‘President Obama and the Democrats will actually force straight people to enter same-sex marriages’

That’s what Zack Ford at Think Progress says Nation for Marriage president Brian Brown claims. 

Here’s what Brown wrote: 

"Obama is running for re-election on a platform to re-define marriage for everyone. 

But don’t take my word for it. Obama’s official, national platform has codified homosexual marriage as its policy for all Americans! 

You see, Obama’s platform actually calls for the “full repeal of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act” and imposes “one man and one man” marriage on all of us. They even tried to throw God out of the picture entirely. [...] 

If Christians, marriage supporters, and people of faith sit on their hands, marriage will be re-defined like an outdated institution and homosexual marriage will become the law of the land."

What Brown means is that if marriage is redefined and discards its gender requirement, it will affect all Americans: 

• What school children will be taught in sex education classes
• Which employees will be fired for defending gender integration in marriage
• Organizations shut down for not placing children in monogender households
• Who is considered a mother
• How many businesses will be sued by same-gender couples
• Courts considering your grandparents, friends, and neighbors guilty of discrimination for defending pro-gender marriage

Now here’s what Think Progress claims Brown said:

“Brown claimed that President Obama and the Democrats will actually force straight people to enter same-sex marriages…
… The universe Brown imagines, in which straight people are not allowed to marry people of the opposite sex, is complete fiction.”

Will we be jailed if we refuse to enter a same-sex marriage?!  Will we be forced to divorce our current husbands and wives before we are forced into SSM?!!  Or will we go for a threesome, as did Brazil?!!!


Think again, Think Progress.

Let's see if we can break this down for you.  We can use abortion as an example.  Legalizing abortion affected all of us:  our laws, our taxes, our health, our demographics.  Once abortion became the “law of the land” it went from “safe, legal and rare” to the current 50 million abortions, a huge impact. 

Ford's claim about what Brown says is akin to saying that because abortion was imposed on us by Roe v. Wade and is the law of the land, every person in America will be forced to get an abortion. 

Or because Obamacare covers birth control, we all need to go on the Pill.  Or because Contraception Czar Sandra Fluke favors charging taxpayers for gender reassignment surgery, then we all need to switch our sexes.

Talk about “complete fiction.”

Think Progress must think its readers are morons. 

In order to redefine marriage, activists such as Ford redefine reality.

Is it a War against Women or War against Children?

As Tim Shaughnessy notes on Catholic Vote, the Democrats’ mantra "war against women" is actually code for their war against children. 

CatholicVote:

Since Obama wants to publicize a “war against women,” it’s good to identify the combatants. .. the war is really not about women or Republicans, but between those who favor abortion and contraception and those opposed to it. 

Even pro-choicers would have to admit that abortion and contraception are ways of getting rid of unwanted children. They dodge the issue by suggesting it is just a “clump of cells,” but want these tools because they know that clump of cells will turn into a baby someday. They think that sex doesn’t have the inherent end of producing children, but any sane person clearly sees through the farce. Unspoken is the understanding that kids are a problem. It has to be unspoken, though, because it grates against human compassion to suggest that kids are the enemy.

Remember President Obama’s admission that pregnancy is a punishment?  “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”  (At 40 seconds in video.)

Also, the Democrats basically banned children from their convention.

And Obama's anti-bullying spokesman Dan Savage believes women sh** babies.  Equating children with excrement sounds rather anti-baby to me.

Promoting gender segregation in marriage also reveals an anti-baby attitude.  Everyone knows that two men cannot produce a baby together, nor can two women, yet the Democrats added same-sex marriage to their official platform. 

Regarding women and children, the 2012 election is clear: 

Obama/Biden endorse drugging women with the Pill at taxpayer expense so they won't be "punished with a baby."

Romney/Ryan defend babies and pro-gender marriage. 

You get to choose in November.

Democrats hope Americans more interested in gay weddings than work?

Before speaking at the Democratic National Convention, openly gay and former congressman Barney Frank who recently “married” his male partner said in an interview: “We are close to winning this fight.”

What fight?

What are your goals?

And how do you know when you’ve won?

When the United States of America has its first President and his First Man?

When an openly gay Muslim cleric preaches with no fatwa calling for his execution? 

When the Catholic Church officially embraces same-sex marriage?

When the first openly gay pig flies?

