Dear Marriage Supporter,
Same-sex marriage advocates in Delaware are very publicly planning a push for a new law to redefine marriage when the Legislature reconvenes for its new session in just over a week. Governor Markell claims that the passage of same-sex marriage in The First State is "inevitable."
But you and I both know that that's a lie!
The inevitability of SSM isn't a fact—it's an argument same-sex marriage advocates use over and over in an attempt to get the American people to give up the fight for what we know is true about marriage:
Marriage is a good for both individuals and society.
Marriage unites men and women, and protects children.
This is the truth. And we need the law to uphold that truth, not undermine it.
The consequences of these politicians' votes will impact Delawareans from all walks of life, but people of faith will bear the brunt of it.
Activists know the American people—even those who support same-sex marriage—don't want to force religious groups to go against their beliefs. And yet, everywhere same-sex marriage becomes law, it is religious believers who become the law's first targets.
Across the country, Catholic Charities is being forced to abandon adoption and foster care services as a result of same-sex marriage being enacted in various states.
Reception halls, inns, and bed-and-breakfasts face lawsuits for declining to host same-sex wedding ceremonies or receptions.
And schools across the country are facing increasing pressures to teach elementary students about "Prince & Prince," or "Heather's Two Mommies."
Send your lawmakers a message: Don't Mess with Marriage!
IMPORTANT NOTE: Success or failure may well hinge on the outpouring of opposition to this bill that politicians receive over the next couple of weeks. After you take action, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY FORWARD this email to all your friends and family in Delaware, or use the social networking buttons below to post to Facebook or Twitter.
Thank you.
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23 Comments
stop fighting it. Its inevitable!
Then why do you want us to stop fighting it, hank? Why would it make any difference whatsoever?
Fight it all the way.
Outcome is irrelevant.
Virtue is relevant.
To surrender our children to indoctrination in homosexualist falsehood is simply cowardly.
Fight.
The point here is that gay activists know the only way they will continue to get gay "marriage" allowed in any state will be if they get the legislature to impose it. How completely reprehensible!
Teenagers who are confused about their gender are prone to violence. SS"m" is sending the wrong message in these states (Conn) with social experiments, unlocking pandoras box of confused and violent youth.
Ms. Grube's statement flies in the face of recent history (and indeed reality). She very conveniently overlooks the fact that in Maine same-sex marriage was "imposed" by the state residents themselves via a popular vote (precisely as NOM and their supporters have been demanding all along) while in Maryland and Washington the voters made it very clear that they approved of their state legislatures' actions.
It's funny how opponents of same-sex marriage used to complain about "judicial activism" and "legislating from the bench" but as soon as legislatures started addressing the issue, they immediately changed their tune to complain about THAT. NOM keeps saying "let the people vote". Well, the people did vote, and they voted directly for same-sex marriage (Maine), they voted for same-sex marriage "imposed" by their state legislators (Maryland & Washington), and in numerous states and the District of Columbia they have voted to elect and re-elect many, many legislators who explicitly support same-sex marriage. You just might want to ask yourselves why "the people" are electing more and more legislators who support same-sex marriage rather than complaining about the American system of self-rule by elected representatives that our Founding Fathers "imposed" with the U.S. Constitution over 200 years ago.
@John B.
Save your circular logic for those who require excuses just so the can live with themselves for the choices they make but can not bring themselves to take responsibility for said choice.
Circular logic: Circular logic cannot prove a conclusion because, if the conclusion is doubted, the premise which leads to it will also be doubted.
Randy? John b stated an observation. He drew no specific conclusion from it. Did u post to the wrong string?
Thank you Peter, not just an observation but an observation of several FACTS that people like Ms. Grube and Mr. King apparently can't bring themselves to acknowledge. "Let the people vote" was a great slogan until "the people" voted in a way that NOM and their supporters don't like. Now that we've won on THEIR OWN TERMS all they apparently have left is to deny reality.
I believe NOM has not forgotten their 'let the people vote' strategy. We are still fighting in those states where the legislature is trying to impose SSM on society. In places where the voters have approved SSM, they are now concentrating on trying to protect those who will be harmed by it, contrary to the propoganda SSM activists used to fool the people into voting for it in the first place.
The circular logic is the inference that NOM is being hypocritical because it refuses to accept corrupting marriage even when corrupting marriage wins by popular vote; or the circular logic that because an observation may, in fact, be correct on one hand means that the same observation need apply to other angles as well.
Just because the majority may have agreed to corrupting marriage does not mean that everybody must agree to corrupting marriage.
Wrong does not become right just because the majority says so.
