Conservative activist compares gay marriage to polygamist sect

Have these people no shame? Polygamist sect - abusing young girls and forcing them into marriage and sex at ages as young as 11-13. Ellen & Portia - two women who love each other and wish to make a lifetime commitment to each other. How the fuck does someone compare one to the other?

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http://rawstory.com/news/2008/CNN_guest_compares_gay_marriage_to_0520.html

Conservative activist compares gay marriage to polygamist sectDavid Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Tuesday May 20, 2008

The news that comedian Ellen DeGeneres will be marrying her longtime girlfriend, thanks to a California court's ruling in support of gay marriage, has been widely welcomed in both gay and entertainment circles.

However, Wendy Wright, president of the conservative Christian women's group Concerned Women for America, finds the prospect dismaying, fearing that acceptance of gay marriage could provide justification for abuses like those found among the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints cult in Texas.

"No one wants to deny Ellen happiness," Wright told CNN primly, "but overturning a moral foundation of society is too high of a price to pay. Redefining marriage does have consequences for others. ... In New Jersey, a church was sued and lost because it did not want to allow a same-sex ceremony on its property."

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"There's some who say people should be able to do whatever they want in their own personal relationships," Wright went on. "But we do need to look at the consequences of that. And we can look right now at the polygamy community in Texas. ... When you redefine marriage to mean anything, it can mean nothing."

except that they just want to deny Ellen happiness. :eyes:

Why don't they go away?

gay people wanting to be married to their so=sect people wanting multiple wives, sorry Wendy, you fail.

is the gays will want to marry box turtles, courtesy of Republic Texas Senator John Cornyn

:crazy:

there seems to be a Wendy Wright type to hold them back!

Her comment on the California marriage decision was some bullshit equivocating civil unions cop-out. To be fair, so was Obama's.

whaa?

:puke:

In New Jersey, a church was sued and lost because it did not want to allow a same-sex ceremony on its property.

No, simp, it's a public accommodation. Not only that, they haven't even lost yet! And furthermore, the "same-sex ceremony" in question was a civil union, not a marriage! :dunce:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Grove%2C_New_Jersey#Civil_union_controversy

A same-sex couple filed a civil rights complaint with the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights against the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association in early 2007, claiming the Association discriminated against them by denying their request to hold a civil union ceremony in the Boardwalk Pavilion, which the Association owns and uses for Sunday services, concerts, and weddings. The complaint is the first in New Jersey since same-sex civil unions were recognized there in 2007, said a Division of Civil Rights spokesman.

Scott Hoffman, the Chief Administrative Officer of the Camp Meeting Association, was quoted as saying that the association considers the Pavilion to be as much of a religious structure as the Tabernacle or the Youth Temple and that it would not permit same-sex civil union ceremonies to be conducted there, arguing that this was the position of the United Methodist Church.

A local advocacy group, Ocean Grove United, disputes this, contending that the issue involves public, not religious, property. They contend that the beach and Boardwalk Pavilion are open to the public and that the Camp Meeting Association has accepted public funds for their maintenance and repairs. They also cite the Association's application to the State of New Jersey for monies under the state's "Green Acres Program", which encourages the use of private property for public recreation and provides a $500,000 annual property tax exemption. In their application for these funds, the Camp Meeting Association reportedly stated that the disputed areas were open to the public. U.S. Representative Frank Pallone, Jr. (Democrat), in whose Congressional district Ocean Grove is located, stated "they've taken state, federal and local funds by representing that they are open to the public."

Aside: One of our very finest DUers, soleft, and her partner are preparing to move to this very town, where, she informs us, rainbow flags fly everywhere! :bounce:

Makes me want fucking smash their face in.

I strongly doubt Ellen will impregnate her secret lover while railing about "protecting the family"