As the Republican Party continues to find ways out of its electoral grumpy, old white men quagmire, some in the party are bucking the trend by encouraging Republicans to support same-sex marriage. A new PAC formed by some of the party’s wealthier donors called American Unity PAC – including Paul Singer as first among equals – are betting that shifts in the political and demographic landscape are lending new momentum to Republican minority outreach efforts in the hopes that the party can shed its longstanding image as ‘intolerant.’
“What you have is this network of influential Republicans who really want to see the party embrace the freedom to marry, and believe it’s not only the right thing for the country but also good politics,” American Unity Pac spokesman Jeff Cook-McCormac told the Associated Press.
The PAC, and by extension their lobbying arm the American Unity Fund, have already spent more than $250,000 in Minnesota, a state many gay activists consider in play to legalize same-sex marriage.
But while Minnesota has historically remained one of handful of states that elect a moderate brand of Republican to statewide office, the return on American Unity Fund’s investment has been paltry. Currently, only one Republican, Sen. Branden Petersen, of Andover.
“I think there will be some more. There are legislators out there that are struggling with this,” said Carl Kuhl, a former political aide to former GOP Sen. Norm Coleman and Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer.
But if efforts in the land of a thousand lakes have been less than noteworthy, Singer and his cohorts should be absolutely ebullient over their lobbying efforts in Rhode Island where just last week they voted on a same-sex marriage bill – including the votes of all five Republicans in the Senate – which makes the tiny state on track to become the 11th one to legalize same-sex marriage in America.
“We intend to work on this effort until every American citizen is treated equally under the law,” Cook-McCormac said.
All members of society are interested in the due observance of the Laws of Nature, hence they have all a right to praise or condemn another man’s actions according as they are conformable or contrary to these laws. They have even a kind of obligation in this respect, lest men be wanting in their duty to society and to individuals, were they not to testify, at least by their approbation or censure, the esteem they have for probity and virtue, and their aversion, on the contrary, to iniquity and vice.
1) Same-sex marriage is not a useful law, as it does not tend to the preservation and perfection of man.
2) Same-sex marriage is not a just law, as it does not conform to the will of the supreme legislator; whether that be called “God” or “Evolution”.
3) Same-sex marriage is not an honest law, as it is not: conformable to the maxims of right reason, agreeable to the dignity of our nature, nor deserving of the approbation of man.
Those who take part in same-sex marriage are well acquainted with the Laws of Nature which they ought to follow, but they see themselves as their own judges leaving their whims and passions left unchecked, and they understand no obligation to contain themselves within the limits of that regard and respect which they owe to civil society, the tranquility of families, and the happiness of children. They deem themselves the arbiter of their own actions, pridefully announcing the right to being the judge themselves, both of Natural and Civil Laws, and of the manner in which they ought to apply them. This independence and excessive liberty must only be productive of disorder and confusion anytime there happens to be a clashing of their interests and passions with civil society.
Under a just and beneficent jurisprudence, followers of Natural Law are accordingly administered invincible liberty in both actions and speech; while concomitant to vice and confusion, liberty is necessarily oppressed. The height of felicity and prudence is to know how to guard against vice and confusion; as to banish licentiousness, and yet be no way introductive to tyranny. What is most evident with the legislation of same-sex marriage is that debauchery has become sovereign, the Laws of Nature perverted, the virtuous condemned, and the true felicity of mankind hampered in a quagmire of evil and ignorance; rendering the “Blessings of Liberty” a curse, and in time, reducing the “Land of the Free” to the most abject slavery.
Same-sex marriage proponents are the vicious oppressors of liberty. They are the malevolent bigots driven by their own prideful prejudices into seeking vengeance; whether it be by slandering anyone with whom they disagree by labeling them a “homophobe”, demanding the criminalization of anyone who refuses them service, mandatory indoctrination of our youth by the State, or the destruction of religious charities and institutions; their agenda violates the very maxims of Natural Law leaving them only the tyranny of legislative oppression as their ONLY justification.
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One-woman one-man marriage contracts provide equal opportunity for all citizens regardless of their race, creed, age, sex, religion, color, political affiliation, or ethnicity while same-sex contract bars one entire sex from the license which makes it unconstitutional as approximately 50% of the population are excluded from entering the contract.