Homosexual Marriage – Granite Grok

Out of the mouths of babes: ‘Which Parent Do I Not Need: Mom or Dad?’

A simple question asked by an 11 year old that CAN’T have an answer other than a child deserves both. As a child of a broken home, now that I am approaching the end of middle age and that my Eldest and Youngest are now in their mid-to-late twenties, I realize that from personal experience the void that was left without a Father in the home. Oh sure, Mom tried really, really hard, but she was, in the end, a Mom – not a Dad. As it came time for me to raise my own, I thought I was well prepared – I had some role models from church and other groups I was in that I thought would stand me in good stead. A voracious reader, I bought every self-help book for a Dad-to-be.

Yeah, not so much. At each stage, I realized that I was winging it – a lot. I HAD no firm framework on which to hang the Dad hat no matter how hard I tried to recall the advice of those grown men who unstintingly gave of their time to shepherd we young boys in our activities or the pages of text from the “know more than I”. Tough work, had to keep at it – and even accounting for the stuff / problems with my two that even having a Dad in the past wouldn’t have helped at all, I realized the voids of “what the heck now”? I’m not about to write a book about this issue (although I probably could), but certainly I know that this young lady is spot on:

“Since every child needs a mom and a dad to be born, I don’t think we can change that children need a mom and a dad. I believe God made it that way,” Grace Evans, 11, said before the Minnesota House Committee on Civil Law last week. “I know some disagree, but I want to ask you this question: Which parent do I not need – my mom or my dad?”

Testifying in Minnesota, she had a few more bon mots to say:

Tolerance

by Steve MacDonald

Two Massachusetts Gay Groups will not be participating in the Nashua Pride Fest this Saturday because the Nashua Chick-fil-A is providing 200 chicken sandwiches to the event.

The groups claim that by accepting the donated food event organizers are promoting the Chik-fil-A brand, even though the owner of the local restaurant supports Gay Pride events and homosexual causes.

Question: Isn’t that judging the guy by the wrapper and not based on who he really is as a person and what he can contribute?

whisper/ “hypocrisy.”

Gay Weddings Debated. Why?

by Rick Olson

There’s nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell. —Stephen Colbert

HB 1264, sponsored by Representatives Jerry Bergevin of Manchester and Frank Sapareto of Derry met with a firestorm of opposition from the Gay Community along with religious and civil rights groups mouthpieces. The Union Leader intriguingly, made this a gay/straight issue through the context of their reporting, despite nothing in the bill making any direct (or even indirect) reference to any group respectively.

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JP Marzullo Comes Out of the Closet?

by Steve MacDonald

Keep left Note to the world: even if one of my three children turns out to be a homosexual–and no I will not love or care for them any less if they do–I still would not publicly prostitute myself and my principles to the progressive agenda. NHGOP Area 3 Vice Chair J.P. Marzullo, on the other hand, does not have a problem with that. And it is not so much the topic that suggests a progressive thread in the fabric of his otherwise pro-liberty, family values life, as it is the way in he attempts to make his argument.

The vehicle is a November 1st editorial in the Concord monitor in which Marzullo pokes at our ‘Tiny Tim’ gland, pleading with New Hampshire Republican legislators to vote against any change in New Hampshire’s current homosexual marriage law. And like any seasoned social justice Democrat, we get both barrels from the empathy gun. How God was showing him his own personal need to be more understanding and tolerant nineteen years ago. He provides suicide estimates for gay teenagers (I have no idea why). He fingers divorce as a greater danger to the family than Gay marriage (without reminding you that similar left wing social engineering and meddling in ‘marriage’ is almost entirely responsible for the divorce problem). We even get the ‘Gay Americans are legal citizens and productive members of society who fight in the military" routine.

Democrat Chairman Ray Buckley could have wrote this. So has JP come out of the progressive closet?

JOHN LYNCH: A STEADY LEADER…WHEN?

by Rick Olson

“Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.” —Bo Bennett

In a letter to French Scientist Jean-Baptiste Le Roy in November of 1789, Benjamin Franklin quipped those ever long-enduring and famous words, “[B]ut in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes … ” It would appear Franklin had not contemplated the certainty of blow-hard political hacks and self-aggrandizing opportunists.

Upon Seeing the Union Leader Headline Tuesday, “Gov. Lynch will leave office very popular, and for good reason“, and who the author was, predictable is the litany and diatribe that follows. And, with the whole and complete certainty of death and taxes, the “Shrill Kathy” hath delivered. In the 779-word bloviation, the “Shrill Kathy” delivered a mere 199 words extolling Lynch’s virtues and reserved the remaining 580 words for her usual and expected attack on Republicans, checkered with a contrast and comparison-like tone…Make no mistake about it…Lynch’s announcement, as with most other political events, is a mere pretext for her visera.