Proving herself in my view to be a mean, cold hearted bitch, Julaine Appling, Chief Executive Officer of Wisconsin Family Council (pictured at left), wants Wisconsin same sex couples who marry in other states and then return to Wisconsin prosecuted under an old 1915 law - which most likely was aimed at preventing inter-racial marriages - which imposes up to a $10,000 fine and nine months of jail time. That's the report made by WKOW-TV 27 at least. But then, I guess I should not be surprised by Ms. Appling's attitude. If one listens to the various mouth pieces of Christianist organizations from Daddy Dobson on down, they NEVER have a message of love, peace and/or joy. Rather, it is ALWAYS a message of hatred towards someone, be the target group gay, brown skinned immigrants, Muslim, or whatever. The message is always the same: prosecute them, limit their legal rights, persecute them, or just disseminate lies to demonize them. *
No wonder only a fairly recent Barna Group study found that only 3% of 16 - to 29-year-old non-Christians express favorable views of evangelicals. Common negative perceptions include that present-day Christianity is judgmental (87%), hypocritical (85%), old-fashioned (78%), and too involved in politics (75%). The study group also found that young people - both those inside the church and outside of it - said that something was broken in the present-day expression of Christianity. Here are some highlights from WKNOW:
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An obscure law makes it a crime for Wisconsin residents to enter marriage in another state if that marriage is illegal here. It carries a fine up to $10,000 and nine months in prison. Julaine Appling, Chief Executive Officer of Wisconsin Family Council, says violators of the law should be charged with fraud. "You purposely left the state for another state and you get married and you know it's not going to be legal where you reside and you have every intention of returning, that's defrauding the Government," Appling says.
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"The law is from 1915, five years before women could vote," says Fair Wisconsin Executive Director Glenn Carlson. Fair Wisconsin says majority of their members don't care about the law, saying they would rather be prosecuted then persecuted. . . . . The prosecution of violators would be up to district attorneys and Fair Wisconsin doesn't believe any district court would go after same-sex couples who marry in California. Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard said doing so would be a "poor use of scarce prosecution resources."
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