Clergy Condemn Anti-Gay Federal Amendment

[kweerwolf]

As the US Senate prepares to vote on a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage several dozen Christian and Jewish leaders made the rounds on Capitol Hill Monday lobbying senators to reject the measure when it comes up for a vote about two weeks from now.

At a news conference the Reverend Paul Simmons said the amendment "has the smell and feel of Salem," comparing its supporters to the colonial Puritans who burned witches.

The Reverend Kenneth Samuel, a Georgia pastor and N-double-A-C-P officer, said many black pastors oppose gay marriage because they've been "bought out" with faith-based initiative money.

The largest branch of Judaism also is urging senators to vote against the measure.

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/05/052206reform.htm

[Ringo84]

1. FMA

Over the weekend on Book TV, they had a discussion panel with Arianna Huffington, Pat Buchanan, Frank Rich and another guy (can't think of his name). After a while, the Federal Marriage Amendment came up in conversation. They basically said that Federalism is the answer to this problem.

Rather than imposing one moral view on the rest of the country, why not allow states to decide for themselves how they feel about marriage? Sounds reasonable to me. FMA won't pass anyway.
Ringo

[BayCityProgressive]

2. As a gay man

I am glad to see my fellow Jews working to oppose this travesty.

[Ringo84]

4. Re:

I'm not a Jew, but me too.
Ringo

[TechBear_Seattle]

5. Why not let the states decide, you ask

You might want to inquire of Mildred (née Jeter) and Richard Loving, Virginia residents who once tried to get married. The Supreme Court had a few words to say on the matter.

[Ringo84]

6. Re:

Good point. Worth thinking about.
Ringo

[ruggerson]

3. Glad to see

365 gay employing the proper terminology when referring to this amendment.

[IntravenousDemilo]

7. Does anyone else find it odd that the author wrote "N-double-A-C-P"

and not "NAACP"? Surely she couldn't have found it easier to type it that way, so I can't imagine why.

[BR_Parkway]

8. Voice recognition technology instead of typing?

[Ian David]

9. 365gay.com always has interesting typos and gramatical errors

Good news, decent writing... poor editing.

Always.

You know where I have never seen a single typo? The Onion.

[TechBear_Seattle]

11. Which only goes to prove

That The Onion is fake news and not the real thing. :hi:

[Ian David]

12. You're saying the story about Stephen Hawking's Exoskeleton is fake??

Stephen Hawking Builds Robotic Exoskeleton

July 9, 1997 | Issue 31•23



CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—Nobel Prize-winning physicist Stephen Hawking stunned the international scientific community Monday with his latest breakthrough, a remarkably advanced cybernetic exoskeleton designed to replace his wheelchair.

Hawking, paralyzed since early adulthood with the degenerative nerve disease ALS, unveiled the new creation at a press conference at Cambridge University.

"I am faster, stronger... better than before," Hawking told reporters via his suit's built-in voice synthesizer.

The hulking, hydraulically powered titanium-alloy exoskeleton is expected to assist the famed Brief History Of Time author tremendously in his ongoing theoretical physics research. "With the new exoskeleton, Stephen will be able to safely handle radioactive isotopes in the high-radiation area of the new supercollider particle accelerator. And his new robo-arms are capable of ripping open enemy tanks like they were nutshells," said Cambridge physics chair Sir Geoffrey Neville Shropshire-Kent.

More:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39133

[terrya]

10. "has the smell and feel of Salem" - perfect.

Perfect analogy.