Some states have recently adopted the Trojan Horse – civil unions. I want to be a nice guy. I don't see civil unions as a right, but would be willing to support a law creating them... except that I can't due to tactical reasons. Once they are in place, the battle cry of the marriage neutering crowd becomes "we can't have 'seperate but equal'". Of course, the courts should recognize that civil unions are for associations that are inherently different than marriage, but Judge Walker didn't.

Read more of my analysis at The Opine Editorials.

It is very important to remember that we are a nation of laws, not "of men" – meaning everyone is subject to the laws, including law enforcement and elected officials. If we have separate traffic lanes for motor vehicles and bicycles, we don't make exceptions based on who is driving the car and who is peddling the bicycle.

With that in mind, I take a look at an Associated Press article about the involvement of homosexual legislators in neutering marriage.

The GOP-controlled House of Representatives is going to do for DOMA what Obama will no longer do. See what I have to say over at The Opine Editorials.

Supporting limited government does not mean 1) anarchy, nor 2) allowing one branch of the federal government to unilaterally decide everything. Marriage licenses are issued on behalf of the people of a state. As long as that is true, there will be legislation pertaining to marriage.

Also, Renee takes a look at a certain Facebook repost you've probably seen.

Another report says that too many women are teaching.

Oops, I got that wrong. Associated Press writer Pauline Jelinek's story is headlined with "Report Says Too Many Whites, Men Leading Military".

The U.S. military is too white and too male at the top and needs to change recruiting and promotion policies and lift its ban on women in combat, an independent report for Congress said Monday.

Oh man, I can't wait until women have to register for the draft.

The report, at least as presented by the article, seems to be more of the same thing about how people can only be inspired by people who have the same skin color and genitals as them. As a white, gentile, Protestant male, I find this hilarious as I have been inspired by many women, blacks, Latinos, Jews, Catholics, Native Americans, people of Asian ancestry, on and on.

The best way to end racism and sexism is to stop being racist and sexist.

Have you seen the retrospectives?

It has been twenty years since that career criminal Rodney King drove like maniac and then tried to attack police officers who had finally pulled him over. Apparently high, perhaps on PCP, he ignored commands by the officers to cease resisting his arrest, and as a result, it took many swings of batons and a kick or two to finally take him into custody without him being able to take down an officer by rolling into his legs and grab the officer’s gun.

A resident caught some of the event on tape. Some. Unfortunately, the result was that race hucksters and LAPD haters in general seized on the opportunity to portray this as nothing by a bunch of racist white police offers beating up a black man for no reason other than that he was black.

The officers were tried in criminal court, and were found not guilty. I watched much of the trial and was not the least bit surprised at the acquittal, as the officers were able to provide convincing justification for their action. Violent, opportunist thugs went rioting in Los Angeles, stealing, vandalizing, and committing assault and murder on TV. To this day, their parents wonder why businesses avoid moving to those areas. Those areas are still awful, despite all of the tax dollars and the corporate donations thrown down rat holes there, supposedly meant to address the problems that contributed to the rioting.

Then there was the federal civil rights trial, in which the police offers were convicted after one of them took a different approach to blame the others in an apparent effort to minimize what he could be facing. They served their time, and went on with their lives.

Rodney King, who burned through his seven-figure settlement money (perhaps somewhat literally), has continued to have run-ins with the law. At least he hasn't killed anyone with erratic driving – yet. He should not be portrayed as a hero. At best, he suffered excessive force in a mishandled, but legitimate, arrest. But there's a good case to be made that nothing that happened to him was out of line; it just didn't look good on tape.

And we should never tolerate rioting again, nor reward rioters with money and job offers.

Tom Hamburger and Matea Gold have a Los Angeles Times piece on Newt Gingrinch, specifically on his relationship with Republicans who are identified as evangelical Christians. Gee, I wonder what the article is going to bring up?

Newt Gingrich - the twice-divorced former House speaker and recent convert to Roman Catholicism - is courting evangelical Christians as he lays the groundwork for a possible presidential campaign, hoping to find favor among a group that will play a pivotal role in picking the 2012 Republican nominee.

Evangelical Christians also dig King David, who was a murderer and a polygamist and additionally an adulterer. And every born-again person admits that they're a sinner themselves. None claim perfection. We're more concerned about someone's current obedience to God, not the sins of the past.

The Left loves to point out conservatives who have been divorced and remarried. Because, you know, apparently it is somehow better to simply fornicate and shack up with a series of different women, not actually marry them.

Gingrich has also provided financial and strategic support for their causes. Last fall, he played a key behind-the-scenes role in an unprecedented - and successful - campaign to remove three Iowa Supreme Court judges who approved same-sex marriage in the state, helping secure $200,000 in seed money for the effort.

This is where I remind people that no matter how many divorces or affairs Gingrich or anyone has had, it still takes a bride and a groom to make a marriage.

