Utah Sen. Bob Bennett’s Health Care Sneak Attack on D.C.’s Gay Marriage
In addition to supporting a bill that would repeal the just-passed health care reform law, Utah’s Republican Sen. Bob Bennett just introduced an amendment that would, very sneakily, halt Washington D.C.’s same-sex marriage law by forcing the initiative to go to a city-wide vote. (He just tried this with the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization bill, but failed.) Not that most onlookers expect Bennett’s bill to pass; Democrats are working to rebuff any GOP amendments to its health care law.
Gee, what a shock, another Mormon politician taking their marching orders on bigotry directly from Salt Lake City.
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the asshat fails at everything. he never introduces legislation to acomplish anything AND he initially ran on a term limit platform. he is well over the limit he set then.
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The Nazis and Fascists were politicians who violated the human rights of millions of other people.
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Well I guess we know now who Protect Marriage dot com and NOM have been courting through all the delays in the Prop 8 Trial. I hope Rachel Maddow can dig up some dirt on this Mormon shill.
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At last a Republican is doing something that makes sense. Instead of blocking health care reform, they should work on banning same-sex unions which are an aberration and a threat to societies. Just look at the posts above from gay-supporting jihadists
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@Anita You are apparently a person who thinks Americans should uphold governments that violate their human rights (which group in America has ever ultimately done that?). America was founded as a nation on just the opposite notion – Americans do not uphold governments that violate their human rights. You know, the Declaration of Independence, sound familiar? – if you are an American you should know the Declaration by heart “inalienable rights, that chief among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. That when governments becomes destructive of these ends…” Read it. Absorb it. Government that no longer serves “all the people” is anti-American. Government that serves only “some of the people” is anti-American. Remember the Civil War? Abe Lincoln? “that government of the people, for the people, by the people shall not perish from the Earth” – well, that kind of government has perished in most of the USA which is now mostly just government “of some of the people, for some of the people, by some of the people” with millions upon millions of Americans written out of it… no true American upholds that because it is anti-American to do so. Americans pledge Liberty and Justice for All, not for Some.
Open a history book – all the US Founders warned future generations of Americans that if they failed to provide justice and equal rights for minority groups then the USA would end for the same reasons it was started; it took a civil war – Americans slaughtering Americans – to get the 14th Amendment into the U.S. Constitution – Equal Protection under Law. But in 2010, only a fraction of the USA has heeded the Founders’ warning. I just commend the gay-allied community for upholding human rights – no other group as large, diverse, and technologically saavy as the gay-allied community has ever permitted such mass human rights violations to go unchecked. The gay-allied community should be commended for so far being more civilized than any other group on the planet. Most groups on Earth just go postal from such mass human rights violations and few have the diverse resources and skills available to the worldwide gay-allied community. Far too many people take for granted that the gay-allied community continues to uphold human rights when others do not – especially considering the scientific and technological advancements of the last 30 years.
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Our Greatest Strength is Also Our Greatest Weakness…
Why should the birthright of equality for tens of millions of GLBT American citizens first depend upon getting a majority of people to stop hating them? There would be a tidal wave of blood flowing in the streets and entire cities set ablaze if any other minority’ s rights were put up so callously for majority approval by a lynch mob disguised as a so-called “public referendum”.
The concept of a Bill of Rights and a Federal Constitution which originally guaranteed inalienable equality and unimpeachable rights is truly dead in America. Human equality and civil rights in the United States now mainly depends upon how popular you are with your local neighbors who have been, for the most part, brain-washed by the various perversions of the Christian religion into hating you — that is, if you just happen to belong to the GLBT community.
As I stated before, the most primal, gut-level reaction to that kind of invidious injustice would be to understandably strike out with fury and outrage against your oppressors. Yet, like millions of other civilized people before us — witness the millions of Jews who walked meekly into the concentration camps, and to their deaths, in Nazi Germany– we too are victims of our own civility.
Ironically, the gentleness and the Christ-like benevolence of the GLBT community is our greatest virtue — but, sadly, it can also be our greatest weakness too.
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No. 9 · Anita Condori
At last a Republican is doing something that makes sense. Instead of blocking health care reform, they should work on banning same-sex unions which are an aberration and a threat to societies. Just look at the posts above from gay-supporting jihadists
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What a shock, and angry Mormon bigot, who’s still upset that the church had to start granting blacks full membership in 1980 comes on here in support of the church’s right to still be bigoted. How Surprising. Hey, Anita, can you answer me a few questions, Why didn’t your church allow blacks full membership until around 1980? Why is the divorce rate so high among Mormons?, Why was Joseph Smith killed by a group of his church members who said that he was involved in a rape on a 16 year old girl?
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@CAM: I’m not mormon, or belong to any other religion. Why you even thought I was one, is beyond me, but sorry, you are wrong.
@Daniel: There is no human right violated by not allowing “garriages”. Every person has the right to marry another of the opposite sex (of course, taking into account age, etc.). Now, gays want to have MORE rights than any other person. They want the new right of voiding the definition of marriage and sneak in people of the same sex into it. Why do you want more rights than anyone else have?
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Hmmmm, He’s from Utah. Who or what in the world could be dictating how this pathetic little scarecrow scumbag puppet acts????