Posted on 08/26/2011 10:37:32 PM PDT by newzjunkey
WASHINGTON – The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) released the following statement today announcing that Gov. Rick Perry has signed their marriage pledge:
"Kudos to Gov. Rick Perry for making it clear: he's a marriage champion!," said Brian Brown, president of NOM. "The purpose of NOM's Marriage Pledge is to move from vague values statements to concrete actions to protect marriage. Gov. Perry joins Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum as a signer of NOM Marriage Pledge. By doing so, Perry makes crystal clear that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, gay marriage is going to be a bigger issue in 2012 than it was in 2008, because the difference between the GOP nominee and Pres. Obama is going to be large and clear. We look forward to demonstrating that being for marriage is a winning position for a presidential candidate."
I once made a mistake buying several boxes of electrical plug ends for where I worked, I had dozens of regular 15amp three prong 120volt male plugs.
And then I had several boxes of three prong twist lock also male plugs.
All useless to make anything work, you cannot make a finished extension cord, it just won’t connect to anything, total rubbish. You can debate the niceties until the sun goes to a red dwarf but you still have to have female plugs.
Same theory if you had nothing but all female plugs, or even garden hose ends, just one type is useless, you need both.
“I believe in gay rights, but I don’t see anything wrong w/ this pledge other than the “vigorous defense of DOMA”.”
You may have stumbled into the wrong website to push your queer agenda.
This shows the ignorance that is out there. A federal marriage amendment would do nothing more or less than what DOMA now does, which already leaves it up to the states. It would just take the issue out of reach of activist judges and liberal congresses.
An FMA would prevent states from being forced to recognize a fake "marriage" from another state and prevent the federal government from recognizing these counterfeits.
If the men you’ve known who are “gay” are militantly, openly so, they aren’t conservative. Sorry, but you’ve been duped if you think they are.
I don't really know the answer to that.
The obvious answer is to oppose it! Like NOM and others, without whom we would now likely have nationwide homo "marriage," are doing. Perry is doing exactly what he should be doing, committing himself to what a vast majority of voters think he should. This pledge is not a liability, it is a line in the sand. I and millions of relevant voters in this country are sick of squishy politicians skirting this issue, afraid of appearing "insensitive." We CAN walk and chew gum at the same time. Surrender social issues, CONSERVATIVE ISSUES, to the left at any time, and we lose; we even lose at the fiscal issues.
We need to find a way to focus or we end up with another McPain because we can't decide what we will/won't put up with in a candidate and the Left wins without having to work for it (their favorite status of non-work).
“This is a mistake on his part.”
I agree. it may well be the ‘killer’.
Perry continues to soar in the polls. I think this pledge is what did it.
“Perry continues to soar in the polls. I think this pledge is what did it.”
I hope so but when the rabid GLBT organizers get going in response to this its gonna get ugly. With the phony intellectual-elite chiming in they are going to beat this drum to suggest Perry is nothing less than a KKK mogul.
Who cares what the GiLBerTs think?
“smoke in class”
no....sorry....smoke is not confined to the person doing it. if a person could keep all that smoke inside his/her own body and not exhale and have the cigarette only operate when dragging on it, then i have no problem with it. but, it does not work that way.
people who smoke are not aware of how irritating it is to others who do not. or, they do not care.
it is an assault on others and should be against the law.
“drink in public”
agree here....the drinking is not a problem and is confined to the person doing it. there are ample restrictions on behavior that might result from drunkenness
“If they are going to have Gay Rights because they are born with it.....”
without arguing the truth of this “because they are born with it” part of the proposition, the analogy does not work because no one is born with a cigarette in their mouth or alcohol in their stomach.
in my humble opinion
Its not what they think its the power and the forces they gather to destroy even the most insignificant opponent...much less a formidable one.
“People aren’t born smokers or drinkers. They’re almost certainly born gay. So your analogy doesn’t work (IMO).”
You are totally wrong on this, you should research more.
The same type of changes in genes that predispose someone to being gay exist for drinking and smoking.
If you genetically test people for being gay, you find heterosexuals that have been normally married for 40 years.
This is a Fact.
I am sure if the restriction was you couldn’t exhale smoke in a public space they would figure it out.
I don’t find any difference genetically
There are heterosexuals married for 40 years with the gay genes ... so it goes into the same category as drinking and smoking
He, we aren’t saying you can’t smoke, drink, or be gay, but you don’t have a born right to it ... you shouldn’t be able to get married and you shouldn’t have a right to engage in it in public....it should be restricted in the same way smoking and drinking can be
Marriage is between a man and a woman
How do you genetically test someone for being gay?
There is a lot of Google, basically you have to have a sterile swab, take a sample without contaminating it from the inside of your mouth and ship it off.
This gay gene thing is why they say that we have to give special rights to gays and modify marriage. There are gays with the gene, and without it. Also, the gene is only found in males so far and not females.
There are genes for everything....including smoking and drinking, so following the same logic.......
I’m with you. It’s amazing how many Freepers are cool with unnatural marriage. I’m not going in anyone’s bedroom, but don’t tell me homosexuality is right and natural.
Fags don’t vote Republican anyway. (Don’t go and quote a few ‘Log Cabin’ types. They are too few to care about.)
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