11% can comprehend or oppose
Or survive.....
[“Entitled” is a disease]
And it is everywhere, in every town.
I guess there was a reason we left CT.
Yesterday it was Connecticut and the 8200 dead voters registered. Now they legalize gay marriage.”
If California does NOT overturn their court-imposed replacement of traditional marriage with gay marriage, and if Obama is elected, THEN we will see gay marriage in America.
The end of marriage as we know it.
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Esp. in big urban “Gimme” cities
“Having had a son in Boy Scouts the last ten years every year the fund raising appeals were not focused on upgrading Scout camps but rather on funding the legal costs of fighting litigation from the state and the ACLU trying to force homosexual scoutmasters into the program. That should be a warning for all churches that “discriminate” against gays. As long as you are considered a user of state services they can tell you what to do. What church doesn’t use state services? If you want to get creative you could withdraw police and fire protection for churches that won’t marry gays. “
Not to mention the adoption services organizations that had to shut down because they didnt give in ‘non-discrimination’ of putting gay couples on adoption lists. That’s right, if you dare to insist on a man-woman married couple only to be eligible to adopt in your agency, you will be breaking the law, in Britain, in Cali, and ... who knows, once DOMA is repealed by Obama/Pelosi and friends, coming to a state near you.
http://marriagelaw.cua.edu/Issues/
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=29965
He added: “On grounds of conscience, formed by faith, we believe that same-sex partnerships do not provide the essential characteristics necessary for the well-being and development of the child. I remain convinced that the best interests of children are served when they live with and are brought up by a married couple. Any dilution of this fundamental principle can harm children and undermine their paramount place in the whole question of adoption.”
As Michelangelo Signorile pointed out in The Village Voice to his fellow rad gays, that is the whole point of "gay marriage" -- to destroy marriage itself, and the moral finger that it points at homosex.
Hell, he should just say the obvious: they're immoral, they're deviant, their participants are themselves deviant, and their enthusiasm is a paraphilic exercise in contra naturam jollification.
It's sick sex between bent people.
Florida specifically outlaws adoption by children.
it does indeed but the problem was a activist liberal judge just let a homosexual adopt a child.
Here in Florida we have to get this amendment passed, it will be close as we need over 60% unlike CA which only needs 50%.
The gaystapo are using dirty tactics, of scaring, intimidation and try to confused voters with their signs saying Jesus doesn’t discriminate and no on 2 protect Florida families
Notice they do not mention the words gay or homosexual
again it will be close but we need to get the message out and get this passed
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