As expected, the Christianists are going utterly crazy over today's vote by the Massachusetts legislature to kill the wingnut effort to pass a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. An example of this comes from a "Christian" news service article: http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp? Page=/Culture/archive/200706/CUL20070614c.html:
"Today's vote by the legislature to stop the marriage amendment from reaching the people of Massachusetts is only the beginning," said Matt Daniels, president and founder of the Alliance for Marriage, which drafted the federal marriage amendment before Congress.
"Radical activists will now move to strike the 1913 law in Massachusetts requiring state residency for a marriage license, in a determined effort to export the destruction of marriage across state lines," Daniels said.
"As designed, activists from all 50 states will travel to Massachusetts, obtain a marriage license and then sue in federal court to strike down any laws (or state amendments) protecting marriage in other states," he predicted, adding that activists are trying to make same-sex marriage "the new social norm for America."
"This is nothing short of a plan to create a national blitz of lawsuits challenging state marriage laws, state marriage amendments, and the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act," Daniels said.Family Research Council President Tony Perkins accused the three branches of government in Massachusetts of conspiring "to deny the people their right to vote."
"The legislature's obstruction of the democratic process further deepens the threat to marriage, ensuring this will remain a key issue to values voters in the presidential race," he said. "I call on all of our national leaders to declare how they will lead to protect marriage."
Tony Perkins ought to know about obstruction of the democractic process: he has past KKK ties - something the media conveniently fails to ask him about. In my opinion, he and Matt Daniels either (A) have weird marriages if they are threatened by equal marriage rights for gays, (B) are self-hating closet cases who cannot stand (due to envy) the idea of out gays having stable loving relationships and equal marriage rights, or (C) enjoy making a good living terrifying other wingnuts into sending money to their respective organizations. My vote is for (B) AND (C).
Here's an example of Perkin's scare tactics:
"Hate Crimes Laws:" Censoring the Church and Silencing Christians is a provocative look at this disturbing and threatening legal tool of the homosexual lobby. Hosted by Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council, the program features shocking examples of how hate crime laws trample free speech, lead to arrests, and censor speech.
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