What Ike Skelton ought to be worried about is what mommy and daddy are going to tell the 17 year-old child who comes to them and asks why the U.S. Congress is allowing the government to discriminate against people on the basis of private sexuality.
A list of the Republicans and Democrats who crossed party lines on this week’s vote on an amendment that would repeal the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell military policy of discrimination against homosexual soldiers.
Apparently, traditional marriage the way that Representative Souder was practicing it was in the form of the union of one man with two women.
Mike Pence stands firmly against efforts to make the USA a more just and equitable nation. His policy positions may help him gain the favor of the corporations and lobbyists who can provide large amounts of money to a nationwide campaign, but whether they will earn him the support of the voters upon which his success must ultimately depend remains to be seen.
Independent congressional candidate Bruce Teich says only that he’s “pro-marriage”, but what does that mean? Does it mean that he’s in favor of marriage, and therefore supports the equal right to marry for homosexual as well as heterosexual couples?
Congressman Jason Chaffetz is aligned with the Religious Right, and the Religious Right demands that there will be no marriage equality for same-sex couples, so if opposing marriage equality means adopting a pose of allowing democratic choice for the definition of marriage, Chaffetz will do it.
The same inconsistency is there when it comes to the relative power between federal and local governments. Right wing activists say that local governments should have power above the federal government’s power, when local governments want to deny people rights. When local governments seek to protect constitutional rights, however, the same right wing activists show no respect for local decisions.
It is in this spirit that yesterday, the following 39 Republican members of Congress signed their name to a legal brief urging a court to block D.C.’s legalization of same-sex marriage.
If Larry Gause’s change to marriage law were to be accepted, only religious Americans would be allowed to get married. No atheists could get married. Even people who don’t belong to a church might not be able to get married.
For Democratic voters in Virginia’s 1st district who care about equality, the choice in the 2010 congressional primary is clear: Vote Krystal Ball, not Scott Robinson.
Marriage equality is the social norm in Washington D.C., with strong majority support. Why does Congressman Jim Jordan want to impose contrary values on the district, using the power of the federal government to interfere?
