Monday, August 30, 2004
Republicans: Fighting gay marriage is the same as fighting Hitler
Nice to see the Republicans putting on their moderate face tonight, isn't it? The essential Atrios (here) pointed me to Republican Coronation Convention site, where Sheri Dew (love the name!) is doing the Invocation. Here is some material from Sheri Dew, and it's not a pretty sight:
Und so wieter....
I like the editor's touch of putting the "so-called" style of quotes around “daughter”—Isn't that special? Sometimes hate becomes visible in the subtlest of ways....
Yes, I'm absolutely in favor of the family—and for the right of my married niece and her female spouse to bring up a daughter, or a son.
UPDATE Here's another good one. Donnie Mc
Ah. The "curse of homosexuality..." God's curse, I imagine. Which would explain why he rained down fire from Heaven on New York on 9/11... Say, I wonder what Dick "Dick" Cheney thinks about this? I mean, surely if Bush were to prayer harder .... The curse on Cheney's daughter would be lifted, right?
One of the major articles was about gay “marriage.” There were several statements that stood out for me in a dramatic and terrifying way, but one of the most sobering features of the entire article was a picture of two handsome, young men, getting “married.” What distressed me most was the fact that they were both holding an infant “daughter”–twin girls they had adopted. I was, frankly, heartsick.
To say I found the entire article sobering would be a grand understatement.
This escalating situation reminds me of a statement of a World War II journalist by the name of Dorothy Thompson who wrote for the Saturday Evening Post in Europe during the pre-World War II years when Hitler was building up his armies and starting to take ground. In an address she delivered in Toronto in 1941 she said this: “Before this epic is over, every living human being will have chosen. Every living human being will have lined up with Hitler or against him. Every living human being either will have opposed this onslaught or supported it, for if he tries to make no choice that in itself will be a choice. If he takes no side, he is on Hitler’s side. If he does not act, that is an act—for Hitler.”
May I take the liberty of reading this statement again and changing just a few words, applying it to what I fear we face today? “Before this era is over, every living human being will have chosen. Every living human being will have lined up in support of the family or against it. Every living human being will have either opposed the onslaught against the family or supported it, for if he tries to make no choice that in itself will be a choice. If we do not act in behalf of the family, that is itself an act of opposition to the family.”
At first it may seem a bit extreme to imply a comparison between the atrocities of Hitler and what is happening in terms of contemporary threats against the family—but maybe not.
(via LDS Magazine)
Und so wieter....
I like the editor's touch of putting the "so-called" style of quotes around “daughter”—Isn't that special? Sometimes hate becomes visible in the subtlest of ways....
Yes, I'm absolutely in favor of the family—and for the right of my married niece and her female spouse to bring up a daughter, or a son.
UPDATE Here's another good one. Donnie Mc
Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin, who has detailed his struggle with gay tendencies and vowed to battle "the curse of homosexuality," said yesterday he'll perform as scheduled at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, despite controversy over his view that sexuality can be changed by religious intervention.
(via WaPo)
Ah. The "curse of homosexuality..." God's curse, I imagine. Which would explain why he rained down fire from Heaven on New York on 9/11... Say, I wonder what Dick "Dick" Cheney thinks about this? I mean, surely if Bush were to prayer harder .... The curse on Cheney's daughter would be lifted, right?