In 2007, he admitted during a radio interview with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson that he had been having an extramarital affair with his present wife as he was excoriating President Clinton for lying to a grand jury about his dalliance with a White House intern.

Perjury is a different issue than having an affair.

Meanwhile, over at The Opine Editorials, I talk about California's AG breaking her oath of office. I also look at an article in the Los Angeles Times detailing the strategy of a marriage neutering advocacy group.

A nationwide requirement to treat these three different kinds of associations as though they were all the same would have implications in all sorts of areas that marriage neutering advocates and homosexuality advocates likely haven't considered much. If men can form an association and call it whatever they want without being required to admit women, it will be very interesting to see the return of male-only clubs. What will Gloria Allred do?

I’m not sure why I found this on the "UK Progressive" website, seeing as how it is about something in Southern California, but I thought it was a fine example of a “progressive” shark attack. Carl Matthes lives in Los Angeles and is a former president and a current Board member of Uptown Gay and Lesbian Alliance. He was editor of the GLAAD newsletter and a former GLAAD National Board member. So it comes as no surprise that he had problems with the fact that some Christians believe the Biblical teachings on men, women, sex, and marriage.

On March 4, 2011, The Rev. H.B. London Jr. will be the featured speaker for the “Mayor’s Breakfast” in the Southern California City of Arcadia, an upscale community of about 60,000 straddling the 210 Freeway, just east and slightly north of downtown Los Angeles. While the breakfast is a City taxpayer-funded event, Mayor Peter Admundson obviously feels that it’s “his,” when he pontificates, “The theme for my Mayor’s Breakfast is ‘Celebrate Family.’”

Yes, this is often how things work. Elected representatives get to set the agendas.

"I am appalled that a few activists have tried to hijack my Mayor's Breakfast by wanting to censor my choice of speaker. Is that what tolerance is all about?"

Mayor, "tolerance" is only for the Left, as you have no doubt found out.

A good question, Mr. Mayor. But a question that Reverend London, Vice-president of Ministry for Focus on the Family, an ultra-right wing evangelical Christian group based in Colorado, but founded in Arcadia 34 years ago by Dr. James Dobson, would really have to stretch to answer.

"Ultra-right wing" means they teach… that parents are responsible for their own children, sex is for marriage, marriage unites the sexes, and slaughtering babies who pose no threat to anyone is wrong. Radical!

In fact, Focus on the Family is not known for tolerance.

It's not known for the Left's redefinition of tolerance.

Along with the Mormon Church, Focus on the Family was one of the main supporters of Proposition 8, the ballot measure which changed California’s constitution and took away the right of same-sex couples to marry.

It amended the state's constitution. It was already headed for the ballot already when the state's Supreme Court invented a "right" to a state-issued license. Since California treats same-sex couples who register as domestic partnerships as though they are married, Prop 8 caused such couples no harm.

Their message? We support families, just not those kinds of familes.

They encourage raising children in a marriage inclusive of both sexes, not a union that sends the message that men don't matter or women don't matter.

Is that what tolerance is all about?

Tolerance is allowing other people their lives, even though you disagree how they are being lived.

The good Mayor’s last invited speaker was radio shock-psychologist Dr. Laura Schlessinger.

This is where the writer loses all credibility. Dr. Laura doesn't claim to be a psychologist of any sort. Her website clearly explains her Doctorate degree. This information is easy to find.

You may remember Dr. Laura.

Wildly successful radio show host and perennial best-selling author? A woman who has made my life, marriage, and parenting better? Of course.

She resigned her radio show after achieving the world’s record for the number of times anyone has ever said, in quick succession, the “N” word on air.

Clearly you've never watched Comedy Central. Dr. Laura moved her show, which she owns, to a satellite radio and podcasting basis.

Sounds like the Mayor could use a refresher course on tolerance – and hate speech.

Sounds like the writer hasn't listened to the entire call, nor considered any of Dr. Laura’s subsequent discussion of the matter. Is it tolerant to bear false witness?

Arcadia general contractor Gary Searer, who is married and has two children, asked Admundson at a recent council meeting to reconsider his decision. “I am extremely disappointed that a member of such a misguided and discriminatory group would be invited to speak at the Mayor’s Community Breakfast. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered family members – including children – are threatened and made to feel unsafe in their schools, workplaces and places of worship by the hateful messages of Focus on the Family.”

Exactly which messages are those? Notice we don't see any cited. By the lack of explanation, am I to assume that Searer has intentionally and selfishly condemned two children to a motherless home?

Arcadia residents Robert and Marsha Aizumi asked Admundson to reconsider saying their son faced “intolerable harassment and bullying” as a high school student in the city because of his sexual orientation.

That has nothing to do with Focus, which is against bullying.

