Protectors of Marriage – Best of the Best

There are those who live out their own lives as quiet examples of virtue.

And there are those who stand and lead courageously in a battle for morality, tradition, and honor in matrimony. As our nation’s righteous beat back an aggressive onslaught against traditional marriage, let us honor the bravest and truest protectors of marriage, and draw inspiration from the Best of the Best.

Behold, the Best of the Best.
You may ask, “What source of greatness do these men have in common?”
Is it that they bared their souls before their maker as they were Born Again? Is it a humble appreciation for the women who have given so much to support their success?

Please take a moment to honor these men and to examine their work and their lives.

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	Marriage Protector	Major Successes	Other Accomplishments
	Did more to protect marriage than you (or Fox News) would generally think.	Legislative Protections: Defense of Marriage Act - Just because radical Iowa okays sinful marriage doesn’t mean that decent Californians need to honor it! Don’t Ask Don’t Tell – doesn’t specifically protect marriage, but does make sure that our soldiers don’t “flaunt it” : - no “spousal” benefits - no disgusting “welcome home” displays of affection.	51-plus years of committed relationships: - 39 year marriage with Hillary Clinton - 12 year relationship with Gennifer Flowers.
	Mark Sanford - our next president?	Achieved American Conservative Union lifetime score of 95! Demanded Clinton’s impeachment following the president’s sexual scandal, labeling this “reprehensible”.	Well-rounded: Likes hiking and international travel. Not a clod, he truly appreciates a woman, not merely for being a good wife and mother, but also for being his soulmate, and is not ashamed to admit it. As handsome as Sarah Palin is pretty, he has an air of being loved by God. Restraint in several other extramarital dalliances: “never crossed the ultimate line“.
	John Ensign: Straight-shooter, honest, role model.	Morals and Ethics: Publicly called for Larry Craig’s resignation, after Craig’s homosexual airport arrest scandal. Stood strong against gay marriage. With his wife, were active Promise Keepers, members of a Christian evangelical ministry for strong families, strong marriages, and sexual purity.	An inspiration to others who must come clean and repent.
	Larry Craig of Idaho, an unfortunate mistunderstanding.	Publicly chastised Bill Clinton, on behalf of his constiutents, calling Clinton a “bad, naughty boy”. Rated 100% by the Christian Coalition: a pro-family voting record. Voted: - YES on a US Constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. - YES on prohibiting same-sex marriage - to allow job and housing discrimination on the basis sexual orientation.	Brave denials: - 1982: strongly asserted that he did not give cocaine to minors or solicit sexual activity with minor pages. -
	David Vitter, means what he says, says what he means.	Heart and values in the right place: David Vitter video	Brave denials: -David vitter video.

Torpid

I don’t want to say that I’m depressed – I don’t want to allow myself to go there.
But I don’t know how to deal.

There is too much I need to do. I need to continue to make a living to support my family, which requires energy and endurance. I need to tend to the needs of my children, which requires a lot of attention and care. Our purchase of a new house is about to close on Tuesday; I need to get ready to move our household to a somewhat safer neighborhood to protect the kids. I need to pay the bills.

I have to walk among the people who hate my kind, who call themselves American but don’t believe that I was created equal, nor that my kids deserve what theirs do.

So I’m dropping links, instead of writing.
These are ones you might enjoy or get some use out of. Do check the links on this page’s left-hand side bar.

Find protests in your st8, in your locale

LA Times on US Supreme Court’s history with striking down CO’s anti-gay law.

Wow – these folks lay it on thick: (read it)

Sign a petition to remove LDS tax exempt status

Make a donation against bigotry, in the name of the president of the LDS church

Write a letter to the president of the LDS Church:
Address it to: Thomas Monson, 50 E. North Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150. 

About Those Lying Christians…

 This just in from Bill, -who was as I was, married in that brief but beautiful window of June to November, to a sweet, smart, kind, handsome, super-capable man raised in the LDS church. Both of our husbands were raised by families that have gone on to welcome us with deep and abudant decency and goodness. To say that I am grateful for their love is a vast understatement.

Pictured: Actual Gay Wedding Cake

Bill’s words are followed by my response, in which I call out lies for what they are.
I strongly believe that truth is multi-faceted and difficult to pin down. And so I don’t take lightly the accusation that someone is lying. But there are deeply mendacious lies that >50% of my nieghbors have used as reason for committing the un-American act of persecuting this minority.

Bill, your turn: (Top)

Hi <Name Omitted>

I suppose I should fill you in on the Proposition 8 situation in California, seeing as how your brother and I are the people on the list most directly affected by the topic.  Also, I gather from the ridiculous suggestion that this had anything to do with temple marriages suggests that you can’t count on your church to give you accurate information.  And I know your attention span is short, but I feel like I’ve been punched in the face 5,000,000 times by a gang of thugs who have been bankrolled by your church.

Slapped 5 Million Times

Nice shiner? Thanks, neighbor!

Too dramatic?

How to give a hint of the way it feels to be slapped by 5,668,960 people?
  
Just over 1 of every 2 people I pass on the street, in stores, malls, restaurants, just over 50% of these people actually voiced their opinion:

• that the stream of heterosexual parents and foster parents who maltreated my children, to the point of losing them, are more deserving of the basics of citizenship than are the adoptive parents who are helping these children heal?
• that should I die first, my husband does not deserve my social security check, but the money I paid in, all these years, should go to subsidize the golden years of people who neither know him, support him, nor love him?
• that I deserve to have paid the extra $20,000 in federal and state taxes since being hired by my current employer, compared to a straight co-worker sitting next to me, because I could have kept it if only I’d pretended to love some woman and tricked her into marrying me nonetheless?
• that in this case and in this country, someone else’s religion should dictate laws limiting my wealth and well-being?
• that all men are created equal except for homosexuals?

