Video: Nancy Pelosi versus Catholic Church on same-sex marriage

Nancy Pelosi endorses President Obama's endorsement of single-sex marriage:

Pelosi considers banning monogender marriage a "form of discrimination" and "unconstitutional."  


A reporter asked:  "Do you believe that religion and the idea that you can support gay marriage can be separated?  And how do you grapple with the idea that you support gay marriage as a Catholic?"


Pelosi replied:
  

"My religion has, compels me--and I love it for it--to be against discrimination of any kind in our country, and I consider this a form of discrimination. I think it’s unconstitutional on top of that.

So I think that yesterday was a great day for America because the president in a very personal, as well as presidential way, made history, and hopefully this will bring people together on the issue.

Separation of Church and Statement

To make her argument sound legit, Pelosi utilizes the tactic of the separation of church and statement.  She says her religion "compels" her to support gender-segregated marriage, but the Church states the opposite:  gender integration is inherent in marriage. 

The Catholic Church teaches that all people with same-sex attraction are to be treated with dignity and worth.  And since homosexual acts deviate from organic, complementary sexual union open to life, they are "intrinsically disordered."  Thus the Church teaches that in order to treat homosexuals with honesty and dignity, we must oppose single-sex marriage and instead support pro-gender marriage.

When it comes to church and state, Pelosi is a politician.  Although she pretends to follow her Catholic faith, she is actually following President Obama, not the Pope.


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On same-sex marriage Obama flip flops, Romney constant

The President of the Faith & Freedom Coalition noted that single-sex marriage shows Mitt Romney’s consistency, while President Obama is the one who flip-flopped:  "This is one situation where Obama looks like the flip-flopper and Romney looks consistent."

From My Way:

 President Barack Obama delighted his liberal base by coming down on the side of gay marriage, but he cheered the opposition, too. 

Republican activists now want to use Obama's stance on the issue - public opinion is about evenly split - to paint the president as a flip-flopper and to boost Mitt Romney's image in the eyes of conservatives who are still warming to him. 

Yet, across the Republican Party, from leaders to activists interviewed since Obama's announcement, there's been wide agreement to use the gay marriage issue selectively - in battleground states that have banned gay marriage, for example- and keep the GOP's national political focus on Obama's stewardship of the economy. 

"I'm going to stay focused on jobs, thanks," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said repeatedly when asked about Obama's announcement on gay marriage. "The president can talk about it all he wants. I'm going to stay focused on what the American people want us to stay focused on." 

"This is one situation where Obama looks like the flip-flopper and Romney looks consistent," said Ralph Reed, president of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, a conservative, grass-roots advocacy group. "So much for the notion that Romney's the one with no core." 

President Obama: Is same sex marriage merely ‘legal regulation of tenderness’?

“Why should the state get involved at all in what basically amounts to the legal regulation of tenderness?”  Marriage and the Presidency

If society decides that gender integration and procreation are unimportant in marriage and family, then marriage is reduced to “the legal regulation of tenderness."  In which case, why exclude two sisters?  Or a grandfather and grandson? 

Dropping sexual complementarity from the definition of marriage brings ammunition to the argument that number and age are also no longer relevant to the institution of marriage. 

National Review:  

Years ago, 300 prominent scholars and activists signed a statement arguing that we should recognize polyamorous and multiple-household sexual relationships. These activists agree that making sexual complementarity optional would make all its other norms arbitrary — and therefore unjust to leave intact. We only disagree on whether this top-to-bottom dismantling of the institution of marriage would be a good or a bad thing. 

The president has now created a platform for this very discussion; and it is a discussion we look forward to having. For as Obama himself implied, this is not a dispute featuring “bigots” on one side, any more than it has “perverts” on the other. It is a debate of reasonable people of goodwill who disagree about the nature of the most basic unit of society. In saying that he supports letting states decide the definition of marriage for themselves, Obama indicated that this issue shouldn’t be settled by judicial fiat. On this, we agree. Our national conversation shouldn’t be brought to an undemocratically abrupt end. But as it continues, advocates on all sides must contend with, and answer, the central question in this debate, without which we can’t know the what or the why of legal recognition, much less what justice demands: What is marriage?

How do we know 'the kids are alright' in same-sex households, Obama?

Regarding Obama and his opinion on same-sex marriage, Huffington Post claims: “The kids are alright.” 

How do we know their children are “alright”? What if, deep down, kids with two dads actually crave a mother?  Especially on Mother’s Day.

Huffington Post:

[Obama’s] daughters, Malia and Sasha, have friends whose parents are same-sex couples. "It wouldn't dawn on them that somehow their friends' parents would be treated differently. It doesn't make sense to them and frankly, that's the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective."

