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To: Stultis

By the way, I clicked on your link and the very first headline I see on the GOProud site is:

“GOProud Urges Senate Committee to Pass the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations bill”

As I said, HOMOPAC!

Pound sand, pal.


244 posted on 12/22/2009 4:40:36 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Join the TEA Party Rebellion!! May God and TEA save the Republic!!)
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To: Jim Robinson
the very first headline I see on the GOProud site is:

“GOProud Urges Senate Committee to Pass the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations bill”

OTOH, the first blog post link (along the right side of the page) applauds Senate Republicans for blocking the Democrats' attempted Death Tax extension.

Domestic Partnership Benefits extended by the Fed? Don't support it myself at this time. Haven't read it, but I can easily imagine how the left must have loaded a bill like that. RINO Susan Collins is the sole Republican sponsor in the Senate, which tells me all I need to know.

But fact is it'll probably happen eventually and, right or wrong, it is a more or less predictable consequence of the strategy of opposing gay marriage.

The problem is, even though your mileage in this case probably varies, and your position would therefore be more consistent, many conservatives do support "domestic partnerships" as part in parcel of opposing gay marriage. It's a way of saying, "we don't wish to deny anybody equal rights, we just want to keep marriage unique and special, and therefore gays don't need marriage because they have domestic partnership."

Well, those who use this argument need to consider that, if domestic partnership is put forward as a comparably viable alternative to marriage, then people are going to ask, "so where are the comparable benefits?" Seems to me like the strategy needs to be rethought. On that much, at least, maybe we agree?

As I said, HOMOPAC!

Well, yeah. Leaving the derogatory sense of the term "homo" aside, they are an organize for homosexual conservatives. They focus first on issues that most concern gay conservatives. I'm not sure what's supposed to be odd about that. For instance they also favor full repeal of the "Death Tax" (Estate Tax) most notably because it discriminates against gays, who have no marriage exemption, but the site also notes that it is a jobs killer and destructive of small business generally. They are also pro-life, even if you may dismiss their fear that gays will be selectively aborted when and if homosexuality becomes genetically forecastable.

250 posted on 12/22/2009 5:30:29 PM PST by Stultis (Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia; Democrats always opposed waterboarding as torture)
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