New York State Senate Approved A Bill Authorizing Same Sex "Marriage"

Tonight The New York State Senate Approved A Bill Authorizing Same Sex "Marriage" - I Agree With Their Decision

by Rocky Coggins on Friday, June 24, 2011 at 11:44pm

 

Honestly, for several years I have been puzzled by this debate. It is like a "debate" concerning equality for women or among humans or equal pay or free speech, on and on. What debate? In these matters I come down on the side of freedom and equal treatment under the law. These Rights are unalienable and not subject to The State in the first place.

The Law passed with Republican Party support after language was included that protected the free exercise of religious beliefs and customs of all the World's religions and codified the respect for their meaning of the word "marriage." The Law prohibits the imposition of same sex definitions upon religious groups and individuals and prohibits the legal harassment by radical, mean-spirited activist upon the free exercise of religious worship as one sees fit.

Marriage continues to have a legal meaning as a contract under law and a secular and religious meaning as the foundation of society, kinship and family.

My past apprehension has been that some professing to love liberty and equality are lying and are using the struggle for equality as a smokescreen for retribution or as a scam, i.e., affirmative action programs or court-ordered racial hiring quotas - ill conceived mandates/State sponsored inequality. I am sure that was the case with some that voted for this bill in New York and certainly the Mafia hack that is now the Democrat Governor. But, wrong reasons sometimes yield a result founded in Truth. Others voted their conscience as we all must when we encounter these human issues.

I think it is unfortunate that hateful activist had to make the word "Marriage" an issue when "Civil Unions" would have been a more descriptive term fitting the concept of equal treatment under the law. "Marriage" is a Latin derivative that over thousands of years has taken on a religious meaning. Insisting on the disrespect for that tradition was counter-productive and seems just to be "rubbing the religious faithful's noses in it." Tacky, stupid and will continue to be a sore point that could have been avoided.

• Here is a copy of the law. Read it and see what you think. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld&bn=A08354&term=2011&Summary=Y&Text=Y

Hypocrisy. Hard Swallow When You Get Caught In Your Own Hypocrisy - All You Can Do Is Admit It!

Several weeks ago I had a conversation with a women where I work. She mentioned that she was or was hoping to go to Cuba. I am the only one in this office who lived through the Cuban Communist enslavement and the betrayal of the Cuban people. Adding to my reaction was the fact that I have a close friend who served in the Bay of Pigs invasion, shook with fear when the Russians put missiles in Cuba to kill me within 5 minutes and endured the flood of Cuban murders, thieves and psychotic thugs released in Florida and Georgia by that idiot, Jimmy Carter. Disregarding the crimes against the Cuban people then and now will get an immediate comment from an opinionated and supposedly engaged person as I seek to be. Challenging and confronting hypocrisy, in others, is the air I breathe.
This young woman turned to me and said "Didn't you just get back from China." "Didn't you love it." It was shattering. My roof caved in and I felt sick. China, of course is one, if not, the most inhumane, murderous and criminally governed nations on the Planet (I am not sure North Korea is an actual nation).
While in China, it became obvious to me that the Chinese people have the long view. They have been murdered, enslaved and exploited by the regimes and conquerors who have ruled that land for the last 5,000 years. The current, old thugs in Beijing have only been there since 1947 ... mere "seconds" in the life of China. Communist or Mongol: it makes little difference to the Chinese people ... Despots are all the same.

The people are no more communist than I am. But neither are the Cuban people. I couldn't even find a Red Communist flag to buy as a souvenir in China - they don't sell them in the markets. These facts are no excuse but did expose how my view could be manipulated by my bias. I really like the Chinese people; their beauty, kindness and politeness masks the horrors that some of their countrymen have to endure. There is no one to apologize to; so I apologize to our common “Search For The Truth” and hope to live up to the standard of intellectual integrity that I ask of others. Hypocrisy is hypocrisy.