What Do President Obama, Secretary Clinton and Governor Rendell Have In Common?
June 3, 2009
Question: What do President Barack Obama [1], Secretary Hilary Clinton [2], Governor Ed Rendell [3] and nearly 6 out of 10 Americans all agree on?
Answer: Marriage should be between one man and one woman.
According to the latest USA Today/Gallup Poll (5/27/09), the majority of American’s views on same-sex marriage have remained unchanged in the past year. 57% are opposed to granting legal status to same –sex couples.
Same-sex marriage is far from “a sure thing,” as ACLU’s executive director, Anthony Romero has proclaimed. Most recently, the Illinois Legislature rejected civil union legislation even the state’s leading homosexual activist said the bill would be voted on and passed.
Pennsylvania has the opportunity once more to stand up with 30 other states that have amended their state constitutions to protect one man/one woman marriage. Although a number of northeastern states have moved to redefine marriage, the majority of Pennsylvanians support retaining traditional marriage.
Now is the time to “sign on” and co-sponsor the marriage protection amendment. Let the people of Pennsylvania go to the polls to decide on the future of marriage in Pennsylvania!
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For more information visit www.PA4Marriage.org or call 717-657-4990 x106.
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[1] http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid56331.asp
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3huRVrckY8
[3] http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/05/senator_proposes_samesex_marri.html
June 4th, 2009 at 3:43 am
6 out of 10 isn’t a very large majority. This is actually pretty good news for marriage equality. 10% of the population is gay, so if each one of us is able to change the mind of only one person, that will take it down to 5 out of 10 making it 50/50. I know I’ve convinced at least 30 people myself, so its just a matter of the other gays doing their part.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Likewise the men and women who cherish traditional marriage need to show their support for the marriage protection amendment. This needs to be voted on by the state and allow the citizens to decide. A single judicial act cannot speak for the entire state.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Please protect traditional marriage. Let Pennsylvanians decide for their state. Sincerely, Carole A. Werries R.N.
June 6th, 2009 at 11:29 am
I think you better check o Obama’s stand on marriage. I believe in the last two weeks he was trying to accomodiate the homosexuals.
June 7th, 2009 at 12:01 am
Glad to hear that the public is standing behind marriage being between a man and a women. I am standing more than ever in defense of this right, and I know many other people are as well. Great job.
June 25th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Congressmen are REPRESENTATIVES, not dictators. Please listen to the voice of the people in their right senses. The Bible says you will know them by their fruits, what fruits can homosexuals bear? None. If God made us men and women, then, we can’t change his creation. Marriage must remain as a commitment between a man and a woman. Pennsylvanians must be allowed to vote and their voices heard.
June 25th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Gay marriage does affect our religious freedom, especially when pastors will be told they are not allowed to preach against homosexuality. Christians need to stand strong for their faith even under persecution.
June 27th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Gay marriage is wrong. It should not even be referred to as “marriage”. Read the Bible and Jesus tells us in His own words that it is wrong.
And, yes, it certainly does affect our religious freedom. I certainly agree that Congressmen are representatives of the people, and not dictators, and that they should vote for what their constituents want–not what some warped bureaucrat tells him or her to vote for. God bless us if we don’t return to the values on which this country was founded.
July 10th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Jarod, there is no scholarly evidence that 10% of the population is homosexual. I know the homosexual activists have been parading that number around for years as though it were a fact but the bad news for you is that no research demonstrates anything of the kind. The actual numbers are much closer to 2-3%. A huge national survey by researchers at the University of Chicago in the 1990s debunked the 10% number utterly.
You’ll have to rely on other lies you’ve been told by your friends. That one won’t work any longer.
July 11th, 2009 at 5:26 am
Orville, I am gay, and based on the number of homosexuals I encounter I think 10% is a low number! A lot of homosexuals will not feely admit it in a poll out of fear. Also its amazing how many are “married” or stay single and won’t admit they are gay based on the reaction of friends and family.
Regardless, the numbers are moving in the direction of full marriage equality and will probably grow quite fast in the next few years.
July 11th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Jarod again shows that he is incapable of reasoned discussion of this matter. For him, all facts are determined by HIS experience. If he runs in homosexual ghettos and sees hundreds of homosexual men daily, well then that must be reflective of the rest of the society too. The Chicago study destroys this kind of reasoning. Homosexuals in large cities, in gay ghettos, have been the central figures pushing the 10% number. Why? They are like Jarod. They literally have NO idea what the vast majority of America looks like. In most of America, there are no gay pride parades with men dressing up as women and essentially fornicating in the street. In most of America, there are no homosexual baths where large groups of men can come to indiscriminately perform sexual acts on one another. In most of America, there are very few or no homosexuals. You can live in most of America your whole life and NEVER meet a homosexual person.
July 11th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Maybe not every town has a pride parade, but in ALL of America there are homosexual couples who want to be treated equally. If a country boy like me is gay, a boy who grew up in the church, the son of a choir director, if I am gay, then believe me, every small town and township in America has gay people.
Although there is really no point in arguing this, even if it is only 2%, those 2% should still be treated the same as the other 98%.
July 11th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Once more, Jarod thinks the world is exactly like HIS experience. Is Jarod perhaps 13 years old, and has he not taken any science courses in school yet? Science tells us that our own experience cannot be used to effectively generalize to all cases. It is absolutely possible that there are no homosexuals in many communities around the US. If, as the best statistics show us, the % of homosexuals is about 3-4, and if some urban centers have much higher concentrations (San Francisco, for example, certainly has more than 4%, as they congregate in the Castro District there), then it stands to reason that other communities might well have *less* than 3-4%, and even 0, and the overall 3-4% number could still be accurate.
Jarod has the most simple-minded view possible of such demographic facts. He hears a percentage for a population and assumes that number must be present in ALL communities of the given population. Anyone who has taken junior high school math and science knows otherwise.
Where I grew up, which was in fact an urban environment, albeit not the urban environment of San Francisco, in the several neighborhoods I lived in for the first 18 years of my life, I never once met a homosexual. Never. Never even HEARD of a homosexual living anywhere near. I knew about as many people there as anyone else, in the low hundreds probably, and not a one of them was homosexual. (Jarod will perhaps trot out the homosexual myth that ‘oh sure they were gay, they were just in the closet, or they hadn’t realized they were gay yet’–he is of course free to believe fantasies based on no fact and only his own ideology if he likes). I have since met many people, who grew up in situations similar to mine and had similar experiences. The reality is that there are MANY, MANY people with such experiences simple because in MOST of the country (the rural and semi-rural heartland) the numbers of homosexuals are under the 3-4% figure. If the numbers in your community are 1-2%, and you know around a hundred people, it’s perfectly possible you may know no homosexuals.
And why are they concentrated in places like San Francisco? Are more born there? Of course not. They MIGRATE to places where there are already a lot of them. Incidentally, this helps keep the numbers down in much of the rest of the country–when they find themselves in Small Town, PA, many of them go looking for the homosexual ghettos in the big cities that will give them a wide range of sexual partners.