Steve Waldman noted this week that Same-sex marriage is nowhere near the front-burner issue it was in 2004, when it might have tipped the election to George W. Bush.
Today's ruling from the Connecitcut Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage there won't change that; there is something of a financial crisis roiling the known universe.
But for the Christian Right, this is another gut check moment regarding its tacit support for McCain for president. Yes, the movement was thrilled about Sarah Palin's selection last month. But if McCain/Palin are going to stay quiet on one of its most important issues--gay marriage--the trill could be gone pretty quickly.
Beginning in 2004, the Christian Right began waging campaigns to ban same sex marriage through state constitutional amendments, an effort that's succeeded in over half the states. But the string of gay marriage legalization at the hands of the courts--the California Supreme Court legalized same-sex unions there earlier this month--is the movement's worst nightmare coming true.
McCain/Palin can't keep quiet about it without draining more enthusiasm from religious conservatives.
Here's the reaction Family Research Council Action president Tony Perkins just sent 'round to supporters:
This decision puts marriage at risk all across the nation and highlights the need for a Marriage Protection Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It is imperative both Presidential candidates address the problems created by four activist judges in Connecticut. We call on Senators John McCain and Barack Obama to explain what they would do as President addressing the issue of same-sex marriage and articulating their criteria for ensuring that judges they appoint follow the law of the land and not legislate from the bench.
Let's see--how many of those things have McCain/Palin done?
Advocate for the Marriage Protection Amendment? Nope. McCain opposes it.
Explain what they would do as President addressing the issue of same-sex marriage? Nope. McCain/Palin hardly ever mention it. Palin went so far as to say that same-sex couples are entitled to certain rights at the vice presidential debate
Decry activist judges? Yes--McCain and Palin do that that all the time.
But according to the FRC Action, they're batting one for three.
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"that ammendment was created to avoid relogous persecution in our nation"
That's true but this country was based on RELIGIOUS freedom not 'christian' freedom.
You're beating that bible so hard I can hard hear myself think.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
That's the Declaration of Independence. If you're dealing with making laws you should be relying upon the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence not the Bible which is a metaphor and is MAN's interpretation of God, and we all know people don't make mistakes. You're the reason why people turn from God when they need it most.
Unless you've been Gay how would you know if they're born that way or are choosing?
Hey Fundy, God isn't real. He doesn't speak to you, he didn't speak to Moses, he certaintly didn't speak to George W Bush when he said to attack Iraq.
It's all in your weird shaped head.
I would like to say this: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. If Christians really behaved like Christians and not religion pushers gay marriage would not even be an issue. How about this: They actually practice what they preach?
"Not only does it go against the Bible but it goes against the very laws of nature themselves. Let us begin with the obvious, Males and Females are different genders. This is the way God designed it."
Fundy, possibly you haven't notice that God made a few design flaws.
Read Middlesex, or take a college genetics course. God made man infinitely variable and you would punish those, like you made in God's image, but ever so slightly different. You castigate your own maker by denying he created sexual difference.
Laughing@Fundy
All the schooling in the world is no substitute for an education.
Perhaps you should listen to the word of "God":
"The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says." Corinthians 14:34
And:
"Judge not, that ye be not judged." Matthew 7:1
And finally:
"Suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." Timothy 2:12
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