Anti-Same Sex Marriage Amendments are State Sponsored Bullying.

[Zorra]

The Republican RW fundamentalist schoolyard bullies are at work once again, insisting that their self-selected religious beliefs allow them to trample the rights of others, and that these beliefs justify the action of denying others their natural equal human rights.

These State House bullies deny and/or attempt to deny and/or limit the equality and human rights of others through hate legislation that has the collateral effect of perpetuating the falsehood that LGBT persons are not equal or acceptable. This in turns leads to continued repeated bullying of, and assaults on, lgbt persons, lgbt child and adult depression, and schoolyard bullying that sometimes even causes children to take their own lives in despair.

The egos of these hateful State House Bullies are so swollen with self-righteousness that they would legislate their misguided, religion inspired beliefs into law, despite the fact that they cause widespread unwarranted harm and misery to a multitude of innocent people.

They put a whole new meaning on the term "Bully Pulpit".

Maybe a better term would be "Hate Pulpit".

Let's not start the year by taking rights away from people

On Jan. 1, New Hampshire celebrated the second anniversary of its legalization of gay marriage. You can be excused if you didn't notice.
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It's hard to believe some Republicans in the State House are working hard to outlaw such marriages.
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Soon the House will vote on a bill to take away these rights and repeal same-sex marriage. In 2011 the Judiciary Committee had a day-long hearing where we heard testimony by many hundreds of people concerning HB 437. The overwhelming majority spoke passionately in favor of marriage equality. Unfortunately, the Republican majority on the Judiciary Committee passed the bill onto the full House.

HB 437 not only would prohibit same-sex marriage, it would allow discrimination against people in civil unions. Any individual or any entity that claimed religious or moral beliefs against civil unions would not be penalized for "refusing to provide services, employment, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods or privileges."

http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/301971/lets-not-start-the-year-by-taking-rights-away-from-people?SESSa7865a4399460ca1103fd56da90588d9=google

What is wrong with these people is translates into many things that are is wrong with our country. And a glaring example of who we need to remove from our govenment so that societal progress in all areas is no longer senselessly obstructed because of hatred and ignorance.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:

“Now, there is still, as you all know, much more to be done to secure that commitment, that reality, and progress for all people. Today, I want to talk about the work we have left to do to protect one group of people whose human rights are still denied in too many parts of the world today. In many ways, they are an invisible minority. They are arrested, beaten, terrorized, even executed. Many are treated with contempt and violence by their fellow citizens while authorities empowered to protect them look the other way or, too often, even join in the abuse. They are denied opportunities to work and learn, driven from their homes and countries, and forced to suppress or deny who they are to protect themselves from harm.

“I am talking about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, human beings born free and given bestowed equality and dignity, who have a right to claim that, which is now one of the remaining human rights challenges of our time. I speak about this subject knowing that my own country’s record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect. Until 2003, it was still a crime in parts of our country. Many LGBT Americans have endured violence and harassment in their own lives, and for some, including many young people, bullying and exclusion are daily experiences. So we, like all nations, have more work to do to protect human rights at home.

“Now, raising this issue, I know, is sensitive for many people and that the obstacles standing in the way of protecting the human rights of LGBT people rest on deeply held personal, political, cultural, and religious beliefs. So I come here before you with respect, understanding and humility. Even though progress on this front is not easy, we cannot delay acting. So in that spirit, I want to talk about the difficult and important issues we must address together to reach a global consensus that recognizes the human rights of LGBT citizens everywhere.

“The first issue goes to the heart of the matter. Some have suggested that gay rights and human rights are separate and distinct; but, in fact, they are one and the same. Now, of course, 60 years ago, the governments that drafted and passed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were not thinking about how it applied to the LGBT community. They also weren’t thinking about how it applied to indigenous people or children or people with disabilities or other marginalized groups. Yet in the past 60 years, we have come to recognize that members of these groups are entitled to the full measure of dignity and rights, because, like all people, they share a common humanity."

If anyone ever wants to know why I am still, and have always been, a Democrat...well, there you have it.