Comments on: Are they serious about marriage? http://blog.catholicsphere.com/2006/06/05/are-they-serious-about-marriage.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:41:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: JohnS http://blog.catholicsphere.com/2006/06/05/are-they-serious-about-marriage.html#comment-226 JohnS Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:28:41 +0000 http://blog.catholicsphere.com/2006/06/05/are-they-serious-about-marriage.html#comment-226 History should answer your questions. Following the last election, where gay marriage bans were being discussed and people were lead to believe that something would be done, there was no mention of any of the so-called moral issues when George Bush talked about his "mandate" and spending his "capital" on the issues he felt were important. Abortion, gay marriage, stem cell issues - none have been discussed since the last election. Isn't it odd that if these were such core issues that in the two years since they were last discussed, nothing has been done. And now, when the mid-term elections are threatening the Republican majority, the old moral issues are brought back out. The marriage amendment needs a two thirds majority to even become a possible amendment. But, it is possible that it will not get a simple majority vote so why is it being brought up at this time? The simple answer is again to look at recent election history. For nearly 25 years, the Republicans roll out the moral values issues for every election and then neatly tuck them away after the election is over. Do they really want to make changes to abortion laws, gay rights, school prayer, stem cell research, etc? If they did, why wouldn't they pass laws, since they have had the majority in Congress for much of the past 12 years, and have had the courts under their control to help with any appeals. No, the Republicans don't want to change things; just stir them up so that they can have them to run on again in the next several elections. Their platform is about helping business and the rich and those issues cannot be supported by the majority of the people so they use moral issues to distract us from their real agenda. They passed tax cuts for the wealthy in the first 2 months of Bush's first term. It was a priority. So why not the moral issues? It's obvious that they are not part of the priorities they have. 6 years in office now and still nothing but rhetoric! History should answer your questions. Following the last election, where gay marriage bans were being discussed and people were lead to believe that something would be done, there was no mention of any of the so-called moral issues when George Bush talked about his “mandate” and spending his “capital” on the issues he felt were important. Abortion, gay marriage, stem cell issues - none have been discussed since the last election. Isn’t it odd that if these were such core issues that in the two years since they were last discussed, nothing has been done.

And now, when the mid-term elections are threatening the Republican majority, the old moral issues are brought back out. The marriage amendment needs a two thirds majority to even become a possible amendment. But, it is possible that it will not get a simple majority vote so why is it being brought up at this time? The simple answer is again to look at recent election history. For nearly 25 years, the Republicans roll out the moral values issues for every election and then neatly tuck them away after the election is over. Do they really want to make changes to abortion laws, gay rights, school prayer, stem cell research, etc? If they did, why wouldn’t they pass laws, since they have had the majority in Congress for much of the past 12 years, and have had the courts under their control to help with any appeals.

No, the Republicans don’t want to change things; just stir them up so that they can have them to run on again in the next several elections. Their platform is about helping business and the rich and those issues cannot be supported by the majority of the people so they use moral issues to distract us from their real agenda. They passed tax cuts for the wealthy in the first 2 months of Bush’s first term. It was a priority. So why not the moral issues? It’s obvious that they are not part of the priorities they have. 6 years in office now and still nothing but rhetoric!

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