U.S. debt is $56,989,725,499,141 and rising.  Unemployment is over 8%.  Both Democrats and Republicans agree that entitlement programs are a malignant cancer killing the income-producing engine of the country.  And what do the Democrats highlight at their national convention?  Homosexuality.

As the New York Times puts it:  "Gay Democrats Celebrate a Newfound Visibility." 

“You can’t swing a cat without hitting gay people in Charlotte this week,” said Craig McCartney, 54, a Democratic donor from Dallas.

I’d be much more excited if these people promoting same-sex attraction offered policy solutions to reform the tax code or make Medicare more affordable.  But no.  They want gender-segregated marriage.

That’s an intolerant position in any era, but especially so when we have much more pressing issues, such as more Americans signing up for government disability benefits than for employment.

In all 50 states, every person with SSA can marry someone of a complementary gender.  But not all Americans can afford to pay their underwater mortgages, or their college loans, never mind carry a national debt load in the frillions of dollars.

Any party that faces unemployment over 8% but gives priority to redefining marriage for less than 1.4% of the population lacks focus.  After all, people with same-sex attraction need gainful employment too, especially before getting married.

How many unemployed Americans do you know who are planning their weddings?

America offers equal opportunity.  We say all men are created equal, not that they all have equal attractions.

Cardinal Dolan on marriage at DNC: ‘Happiness is found only in respecting the laws of nature and of nature’s God’

His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan gave the Benediction Prayer at the close of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC.

Here’s the part regarding marriage:

"We praise and thank you for granting us the life and the liberty by which we can pursue happiness.  Show us anew that happiness is found only in respecting the laws of nature and of nature’s God.  Empower us with your grace so that we might resist the temptation to replace the moral law with idols of our own making, or to remake those institutions you have given us for the nurturing of life and community."

In other words:  Resist the temptation to remake marriage.

For the complete text, see Cardinal Dolan’s blog.

To compare this benediction with the one at the Republican convention, check out CatholicVote.

From 'The Life of Julia' to the Convention of Julia

Remember President Obama’s composite dream voter, Julia?  To refresh your memory, see:  “Who the hell is ‘Julia,’ and why am I paying for her whole life?” 

Or check out one of the many Julia spoofs:

Julia would love the 2012 Democratic National Convention.  With all her talk about needing taxpayers to pay for abortions, birth control, and gender reassignment surgery, Contraception Czar Sandra Fluke could be Julia's special spokesperson.

Regardless of whether Obama garners the Woman Vote, he is sure to win the Julia Vote.

Will Team Obama give Julia name reassignment surgery and call her Sandra?

Michelle Obama's American Dream: same-sex marriage

At the Democratic National Convention, First Lady Michelle Obama twice endorsed same-sex marriage.  

“Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it.  And he wants everyone in this country, everyone to have the same opportunity no matter who we are, or where we’re from, or what we look like, or who we love.” 

 “And if proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love, then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.”

Team Obama hopes to change marriage.  In their dreams, not all marriages will be gender-integrated.  They want to go back to the "separate but equal" mentality.  Gender-segregated couples would be considered equal to gender-integrated couples.  In their vision, the union of two men would be equivalent to a man and wife.  

In other words, the new American Dream means intentionally depriving some children of ever having a relationship with their mother and excluding other children from ever having a  father. 

Regarding marriage, the 2012 election is clear: 

Obama/Biden endorse anti-gender marriage.  
Romney/Ryan support pro-gender marriage.  

You get to choose in November.

Does Forward mean four more years of Sandra Fluke and 'free' contraception?

A recovery worse than the recession.  High unemployment.  The war in Afghanistan.  Iran… 

Not to worry, the Democrats have a plan.  Give Sandra Fluke the stage!

Maybe President Obama will appoint her as the Contraception Czar.  

That oughta solve all our problems.

What’s up with Democrats banning children?

Democrats banned children from their convention, causing delegates with children scrambling to find babysitters and outraging feminists who believe “sometimes children are the key to women.”  (Other times, children are the key to abortion clinics, eh Gloria?)

The Blaze:

…the Democratic National Convention has just banned children from the convention floor — including breastfeeding babies — unless those children have convention credentials. Which, needless to say, is relatively unlikely. 

