Governor Scott Walker today issued a proclamation for National Marriage Week which encourages citizens, churches, businesses, organizations and community leaders to strengthen marriage. The Wisconsin Family Council has a press release online (PDF) applauding the governor's act.
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I recently attended the wedding of my friends Andrew and Brian. It was beautiful.
Most certainly WILL NOT VOTE FOR YOU! Pushing an anti-gay agenda will never get my vote! God loves all people! May peace and love for all fill your angry hearts.
instead of attacking homosexuals for WANTING to get married, why not-in TRUE defense of marriage-make divorce illegal, or @least harder to come by? i know i'll be celebrating nat'l marriage week w/ my divorced straight friends and homosexual married ones. we will win. we have love on our side.
It seems as if many of the religious conservatives that back these agendas I end up seeing on the front page later tapping their foot in a urinal or crying on TV that they can't understand why they got busted having sexual relations with someone of the same sex. Personally, I' find it much safer to hang out with all my gay friends and coordinate their weddings than to send my son to a catholic church. Amen
My friend Kevin recently moved to Canada with his husband David because the US doesn't recognize their marriage and consequently David could not get another visa extension. Two fewer highly educated tax payers for us... and Canada's gain.
I would like to help strengthen marriage by being able to fully participate in it. Unfortunately, until our country fully embraces marriage as a civil right to be availed to all people, that is not an option to me. My children do not understand why marriage is not an option for me and my partner, while they have plenty of friends who have step-parents through second marriages. They cannot understand why the people of Wisconsin would elect a lieutenant governor who compares gay marriage to marriage with an inanimate object. How painful for them to be growing up in the face of discrimination and hate. Fortunately, they are growing up surrounded by love at home.
I didn't vote for you. Here's one of the many reasons why.
I'll be happy to "celebrate" National Marriage Week when everyone can marry--gay or straight! LOVE doesn't discriminate!
I would love to live in a world where gay people have all the same rights as straight people even the right to be unhappily married. Will they still be gay though? All those gay marriages would be great for the economy too.
To spend one's time or energy encouraging others to "strengthen their marriages" while being vehemently against the right of two people to be married is laughable.
Scott Walker needs to start creating jobs and stop wasting time by writing proclamations to discriminate against the entire gay community. We are families too!
"I recently attended the wedding of my friends Andrew and Brian. It was beautiful."
Beautiful ceremonies do not a marriage make. Millions of beautiful ceremonies end in divorce. This is part of the problem with marriage; all ceremony, no substance. Marriage is about procreation, commitment and responsibility of parents to children and one another. Two dude can't procreate; their union adds no value to society.
I'm just going to put what mike said out there:
"This is part of the problem with marriage; all ceremony, no substance."
Yet another homophobic heterosupremacist nailing nom's coffin shut for eternity with nothing more than a Freudian slip.
Nom: please post everything mike submits to you as a comment so we can witness another one of your sheeple wallow in their own filth.
Instead of blowing dog whistles with the phrase "strengthening marriage", why don't you just come out and say "denying marriage to gay couples"? It betrays a lack of confidence in your argument's appeal that you have to hide it behind different language.
Going off of Mike's comment I will again say, the government should not be involved with marriages at all. I don't need the government's "blessing" to know that my relationship with my partners is worthy.