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The law...public opinion...gay-rights | Poem

Jan. 20, 2005 / 10 Shevat, 5765

The law has caught up with public opinion on gay-rights matters

By Peter A. Brown

 
"...gay-rights...the next step in the civil-rights movement, the courts and the country are not yet sold..."

"Not yet" being the operative word.

"...the high court two years ago, in effect, legalized homosexuality."

After many states had changed their laws against it.

"...public opinion on gay-rights matters."

And to protect minorities from "public opinion" we have a third branch of government called the judiciary.

"...the impact of homosexual conduct on society."

An honest reading of the Bible will prove homosexuality has been with us for a very very long time...please tell us what the "impact" has been?

"...gay-rights...the next step in the civil-rights movement...not yet sold on their one gigantic premise:..."

Operative words "not yet sold"

"...homosexuality should merit the same status in the legal pecking order as does race."

"Pecking order"? well you forgot a few like women's rights and voting rights.

"None of this can be comforting to the gay-rights movement..."

None have been seeking comfort, they are seeking equal rights.

"...Supreme Court did not issue a decision in the adoption case..."

Which means they are leaving it up to states - and some states allow gay couples to adopt children.

"...defuse the movement for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex unions.

Such an unnecessary division - the government should not be involved in marriage per se - government's interest in the union of two people, when it started was to protect property - this is a civil action - and should have the title civil unions and if marriages were only conducted in churches - the churches have the full powers to decide who they deem marriageable and who not.

"...Florida...statute that prevents gays from adopting children, although many serve as foster parents.

How hypocritical! They are good enough to care for them as foster parents, sometimes for years, but not good enough to make this arrangement permanent.

"...Gays are a protected class in some states, but not Florida, the only one to ban gay adoption.

The operative here "Florida, the ONLY one"

"...the court decided that it was a political matter that should be left to individual states to decide.."

But does not prevent homophobic from trying to make gay marriages and gay adoptions federal cases.

"Gay-rights groups had hoped that the 2003 Supreme Court decision throwing out a Texas law making sodomy illegal and decriminalizing homosexuality..."

Gay rights groups are happy with any victory no matter how small and Texas was pretty big - one of the last holdouts (seein' as how they are still fighting the Alamo.

"Although such progress for gays has been achieved in some states...it has not yet led to congressional action or nationwide court rulings extending rights to gays."

Yepper, "not yet" - even if it takes a few hundred years like other civil rights took - groups who feel oppressed do not expect equality yesterday.

"The concerns expressed by social conservatives and hopes of gay-rights leaders that the 2003 Texas ruling would open the door to wholesale changes in American life seem, at this point, to be unfounded."

Where is the shame? Compassionate conservatives returned to 4 more years of power, in part because they claimed "moral values".
The moral values they claimed were limited to sexual matters like gay marriages and abortions.

In the middle of a tsunami disaster, today they spend millions on the coronation of King George who announced they would be ending their aid to the victims "soon" - even as the body count rises above 200,000.

Even as the compassionate liberals cry for the US to "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" - the US marches forward with Global Hawks and newer weapons of mass destruction.

Listen, if you will, have ears to hear if you will, the children are singing:

"You can bomb the world to pieces,
but you can't bomb the world to peace."

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