The stakes must be clarified in the debate
about homosexual marriage and parenting.
The meeting should be a private one, but the MP could be told quite clearly that afterwards a clear statement will be issued giving his, or her, views
about homosexual marriage with the MP's voting intentions.
Not exact matches
This would mean repealing anti-sodomy laws, permitting
homosexuals to serve in the military on the same terms as heterosexuals, including lessons
about homosexuality in public school sex - education programs, and legalizing
homosexual marriage and divorce.
The biggest embarrassment came when we discovered that sections of the extended intervention into the French debate
about gay
marriage and adoption by Grand Rabbi of France Giles Bernheim, «Homosexual Marriage, Parenting, and Adoption,» were plag
marriage and adoption by Grand Rabbi of France Giles Bernheim, «
Homosexual Marriage, Parenting, and Adoption,» were plag
Marriage, Parenting, and Adoption,» were plagiarized.
In general, the cynical leaders of the backlash» as distinguished from the true believers at the grass roots who really do care
about issues like abortion, religion,
homosexual marriage, and the rest» are often moderate cultural modernists themselves, but they are perfectly happy to reap the benefits that accrue to them from red - state Americans losing sight of the material issues that ought to dominate their political imaginations.
One thing I love
about the Gay Christian Network, of which Justin is the director, is that it welcomes healthy dialog between folks on «Side A,» who believe
homosexual relationships have the same value as heterosexual relationships in the sight of God, and folks on «Side B,» who believe only male / female relationships in
marriage represent God's intent for sexuality.
Against this background, Catholic Voices, an organisation whose motto is «putting the Church's view in the public square», arranged a talk
about homosexual «
marriage» and the common good last November.
However, this article is
about the Bible and
homosexual practice — surely the starting point before we get into any debate
about «gay
marriage».
Reports that the South African Parliament has approved gay
marriage, and that the U.S. Catholic bishops have reiterated Church teaching on the disordered nature of
homosexual acts, once again recall the line
about the real reason for the culture wars: «It's the sex, stupid.»
Hawaii's Supreme Court is
about to make
marriage between
homosexuals a constitutional right.
We should add that in Spain, a country of 46 million inhabitants, there are
about 3100
homosexual marriages each year, after a first year (2006) of 4300
marriages.
This would work out to
about 700,000
homosexual marriages.
He goes on to say, «Article 9 of the Charter simply leaves it to States to decide whether they wish to afford
homosexual couples the right to marry» — and this in the context of a decision
about civil, not religious
marriage.
Carl Paladino, who is mulling a re-match against Gov. Andrew Cuomo next fall, is still angry
about an incident during his failed 2010 bid during which he stood with Orthodox Jewish leaders in Brooklyn and pledged to «oppose the
homosexual agenda» — especially same - sex
marriage — and said children should not be «brainwashed» into believing that being gay is acceptable.
The TVC also makes assertions on its website
about disproportionate
homosexual pedophilia and attacks the idea that people are born gay and the claim that gays want the right to marry for the same reasons that heterosexuals do — the TVC suggests the real purpose of
marriage equality is to destroy the concept of
marriage and ultimately replace it altogether with group sex and polygamy.
Tim Montgomerie valiantly tried to explain the sensible party policy that «will recognise
marriage in the tax system and give fairness to same - sex couples» but for certain ConservativeHome contributors «Pink = gay = New Labour» and all that was bad
about Tony Blair's
homosexual rights agenda.
He invested in the health care system, banned junk food in schools, prohibited smoking just
about anywhere (including private cars if children under 15 are in them), removed taxes on bikes, brought in free immunizations, protected boreal forests, instituted wine and liquor bottle deposit returns, changed the definition of
marriage to include
homosexual couples.
This is despite the best efforts of Lady Hale, who gave the main speech, to emphasise at paragraph 34 that this decision did not amount to replacing legal oppression of one community (
homosexual couples) with legal oppression of another (Christians and others who shared the appellants» beliefs
about marriage), because the law equally prohibits a hotel keeper from refusing a particular room to a couple because they are heterosexual or because they have certain religious beliefs.