Welcome readers from the Good As You site. I just wanted to clarify for all of you the fact that I have indeed read the Iowa decision, Varnum v Brien. I believe it was wrongly decided and poorly argued. I have written about it in two separate places, which are now posted on the Ruth Institute article archive. The Institution Formerly Known as Marriage argued that the Iowa court ignored the essential public purpose of marriage, namely to attach mothers and fathers to their children and to one another, and replaced that essential public purpose with inessential private purposes. I made that argument in my talk in Augusta ME on the bus tour.
In How Iowa Happened, I reviewed some of the behavior of the Court that undermine their own credibility. Read more…
This is the gist of what I said in annapolis on Wednesday:
The gay lobby and their sex radical friends want you to believe that the only issue in the same sex marriage debate is equality. That is all they talk about. That is all they want you to think about. All the shouting, and the heated-up rhetoric is designed to keep you from thinking, from asking any questions, indeed, from even forming any questions in your mind.
But there are other issues. Same sex marriage undermines 4 key principles:
1. Biology is the ordinary basis for parenthood. Read more…
In Trenton today, Dr. J covered the question of, “Why not privatize marriage?” First, it’s not possible to privatize the essential purpose of marriage, namely to join men and women together. Second, it’s highly unlikely that the government would stop being involved in marriage as they have for so long. “The government is already favoring certain kinds of relationships; namely, single parenting.” We need the government to adjudicate the disputes that might arise privately in the issue of marriage. But rather than working against it (as with marriage penalties in the tax code), we should work to encourage marriage.
http://www.marriagetour2010.com/2010/07/dr-j-in-trenton-privatize-marriage-forget-about-it/
“You’d better watch that kid, or we’re gonna kidnap him.” Yowsa!
http://www.marriagetour2010.com/blog/
http://www.marriagetour2010.com/2010/07/dr-j-in-manchester/
A mother of young children wrote this story about what happened to her during the NOM rally yesterday in Providence.
Did you ever see that scene in one of the Narnia movies, where a battle is about to start and preparations are being made – when off in the distance there is a faint chanting and drumming? It grows louder and louder, till off in the distance the enemy is spotted. It’s terrifying. I’m not joking, the same thing happened to us yesterday in Rhode Island at the State Capitol. You see, Peter and I got this great idea to go a Rhode Island rally and support our counterparts in the defense of traditional marriage and visit our friends the Brown Family who would also be there. How was I to know that simply attending a “permitted” event – i.e., we had a permit, to show our support for traditional marriage would end with my family having to be escorted to our minivan by the police for our own protection. Read more…
The woman in this photo is right in Brian Brown’s face. He is standing behind the podium. We had a permit for this event, to exercise our First Amendment rights to speak and assemble. You can see two other heads in the photo, who are also disrupting our peaceful demonstration. Intimidation. Bullying. While the police stand around doing nothing. This is what they have in mind for those who disagree with them.
read Brian Brown’s whole report here.
This is how they think they are entitled to treat those who disagree with them. What do you think?
I usually don’t even turn on my computer on Sunday when I am at home. I’m only making an exception for this very busy travel day. But to all of you who have comments pending: we haven’t forgotten you. Betsy isn’t supposed to work on Sunday. None of us are.
Except Ari. He isn’t supposed to work on Saturday.
We will get to your comments tomorrow!
your friend, Dr J
OK, I am finally in a position to do more than post a picture and type a few characters. I’ve been uploading photos to my facebook page all day. Now, I’m on an Amtrack train, from Providence to DC, for a day off from the Summer for Marriage Tour. (I still have tyo figure out how to get the pics from the blackberry to the blog, but that is another story.)
We had a very ugly counter-rally show up on the statehouse steps in Providence. No harm was done, and our opponents discredited themselves. But if you could have seen them, y Read more…
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