Gingrich, the thrice-divorced hypocrite who led the impeachment of Clinton while having an affair with a intern, stands up for traditional marriage, and does some gay bashing to boot. It's so perfectly represents conservative hypocrisy that it is a thing of beauty. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/...onal-organization-for-marriage_n_1154081.html Here is a copy of Gingrich's pledge:
Good ... Great.Instead of Gays screwin' the Institution of Marriage maybe some Politician oughta Screw around with Gays.Get in their head.Turnabout is fair play.
Is this still an issue? I thought women, blacks and gays already had civil rights under the law. Newt is so enchanted with his own voice, he can't choose his battles.
I guess when you have divorce after divorce and get caught having sex with an intern while impeaching the president for having sex with an intern, you have to try real hard to show just how much you respect and honor marriage. At least that seems to be poor Gingrich's strategy.
Newt is just a bad rash that keeps coming back. They'll rub some lotion on him and he'll be gone before the primary.
Bachman wants to teach Creationism in Public School science classes.. Newt wants to take away Gay Rights and is it Santorium that wants to repeal abortion rights??? Cain wants to increase Military spending?
In the scheme of things, this issue means so little to me in comparison to the economy and innovation. I know pro-gay marriage activists that are ignorant morons and anti-gay marriage proponents that are smart as hell and vice versa. While I support gay marriage, signing an anti-gay marriage pledge won't dissuade me from voting for a canidate with revolutionary ideas. To me, its very sad that we have two sides in this country that disagree on every single issue. Its make people stupid. I wish we could evaluate canidates based on their entire political thought process instead of generalizing them in one, specific party.
The right to marry in various states that allow it. Gingrich wants to ban gay marriage nationwide. Read the pledge, man. So much for states' rights. More conservative hypocrisy served up with heaping helpings of latency and denialism and scapegoating minorities.
I wouldn't say it's the biggest issue in the world, but the attack on minority rights is always troubling, and this hypocrisy is indicative of conservative pathology. And that's what makes it an issue. If Gingrich hadn't gone through three marriages and a couple interns, I guess signing a pro-traditional marriage pledge wouldn't amount to much. But that's not the situation.
Last I heard, Gay Marraige is already banned on the Federal Level. The states that have given Gays the right to marry have disregarded the people's voice.
The DOMA doesn't ban gay marriage. You need to read it a bit more carefully. Then read the pledge and think about why it calls for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage if DOMA already did. But keep meming.
I also didn't know that anyone had abortion rights? I thought it was the right to control ones own body or something like that? The term abortion rights admits the aborting/killing of a fetus and I can't imagine anyone would be in favor of that... would they?
DOMA Bans same-sex marriage, but it can be overturned. A congressional law can be overturned by the courts if the judge interprets state constitutional or Federal, Congressional law as Federally unconsitutional as they have already done in the lower Federal Courts. The court hearing currently being debated is about California's constitutional ban on gay marriage, which the federal courts have ruled unconstitutional. A Federal Amendment to the constitution that bans gay marriage would outright overturn the judge's ruling, making it impossible for gay marriage advocates to redress any bans on gay marriage throughout the nation in addition to making the pro-marriages laws in other states unconsitutional.
No DOMA doesn't ban gay marriage. Read it slowly. DOMA excuses states that don't allow gay marriage from recognizing gay marriage from other states that do (something they otherwise would have to do under the commerce clause, arguably). Does that clarify matters for you?
I'm with Buffalo Soldier on this one, the DOA does ban gay marriage, however the Amendment is supposed to ensure that the ban cannot be overturned by a judge. Its what you could call safeguarding a law from what some might call judicial activism.
A bunch of strangers have no right to decide whether another stranger can marry a consenting stranger. Tell people to butt out of other peoples lives.
Three wives, and who knows how many more to come? His current wife is getting to looking a little long-in-the-tooth, its close to trade-in time! We need a Pledge to protect marriage from NEWT!
