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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Already zotted
That was quick! How long was Strange Feathers around on FR? Just this one comment?
I’m going to bed soon, before the real crazies come out.
Thank you. We thought it was zotted but then it popped up again.
Must be something in the water somewhere.
Thanks. Thanks a lot.
;-)
About a month, had a half dozen or so comments.
Is it just this thread or is FR over run with trolls tonight?
guarantee this time they will think a little and post on a homo thread after their two posts on another thread.
LOL
What a very sad person this troll is.
who said that the thread is full of hat6e, wasn’t the same troll who just signed in was it.
LOL, where was the hate? I love how the left say anything is hateful when they don’t agree with a view .
When it is they who are the most intolerant lot which inhabits this country
I checked hom before he made comment # 309 and he was already banned.
I checked too, it must have been some weird glitch.
It was some troll called StrangeFeathers.
The name is a dead giveaway.
thank you.
It never ceases to amaze me how these pervert supporters keep coming on here.
I was a Mod on a fan board 10 years ago and a banned poster from a mental institution did that. It was chaos.
They use the word “hate” and “hater” to shut up anyone who disagrees (aka as “telling the truth”) with them.
The fact is that what they do and promote is hateful, and it causes great misery deep in their hearts. God is telling them from within that what they do is wrong, and they think if they shut everyone else in the world up, they’ll feel peaceful and guilt-free and happy. Truly “gay”.
But that will never happen, because there is a voice deep in their hearts telling them that what they are doing is wrong.
We all have that voice but some are trying to hear and heed that voice.
I just read the whole thread and didn’t see any hate from you guys, but as somebody just said, to a liberal, anything they disagree with is hate. And that is sad.
Well......my post about my neighbor the cow wasn’t hate but it wasn’t all warm and fuzzy either. Unless you’re a cow.
It is sad, scripter. Because people can change, their behavior and their hearts. And they can find real peace, and real joy. Even if everyone does “hate” them. Heck, if people hating others was the cause of suffering, we’d all be suffering!
I missed your comment about the cow.
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