... in a development that may surprise some people, the move has infuriated the party’s feminist luminaries. Feminist icon Gloria Steinem issued a statement to the Charlotte Observer slamming the policy: 

“Women are the key to a Democratic victory, and sometimes, children are the key to women,” Steinem said in a statement. “It’s both right and smart for the Democratic Convention to behave as if children exist.” 

Abortion advocates like Steinem believe it’s cool to ban children from life, but don’t ban them from the Democratic Convention!

Judge orders sex change operation for convict in MA while CA bans sex orientation change therapy for youth

Gay rights activists consider treatment to change sexual orientation so bad it must be banned "California Bill Bans Gay-Conversion Therapy," while surgery to change genders is so good it must be done at taxpayer expense.

Why is changing gender better than changing orientation?  Weren't they "born that way"?

Comcast:

A ruling ordering Massachusetts prison officials to provide sex-reassignment surgery to an inmate is being praised by advocates as important recognition that the surgery is a legitimate treatment for gender-identity disorder, even as critics including Sen. Scott Brown call it "an outrageous abuse of taxpayer dollars." 

U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled Tuesday in the case of Michelle Kosilek, a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder. Wolf said the Department of Correction must provide the taxpayer-funded surgery because it is the only way to treat Kosilek's "serious medical need." 

Kosilek was born male but has received hormone treatments and now lives as a woman in an all-male prison. Kosilek was named Robert when married to Cheryl Kosilek and convicted of murdering her in 1990. 

While courts around the country have found that prisons must evaluate transgender inmates to determine their health care needs, most have ordered hormone treatments and psychotherapy. Wolf is the first judge to actually order sex reassignment surgery as a remedy to gender-identity disorder.

‘Health problems in parts of the gay and lesbian community’ are ‘caused by the prejudice of people’

"Yes, there are health problems in parts of the gay and lesbian community, but they are caused by the prejudice of people like Mr Wallace and the discriminatory laws he defends.”   Rodney Croome

Head of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) Jim Wallace debated same-sex marriage with Senator Christine Milne at the University of Tasmania.  Wallace used health statistics to back up his argument against redefining marriage to include gender-segregated couples.

The Age reports:

 "I think we're going to owe smokers a big apology when the homosexual community's own statistics for its health - which it presents when it wants more money for health - are that is has higher rates of drug-taking, of suicide, it has the life of a male reduced by up to 20 years," he told the audience. 

"The life of smokers is reduced by something like seven to 10 years and yet we tell all our kids at school they shouldn't smoke."

"But what I'm saying is we need to be aware that the homosexual lifestyle carries these problems and ... normalising the lifestyle by the attribution of marriage, for instance, has to be considered in what it does encouraging people into it," he said. 

Mr Wallace said legalising same-sex marriage in other countries had not reduced risk factors for gay people. 

"Where gay marriage has been introduced, or civil unions, it hasn't changed the level of suicide," he said.

Greens leader Milne countered by blaming discrimination, rather than the homosexual lifestyle.

"What I know is that the mental health issues for young gay people particularly are certainly increased when discrimination occurs," she told reporters. 

Mr Wallace accused the Greens of demonising churches with "hate language" and caring more for trees than children. 

He described gay activism as "bullying" and said a climate had been created for "legislation by fatigue". 

Tasmanian marriage equality advocates said the ACL was using outdated figures from a survey of obituaries in San Francisco newspapers at the height of the AIDS crisis. 

"Yes, there are health problems in parts of the gay and lesbian community, but they are caused by the prejudice of people like Mr Wallace and the discriminatory laws he defends," Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group spokesman Rodney Croome said in a statement.

In 2009, gay rights activists in Canada sought funding for health care citing the increased health risks for homosexuals.

LifeSiteNews:

- The life expectancy for gay and bisexual men is 20 years less than the average Canadian man- GLB people commit suicide at rates ranging from twice as often to almost 14 times more than the general population- GLBs have smoking rates ranging from 1.3 to three times higher than average

Court rules lesbian ex-partner has no right to woman’s biological daughter adopted by husband

The Columbus Dispatch:

After years of argument, acrimony and legal action, Maggie Gross won her child-custody battle this spring in Franklin County Juvenile Court. 

But the Franklin County Court of Appeals recently rendered that decision hollow. Judges said that Gross, a lesbian, has no rights to the biological daughter of her former partner because the child was adopted months earlier — in January 2011 — by the man Jennifer Herrick married after she and Gross split.  

