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The culture war is still with us
Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Mon, 07/25/2011 - 15:50Despite the current spotlight on fiscal issues in Washington (and virtually every state capital), the battle over cultural issues has by no means gone away. In fact, even while our government continues to spend itself into bankruptcy, the culture war is still very much with us.
(Actually, it is never really considered a “war” in the media unless conservatives are fighting back, never just when liberals are tearing down traditional cultural norms).
The latest battle in the ongoing war just concluded in New York, where liberals continued their assault on traditional marriage by redefining it to include homosexuality. Thanks to Republican turncoats, the marriage revisionists won by just four votes.
It is important to note that this war is being waged by a distinct minority against several thousand years of human history, and that their agenda has never carried the day when put before the public for a vote. Quite the opposite, actually. Voters in over thirty states have passed marriage amendments to their state constitutions defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Any victories for gay marriage have always been by imposition of a legislature or, more often, via subversion of the political process by the judiciary.
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Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Mon, 08/30/2010 - 19:32In referring to our form of government, Alexander Hamilton once said, “Here sir, the people govern”. But given the actions of some of the more arrogant members of our judiciary, there seems to be room for doubt.
In 2000, the people of California approved a statewide referendum defining marriage in that state as the union of one man and one woman, but in 2008 their state supreme court threw out that law (by a four to three vote of the court). So in November, 2008 voters approved a state constitutional amendment to overturn their supreme court’s decision and again take control of the definition of marriage in their state, just as voters in over thirty states have done.
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Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:35
While Americans have been busy focusing on one Obama overreach after another, with health care currently occupying the front burner, the issue of gay marriage has escaped scrutiny.
When he was out campaigning for President, Obama understood the politically explosive nature of gay marriage and decided that getting elected was more important than being honest. He contorted himself to say the he supported the definition of marriage as one man and one woman, while at the same time letting homosexual activists groups know that he opposed the federal law which defines marriage as just that.
Among normal people this would be understood as being duplicitous at best.
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Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Thu, 12/21/2006 - 00:00The jig is up. We can now officially put to bed the lie that advocates of gay marriage only want equal rights. According to a Reuters story out of Connecticut, eight gay and lesbian couples are asking that state's Supreme Court to mandate the legalization of gay marriage. You should know that Connecticut is a state that already grants the "rights and benefits" of marriage to homosexuals under a civil unions law.
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Defending Traditional Marriage
Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Wed, 11/01/2006 - 00:00"A marriage between one man and one woman is the only lawful domestic union that shall be valid or recognized in this state."
That is the opening text of a proposed amendment to our state's constitution. It is an amendment designed to protect traditional marriage from being redefined by radical state and federal judges, and to make sure that voters have a chance to be heard on this fundamental issue.
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The Marriage Debate
Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Wed, 11/17/2004 - 22:27The recent election has left us with one indisputable fact. An overwhelming majority of Americans oppose gay marriage. For all the fulminations and (to borrow a phrase from Karl Rove) bloviations of the left, we are left with a clear and convincing - and at least on a state by state basis, unanimous - verdict.
Now that the election is over and the returns are in, (and having lost overwhelmingly), liberals are returning to what they consider more friendly terrain - the courtroom. In state after state they are now appealing to judges to overturn, throw out and/or otherwise find "unconstitutional" these duly passed, citizen approved constitutional amendments. This from pretty much the same crowd that is heard shouting "every vote should count", (even in cases where they are legally suspect).
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