Sorry I didnt get back sooner. I was away for awhile and completely forgot about this thread.
I never said it was unethical. Giving taxpayer money to fund pig farms is not unethical either. But do we want to blow limited resources on that too?
Ok, so now NY has allowed same sex marriage. They follow Mass and a few other states. State's Rights and all that I guess.
But even though I mentioned immorality, its about much much more than immorality. In fact, I dont understand why opponents of gay marriage seem to focus on the immoral issue instead of the financial issues and how this will affect our economy. Its not only about what makes 'God Cry' to use your words.
Here is the argument that should be made.
Right now, our economy is in shambles. It is costing people more and more to survive in this period of our history. Talk is ongoing about whether we will have Social Security and Medicaid for old folks and the poor in the near future. Yes, there are a lot of reasons for this that are unrelated to Gay marriage.
However....
All insurance in Massachusetts must now recognize same-sex “married” couples in their coverage. This includes auto insurance, health insurance, life insurance, etc.
(So now insurance rates go up because of this)
Businesses must recognize same-sex “married” couples in all their benefits, activities, etc., regarding both employees and customers.
This means that more money will come out of an employee's paycheck to cover these benefits.
In 2004, Governor Mitt Romney ordered Justices of the Peace to perform homosexual marriages when requested or be fired. At least one Justice of the Peace decided to resign.
Since homosexual relationships are now officially “normal”,
the Legislature now gives enormous tax money to homosexual activist groups. In particular, the Massachusetts Commission on Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Youth is made up of the most radical and militant homosexual groups which target children in the schools. This year they are getting $700,000 of taxpayer money to go into the public schools.
And where does this money come from? Taxpayers.
In 2008 Massachusetts changed the state Medicare laws to include homosexual “married” couples in the coverage.
All these things cost taxpayers more money. And since Fed funds come from taxpayers of all 50 states, now we all have to fund these things. (Many people barely have enough money for gas and food these days! So they go on welfare, Medicare and Medicaid...which is funded by taxpayers).
Also...
Since homosexual marriage became “legal” the rates of HIV / AIDS have gone up considerably in Massachusetts. This year public funding to deal with HIV/AIDS has risen by $500,000.
Citing “the right to marry” as one of the “important challenges” in a place where “it’s a great time to be gay”, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health helped produce The Little Black Book, Queer in the 21st Century, a hideous work of obscene pornography which was given to kids at Brookline High School on April 30, 2005. Among other things, it gives “tips” to boys on how to perform oral sex on other males, masturbate other males, and how to “safely” have someone urinate on you for sexual pleasure. It also included a directory of bars in Boston where young men meet for anonymous sex.
If you havent seen this little wonder, here's a link: http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/black_book/black_book_inside.html
And when you read it, remember that it is being forced on kids in middle school.
Given the extreme dysfunctional nature of homosexual relationships, the Massachusetts Legislature has felt the need to spend more money every year to deal with skyrocketing homosexual domestic violence. This year $350,000 was budgeted, up $100,000 from last year.
Taxpayers have to fund that too.
Then there is simply the in-your-face disgusting defiance of gay groups.
Since gay “marriage” is now legal, gay groups have decided to rub everyone's nose in their newfound legal status. Annual gay pride parades have become more prominent. There are more politicians and corporations participating, and even police organizations take part. And the envelope gets pushed further and further. There is now a profane “Dyke March” through downtown Boston, and recently a “transgender” parade in Northampton
that included bare-chested women who have had their breasts surgically removed so they could “become” men. Governor Patrick even marched with his “out lesbian” 17-year old daughter in the 2008 Boston Pride event, right behind a “leather” group brandishing a black & blue flag, whips and chains!
The homosexual “marriage” onslaught in public schools across the state started soon after the November 2003, court decision.
In early December, 2003. It featured an array of speakers, including teachers at the school who announced that they would be “marrying” their same-sex partners and starting families either through adoption or artificial insemination. Literature on same-sex marriage – how it is now a normal part of society – was handed out to the students.
Within months it was brought into the middle schools. In September, 2004, an 8th-grade teacher in Brookline, MA, told National Public Radio that the marriage ruling had opened up the floodgates for teaching homosexuality. “In my mind, I know that, `OK, this is legal now.' If somebody wants to challenge me, I'll say, `Give me a break. It's legal now,'” she told NPR.
She added that she now discusses gay sex with her students as explicitly as she desires. For example, she said she tells the kids that lesbians can have vaginal intercourse using sex toys.This is in an 8th grade class of kids!
By the following year it was in elementary school curricula. Kindergartners were given picture books telling them that same-sex couples are just another kind of family, like their own parents. In 2005, when David Parker of Lexington, MA – a parent of a kindergartner – strongly insisted on being notified when teachers were discussing homosexuality or transgenderism with his son, the school had him arrested and put in jail overnight.
Second graders at the same school were read a book, “King and King”, about two men who have a romance and marry each other, with a picture of them kissing.
When parents Rob and Robin Wirthlin complained, they were told that the school had no obligation to notify them or allow them to opt-out their child.
In 2006 the Parkers and Wirthlins filed a federal Civil Rights lawsuit to force the schools to notify parents and allow them to opt-out their elementary-school children when homosexual-related subjects were taught. The federal judges dismissed the case. The judges ruled that because same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts, the school actually had a duty to normalize homosexual relationships to children, and that schools have no obligation to notify parents or let them opt-out their children! Acceptance of homosexuality had become a matter of good citizenship!
Think about that: Because same-sex marriage is “legal”, a federal judge has ruled that the schools now have a duty to portray homosexual relationships as normal to children, despite what parents think or believe!
Don't you think parents should have rights as to what their children are exposed to?
And dont you think taxpayers should have the right to decide what their taxes pay for without interference of activist judges? I daresay that if a Federal judge said that prayer has to be allowed and Bible taught in schools,
Atheists would complain. Why then should the rest of us submit to the tyranny of these other forms of militant activism?
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