Friday, May 29, 2009

California Changes Its Ways Once Again


The laws in California change like a driver on a high speed chase changes lanes while alluding police. As of this writing, gay marriage is illegal in the Golden State. Tomorrow it may be legal again. The gays that married between the time of the court ruling legalizing it and the people voting against its legalization will still be recognized as married. Got that so far?
Drew Barrymore and other protesters claim that anyone "in love" should have the right to marry. That is blatantly false. Marriage is limited and presided over by each state with different laws governing its validity. First cousins don't have the right to marry in every state. Why not? If homosexuality was normal and natural, wouldn't it have gone extinct over time, as opposed to increasing at amazing rates? Please don't make the case that more are coming out of the closet and its getting more press. It certainly is, but more teens are subjected to the concept in their sexual forming years and experimentation makes it available, not natural.
Marriage has been an institution to keep structure for children and American values has traditionally valued the family unit. That value has deteriorated over time, but if homosexual marriage is allowed as "normal", then adult men should be able to marry their mothers and fathers their adult daughters and what could be more normal, natural and loving than that?

Monday, May 18, 2009

Obama wants to disagree with respect


President Barack Obama made his much anticipated graduation speech at Notre Dame on Sunday to much fanfare. There was also much prayer. Much of the prayer was outside of the commencement as students and other protesters of Obama's presence took their troubles to the creator of all life, supposedly the one that Obama also prays to.
Obama acknowledged that the two sides of the abortion debate are irreconcilable, but people should avoid "demonizing" others for their personal beliefs or values. This comes from the guy that told Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church last summer that knowing when a baby got human rights was "above my paygrade".
If abortion is the killing of a human baby, then it is a hard task not to demonize those who think that it is a woman's right to kill that baby at any time. Many proponents of abortion argue a timeline for acceptability, breaking it down by trimesters or by viability of the fetus. There is no magic day in the baby's life in the womb when it becomes a human baby. One day it isn't worthy of life and the next day it is, is certainly irreconcilable in every human's mind, no matter how badly you want to be pro-choice.
This president stood up in the Illinois Senate and argued that a baby born alive after an abortion couldn't kill it, should still be murdered because that was the intent going in and would put an undue burden on the mother and doctor.
No, there is no way to philosophical reconcile these two opposing views to the sanctity of life and really impossible to reason respectfully when there is so much disrespect to life itself.