It’s Our Turn: Hang on! It’s going to get ugly!
February 23, 2012 at 6:00 pm in Alexandria Echo Press
We often hear people ask how redefining marriage would affect you or me. Of course, those who ask that question don’t really want an answer; they want to argue; they want to show that any reason given, no matter how logical, is irrelevant. They’ve already made up their mind what to believe. Continue Reading
This bill reinforces discrimination at the end of the day. Gay and lesbian couples haven’t caused heterosexual infidelity or divorce. If you vote for the amendment you are choosing to punish same-sex couples on tax days, inheritances, and other times for items that they pay for the same as the rest of us.
Truth or dare time for the GOP: Since they’re putting out Constitutional amendments, will they put one curtailing abortion rights in MN like ones that have been approved elsewhere? Surely the foot soldiers who have delivered so many GOP victories due to ‘life issues’ should have a chance to get a referendum on their issue! Unless the abortion rhetoric is all about election days.
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Seem like everything is about election days, doesn’t it?
Pick any topic, social, moral, religious, whatever, and a party is going to wrap themselves up in it and trumpet it to the heavens.
Unfortunately, lately all the topics have been about denying someone something.
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“…marriage and family is and always has been the basis of every civilization. We tamper with that foundation at grave risk.”
So true, Mr. Anderson, so true. The left always frames this as a “discrimination” issue. It’s not. It is really all about maintaining intact the very definition of marriage: the union of a man and a woman. That’s what marriage is. It isn’t anything but that.
And it has been the cornerstone of our culture and nearly every culture throughout the world for a very long time. Redefining marriage is indeed a threat to me personally, because it’s a threat to the very culture in which I live.
We have already seen how bad public policy has had its destructive effects on the traditional family structure in this country. There are too many places in this country where more children are born out of wedlock than they are within. Most of those are born into institutionalized poverty and doomed to repeat it generation after generation. It’s well documented that the best chance any child born in this country has for success is to be born into a traditional family with a married mother and father.
And now we want to completely abandon the whole definition of marriage? We would do so at our own great peril. This is truly where the line needs to be drawn.
Please join me in voting for the amendment this November.
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It most certainly is discrimination. The question for voters should be whether it is VALID discrimination to ‘protect the family’ or INVALID discrimination.
I believe that it is the latter and that the easiest way to show it is to note who else is banned from marriage and the reasons why: close relatives-to minimize the odds of disabilities that cost society money; polygamy-initially for moral reasons and probably now as much about financial and women’s rights; severely mentally handicapped-cost and questions about their ability to understand a commitment; age restrictions-related to maturity and to protect young people from abuse by people with more life experience.
Former restrictions: Racial–to protect the ‘purity’ of the supposedly superior race; financial stability–Michigan had a law requiring judicial approval for remarriages when kids were involved to make sure the parent could maintain his existing child support.
If you want to claim that it’s valid discrimination, describe how same-sex marriages would SPECIFICALLY undermine marriages. The biggest concern that’s easy to solve would be to call every marriage a ‘silver union’ so you could grant all citizens the same legal rights and benefits without using the term marriage since it’s a sacrament in some churches.
Here’s an interesting article about marriage and illegitimacy: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/us/for-women-under-30-most-births-occur-outside-marriage.html?_r=2&ref=us
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