I’ve made the point a time-or-two that the same sex marriage debate was never about marriage unless by marriage you mean it’s destruction as an institution.  Marriage is a leading cause of children and children are a leading cause of families, personal responsibility, and even a tendency toward more conservative principles.  That is why the left has worked so hard to detach sex from child-bearing, marriage, or even love.

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Gov Pataki on WMUR’s Closeup (4/5):

I agree completely with the idea that we have to protect peoples’ religious freedom.  There’s no question about that.  I quietly am, in my own way, deeply religious and I don’t want someone to tell me that I can’t practice my religion as I see fit.  But on the other hand, this is America and when it comes to human rights, when it comes to treating people equally, I thought we got over that fight when Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President, but apparently we have to continue to fight that fight and I’m happy to do that.

This is what happens when politicians want to straddle the fence on an issue: “on the other hand….”.  The construct is always the same – “SURE, I’m in favor or <insert issue here> BUT!”.  Some forget that they shouldn’t use “BUT!” – very obvious and when we hear it, we should know that whatever they JUST said is about to be thrown under the bus.  Whatever they say AFTER is the ONLY thing they believe in to the point that they’ll vote for or support.

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On This Week with George Stephanopolus (4/5) was another great example of an Establishment Republican, Matthew Dowd (Republican strategiest, according to This Week), of the absolute distaste of the Beltway R Elite not wanting even engage in anything that gets in the way of “we can’t make it smaller but we can manage Govt better” mantra, specifically “who CARES what’s in the First Amendment we say we support”:

Dowd:  I think it makes it difficult when you get involved in a culture war.  It makes it easier in a primary but more difficult in a general election where the country stands today.  To me, the reason why this is both fascinating and sad, and disappointing, is it that these issues drop into the body politic and because there is this underlying boiling going on that we don’t see that drop in then everyone gets polarized.  To me, the thing that disturbed me the most about this was that people couldn’t say: you could be a person of faith, who goes to church, prays to God, and tolerant and compassion at the same time.

In other words, it’s all about the W, period.  Also, in other other words, Dowd hates the idea that the Republicans have to get involved in the Culture War at all. Worse,

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…James Madison (who was the main author of the US Constitition) put the point this way:

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to Him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society.

It is important to note that Madison was making this case not in the context of arguing for permitting the free exercise of religion but rather in the context of arguing against the establishment of any religion by law. His point was that no one ought to be compelled to affirm as true a religious tenet he took to be false and that no one should be compelled to participate in a religious rite that violated his own understanding of his religious obligations.

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Stalin reportedly said, “One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”  As experts of managing the media, Democrats can use the suffering of a few people to advance their power while diverting attention from the harm their policies inflict on most Americans.

In her letter of March 17 in the Laconia Daily Sun (laconiadailysun.com) June M. Huot makes fun of the fact that most Americans are harmed by illegal aliens because she thinks flooding our country with illegal aliens increases Democrat Party power.

Huot doesn’t care that illegal aliens take jobs and depress wages causing millions of Americans to struggle to support their families.

Huot doesn’t care that illegal alien children take public school resources away from American children reducing their chances for success in life.  Nor is she concerned about the sick American children infected by illegal alien children. 

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On one side is the CEO of the world’s largest company, the president of the United States and a growing chunk of the Fortune 500. On the other side is a solo wedding photographer in New Mexico, a 70-year-old grandma florist in Washington and a few bakers.

One side wants the state to conscript the religious businesswomen and men into participating in ceremonies that violate their beliefs. The other side wants to make it possible for religious people to live their own lives according to their consciences. (Tim Carney, Washington Examiner)

Who should decisions be left up to – you, the free market, or Government? 

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Recent letters in the Laconia Daily Sun (laconiadailysun.com)  from Tom Dawson (3/20 and 3/25) and Tony Boutin (3/26) address an important topic, Right-to-Works Laws.  Dawson argues for compulsory unionization while Boutin argues for “Right-to-Work”.

Dawson makes the absurd claim that forcing workers to join unions empowers workers.  Compulsory unionization doesn’t empower workers; it empowers union bosses and the politicians they support.

Progressives fight for compulsory unionization because most union leadership uses union funds to support Progressive politicians and their progressive political agenda.

In my youth, America was world leader in every aspect of industry, mining, manufacturing, transportation, etc.  American industry provided most American families with comfortable lives on a single income.  Yet as government increasingly grew and implemented progressive policies, new rules and regulations have greatly increased the cost of doing business making companies fail, reduce wages and/or cut jobs, or move jobs overseas.  Jobs that provide high value products or services and thus support good wages have been eliminated increasingly leaving only jobs providing little value which only can provide low wages.   

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As Steve points out, the hypocrisy is strong with the Left.  Along with Apple, Angie’s List (who has been advertising heavily on TV as of late (at least in my local area) also decided to weigh in on the Indiana RFRA, saying that it would not continue with a planned $40 million expansion of their HQ.  Curious, though, not even a whisper of pulling out of the other States that have similar laws on the books.  After all, if you ACTUALLY read the RFRA law (which I did), it doesn’t do what Angie’s List claimed (or, pretty much most of the Left) but it decided

Sidenote: Again, hypocrisy of the Left – they were VERY happy to see Apple and A.L. to weigh in as “Corporate Citizens – but HATE the idea of Hobby Lobby having the same “personhood”?

to go along with the rhetoric anyways.  So, if a company decides that it actively fights against my beliefs, I shall not do business with them:

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