Example: see Roe v. Wade
It is truly astonishing that a majority of the citizens of three states voted for a law that insists that fathers are not male, mothers are not female, brides are not female, grooms are not male, husbands are not male, wives are not female.
On the other hand........this may turn out to have been the Pyrrhic victory of the age.
After all, the homosexualist gender radicals can no longer maintain the preposterous notion that they require protection against a majority
The fight will continue.
WASHINGTON--President Barack Obama is urging the Illinois General Assembly to legalize gay marriage in his home state as lawmakers are poised to take up the measure as early as this week in Springfield.
"While the president does not weigh in on every measure being considered by state legislatures, he believes in treating everyone fairly and equally, with dignity and respect," White House spokesman Shin Inouye told the Chicago Sun-Times on Saturday.
"As he has said, his personal view is that it's wrong to prevent couples who are in loving, committed relationships, and want to marry, from doing so. Were the President still in the Illinois State Legislature, he would support this measure that would treat all Illinois couples equally," Inouye said.
The lead sponsors of the "Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act," state Sen. Heather Steans (D-Chicago) and state Rep. Greg Harris (D-Chicago), intend to put the measure up for a vote during the upcoming January lame-duck session.
@John B. - those are blue states that voted for the radical homosexual agenda, not Red states.
The United States is in decline.....so obviously we are delving deeper and deeper into immorality.
@John B.
NOM is not an organization about voting or not voting. It is an organization that is fighting in order for the opposite-sex union to be clearly distinguished within the society as being what it is - DIFFERENT than a same-sex union.
Ping-pong logic: (Or, give propaganda a chance to intimidate and confound the people into changing their votes.)
Homosexual marriage advocates 2010 - “this subject should not be voted on. The majority should not decide.”
Homosexual marriage advocates 2013 - “this subject has been voted on, the majority has decided.”
There is one thing about truth, you can hit it as hard as you want, it does not move. Whether you hit it with paddles or judges or votes (or even paint it over with constitutions). Homosexual unions are DIFFERENT. And this difference must not be minimized or obscured within our society or the minds of our children. That is the logic that our fight is built on. It is not us who are deciding this or that, its simply the truth (the “reality” that can't be denied) that is looking us all in the face. Voting or not voting, or any other side issue, is not what NOM is about, as important as these things may or may not be, they are simply residue issues from the real work at hand.
If our residue tickles your funny bone, so be it. Enjoy.
Homosexual "marriage" is a form of apartheid.
No, tribune, SSM is not comparable to apartheid. Btw, SSM is legal in South Africa.
First, a very Happy and Holy New Year to all of us fighting the good fight to maintain normal marriage and virtue. We WILL prevail!
As for John B, how about you climb aboard your sloop and sail away to Moveon and head back to the Sixties?
As for Tribune, for your edification, here's the real deal on marriage: whether one believes in God or not, it is an undeniable fact that tens of millions of years of evolution have devised sexuality for the purposes of pro-creation. Nature is a very harsh mistress, as those who study the natural world can readily attest. Therefore, we can, with all honesty, call a homosexual devolutionary; an individual whom nature, for reasons that may always remain obscure to us, did not intend to reproduce. Under normal circumstances, that is, in a sound and happy marriage, there is no more natural affection as that shown between a husband and wife, and between parent and child. In response to what we can call the naturalness of marriage, it is incumbent upon both citizen and public official to continue to recognize the centrality of marriage and to maintain that centrality in law, and to reject all attempts to abolish it or legalize so-called alternatives. Traditional marriage was created to safeguard the welfare of, and to establish responsibility for, any offspring ensuing from heterosexual activities, and not to give legal and social approval to unrestrained and irresponsible sexual activity.
Let the members of the demimonde live out their lives and conduct their private business privately, far from the public eye and with no control over public institutions.
@hank kelly, dying is also inevitable: we all have to die sometime, yet we dont just walk in front of a bus do we? Its only 'inevitable' if we do nothing and let the gays win
Tribune Posted December 31, 2012 at 2:33 pm | Homosexual "marriage" is a form of apartheid.
No Tribune, Marriage Apartheid is excluding same-sex couples from equal marriage rights / rites.
And there is no such think as "homosexual" marriage. In the nine states with allow same-sex couple access to civil marriage, there is just marriage.
Zack Posted December 30, 2012 at 4:03 am
The United States is in decline.....so obviously we are delving deeper and deeper into immorality.
No, Zack, the immorality is excluding same-sex couples from marriage. The conservative position should be, "Mr Gay Couple, Ms Lesbian Couple: How dare you not get married?" Marriage stabilizes couples, and this is good for society.