It’s not the parents we should be concerned with; they are adults and can presumably take care of themselves.  Our concern is for the children.  Is it equal or right for children to be “treated differently”? 

That’s exactly how kids in same-sex households are treated:  Differently.  By their own parents.  Why?  Because no matter how great a dad is, he can never be a mother.  Gender segregation in married couples is not diversity, tolerance, or equality.  Instead it is different from gender-integrated marriage.

By definition, children in same-gender households will be treated differently from kids in gender-integrated families.    Because men and women are different.

If genders weren’t different, then people with same-sex attraction would just as easily have complementary-sex attraction and they wouldn’t be advocating for redefining marriage to suit their sexual orientation.

It’s time we stop focusing on something as fluid and evolving as sexual orientation.  It’s time to pay attention to what is more organic, basic, and vital for children:  gender.

Support pro-gender marriage. 

Because gender matters everyday, not just on Mother’s Day.

Biden steals thunder from Obama support of same-sex marriage

What a bummer for Obama.  Biden got the glory from liberals for his views on same-sex marriage.

Associated Press:

"Suddenly it was Biden being showered with accolades by liberals for his bold stance on gay right issues, not Obama, the president responsible for pushing through the repeal of the military's ban on openly gay service members and ordering the government to stop enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act."

It's not that Biden necessarily "evolved" faster than Obama.  But he spoke out sooner.

"What few people outside of Obama's inner circle of six or seven close aides knew at the time was that the president had, in fact, finished that evolution months earlier and was waiting for a suitable opportunity to inform the public of his views."

Only a few people knew Obama supported monogender marriage?  More like everybody knew Obama favored segregating genders in marriage--the question was, would he announce it before or after the November election?

Leading from behind means sometimes you're left behind.


How long will it take for Team Biden-Obama to evolve on realizing the importance of gender?

For more:  Why we defend pro-gender marriage.

Obama drops the gender bomb

President Obama decided to cast his lot with the anti-gender crowd and endorse marriage for monogender couples.  Done evolving, Obama is now willing to legalize gender-segregated marriage. 

Associated Press:

Americans reacted with joy, scorn and indifference to Obama's words in a television interview on Wednesday: "It is important for me personally to go ahead and affirm that same-sex couples should be able to get married."

After living on the wedge for months, Obama has chosen to lead from behind Vice President Joe Biden and side with the gay voting bloc rather than with blacks.

No matter how “important” it is for him “personally,” granting marriage licenses to gender-exclusive couples will have a huge impact on children, schools, and society. 

We will all be asked to pretend that men and women are interchangeable when it comes to sex, marriage, motherhood, and fatherhood. 

Tell that to the kids who are intentionally deprived of their mothers and the other children purposely excluded from their fathers.

How did robbing children of mothers and fathers become equated with equality?

Redefining marriage means creating a new subset of minorities:  children who have no rights to both their mother and their father.  All in the name of love and commitment.  

Gender matters.  To pretend gender is irrelevant is not equality, it is folly.

Same sex marriage: Is President Obama leading from behind Joe Biden?

Living on the wedge ain't easy.  


President Obama tries to have it both ways; he caters to the black vote by not endorsing same-sex marriage, and he curries favor with the gay vote and their donations by supporting LGBT rights every way he can, short of endorsing gender-segregated marriage.  


Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden spoke out strongly in favor of redefining marriage to include gender-exclusive couples.


Daily Caller:

President Barack Obama is staying in the gay marriage closet because he doesn’t want to alienate black voters or gay donors.

He’s refusing to confirm or deny that he would use a second term to champion new marriage rules that would allow same-sex couples to get marriage licenses. 

“We respect the right of all people to have a personal opinion,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said on May 7 — a day after Vice President Joe Biden endorsed marriage for gays and lesbians. 

Marriage is a tough dilemma for Obama because his base is deeply split: Strong majorities of black Americans oppose changing marriage rules to endorse same-sex couples. Like many other social conservatives, that community sees marriage as an institution to bind parents together and to their children. 

That’s a popular position. Voters in more than 30 states — including liberal California — have used state-wide votes to solidify state support for the traditional view of marriage. 

But many gays want to see White House endorsement of same-sex marriage because it would provide additional social validation of their relationships.

When it comes to redefining marriage, President Obama is reduced to leading behind Joe Biden.  At least until November, 2012.

Obama living on the wedge between same-sex marriage and black votes

No wonder President Obama is evolving slowly on same-sex marriage, despite grilling from the press and pressure from gay rights activists.  He's stuck between a rock and a hard place.  In this case the rock is his solid black voting base, and the hard place is the issue of same-sex marriage. 


