Time for GOP to drudge up the “Gay” Card May 1, 2006
Posted by youns in Politics, Right-Wing Fundamentalists.trackback
Well we're in another election year and it's just about time (only 6 months away from mid-term elections) to pull the "Gay" card again! The GOP constantly loves to play up to the Religious-Right by making those bad Gays a political ploy! And only the ignorant, bigoted, and hate-filled fall for it.
With their president's poll numbers in the toilet and their own Congressional numbers even worse, they are anxious to hold on to their GOP Congressional majority by motivating their Religious-Right base to vote in November by making those Gays, who the Right loves to hate all in a Christian way mind you, a target.
The Republicans intend to trot out and force Congressional votes on the so-called "Marriage Protection Amendment", which in fact would 'protect' discrimination by writing it into the United States Consitution.
In an effort to force Senators to vote for their agenda and as a way to point them out and use it against them in November, groups like Focus on the Family have set a goal of sending 1 million postcards to Congress in the coming weeks. They are seeking the adoption of an amendment that, in addition to barring marriage equality, would interfere with state and local efforts to adopt civil union or domestic partnership policies. It would enshrine the Radical Right’s religious views in our founding document, thus upending religious liberty and imposing a single exclusionary ideology on all governmental entities throughout the country and people of differing faiths.
Senator Frist plans to force a Senate vote in early June. It is urgent that Senators hear from you that our American values support equality and oppose discrimination and that we want them to oppose this discriminatory amendment. Email your senators now.
In an ABC poll taken the last time this amendment was being pushed, only 20 percent of Americans support amending the Constitution to prohibit same sex marriage.
I strongly oppose the adoption of an amendment to the Constitution that would require discrimination against any specific group of Americans. The so-called "Marriage Protection Act" is a betrayal of the American principles of equality and fairness and would enshrine discrimination into our Constitution for the first time. Please oppose this misguided effort to amend our Constitution.
People like "Focus on Family" do not have any idea what the word 'family' means! Pandering to these Religious-Right Zealots is like catering to the Extremists in any nation, like Al-Queda. Their views are not the majority views, although they would like to see a Theocracy where their religion is The Religion.
As a Lutheran and a Christian, I am appaled that anyone who claims the name of Christ would try to perpetrate discrimination and hate and legitimize it within our Constitution!
Do Not Pander to these extremists as we all know Senator Frist is only in this for the Political Game and wants it on record before the November elections. Don't let him get away with it and don't let this even get near the floor!
It's time to stop using people for political gain and start supporting equality for all! Email your Senators Now to oppose this hatred!



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