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B50: A(nother) Modest Proposal |
| With a struggling economy, a war in Iraq, immigration issues, issues of (you fill in the blank),?is our main issue in the 2008 election really gay people?!??Do we?buy into the propaganda that if we are Christians, we should choose our next president on that issue above all others???Some apparently hope we will believe that.Yesterday the?California-based Campaign for Children and Families (their name is the beginning of the propaganda), posted the following GOP voting guide:
REPORT CARD ON THE NATURAL FAMILYYES = Position in support of the natural familyNO = Position against the natural family?= unknown or unclear position
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..>GiulianiHuckabeeMcCainPaulRomneyThompsonSCORE (8 possible points?in support of?the natural family)174703Protecting Civil Marriage Rights for One Man and One Woman
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?Protected marriage and marriage rights?NOYESNOOpposed marriage counterfeits such as domestic partnerships?NOYESYESNOAdoption by Both a Father and a Mother
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?Opposed homosexual couples adopting childrenYESYESNOProtecting the Natural Family
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?Opposed forcing private business owners to support homosexualityNOYESYESYESNOYESOpposed establishing or expanding pro-homosexuality "hate crime" lawsNOYESYESYESYESRefused to support "Gay Pride Day"NOYESYESYESNOYESProtecting the Boy Scouts
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?Opposed to having homosexuals in the Boy ScoutsYESNO |
| NOProtecting Schoolchildren
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?Opposed teaching schoolchildren to support homosexualityYESYESYESYESNO?..>..>..>..>
Click here for?the 24 page original report
Look carefully at this rubric.?Under the Christian-sounding guise of "protecting the family," this entire list is about homosexuals.?Besides the question of how homosexuality is damaging our families, the big question here is "Is this the main?issue on which?we want to choose the next president of the United States?"If so, please humor me by considering a?few?quick questions:1)?How many children of the state or children's home residents have you spent hours getting to know??Listening to their stories of being moved from family to family, or wanting "a real family" more than anything in the world.??How many of your Christian friends are willing to adopt, love, and take care of the hard-to-place children with physical?defects or chronic diseases???Is it really so important to you to?stop them from being placed in?a loving home because the parent might be?homosexual??We are not even talking here about a choice between a 2-parent family and a homosexual person.??The choice is a?loving parent?or no one.?(The fear that homosexuals are child-molesters is no more founded than that of heterosexuals.?It's a given that?everyone should be properly screened before being allowed to adopt children.)2)??Can you explain in your own words?how?passing laws against homosexuals protects the American family??Will it make them heterosexual???Are we more secure when the homosexual man is marrying our daughter to keep from being?labeled an outcast of?society??He may love her and provide for her,?and she may never know why she feels unable to bring him happiness, but she always knows something is missing.?This seems to me?the bigger threat to the family.?If we stop treating gay people as outcasts, they will no longer feel the need to marry for appearances.??3)?How many gay people do?you know personally??How many of their stories have?you listened to face to face??How many do you work with everyday without knowing it??How many are in your family and would never consider telling you??What would your reaction be if?they did??How many grew up in your church but stopped attending when they were old enough to make that choice, having gleaned the understanding that God does not love them??(This is the saddest part of all!)4)?Before adopting this as your top 2008 campaign issue, how much time have you spent researching the subject of homosexuality, not just from your own viewpoint, but from the opposing one as well, to get a fuller picture?5) If "protecting the family" is really our nation's number one issue, how can we best do that??By attending church together regularly??By regularly spending quality time with our children??By modeling our faith for them, and our love for all of God's children, even those we don't understand??Or by picketing and signing petitions against homosexuals??In 1729 Jonathan Swift wrote the classic example of satire in his A Modest Proposal.?His proposal was for how to deal with the problems of poverty and the overpopulation of children in Ireland.?(If you've never read it, it's a great read.)?Following is my own much shorter?Modest Proposal for how to deal with this number one national issue:A law.?That's what we need.?Let's pass a law that all homosexual persons, male and female, must register as such in a national registry, at which time they will be branded on the right forearm with an identifying triangle for life and enlisted in a special "no need to ask or tell" military and sent to Iraq.??All heterosexual soldiers can then?return home to their families, and when?we hear of soldiers being killed in the war, there will no?reason?for grief.?They will all be gay.This solution seems perfect.?It will bring home the troops, provide military protection for the nation,?rid the nation of homosexuals, and clear our?dark alleys.?OK, Campaign for Children and Families, define Christianity however you wish.?I will choose, however, to define it in terms of love, not hate.??I will continue to think through issues for myself,?by examining the life and teachings of Jesus the Christ.?I will be?a safe person?to whom any?homosexual friends and family?can come.?I will share with them the truth, that God?loves them, and I love them.?And I will?have more important issues on which to?base my vote for the next president.?For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.(John 3:16 RSV)Disclaimer:?I am a registered Independent, and this blog is not meant to be an endorsement for any particular candidate or party.Currentlylistening
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