The telecast also signals an escalation of the campaign for the rule change by Christian conservatives who see the current court battle as the climax of a 30-year culture war, a chance to reverse decades of legal decisions about abortion, religion in public life, gay rights and marriage.
"As the liberal, anti-Christian dogma of the left has been repudiated in almost every recent election, the courts have become the last great bastion for liberalism," Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and organizer of the telecast, wrote in a message on the group's Web site. "For years activist courts, aided by liberal interest groups like the A.C.L.U., have been quietly working under the veil of the judiciary, like thieves in the night, to rob us of our Christian heritage and our religious freedoms."
If you are anti-abortion, don't have one.
If you want to pray in public, go ahead and do it, but don't force everyone else to do it as well.
If you don't like gays, that's your prerogative, but don't try to take away their rights just because you don't like them.
If you think that marriage is in danger, maybe you need to see a marriage counselor for your marriage.
You are not being robbed of your "Christian heritage." You are trying to force others to be Christian. You are not forbidden from practicing your religion. You can pray all you want. You want prayer in school? Your kid is allowed to pray, make him do it to himself. You want a picture of the ten commandments? Fine, hang one up in your house. If my tax dollars are paying your salary, you better not have it up in public. Don't like that? Get another job.
Why are you wingnuts so defensive? Maybe you should take a step back and figure out why you are spiritually uneasy.
you forgot another thing.
ReplyDeleteif you are for gay marriage, do it in your own house. do not force your views on others as well.
don't use taxpayer $ in pursuit of non-legal items.
being for something like gay marriage doesn't prevent someone from doing something. being against gay marriage prevents someone from doing something.
ReplyDeletei am not against it either. find a unitarian church and have at it .....
ReplyDeleteI'm not for any type of marriage, really. It's largely a religious institution and a way to get tax breaks.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm not going to try to prevent people from getting married.
nobody is being prevented.....
ReplyDeletewhat? gays are not allowed to marry in most states. that is prevention
ReplyDeleteyou can go to a unitarian church and have a ceremony !!
ReplyDeletethat doesn't make it legal. that doesn't make it so the partner gets visitation rights at the hospital.
ReplyDeleteoh ...... here i thought it was about love. so it is about money. i see. is there a www you can provide which gives actual examples of people being denied visits to hospitals?
ReplyDeleteit happens all the time. do a google search:
ReplyDeletegay partner denied hospital visit to partner
you'll get pages