Are you saying, as Dr. Dobson intimates, that you have taught your children that it is better for single mothers to put their children up for adoption by two-parent families rather than raising them on their own?

Dobson encourages a single woman who is pregnant to consider adoption so that the child will be raised by a mother and father within marriage. This is hardly a shocking or unwarranted opinion. It's not like he says a woman who was just widowed should give up her 10-year-old.

For, as Dr. Dobson says, “[Homosexuality] has to do with an identity crisis that occurs too early to remember,…where a boy is born with an attachment to his mother and she is everything to him for about 18 months, and between 18 months and five years, he needs to detach from her and to reattach to his father.”

What's wrong with a boy being attached to his father?

And don’t stop there, Mayor Admundson, do you want your children to believe that embryonic stem-cell research is morally equal to Nazi medical experiments on prisoners, as does Dr. Dobson?

They both involve experimenting on innocent human beings. The difference is that one always involves killing the human beings. Guess which one?

And finally, do you and your children believe, “…that God would be just in creating worldwide calamity to pay us back for rampant lesbian sex?”

Citation, please? Actually, God would be just in creating worldwide calamity for many, many things, but a Deist or Atheist will never agree anyway, so this is a red herring.

A schoolyard bully is someone who intimidates, is overbearing and tyrannical.

You mean like homofascists who try to get people fired or students sent for "training" based on their votes or modest political contributions or opinions which are in the majority?

May Mayor Peter Admundson stay strong.

There are real problems faced by homosexual people, including increased risks of mental illness, substance abuse, sexually transmitted infections, and domestic violence. Perhaps the writer's energy should be directed towards addressing those, instead of attacking other people for their beliefs?
 
Previously: Where's the Civility For Dr. Laura?

There was a brilliant letter written on this subject that I go over at The Opine Editorials.

From some of my Facebook friends comes this:

A unionized public employee, a member of the Tea Party and a Big Corp CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table there is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the tea partier and says, "Look out for that union guy, he wants a piece of your cookie."

Wait a minute. Where did those dozen cookies come from in the first place?

As it turns out, the Big Corp CEO was working 12-16 hours per day, seven days a week to research recipes, ingredients and the cookie market; convince investors to put up the money to buy the ingredients, build the industrial kitchen, and buy and install the equipment to bake the cookies; and hire and train the cookie chefs. The Big Corp CEO then oversaw the baking of the cookies, and sales and marketing. There were some trial and error along the way, and the whole operation was almost shut down in the struggle to survive, but finally there was a successful recipe that was well-produced and people wanted to buy the cookies, so they were being sold by the dozen.

During all of this, unionized public employees were interfering in all of the voluntary exchanges taking place to bring about this cookie making business, restricting options, taking some of the money off of the top, and slowing things down. They even were trying to charge a special fee, claiming baking the cookies was causing local warming or local climate change.

One of the chefs turns out have joined the TEA Party. (Of his own free choice. He wasn't forced to join to get a job, or forced to pay union dues against his will.)

The employees working under the Big Corp CEO agreed to get paid in cookies. So when the latest dozen cookies comes out of the oven, the Big Corp CEO hands one to the TEA Party Member/Chef and warns the Chef about the unionized public employee. Sure enough, the unionized public employee takes a third of the Chef’s cookie, and tries to convince the Chef that making the Big Corp CEO “give” six of the remaining 11 cookies to the unionized public employee will somehow help the Chef, even though the Chef’s livelihood depends on the well-being of the Big Corp CEO’s business, not just for employment, but because the Chef has chosen to be an investor as well.

I look at a couple of recent editorials in the Los Angeles Times... one praises President Obama as "courageous" for choosing not to defend DOMA. The second one discusses the place of the marriage neutering issue in politics these days.

I'm catching up on a lot of recent news around the push to neuter marriage. At the Opine Editorials, I talk about the abuse of federalism and other harms.

A billionaire’s money is good enough to take by force and give it to strangers in another state, but somehow it isn’t okay for a billionaire to spend his own money of his own free choosing in that state. Unless he’s a Leftist billionaire, of course.

Out-of-state people in getting involved in Wisconsin’s internal dispute is wrong, wrong, wrong. Uh, that is, unless they are bussed in by Big Labor, of course.

President "marriage is between a man and a woman" Obama has abandoned DOMA, much like how California Governor Jerry Brown abandoned the California Marriage Amendment voted in as Proposition 8. The marriage neutering advocates are apparently hoping that the federal appeals court thinks they are run by the Obama administration, as they have asked them to remove the stay they placed on the absurd decision by a homosexual federal judge striking down California's amendment.

My analysis is over at The Opine Editorials.

It is too bad Obama doesn't order his administration to go against some of his other claimed personal views.

If you don't like abortion, support Planned Parenthood, whose low-cost contraception prevents hundreds of thousands a year.