Do you have a few minutes for marriage?
November 4, 2007
“5 Minutes for Marriage” is our motto at Pennsylvania for Marriage. If you can spare a few more minutes, please listen to an interview by Dr. Dobson with Chuck Colson, Maggie Gallagher and Robert George on the crisis our country is facing with redefinitions of marriage. Just click on the “Learn More” tab on our home page and go to the link: “Hear what Dr. Dobson has to say”. If you’re as alarmed as these experts are, please take another moment and click on “Find your Legislator” on our homepage, put in your zipcode and jot down the contact information of your state senator and representative. Please consider a brief visit to their district office on a Thursday or Friday, a phone call and an email asking them to support a marriage protection amendment that doesn’t allow for any “marriage like” unions.
I suppose this may take more than
5 minutes. Maybe we need to change our motto to: “Run a Marathon for Marriage”. We need your help to let our legislators know that we care about saving marriage in Pennsylvania. Thanks for going the “extra mile”.
November 4th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Marriage is about love and commitment, as long as two people have this they are blessed. Same sex/different sex doesn’t matter, treating each other with respect and love does!
November 8th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
I am extremely interested in saving marriage in PA, however, I don’t view marriage the same way that Dr. James Dobson does. I view it as being available to, in addition to a man and a woman, two women or two men who are firmly and definitively committed to one another, in all aspects, as in any marriage commitment. Allowing gay couples to marry will not create any crisis for marriage as it is now known; it may even assist in stabilizing marriage as the commitment it is meant to be. The content of the love and strength and will are no less no matter what the sexual orientations of the persons involved. Please don’t portray us as being flawed in some way; we are beautiful, loving human beings, who want to take care of our families and ourselves now and in the future.
November 8th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
I agree that we need to prevent “marriage-like” or even “marriage-LITE” unions in PA. It is time to call our legislators and request that marriage rights and benefits apply to ALL citizens equally. Allowing all couples to marry regardless of their gender would put an end to the gray areas created by domestic partnerships, civil unions. Those heterosexual couples who refuse to marry yet insist upon health care and other benefits based on their domestic relationships would then be forced to marry to acquire those benefits. Giving gay and lesbian couples the right to marry would also give countless numbers of children two parents without the hassle of adoptions and court proceedings. Thanks for this reminder; I’ll contact my state legislators this week!
November 17th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Please see my article: “Impairment Begins With the First Marriage.” Fine to shift the burden to gay marriage, but that is really just a red herring. The real problem, and you certainly all know it, is divorce lawyers and numb-brained psychotherapists make a fortune on the divorce trade. No man in his right mind would ever marry a woman who earns less than he does. Please, unless you are willing to help Fathers’ rights you are just another scam outfit, using the misery caused by the divorce industry to push yet some other unrelated agenda. If you are not willing to look at the truth and respond to the suffering overly optimistic men who marry actually suffer, well I quote the King of Spain: “Por que no te callas?”
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:29 am
This campaign is asinine. The money being poured into pointless billboard advertisement for this project is a painful reflection on the selfishness of ignorant society. Stop buying billboards to advertise restriction of people’s rights. Why don’t you use that money to get Pennsylvania’s homeless off the streets or help with education and health care? Wow. The absurdity is a bit staggering.
