Comments on: Jackson wants GOP to focus on marriage

By: Doctor Whom

Doctor Whom — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:31:30 +0000

If Darwinism is true? Sorry, but you’ve tipped your hand there.

By: Skeeter Sanders

Skeeter Sanders — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:49:16 +0000

Bishop Harry Jackson STILL doesn’t get it: By pushing for a ban on gay and lesbian couples getting married, he’s trying to get the Republican Party to enshrine into law a religious doctrine that condemns homosexuality as a sin.

Sorry, Harry, but Article VI, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution strictly forbids this. “No religious Test shall ever be used as a qualification for any public office or trust in the United States.” Period, end of story.

Civil marriage is a public trust. To restrict marriage to opposite-gender couples only is to render into public law an anti-gay religious doctrine that violates the religious-test clause of Article VI — not to mention violate the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Give it up, Harry. You have neither a legal nor constitutional leg to stand on.

By: stevemd2

stevemd2 — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:54:05 +0000

Thats religion for you. Black had nothing but the church, so they are very conservative theologically. And poor people often are desperate to keep what little they have

the antis know this and have targetted blacks for decades. And to an extent suceeded. Some of the real extremists blacks are members of Mass Resistance, a hate group.

Dr. King and Corretta Scott King must be turning over in their graves. Coretta supported full marriage etc equality for gay people. Dr. King in his battles never really got to be involved in what had yet to become another justice movement, thank to some nutcase evangelical – who murdered him. And its the White Evangelicals for the most part who are the worst of the worst re hating gay people.

Amazing how you put out the fires of hatred and they re-ignite with a new victim.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:31:39 +0000

Study after study after study show children who grow up in a home with their biological parents-one man, one woman, have the best chance & are best raised in this natural environment. Even the Doctor who got homosexuality off the list of mental diseases found in 2003 that people who underwent sexual reorientation therapy had great success. Lastly, if Darwinism is true, how can people who only sleep with the same sex be able to survive hundreds of years? It is a choice, period. Funny how the left lectures every one on facts but ignore these.

By: ray

ray — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:36:40 +0000

Even if all the statistics quoted were valid, nothing resembling cause and effect can be interpreted unless you also know what the statistics were before the country legalized same-sex marriages.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:11:10 +0000

The religious right and the Republican Party deserve each other.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:08:16 +0000

Completely, totally fed-up with the religious right and their irrational boogey-
man arguments against LGBT rights. Any intelligent discerning person can
see this can of intolerance and hate is longer going to be tolerated in American
law.

By: customartist

customartist — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:18:20 +0000

It is not the Government’s Job to Defend Religious Institutions (DOMA).

It is not the Government’s Job to create Special recognitions for some Citizens, and not Others.

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:20:18 +0000

Stupid people. Essentially they’re saying in order to rally support of minorities they need to discriminate against a minority.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:09:50 +0000

this is news? i remember reading this same article… four years ago.