Voters in Maine overturned legislation yesterday that would have allowed same-sex marriage. Voters
rejected same-sex marriage 52 to 47 percent, despite being outspent two-to-one. The saying “as goes Maine, so goes the nation” might be a predictor for how Iowa voters would chose if our legislators would give the citizens a chance to vote on this issue.
Instead, the Democrat controlled legislature gets a lot of its campaign funding from the liberally left, which supports same-sex marriage.
Iowa voters will have a chance in a year to do some voting that could have an effect on this issue in the Hawkeye State. We can vote to not retain Iowa Supreme Court judges who voted for the plaintiffs in Varnum v. Brien. Concerned Iowa voters can also vote for social conservatives to serve in the House, Senate and Governor’s offices, and turn out those state legislators who have supported the court’s ruling and who have effectively blocked efforts to bring this matter before the citizens of the state.
Voters have rejected same-sex marriage in 31 states — every state where it has come up for a popular vote!
Marriage is one of the most fundamental institutions on which society is built. Support for same-sex marriage on the basis of “equity” shows not only an ignorance of what marriage is all about, but also a lack of respect for the institution itself.
Marriage is not just a celebration of romantic love. Although romantic love may be the vehicle for what brings two people together, it has very little to do with the long-term on-going state of matrimony. If only romantic love were the all important ingredient in making a marriage successful.
The kind of love necessary to make a marriage work is sacrificial love, the kind that gives without measure. It is the kind of love that brings children into this world, and then does everything possible to raise up and provide for those children.
Marriage was created to provide stability for the progeny of a man and woman, and to protect the virtue of women. Call me old fashioned, but marriage is irrelevant outside of the union of a man and a woman. It is an unnecessary construct for two men, or two women.
Marriage creates kinship bonds between people and within those bonds, it establishes with whom someone can and cannot have sex. Uncles don’t have sex with their nieces. Brothers don’t have sex with their sisters. Father’s don’t have sex with their daughters. Marriage creates the rules of intimacy and also the laws of boundaries.
Society doesn’t need to rewrite its laws on marriage in order to provide a mechanism to acknowledge a committed or important relationship between two gay men or two lesbian women. There are other ways that can be accomplished without unraveling the fabric of marriage and turning society on its head in the process.
Some are calling it Nobel’s October Surprise. Maybe it should be dubbed the Nobel Personality Prize. One of the problems I am having have with President Obama being named this year’s peace prize laureate is that the award is further proof that our president is more a glorified global celebrity with high star-power charisma than the right leader for the United States.
through October 18. The play has been among the most popular musicals both across the country and around the world since opening on in New York’s Gershwin Theater in 2003, receiving three Tony Awards in 2004. Its musical score and exciting staging are considered among some of the best that Broadway has to offer.
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I’m struggling with the idea of the presidential pep talk to the nation’s pupils.
With a copy of HR 3200 in hand, I attended Rep. Leonard Boswell’s town hall meeting Sunday afternoon in the gym at AIB College of Business in Des Moines.
u get 666,666.666 — very interesting…. the number of the beast referred to in Revelations 3:17-18. That’s creepy. A good friend who works as the CFO for a local car dealer just emailed me to say that if you saw the “underbelly” of this “program” you would see that the number is appropriate.