November 22nd, 2007 at 9:00 pm
This campaign, as you put it, is absolutely the most rediculous thing I have seen in a long time. First of all, I thank you for the laugh and publicly bringing to light how rediculous and ignorant some people can be. As a free citizen in this country you have the right to have any belife of what is right and wrong that you wish to have. However, that does not somehow give you the right to decide the rights of others. If you think this rediculous “end of all that is right with the world” will actally come with the legalization of same-sex marriage or civil unions I employ you to look throughout our history. There you will see, even just in our nation alone, how “effective” this type of thinking has been. It wasn’t long ago that society had much more of an uprising about marriage outside of ones own race. But look at us now. The world hasn’t ended simply because black people and white people, asian and indian people, ect, are alowed to marry and thrive as families. This too shall pass. People who say their fighting to keep the purity of marriage and all that God gave to us seem to be greatfully disrespecting the very God they claim to be speaking for. It seems to me that if God, in all his mighty, can creat the entire world as we know it, probably knew what he was doing when he created GLBT individuals. Seems to me that if you’re saying we’re all a big mistake, you’re kinda calling God a f***-up. And I’m pretty sure He’s not. Life will move forward and society will chance as it has done for thousands of years, whether you’re ready to jump on that band wagon or not. Just seems like you could be putting all this effort and money into something that’s working to help our society and the million of people who really are in dire need of assistance
December 2nd, 2007 at 6:18 pm
I believe religions should be allowed to define marriage however they want, and the government shouldn’t recognize ANY marriages. However, I believe that the government should allow anyone old enough to enter into a legal contract to enter into legal contracts defining their household relationship, independent of the religious context of marriage or other intangible expressions of union.
Any government that claims to support the separation of church and state should not try to enforce a legal definition for the religious concept of marriage.
December 3rd, 2007 at 8:47 pm
this website is disgusting. I am completely for gay marriages! no one should be able to tell two people who are in love that they can not get married if they so chose. this is rediculous!
December 4th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
I am a strong believer in marriage as being between 1 man and 1 woman ONLY. God Almighty has instituted marriage and He intends for it to be between 1 man and 1 woman. This idea is found in Leviticus 18:22 and in Leviticus 20:13. Gay marriage is totally unacceptable with God. He hates it!
December 18th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
First of all, being gay is not a lifestyle nor is it a choice. A lifestyle encompasses much much more than just what sex you prefer. Also, just as being heterosexual is not something someone chooses, neither is being homosexual. I believe that marriage is something that many people feel forced into doing due to society’s expectations, family expectations, and their partners wishes. Two people can be together forever without ever throwing a fancy and expensive party and signing papers. Being married is simply a different label to put on a relationship and in my opinion is usually done in order to feel more secure.
December 24th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
This is ridiculous. You’re wasting you’re time on a topic like gay marriage? If they want to get married, who cares? There are MUCH larger issues that should be dealt with, like the lack of healthcare, gun violence, parental neglect, or pollution. I can’t believe I even wasted my time posting on this site.
January 1st, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Marriage is for man and women,not gays, homo sexuals and lesbans. No benefits for gays. I would not want to be in combat with a gay soldier, instead of watching the enemy,he would be checking out my ass. I don’t think so.
January 1st, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I don’t need the Government,church, Bible, or anyone else to tell me about the rights, wrongs,dos and don’ts or whatever else with respect to the sanctity of marriage.
It is between 1 man and 1 woman which produces 1 or more children. Think about doing that all you f**s and lesbians.
Lets see you produce children other than through adoption, which should not be allowed.
I think the government should designate an island for all the gays and lesbians. Let them do all their little perverted things, and after they are done use the island for some military test site.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Thank you for not editing this section of blog replies. Unfortunately, it is my two-year-old daughter who is being threatened. Her fathers deserve the protections of marriage and she needs to know that the church believes in her worthiness.
January 16th, 2008 at 12:24 am
I am PROUD to call Anthony Brown and his husband two of the best friends I could EVER have.They have been together almost 19 yrs. and the love and commitment they have for one another,well lets just say straight couples could learn a thing or two from them.They have only been married for 2 yrs.,and had to go all the way to Canada to obtain that right.How would YOU like to be told your love doesn’t matter.How would YOU like to be told “sorry,we can’t give you a marriage license?” Because they are two men together,right away people’s minds believe the worst.I tell you,they go to work,like all of us,they have fights,like all of us,and they do put their pants on one leg at a time.
I treasure the time I spend with them.How sad we can’t grant them the one thing they want MARRIAGE.