by Stephen Scaer |
The NH Log Cabin Republicans want the state GOP to join them in playing Jenga with civilization by removing the marriage plank from its platform. Bad idea.
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Marriage and Poverty: The Most Vital Sign
by Stephen Scaer |
In Mark Hayward’s July 7 Union Leader article, “Manchester gets a checkup. Public health director reports on city’s vital signs,” misses the most crucial ‘vital sign.’ What percent of Manchester children are born in wedlock and are being raised by their biological mothers and fathers?
Surprise! “Hook-up App” Tinder Discourages Bashing Virginity
If you have not already heard about Tinder, it is a dating app. It has mostly become known for its culture of casual dating and “hooking up” “Recently, Tinder sent out their weekly newsletter, one that I got word of, which included a surprising article that took me by surprise.
You Are Worth the Wait
The Holidays are both a very merry time of year, as it should be, but also a very depressing and sad time for many. There are many people who are blessed to spend time with their family and friends, while others feel completely left out. This is especially true for single men and women. Those … Read more
Why Celibacy Matters
Our nation has strayed so far from what it used to be. Our morality has eroded, and the results are devastating. I’m 29 years of age and I have grown up in this culture which, since my teenage years, has embraced just about every kind of immoral act you can think of, with the exception of a few hideous acts which I won’t bother even mentioning.
It first started with the acceptance and normalization of sex outside of marriage.
They Like to Try to Weaponize Our Morality Against Us
Kurt Schlichter has invested some time to help the peeps deal with progressive mic-drop rubbish designed to prevent debate or silence dissent. He calls them obnoxious liberal argument cheats. And he’s got a reliable answer for each that I’ve advocated for years. So read them all. But I wanted to share at least one of his scenarios because this one comes at us from all sides.
They like to try to weaponize our morality against us, which is hilarious since they hate morality almost as much as they hate us. They create some sort of moral test, usually out of thin air, and then announce you have failed it. One of the best was the recent “Splitting up families of undocumented workers is not who we are!” Except it is who we are. We split up the families of criminals all the time and we should – there’s no nursery in San Quentin for a reason.
NH Republicans Decide The Hill to Die on is Letting Men Use the Ladies Room
Why are the illuminated Establishment political lights in the NHGOP and GOP, several of whom should know better, pitching a cultural Marxist progressive issues “tent” in front of legislators and elected Republican Delegates when the electorate is more interested in expanding jobs, protecting tax reform, economic growth, and national security issues with a local impact like the opioid crisis?
Whose bright idea was that?
Marriage and the NHGOP
By Carolyn McKinney – (Reposted)
To advocates for removing “traditional” from marriage in the NHGOP platform.
First, you are guilty of using the most frustrating and pernicious leftist debate tactic.
To try to make your case, you use examples outside the norm – such as families who adopt, grandparents raising their grandchildren, single parents due to the death of a spouse – in an attempt to undermine the norm. It’s no different than those who are pro-abortion trying to undermine opposition to abortion by raising rare cases of rape and incest, or more recently, using the existence of intersex persons to try to undermine natural sex/gender.
Many of us have friends or family whose situation is exactly one of those examples, but their efforts are a compassionate response to a crisis, not something that we should set as a legal standard.
Second, articulating an ideal is not exclusionary.
JHo Plot To Wreck NHGOP Platform Get’s Stuffed
Long story short, because you’ll get the long story soon enough, Jennifer Horn is trying to strip traditional marriage out of the Republican state party platform. (Read Carolyn’s brilliant rebuttal to that here.) But someone challenged Jho’s credentials as a delegate.
Kathy Dunton did play-by-play on her facebook page as the events unfolded.
https://www.facebook.com/kathy.dunton.7/posts/10156443278329697
Republicans Against Free Speech
Carolyn McKinney’s rebuttal to “some Republicans” pushing to remove the word ‘traditional’ as a qualifier to the word ‘marriage’ in the New Hampshire Republican State Platform is brilliant. It’s so good those Republicans don’t want you to read it. (If you have problems with the above link the piece is also cross-posted here.)
Somone or perhaps a few someones are flagging every effort to post this on Facebook as in violation of Facebook’s rules making it difficult to share.
GrokTALK! July 18th, 2015
This week our guests are Lawrence McQuillan (Independent Institute), Mike Farris (Constitutional appellate litigator), Dan Hynes (Religious Liberty), and Max Abramson (on NH’s dumbest laws)
Single young women: You can marry young if you want to! NOOO! Don’t do it!
(Well, Skip said I could write about anything that interests me. Sooo…here goes.)
Sheesh. My interest was piqued this morning when I ran across an article by young Julia Shaw in Slate. Published just two days ago, Ms. Shaw’s thesis for women in their 20’s is that “you don’t have to wait till you’re 30 or older to get married. If you find the right guy, it’s okay to get married young…even desirable!” (Hmmm and…uh oh.)
That’s interesting, I thought, not least because I’ve got a millennial-generation daughter myself. But whew! The article—entitled “I got married at 23. What are the rest of you waiting for?”—set off a virtual conflagration! I mean…
He’s Even Got That ‘New Pope’ Smell.
