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From http://www.cwfa.org/main.asp Concerned Women for America This is an especially prejudiced site full of strange and twisted logic. See http://www.cwfa.org/ma-update.asp where you'll find links like these: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37764 Kevin McCullough talks about a case of child molestation before the courts, and Gay Marriage. I read it twice and still don't see what they have to do with each other. Apparently, an adult could not claim damages against an adoptive father who molested her while she was a child, as he was not a blood relative and his crime did not fit under incest laws. I think that, if there was evidence to prove he did molest her as a child and if he did receive no punishment, this is a horrible thing. However, we could turn this argument easily like some of these religious thinkers to point out that this case shows just how dangerous it is for heterosexuals to raise children. We could also point out that if she had been raised by two gay fathers, well then the abuse could not have happened, and ask whether readers want children to be safe from sexualy abusing fathers. Everyone would see through that kind of reactionism though. But think a little further. If she had been molested by an adopted lesbian mother, would everyone think the same? the woman would apparently have been no worse off in court than a woman raised by straight parents, but what does this even have to do with the gay community and issues around gay marriage? Isn't this a problem for the politicians and judges relating to how they make and interpret laws? http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=5418& department=CFI&categoryid=family The Massachusetts Catholic Conference pressures politicians regarding what laws they present to the public for public vote. Another nice example of the lack of a "Separation of Church and State." they basically argue that politicians should separate the laws presented to the public for voting. The current Travaglini-Finneran proposal that is to be presented for a state-wide vote rolls protection of marriage as being for one man and one woman and a decision about civil unions into one law. The Catholic Conference wants them separated into two laws, so that people would have the choice to vote that marriage is between one man and one woman, and separately deny civil unions to gay couples. I find this interesting. The Church doesn't want the State to tell them who they can and must marry (that definately would be a breach of Separation of Church and State). The Church as a religious group, however, has no reservation about telling politicians how they should present laws to the public for voting, and accuses them of failing to "provide a clean vote", of efforts to "deny the public a real choice", and of acting in "an attempt to confuse the voters." http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=5386& department=LEGAL&categoryid=family Rebecca Jones complains that as a result of a $1.1 million settlement the ACLU won six years after a California school "allegedly" failed to protect six gay students from harassment, the school now requires all employees "to enroll in a pro-homosexual sensitivity training program." No, they aren't watching Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. This actually entails "anti-gay harassment" classes, and updates to the school's student handbook to include a sentence noting that "harassment and discrimination based on actual or perceived sexual orientation... is expressly prohibited under district policies and state law." I point out these examples to show just how distorted and twisted the counter arguments against gay marriage actually are, especially from religious groups who often seem to only want a scapegoat for society's ills... because, after all, it certainly can't be their fault so it must be someone else's. |
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