Name: Anonymous 2008-10-24 13:31
Reading the Constitution Party's platform message.One thing jumps out and bites me on the nose. "No government may legitimately authorize or define marriage or family relations" and then follows this with "No government may legitimately authorize or define marriage or family relations contrary to what God has instituted." Amazing, This is my problem with political parties in general they try to encompass too many issues and doing so end up tying themselves in knots. I understand that the latter is not a direct contridiction to the former, but when you add "We stand against so-called "sexual orientation" and "hate crime" statutes that attempt to legitimize inappropriate sexual behavior and to stifle public resistance to its expression" you get a good clue they aren't interested with being neutral on the subject and that they'll lean towards hetro marriages when it comes to taxes, "We oppose government funding of "partner" benefits for unmarried individuals." and then make sure they cut states rights out of this completely with "Finally, we oppose any legal recognition of homosexual unions." So let me get this correct you want to be hardline about following the Constitution, but you are all about making sure that homosexuals have no right to a normal life, or pursuit of happiness.
This is easy, so easy in fact that its a guaranteed way to lose. You start acting like your way of life is morally superior to all others and you lose all those others. The reason the Christian Right push so hard for legislation that bans gay marriage federally is simply, they do not want competition from churches that will embrace homosexual marriages. There is no ability for the government to come in and tell a preacher "you have to marry these two men, here" nor is anyone taking a stand to make them. What really will get these 'Men of God' standing is the idea that a good portion of their offering plate will be going to the United Bi-Sexual Ministries. Because religion is a business like all others. If you have a product that people want they will buy it.
Could Gay marriage be a state issue. Yes, but politians don't want to compete either. Especially when real tax revenue is lost as people travel somewhere else to get the same considerations that Hetro-sexual couples get in their state. This is the point of state's rights. You don't like the treatment you get from one state you go to one that better suits you. The Constitution is merely the balance of powers and rights that all agree to when they became part of the Union. This is not supposed to be a blank page that we right down our moral viewpoints on.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Leave comments and argue the point.
This is easy, so easy in fact that its a guaranteed way to lose. You start acting like your way of life is morally superior to all others and you lose all those others. The reason the Christian Right push so hard for legislation that bans gay marriage federally is simply, they do not want competition from churches that will embrace homosexual marriages. There is no ability for the government to come in and tell a preacher "you have to marry these two men, here" nor is anyone taking a stand to make them. What really will get these 'Men of God' standing is the idea that a good portion of their offering plate will be going to the United Bi-Sexual Ministries. Because religion is a business like all others. If you have a product that people want they will buy it.
Could Gay marriage be a state issue. Yes, but politians don't want to compete either. Especially when real tax revenue is lost as people travel somewhere else to get the same considerations that Hetro-sexual couples get in their state. This is the point of state's rights. You don't like the treatment you get from one state you go to one that better suits you. The Constitution is merely the balance of powers and rights that all agree to when they became part of the Union. This is not supposed to be a blank page that we right down our moral viewpoints on.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Leave comments and argue the point.