Interesting Thought on Voting for the Day

Neal Boortz (who I don't particularly care for) had an interesting commentary today. It's worth thinking about....

"I am now and have been for years a firm advocate of developing a system to limit the people who can vote in this country. We need to find a way to restrict the number of people who can vote. If we don't weed out the chaff soon it may well be too late. Don't give me that 'democracy' nonsense. In spite of what you hear from your government school teacher, your leftist college professor, or that smiling talking head on television, we are not a democracy. Never were. Weren't supposed to be. You won't find the word 'democracy' in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States or in any constitution of any of the 50 States. There's a reason for that. Our Founding Fathers hated the idea of democracy. They knew that a government of majority rule would dissolve into a tyranny of plunder and chaos. In anticipation of yet another knee-jerk response to my proposal that we limit voting, let me remind you that there is absolutely no constitutional guarantee of your right to vote in any federal election. Do some reading. It isn't there. A latte to the person who can find anything in our Constitution that sounds remotely like 'each citizen shall have the right to vote in a federal election.' Happy hunting."

Source: THE FEDERALIST PATRIOT

On Marriage: A Response

Darrin Garza wrote to the Mercedes E-List:
-----Original Message-----
Jason,
You are like many other people who are afraid of change. We are not looking to go further but to have the right to marry. This whole group marriage thing you brought up is an entirely different situation and does not have anything to do with same-sex marriage. It's just an excuse for people like you to add more to a situation than needs be. Gay people have always been around and we will always be around. I have friends who have been lovers for almost 20 years. That's many more
years than most "straight" people can handle these days. If you pass away, who gets your belongings? Your wife since she's married to you. Not your parents or other greedy family members. What happens today when a same-sex partner passes away? That partner has to prove what belongs to him or her and have to battle out in court from the passed partners family. Does this seem right? I don't think so. The same-sex marriage will help give the gay people the same rights as those who are allowed to marry today. Now I have mentioned this before. There are all kinds of people in this group. Each person has their right to believe anything they want and I'm all for that. I even accept the fact that you believe that there should not be same-sex marriages. It's a free country. But this is not a topic that should be in this group. This group should never have any topics that can offend any type of people.
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Darrin,

I'm going to take the time (even though it's nearly 1 a.m. here and I've been working since 6 a.m. yesterday) to answer your post. First, know that I write from a place of compassion, not condemnation. I hope that you will soon find the courage to leave the homosexual lifestyle before you contract a fatal disease. Homosexuals, after all, on average only live to the age of 39 or 40. Check out Exodus International.

Regardless of the pairs of homosexuals you anecdotally mention, normalization of homosexuality is still a bad idea for society--and what you mention (friends who have lived together for 20 years) is not the norm. Research has shown that it is not the norm for homosexuals to live in long-term monogamous situations. Please don't try to say otherwise, as I'm well versed in the research, the data, and I don't intend to let "happy myths" carry the day.

Regarding homosexual pairings as laudable is, in my opinion, selfish. Pairings do nothing to promote healthy behaviors for the individuals or children. We could just talk for a long time of the diseases that those practicing homosexuality (whether male or female) currently have, contract, and spread to others--and then discuss what giving carte-blanche health and hospital benefits to such a medically-needy group would do to our insurance rates that are already too high. However, what's more important to me is the effect on children. There are more than 10,000 studies that have been done showing that children are better off raised by two-parent heterosexual families. Maybe if it were just a couple of studies, you could suggest otherwise, but when it's that overwhelming, the data doesn't lie.

Second, I'll address your last point first. Why is it that when rational opposition to the promulgation and normalization of sodomy is brought up, that the standard response from homosexuals is, "That offends me. You shouldn't be allowed to do that."? That's what Canadians opposed to sodomy now legally face (up to two years in jail), and our own Congress is considering similar thought-control "hate crimes" legislation that would make it a crime to think that homosexuality is wrong.

I understand that truth can be painful sometimes, though what we "feel" about it is ancillary. You (and Matt Blitz) apparently suggest that we can believe whatever we want, or make a joke out of it, and "can't we all just get along?" Sure, we can get along, as long as you honestly take into consideration that society is under the rule of law--that laws and words have meaning, and that the "believe whatever you want" idea ends fast when you put it to the test. Try walking off a pier and
saying, "I don't believe in gravity."

If this were just about your family, there would be no real danger. But same-sex "marriage" advocates are not seeking marriage for you alone, but rather demanding all of us to radically change our understanding of family. And that will do great damage. Your same-sex family will teach my little girl and boys that husband/wife and mother/father are merely optional for the family and therefore, meaningless. That's not a lesson that my children need to be confused with.

Marriage is a common good, not a special interest or a civil right. Every society (regardless of religion or government) needs natural marriage to grow -- as many men as possible each finding a woman, caring for and committing himself exclusively to her -- working together to create and raise the next generation. No society needs homosexual pairing. In fact, too much of it would be harmful to society and that is why natural marriage and same-sex pairing cannot be considered socially
equal.

