Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Mar 09 2009 | Filed under: Culture Watch, Gay Marriage Debate
As you know, one of my main reasons for supporting Proposition 8, which amended the California constitution to define marriage as a relationship between one man and one woman, was because I believe that move to redefine marriage has the potential to put the State and religion organizations — especially the Catholic church — into [...]
Joshua Pundit on Dec 19 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Gay Marriage Debate, Hypocrisy Stew
President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for the inaugural invocation is none other than Saddleback Church’s Pastor Rick Warren, an evangelical who is pro-life and opposes gay marriage.
As you can imagine, that announcement infuriated homosexual lobby groups throughout the country, who strongly supported the Chosen one during the campaign an dare now wailing about feeling abandoned:
“Your invitation [...]
Okie On The Lam on Dec 16 2008 | Filed under: Gay Marriage Debate
OK, let’s get serious here. For weeks we’ve been telling you about the poor manager of the El Coyote Cafe in Hollywood, Margie Christoffersen, who made the “horrific mistake” of supporting CA Prop 8, the initiative to restore the traditional meaning of marriage as between a man and a woman. Christoffersen, who is a devout [...]
Joshua Pundit on Dec 10 2008 | Filed under: Gay Marriage Debate
Not only did Newsweak have their so-called religion editor Lisa Miller write a three page feature that attempted to use the Bible as a justification for homosexual marriage, but it’s the cover story.
And in case anyone has an idea that this was actually going to be an objective examination, Newsweak’s editor Jon Meacham opens the issue on this note:
No matter what one thinks about gay rights—for, against or somewhere in between —this conservative resort to biblical authority is the worst kind of fundamentalism. Given the history of the making of the Scriptures and the millennia of critical attention scholars and others have given to the stories and injunctions that come to us in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament, to argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt—it is unserious, and unworthy of the great Judeo-Christian tradition.
In other words, if you rely on Scripture and what it says for any sort of guidance, not only are you kind of ignorant, knuckle-dragging inbred hillbilly, but you’re ‘unworthy’ of your own religion’s traditions and intellectually and morally bankrupt besides.
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Nov 20 2008 | Filed under: Court Watch, Feature Article, Gay Marriage Debate, Liberalism Watch
Do I see a “to hell with democracy” moment in California’s future?
A few months ago, the California Supreme Court overruled the will of the California voters and announced that gay marriage was a fundamental right. The voters responded by changing the California Constitution to state that, in California, marriage is between one man and one [...]
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Nov 10 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article, Gay Marriage Debate, Liberalism Watch, Politicians at Work, RINO Alert
Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can be voted down…but it might go to court over it. It thinks you can be reasoned with. It feels pity, remorse, fear, phony compassion, and tons and tons of guilt. And it might stop, before you are dead. Maybe. Or it might maybe undo you.
Doesn’t [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jun 05 2008 | Filed under: Activism, Gay Marriage Debate
(This is the first in what I hope will be a series of very civil essays examining marriage. Suek got me started with this idea based on a comment she wrote saying that, well, we need to figure out what marriage is all about. Planned future essays will involve separating the religious aspect [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on May 24 2008 | Filed under: Gay Marriage Debate, Liberalism Watch
Marriage is not, and never has been, a personal right. In Western society, it operates at two levels. First, it functions at a religious level. This is a deeply personal level, because in every religion, marriage is, or is equivalent to, a sacrament. In America, you have the Constitutional right to be married in the [...]
Terry Trippany on May 18 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, Gay Marriage Debate, Media Watch
The ass brigade known as Google is currently featuring a headline on Google News about opposition to California’s gay marriage along side some even bigger group of asshat’s rendition of President Bush and Tony Blair cuddling together naked wrapped in an American flag. (h/t Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters).
Think this is an auto-generated mistake? [...]