Obama doesn't want to alienate blacks who overwhelmingly oppose segregating genders in marriage.  NBC reports that 70% of voters in Hertford County, North Carolina voted for Obama in 2008 and voted for pro-gender marriage on Tuesday.


But Obama also wants to keep the generous support from gay rights activists coming.  What will Obama say about same-sex marriage when he speaks at the Democratic National Convention which will be held in North Carolina?  How will he handle living on the wedge between blacks and gays?


NBC:

Obama won North Carolina in the 2008 election and his party is holding the Democratic national convention there in September. 

One noteworthy pattern was that some majority black counties which had strongly backed Obama in 2008 just as strongly supported the proposed amendment on Tuesday. 

 For example, Hertford County, with a 60 percent black population, voted for Obama with 70 percent in 2008 and on Tuesday 70 percent of its voters backed the constitutional amendment defining marriage. 

And Halifax County, with a 53 percent black population, voted for Obama with 64 percent in 2008 and backed the amendment with 68 percent of its votes. 

 The amendment says: “Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State.” In effect, it would bar the state from giving legal recognition to civil unions between same-sex couples.

Colorado defends pro-gender marriage, says no civil unions

Colorado lawmakers prevented a bill legalizing civil unions from moving forward.


Fox News:

Colorado House Speaker Frank McNulty says legislation to allow civil unions won't get a vote Tuesday night, killing the measure. 

Chants of "shame on you" thundered through the House chamber from supporters of civil unions in the gallery after the Republican made the announcement. 

McNulty told reporters that lawmakers had reached an impasse and that civil unions would die along with several other bills.

Colorado agrees that gender matters. 

Breaking news: North Carolina votes for pro-gender marriage, passes Amendment One

Good news for pro-gender marriage:  North Carolina voted in favor of Amendment One, which upholds marriage as one man and one woman.  Opponents of the bill were unable to drum up enough support for segregating genders in marriage.


Washington Post reports:

North Carolina voters have passed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage today via a statewide ballot measure, according the Associated Press. 

North Carolina already had a statute banning gay marriage. Amendment One declares that “marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state.”  

While the country is about evenly split on gay marriage in polls, supporters have yet to succeed at the ballot box. Statewide ballot measures on gay marriage have come up 31 times since 1998. Advocates for gay marriage lost each time.

Although Amendment One opponents call the measure anti-gay, supporters consider it pro-gender and better for children. 


Gender matters.

Jay Carney on Obama's position on same sex marriage: 'It is what is was'

Following Vice President Joe Biden's outspoken endorsement for segregating genders in marriage, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney tries to explain President Obama's views about same sex marriage:  "It is what it was."  (That all depends on what 'is' is, right?)

Obama opposes bans on gender-segregated marriage such as Amendment One in North Carolina, but he won't come out and support gender-segregated marriage.  The press grilled Carney and called it "cynical" for Obama to hide behind the issue until after the November election. 

Poll shows 55% of North Carolina voters support gender integration in marriage

Good news for gender diversity:  Results from Public Policy Polling show 55% of likely voters in North Carolina support pro-gender marriage.  Only 39% defend segregating genders in marriage.  On Tuesday the state will vote on Amendment One, which bans gender-exclusive couples from marriage.

High level politicians such as Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, and Arne Duncan recently voiced support for gender segregation, however, voters in North Carolina seem likely to uphold gender diversity in families.

Reuters reports:

A survey of 1,026 likely Democratic and Republican primary voters showed North Carolinians look poised to pass the amendment. 

Raleigh-based Public Policy Polling found 55 percent of those questioned on May 5-6 supported the amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions while 39 percent opposed it. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent.North Carolina voters could deal a blow to efforts across the country to expand gay marriage rights if they approve a state constitutional amendment on Tuesday to ban same-sex marriage and civil unions.

Vice President Joe Biden supports same-sex marriage

Regarding same-sex marriage, Vice President Joe Biden has "evolved" faster than President Obama.  Taking his cues from the TV show Will & Grace, Biden now supports gender-segregation for marriage:

Although Biden considers himself Catholic, the Catholic Church maintains the importance of complementary genders and endorses gender integration in marriage.

Gender matters.

Scoop: The Real Life of Julia from Misfitpolitics

Misfitpolitics has the scoop on the real Life of Julia.  They say "Don't believe Obama, Julia/Julian did not really live a happy go lucky life at all:"

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Who the hell is "Julia" and why am I paying for her whole life?

Women don't need husbands--they have President Obama!

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