Tuesday, May 8, 2012

This guy will say anything to get a vote. Total BS'er

Joe Biden

Vice President Joe Biden floated a possible trial balloon on Meet the Press on Sunday and said he is "comfortable" with the idea of gay "marriage." He might be hoping to lay the foundation for a major flip by the Obama Administration from its 2008 position opposed to gay marriage. In 1996, Barack Obama was campaigning for his first election to the Illinois State Senate but he later answered a questionnaire saying he was in favor of gay marriage but he flipped again in 2008 to opposition. But in 1996, Joe Biden was one of 85 senators from both parties who voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act that (DOMA) was signed that same year by President Bill Clinton. That law states is part:

 (a) IN GENERAL- Chapter 1 of title 1, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: `Sec. 7. Definition of `marriage' and `spouse' `In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word `marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word `spouse' refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.'
Advocates who lobby in favor of calling a gay partnership a "marriage" complete with a marriage licence from some local government always try to present their case as a matter of equal civil rights with heterosexual couples.  But they never seem to be able to come up with concrete examples of arbitrary and invidious distinctions between the rights of couples in tradtional marriages and gay partners.  Some often mumble something about visitation rights for patients in hospitals but fail to point out that such policies are mostly a thing of the past.  In fact, there are almost no legal rights of traidional married couples that cannot be duplicated in some way under other existing laws such as the right of joint tenants to get right of surivorship in jointly owned property which can be done by any two adults related or not.  Likewise, insurance benefits can usually be assigned to anyone related or not.  So why do some gay advocates insist on using the word "marriage" even though the PC term for most gay couples only ten years ago was "partner?"
The answer is that some gay advocates hope that a government-issued "marriage certificate" will somehow serve as a substitute for endorsement by society at large.  In other words, no one will have any legal right to refuse to endorse the "marriage" even for religious objections.  It will not be permitted for anyone to withold their approval of a gay "marriage" and that English word will change to mean exactly the same thing as the former sacrament of Holy Matrimony that was recognized in law by a marriage certificate issued by a county 100 years ago.  It is not the same thing of course but some gay advocates fool themeselves into thinking a surrogate certificate is the same thing and that makes them feel good because it is the best substitute they can find for universal social approval that is not obtainable.  So this is not a legal battle but rather a battle over language and social attitudes.  Gay people have the right to be free from violence and intimidation and various abitrary forms of discrimination, but some gay leaders do not want to acknowlege the rights of religious objectors to not approve of gay "marriage" using that word.

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous5/08/2012

    Why does it seem lately that so many politicians are gay.

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  2. Anonymous5/08/2012

    Why? Because they are attracted to positions of power in order to compensate for the feelings of inadequatcy they feel when they come into contact with normal people.

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  4. Anonymous5/08/2012

    Joe "the plagiarist" Biden is the most plastic politician I have ever seen. Even his hair has been "regrown" and his teeth have been capped, not to mention his "Joker" eyes that were clearly the product of a face lift.

    Beyond his plagiarism of the Socialist rhetoric from the UK he has probably the worst record for foreign policy insight. Remember how he told us the Soviets would respond to the foolish nuclear freeze? Or more recently when he constantly jumped in front of any camera during the Bush Admin to tell us that we were losing in Iraq and that there was going to be a "civil war". Or TWO summers ago - he told us it was the "summer of recovery". We are still waiting for that one. And of course his famous remarks about Obama when they were in the Senate together. On Obama "he is 'clean and articulate". I don't what was dumber, that statement, or Obama picking him for VP.

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