Posted on 02/08/2012 9:00:19 PM PST by writer33
ALLEN, Texas — After the appeals court ruling banning same-sex marriage as unconstitutional, Rick Santorum on Wednesday pounded President Barack Obama for being anti-family values.
Santorum attacked the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to reverse Proposition 8, the ballot measure passed by California in 2008 that outlawed same-sex marriage.
“Look at the 9th Circuit decision, which said the people of California said, in a constitutional amendment, that marriage is between a man and a woman,” Santorum told a women’s group in North Collin County. “And they found the constitution unconstitutional. Imagine that. The constitution is unconstitutional.”
He added: “And here’s what they said: Marriage between a man and a woman, if you believe that, you have no rational reason to believe that. That the only reason you could possibly believe that, is because you’re a bigot or you’re a hater, but there’s no other reason, there’s no rational reason that you should think that marriage should just be between a man and a woman.”
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For those interested.
Newt hammered the 9th circus on this, the day they ruled on it.
This is not an area the govt should be involved in. It has no business defining marriage, and the reasons are self-evident.
As a Social-Conservative, this is the kind of candidate I am looking for. Some one who sees life, as just more than making the mighty DOLLAR!
If OHOMO, tries to steer the culture by trying to "homosexualize" everything in his path, we Social-Conservatives should search for someone who does the same thing, but... in our direction. And I will let it go at that!..
THOUSANDS of years of history, throughout virtually all cultures, says that marriage is between a man and a woman. Homosexual “marriage” stands common sense on its head. Like parts don’t work together to produce future generations. Bob
I think it’s like 25% of people who think gay marriage is ok, yet it is forced on people by the minority because of judges making laws ( which is not there job) and acting like dictators for the left. Rick is talking about the cultural changes that the left is pushing to harm our country. He is the one who can clearly make the case the Obama and the democrats are harming our country.
Marriage is an institution that preceded national independence. What government may not do is to give a false definition of something that already exists. It may not, as Lincoln, reminded us, say that a dog has five legs simply by calling its tail a leg. Or to give an example: in the army a certain part of a man’s body is called a ”short arm. “ But the sergeant in his inspection is looking for signs that this “arm” has not been active in the wrong places.
bump
As long as civil matters such as immigration and naturalization, and others remain marriage-based, a definition will be required.
Get a grip.
OK Mr Libertarian. Man and woman get married. Have a few kids. Man leaves woman and kids. Should you pay to feed the kids or should the judicial system, part of the government you want to exclude from marriage, see to it that Pops rather than you foots the bill for his progeny?
Did Prop. 8 amend the Cali Constitution? And the 9th Circus said the amending was unconstitutional?
Anything the govt is directly involved in would get sticky, but the private sector can determine the criteria that satisfies its needs.
I see no benefit in giving the govt the power to threaten, prosecute, and sentence those that refuse to support homosexual ‘marriage’.
Part of my automatic email from Santorum:
“I know what’s coming next. I saw what Mitt Romney and his team
> did to Newt Gingrich after he won South Carolina. They amassed
> millions of dollars for his campaign and his SuperPAC -
> outspending his opponents nearly 5 to 1! This month will be no
> exception. They’re going to come after us now—because Romney
> doesn’t have a clear conservative vision for America that he can
> run on.
>
> All the momentum is on our side now. A Rasmussen survey over the
> weekend revealed that there is only one Republican Presidential
> candidate who would beat Obama if the election were today ..”
And I got an attack against Santorum automatic email against Santorum from Ron Paul.
Romney and Paul never attack each other though.
‘He added: “And here’s what they said: Marriage between a man and a woman, if you believe that, you have no rational reason to believe that. That the only reason you could possibly believe that, is because you’re a bigot or you’re a hater, but there’s no other reason, there’s no rational reason that you should think that marriage should just be between a man and a woman.”’
Rick nails it.
That’s right, no sense undermining the stellar system currently in place.
Marriage is a function of religion, not the govt.
>> Marriage is an institution that preceded national independence. What government may not do is to give a false definition of something that already exists.
So there’s no reason for the govt to define it at all.
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