Pitirim Sorokin, the late eminent Harvard sociologist found that virtually all political revolutions that brought about societal collapse were preceded by a sexual revolution in which marriage and family were devalued. Guess what? Ours entered that stage about 30 or so years ago. Like I wrote this morning: current society is a mess. As a society, we need to take responsibility and band together and shore up marriage and family--not shoot holes in the dam.

So to answer your repost, Darrin, I'm not afraid of homosexuals (remember that you choose to do everything that you do, unless you're a robot).

I recall these important words from Woodrow Wilson: "Those that forget history are bound to repeat it." Darrin, I don't want to see America repeat the history of the 21 civilizations that Sorokin studied which embraced homosexual and other abnormal sexual relationships as normal shortly before their demise. "But that couldn't happen in America!" some might say. We're "enlightened," right? Yeah, and so were the Greeks, the Romans, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the others.

Know this: my wife and I are committed to each other for life and there will be no divorce in our home. How could we make such a statement? Simple. We believe it and we intend to make good on our promises. Our grandfathers knew what the word covenant meant. Maybe our generation should remember.

Finally, there are more important things at stake than who gets to inherit whatever is left of my estate when I pass away. What's at stake? The futures of Elayna, Benjamin, Isaiah, and our fourth child who is due in January. The future of our country.

News Flash! Women are different than men!

It's so stupid to me when scientists make a "discovery" that is so common sense and plain that anyone in their right mind should know. Ah, the consequences of leaving a biblical worldview...
"'Women are different than men, not only psychologically (but) physiologically, and I think we need to understand those differences,' says Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association."

Words Have Meaning...or Should!

Webster's Dictionary's Original Definition of Marriage:

"MAR'RIAGE, n. [L.mas, maris.] The act of uniting a man and woman for life; wedlock; the legal union of a man and woman for life. Marriage is a contract both civil and religious, by which the parties engage to live together in mutual affection and fidelity, till death shall separate them. Marriage was instituted by God himself for the purpose of preventing the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes, for promoting domestic felicity,and for securing the maintenance and education of children.

Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled. Heb.13.
1. A feast made on the occasion of a marriage.
The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage for his son. Matt.22.
2. In a scriptural sense, the union between Christ and his church by the covenant of grace. Rev.19."

Today's Warped Definition:

mar·riage
Pronunciation: 'mer-ij, 'ma-rij
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English mariage, from Anglo-French, from marier to marry
1 a (1) : the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law (2) : the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage.

SAY WHAT?!?!?!?!?

Old Dan's been here before.... & Kinkos!!!

Apparently, Dan Rather is not unfamiliar with using false information to get his agenda across:

Really interesting story on National Review Online by Anne Morse. Surprisingly, (to me) it also deals with Vietnam.

This just in:

"Documents allegedly written by a deceased officer that raised questions about President Bush's service with the Texas Air National Guard bore markings showing they had been faxed to CBS News from a Kinko's copy shop in Abilene, Texas."

Since the broadcast, critics have pointed to a host of unexplained problems about the memos, which bore dates from 1972 and 1973, including signs that they had been written on a computer rather than a Vietnam-era typewriter.

Friday Would Have Been More Appropriate

What?

Well, I'm referring to Constitution Day, of course (which is Friday, Sept. 17th)!

Why?

Well, today ended the unconstitutional ban on so-called "assault" weapons.

Imagine:

Would our founding fathers have been able to wage a war against Britain had they not possessed the 18th century's version of "assault" weapons?

That's what the second amendment is for: to protect citizens against government.

A "Rather" sad swan song

"If you created a picture of George W. Bush shining Nixon's wingtips with hundred dollar bills so Dick would keep him out of Vietnam, as Amelia Earhart and Bigfoot look on, you too could have had a lead story!"


A humorous take on the demise of network news.... :)

Q & A with Judge Roy Moore

"It's not about religion. It's not about me. It's about God, and the acknowledgement of that God upon Whom this nation was founded...."

"If we cannot acknowledge God, everything goes and is lost."

Judge Roy Moore: One Year Later

Tell it, Brother!

"Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside. "

- From the text of U.S. Senator Zell Miller's Speech at RNC

"Remind us, O Lord, that you do not exist to bless America...."

Christian author Max Lucado, a Texas pastor, gave the
benediction at the end of Monday night's session of the
Republican National Convention.

It's worth reprinting:

"O Lord, God of our fathers, You direct the affairs of all
nations. You made from one man every nation of mankind to
live on all the face of the earth. We echo the declaration
of Job: 'God makes nations great, and destroys them; He
enlarges nations, and guides them.' Please guide us.

"You are the supreme strength of the universe. We trace
every decision and blessing back to Your hand. Thank You
for this nation. And have mercy upon her.

"Please unite our citizens. Nurture the poor, abused, and
abandoned. Protect our children; keep our homeland free
from harm. Remind us, O Lord, that you do not exist to
bless America. We exist to bless you. Remind us of your
unquenchable, unconditional love.

"Affirm us when we seek Your will; forgive and correct us,
when we don't. Speak to us about the brevity of this life
and the beauty of the next. And, most of all, prepare our
souls for the moment we meet You face to face.

"We lay this election before you, and, in the end, Thy
will be done.

"By the source of mercy we pray. To You be the glory
forever and ever.

"Amen."

Source: Citizen Link, 9-1-04

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