Herrick and her husband, Marlin, who live on the Northeast Side with their daughter and younger son, say Gross never had parental rights to lose. 

“I understand the same-sex implications,” said the couple’s attorney, Dianne Einstein. “But our case has taken a different turn. It’s the difference between custody and parental rights. 

“The juvenile court cannot make someone a parent. They can grant Maggie custody, but they can’t make her a parent. The probate judge made Marlin Herrick a parent.”Mrs. Herrick acknowledges her relationship with Gross but said she didn’t enter into a shared-custody agreement with Gross after the child’s birth in 2005 — as many same-sex couples do — because she didn’t want to surrender any of her rights. 

“Did she help care for her? Absolutely. Did she spend time with her? Absolutely,” Mrs. Herrick said of Gross. But, she added, “She was never a parental figure.” 

 Einstein said the appeals-court decision isn’t likely to open any legal floodgates. “This is kind of a unique situation,” she said. “Typically, same-sex couples remain gay.”  

“We made a family,” Gross said. “Is it OK to discard it because we don’t fit the law?” 

The Herricks say they made one, too. “And we wanted it permanent,” Mrs. Herrick said.

Contrast this ruling with the sad case of Isabella Miller.  After a Vermont court awarded custody of Isabella to her mother’s former same-sex partner, the mother, Lisa Miller, fled the country with her daughter rather than surrender her.  

Democratic National Platform endorses gender segregation in marriage

It’s official.  Democrats are married to the concept of gender-segregation in families.

From the 2012 Democratic National Platform: 

We support marriage equality and support the movement to secure equal treatment under law for same-sex couples.

The Democrats support segregating genders and oppose legislation endorsing gender-integrated marriage:

We oppose discriminatory federal and state constitutional amendments and other attempts to deny equal protection of the laws to committed same-sex couples who seek the same respect and responsibilities as other married couples. We support the full repeal of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act and the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act.

In other words, the Democrats are saying, you can discriminate against gender in marriage, but you can’t discriminate against same-gender couples.

Do Democrats believe gender discrimination is more important than children equality?

If Democrats truly want children to be treated equally, wouldn’t they support gender integration in marriage?  

Republicans continue to support pro-gender marriage and children equality.

Taxes more complicated for same sex couples

Monogender couples wrestle with complicated tax laws as they navigate differing state and federal tax regulations.  Nationally, only gender-integrated couples are recognized as married, whereas states have different laws regarding gender-exclusive couples.

MSNBC reports:

While most tax news in this election cycle is focusing on expiring tax cuts, what may be most revolutionary about 2012 is how many newly married same-sex couples are going to face a tax quagmire. 

There are more than 130,000 married gay and lesbian couples in the United States, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. And with more states, notably New York, legalizing same-sex marriage, that number is rising. 

Taxes for same-sex couples are far more complex than those for heterosexual couples because the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) prohibits same-sex marriages from being recognized at the federal level, while state-level tax rules vary greatly.

Redefining marriage one state at a time inherently creates gaps between federal and state law.  Hence the need for a national consensus on marriage.

Defend pro-gender marriage.

NC vote for president ‘wrapped in the racial and sexual politics of the Bible Belt’

For better or for worse, who North Carolina picks for president this November “could turn on gay marriage.” 

SFGate asserts:

North Carolina, host of the Democratic National Convention starting Tuesday, is among the closest of swing states, with polls showing President Obama and Mitt Romney locked in a statistical dead heat for much of the past year. 

 Four years ago, Obama won by only 14,000 votes out of 4.3 million cast, becoming the first Democrat to take the state since 1976. Repeating that win - and grabbing North Carolina's 15 electoral votes - would make Romney's path to victory a lot tougher. But the state's 9.6 percent unemployment rate is among the nation's highest, and Obama's challenge this year is wrapped in the racial and sexual politics of the Bible Belt. 

 The Rev. Patrick Wooden, pastor of a 3,000-member conservative congregation here, says Obama crushed his chances to repeat when he declared his support of same-sex marriage in May - the day after North Carolina voters in 93 of the state's 100 counties overwhelmingly approved the state's Amendment 1 banning it. 

"I hope as many African Americans as possible are offended by his position," said Wooden, an African American who helped lead the anti-gay marriage campaign and has long opposed Obama. "I hope that even if they don't vote for his opponent, they just leave that part of the ballot empty."