Francis I, the new leader of the catholic church, is likely to get more than a few liberals to jump back on their crazy-train. That’s because he’s a Catholic. No, not your Pelosi-Biden ‘garden variety’ left wing catholic, who claims to be catholic–Pope Francis is an actual C-A-T-H-O-L-I-C. Francis has this crazy idea that marriage has something to do … Read more
14th Amendment Doesn’t Give Right to a Three-Way?
CATO has submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in which it makes the case that the 14th Amendment prohibits states from denying anyone the right to marry, regardless of gender.
Democrat Contradictions – Out Of State Influence in Local Elections
Democrats in New Hampshire take a lot of money from outside the state. Don’t take my word for it, just go look it up. Millions and Millions. They use candidates, campaign committees, so-called non-profits, and even have super wealthy out of state special interest donors making personal donations here and there to move money around the campaign finance camp fire, often right into the state Democrat party coffer, then back out to your local races.
No one should be surprised or even taken aback at this because it is all part of the business of politics, every party does some of this, it is all perfectly legal, and everything was fine up until the point when the New Hampshire Democrat party decided to make it a recurring campaign issue against Republicans. It wasn’t Democrats who were affected by objects of out of state money and influence, just the Republicans.
Democrats are clearly guilty of hypocrisy on the issue (no surprise there), but whenever they start a narrative like this it is usually because they are doing something else that might be worse, that they need you to be distracted from. And guess what? They were.
Tolerance
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.”
‘Properties’ of Marriage
Marriage is always a great topic to visit in New Hampshire. It irritates so many people on so many sides. But if we ever put it to a vote of citizens, New Hampshire would join the ranks of every other state to define “marriage” as a union between one man and one woman. Which is why the left would never want to allow that. And bigotry or inequality has nothing to do with it. And it certainly has nothing to do with love.
Love, as it turns out, is not a state’s interest. There is no ministry of love. No state department of love. No state director of love. And no one in their right mind would want the State organizing, defining, taxing or regulating it. Love is not a state’s interest.
And the idea that you “can’t help who you fall in love with” is total rubbish. Of course, you can. I haven’t fallen in love with anyone since I got married 18 years ago unless I count falling more in love with my wife. People fall in and out of love all the time. They can help it. So what the gay marriage lobby means to suggest by this is that sex is love and that you can’t help who whom you want to have sex. But neither of those things is true either.
Maybe We Should Call Them “Lefts?”
Former John Edwards supporter and leader of what used to be NH Freedom to Marry, director Mo Baxley, is having a rough November. Maybe not as rough as denying to herself and her credibility for what must have felt like years, that Edwards was not in fact the total scum bag he turned out to be; but then having your out-of-state sugar daddy cut your funding (after whining about other groups out of state funding), and having them give it to some other group to do what you thought you were doing, well that’s just got to hurt.
Or maybe not. The facade fell as fast as the paycheck so maybe we’re looking at the total package. A hypocrite who liked to insist that people denounce her definition of hate, racism, or bigotry or be marked as complicit in it, but who never once held her Democrat accomplices to the same standard.
A recent case in point? Taylor Garrett, Republican, Christian, Homosexual, assaulted in what is being described as a hate crime against a gay man. (…)
JP Marzullo Comes Out of the Closet?
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?
Progressives: Never wasting a chance to force us all to be “better” (as opposed to persuasion)
OK, I admit it – this may not be a stellar post. Am fighting a bit of writer’s block, I’ve finally determined that the only therapy for this is to start typing and what ever keys my fingertips tap will be it. I appreciate your indulgence…
Homosexual marriage – the Progressives are always trying to force us to evolve to a higher state. They self-righteously have decided that since they all are much smarter and more "moral" than the rest of us, they have the right to force their beliefs upon rest of us. In this regard, ANY attempt to rebel against this forcing of an attitude is immediately met with screams of "anti-gay" or "homophobe" or "intolerance" or "anti-equality" simply for upholding the traditional definition that marriage is between a man and a woman.
I wrote a post on disagreeing with an implicit debasing of marriage (no, "what if you’re not compatible in bed") and listed what I thought were some requirements for a long lasting marriage. Of COURSE, a comment came in that decided that I needed to be "re-edumacated":
So, will you be supporting marriage equality next year (or this fall) when the repeal bills are considered by the General Court?
Once again, never wasting an opportunity to go from Point A to Point … somewhere regardless of the original intent. Always the "push" and in seemingly every area of culture. Including children. After all, it was an NEA teacher speaking at a UN conference said:
We must teach our children at a very young age that the male, female and intersex comes with the presence of genitalia and no further expectation…The same could be true of our sexual orientation. Homophobia exists when those stocked in the binary box of strictly hetero, find themselves slipping out of that role that religion and family promote.
A lot of people reacted very negatively to that – people expect schools to teach the basics of math, reading, writing, history, and the like and not be platforms for Progressives to view a their private platforms for social engineering. How DARE Parents believe their that children are theirs to bring up according to their notions of morality – they are wrong and we will teach their children otherwise.
Given that penchant for Progressives to have quotas established for their special identity victim groups for everything, I was not surprised at the latest news earlier this week: a petition by Lair Scott at Change.org was demanding Sesame Street’s Bert and Ernie had to become gay simply because it fit their quota / agenda purposes: