In yesterday’s debate on same-sex marriage, California Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy made what was probably the most profound statement I have ever heard from him. He exposed the effort to define marriage as nothing more than an attempt to gain acceptance.
The San Jose Mercury News quoted Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg as she attempted to characterize those who do not support same-sex marriage as bigots:
``Unless you are willing to look me in the face and say that I am not a human being just as you are, you have no right to deny me the access to marriage in this state or anywhere else,''
Please note that Ms. Goldberg does not mention the rights, she is seeking the acceptance as a human being. This sentiment was echoed in the committee hearings where same-sex couples testified one after another that government approval of their unions would hopefully aid them in gaining the acceptance of their families.
What Ms. Goldberg does not understand is that those of us who support traditional marriage love and accept her as a human being. And despite our moral objections to her lifestyle choice, we do not seek to outlaw her right to love or be intimate with whomever she wishes. What we object to is being forced to honor that lifestyle. And that is exactly what we would be forced to do if our government put it’s official stamp of approval on it.
Dennis Mountjoy was speaking for most Californians when he stood up to defend, not just marriage, but traditional moral values.
``What the homosexuals in the state of California and in the United States want is not rights, they want acceptance,'' said Mountjoy. ``They want my children to be told that homosexuality is OK, that it is natural. I'm here to tell you that it is not OK and it is not natural and I will not have my children taught that.''
And this is not a right-wing, religious extremist, Republican point of view. As a matter of fact, 13 Democrats either voted against AB 19 or at the very least refused to support it. Democrat Assemblyman Alberto Torrico made it clear that this was not as much about civil rights, but about what is right.
``I'm going against part of me that's been a civil rights champion all my life,'' said Torrico, who did not vote on the bill. ``But it's all about what I think God wants for us, and I can't get around that.''
Craig DeLuz
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6 comments:
Boy, you're kinda obsessed with the gay marriage thing, Craig. Does man-on-man action turn you on?
God does not say "Be accepting of Evil" or "Love Evil."
In fact, we are told: "Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good." Romans 12:9
In regards to marriage Jesus was very specific on what constitutes a marriage:
Matthew 19:4 And He answered and said to them, Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning "made them male and female",
5 and said, For this cause a man shall leave father and mother and shall cling to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh?
6 Therefore they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.
Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
7 For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife.
8 And the two of them shall be one flesh. So then they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 Therefore what God has joined together, let not man put apart.
BTW: The pathetic jamming campaign, (The Anonymous poster above is a perfect example) conducted by deviants who wish to redefine a time-honored institution to suit their own hedonistic and selfish desires is not going to work.
Marriage requires the members of that institution to be of the opposite sex. It is based on that fundamental principle. Without that principle you don't have a marriage. Period end of story.
No government can change that reality. No deviant hedonist, no matter how much they want can change that fact. You can play pretend all you want, but you can't change the way the Laws of Nature and Nature's Creator work.
politicobyker,
I chose not to respond because I didn't see the point of having a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
Politicobyker, if your god is not the God of the Bible, then he is no god at all.
The God of the Bible says that sex between two men is an abomination to Him. Which part of that do you gay-worshipper not understand?
Anon--what gives you the right to determine what is evil? My God said nothing about same sex relationships being evil.
The fact that there is objective morality.
Anon what gives you the right to determine what is moral or immoral based on what YOUR God supposedly said?
Objective Morality gives me that right.
What gives you the right to tell me that your God is right and mine is wrong?
Objective Morality gives me that right.
You see, you may believe that people decide for themselves what is right and wrong. (Moral Relativism, the sacrament of liberalism.) Yet for some strange reason relativists don't want to allow non-relativist thinking.
For example, what if I just reversed your "What gives you the right" Questions?
The basic premise of relativism, "What is true for you is not true for me", is self-contradictory since it asserts an absolute, which is, what is true for you is not true for me. In other words, is it absolutely true that what is true for you is not true for me? Again, it asserts an absolute, making it self-contradictory.
With that lesson over.
Here is an absolute fact for you to chew on.
I'll be clear. The redefinition of marriage happens only over my dead body.
If you want to kill me to obtain your goal, you are more than welcome to step forward and try.
:)
Have a nice day. :)
No, your marriage would be okay, it's just that our country probably wouldn't. Remember what happened to Sodom and Gommorah? Despite what some liberal theologans say, those cities were destroyed because of their acceptance of homosexuality as being normal.
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