Two Men With Tans

Rahm and Barack: seem comfortable together

Hey: Obama chose Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff.
 
Rahm Israel Emanuel is part of the Jewish Intelligentsia.
Could it be that Barack Hussein  Obama is not, after all, a radical Islamist terrorist? (I mean, it made so much sense!)
 
Or more likely that he, Barack (which we all know is the Hebrew word for lightning) is still a Muslim terrorist — but in being so shrewd as to take on a Jewish chief, is showing his true colors also as part of the Zionist plan to control the world? (He said he’d shake hands across the aisle, and that’s some aisle!)
 
Rahm is also a bit of a hottie, startlingly like Obama in elegance and sense-of-style.
Two fit, well-dressed, handsome, men with tans?
Traveling on business together…
It’s indication, I think, of something more than the usual friendship among men.
(Poor Michelle – it’s Eddie Murphy all over again!)
 
So:
 A.  Islamic terrorist?
 B.   Zionist power elite?
 C.  Homosexual agenda promoter?
 D.  All of the above?
 
Logically it’s D; no proof, it’s that feeling… 

Whichever it is, I’m just not too sure about America’s future.

Fox News, are you even onto this???

Radical Traditionalism I – Is Marriage Truly About Love?

(I want to credit much of Radical Traditionalist Theory to my sister and to mind-blowing conversations with her.) 

Okay, marriage is about love
At least nowadays it is. But historically marriage was not merely a celebration of blissful love; nor, as I caution here, should it be.

Call me odd, un-romantic, bitter?

Lockhorn Spouses - traditional marriage?

Shucks – please just call me old-fashioned. Not as in return-to-traditional-values-of-the-1950s-conservative; and I’m not talking about our tradition of Lockhorn spouses (though I can’t seem to get enough of their enduring mutual resentment - LOL!!).

I’d rather think I’m really old-fashioned; a thoughtful throwback; a Radical Traditionalist.

Hanukah – A Brief History and a New Tradition (2007)

Are you un-inspired, putting up that crepe paper dreidel again?
Did you ever wonder what was really behind those sing-songy Sunday-school stories about the miracle of the oil?

Hanukah Wall of Freedom: Warsaw Uprising

How about this one: knowing how you live today, if you were placed back in the Hanukah times, would you have fought with the religious extremist zealots (history’s good guys), or would you have joined up with the more modernizing (yet still bloodthirsty), pan-cultural Helenites? (You’d probably have been killed either way.)

Some thoughts.

You’re Not Doing Enough

I’ve become convinced in the last few days that we – gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Californians, and our allies, are not doing nearly enough to protect our basic equality,

Make a promise - vow to vote No on 8.

our very basic rights.

Nowhere near enough.

Yesterday a straight friend/acquaintance, a mom of a child who went to the same daycare as mine did, was inspired by the No-on-8 bumper-stickers I was making and giving out, and she made her own, MUCH MORE provocative than mine, put it on her car, and advertised it to all her friends.
(Marriage is for Fags! No on 8)

OMG, like it or not, hate it or not, if many more had her passion, I’d see a bumper sticker or 2 in my favor on the 50-min traffic-packed ride to work, for goodness’ sake!

And More “No on 8″ Bumper Stickers

Of course, for the Official dark-blue bumper stickers, and more gear, do go to:
http://www.noonprop8store.com/eshop/10Browse.asp

More bumper sticker designs to add to the last ones - these for you to create yourself using these instructions.
how-to-order-no-on-yes-on-8-bumper-stickers
Or you can request via posnie@gmail.com.
I’d prefer that you order them, but I will send a couple to you if you’d like.
And check this out – from a creative reader:

I copied the “Do unto others” on a window decal on my inkjet printer and put it on my car. I am so sick of the happy go lucky Yes on 8 bumperstickers that I have seen and want revenge!
Window decals can be had at any paper section of Best Buy or probably Tatget. They stick to windows or bumpers.  
-Susan

Blame the Gays

Marriage is failing.
I hear it’s because of the gays.

1. “If we let homosexuals marry, next comes polygamy”
   • Hey: Don’t blame polygamy on the gays – blame polygamists: blame FLDS; blame Islam; blame Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We gays are still working on the basic one-on-one thing.
     (BTW, polygamists don’t get divorced at the same rate the rest of you do.)
2. “Next, people will marry their pets”
   • Again, that’s your weirdness, not ours. We want to marry people like ourselves, hence the term homosexual.
   • Want to see something really creepy? Do a google search on “marry your dog”. I am serious.
   • I heard a male Ivy-League college student recounting his previous night’s dream of getting romantic with his dog. “The worst part about it”, he said, face all pinched, “- my dog is a guy!“
     No, Bronson, that aint worst part. Bestiality trumps homosexuality to an extent that you can’t begin to quantify.
3. Divorce is already rampant – how can marriage survive gays?
   • That’s your fault – we probably won’t do any better than y’all do, but we didn’t mess up what we’ve never had.
   • Bonus points: most of the homosexuals who want to marry today have been together >10 years already.
4. It’s against God’s will
   • Strike 4: No it’s not.
     (Yes it is; no it’s not; yes it is…)
   • You start legislating selectively on the basis of your correct religion, wait 5 minutes or 5 years, and they’ll be shoving their incorrect religion down your legal throat. That’s why we don’t make laws based on God’s will here in America.

Maybe life is more complicated than explanations supplied by our religions, politics, and products. Maybe cautious decency, not confident dogma, should be our approach (see blog entry on Obama’s Big Speech).