Posted on 09/18/2010 12:10:48 PM PDT by presidio9
At a time when gays have been gaining victories across the country, the Republican Party in Montana still wants to make homosexuality illegal.
The party adopted an official platform in June that keeps a long-held position in support of making homosexual acts illegal, a policy adopted after the Montana Supreme Court struck down such laws in 1997.
The fact that it's still the official party policy more than 12 years later, despite a tidal shift in public attitudes since then and the party's own pledge of support for individual freedoms, has exasperated some GOP members.
"I looked at that and said, 'You've got to be kidding me,'" state Sen. John Brueggeman, R-Polson, said last week. "Should it get taken out? Absolutely. Does anybody think we should be arresting homosexual people? If you take that stand, you really probably shouldn't be in the Republican Party."
Gay rights have been rapidly advancing nationwide since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Texas' sodomy law in 2003's Lawrence v. Texas decision. Gay marriage is now allowed in five states and Washington, D.C., a federal court recently ruled the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy unconstitutional, and even a conservative tea party group in Montana ousted its president over an anti-gay exchange in Facebook.
But going against the grain is the Montana GOP statement, which falls under the "Crime" section of the GOP platform. It states: "We support the clear will of the people of Montana expressed by legislation to keep homosexual acts illegal."
Montana GOP executive director Bowen Greenwood said that has been the position of the party since the state Supreme Court struck down state laws criminalizing homosexuality in
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Of course those basics were taught to me by my Mom and Dad...I was thinking that kids still have an instinct, that they have a sense of what is right and what is wrong, it used to be that way but maybe after "new" education it's not that way anymore.
What kid would admit shock in our current society?
You're right, with peer, and more importantly, administrative pressure, kids don't have a chance these days.
The article doesn't state that. It simply says The party adopted an official platform in June that keeps a long-held position in support of making homosexual acts illegal,
The public versus private is what I would support.
Nobody was ever charged under the law
Then you have no argument.
Have a nice day.
This is a great deal of theoretical situation for me to make legal decisions about, when I have zero legal training or knowledge.
If a homosexual or normal person uses his or her apartment for something that can only be called prostitution, whether money is involved or not, the owner of the apartment should be allowed to eject such persons.
Nah, we'll only prosecute homo acts between construction workers and illegal aliens.
Get lost troll.
But that's not what the Montana GOP is advocating. Would you oppose their proposal because of that?
Then you have no argument.
And no doubt you would have Montana do a better job the next time around.
I agree that it is complicated. That’s why I kind of like a don’t ask, don’t tell policy.
Yes, he’s a strange one, isn’t he.
You are a newbie troll. I’d stop trolling if you want to stay on FR.
I'm sorry for kids now. It's very hard for them.
Quote what they are advocating and give a link.
Yes, I am new here, but I can only discuss these things if you say something meaningful.
Just letting you know that rosettasister “And I am proud to stand up for gays and lesbians” has left the building.
Darkwing - could use some graphics. This one has been a thorn for a while, thought that 0thugga was not as bad CIC as she feared!
Prolly an interior decorator!
LOL!
Your strawman arguments aren’t meaningful.
Who lives in an apartment... hmmm...
ROTFLOL!
Hmm, you just signed up, right now, to make these two comments on this thread.
Are you sure you aren’t rosettasister who just got the Zot?
Welcome newbie. Come to troll homosexual agenda threads? I wouldn’t.
I have to ask - are you a retread previously banned troll?
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