Video from NH Gay Marriage Hearings: "Homosexuality Is Not a Civil Right" Huh?
The New Hampshire State Senate votes today on legislation to decide if the Granite State will be the fifth to allow gay marriage.
NH State senator Martha Fuller Clark (D) of Portsmouth says, "New Hampshire has a choice to lead or follow. " We can't choose our time. There were those who felt it wasn't the right time to give women the right to vote and it wasn't time for civil rights legislation. But if we hadn't pushed for equal rights, we wouldn't have made the progress we have."
By a narrow 186-179 margin, the House passed HB 436, which was sponsored by Democratic Reps. Jim Splaine and Paul McEachern of Portsmouth. The gay marriage vote is expected to be close in the 24-member Senate in which Democrats have a 14-10 margin. Governor John Lynch, who supported civil unions legislation, does not support the gay marriage bill but hasn't said publicly whether he would veto it if passed by the Senate.
A recent poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center and released Tuesday by the pro-gay marriage New Hampshire Freedom to Marry organization showed that 55 percent of New Hampshire voters support marriage for lesbian and gay couples, while 39 percent are opposed.
Just a few weeks ago, during New Hampshire Gay Marriage Hearings, this video was recorded. The speaker bypasses the whole gay marriage issue and jumps to the theory that HOMOSEXUALITY is NOT a civil right? Huh? It's not? He says:
"Homosexuality is not a civil right under the Constitution... it does not pass the litmus test of a civil right."
He then goes onto say:
"This bill is bad for the historic place of marriage in our society.
Bad for our children.
Bad for the implications on our economy.
Bad for the future curriculum that will be used in public schools.
Bad for medial institutions.
It adds nothing to the individual rights already secured by law.
This is a bad policy and I implore you to please not pass this bill."
Do you think the bill will pass; and should it pass?
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 11:04AM
Reader Comments (4)
It will be great if this passes. All we have to do it keep knocking down the blocks one at a time and the bigots will be relegated to a small corner of the room. I suspect that the religious right of the future will look back on this time (much like they look back now on other civil rights issues of the past) and say that the bigots of that day were wrong.
The best part is that we have so many videos like the one above that will haunt the decedents of people like this guy in the video. This guys great-grandkids will have to make excuses for their great grandpa on why he was a piece of shit bigot.
By the litmus test he gave Religion is not a civil right either.
Steve, I agree with you and enjoy watching the foam come out of their mouths as they try so hard to stop the inevitable progress here. The world will change despite all the kicking and screaming and in the end, these very sad little bigots will be buried by their (some gay) children and grandchildren.
i will quote Sen. Gronstal, D, IA:
Said Gronstal:
"One of my daughters was in the workplace one day, and her particular workplace at that moment in time, there were a whole bunch of conservative, older men. And those guys were talking about gay marriage. They were talking about discussions going on across the country. And my daughter Kate, after listening for about 20 minutes, said to them: 'You guys don't understand. You've already lost. My generation doesn't care.' I think I learned something from my daughter that day, when she said that. And Ive talked with other people about it and that's what I see, Senator McKinley. I see a bunch of people that merely want to profess their love for each other, and want state law to recognize that. Is that so wrong? I don't think that's so wrong. As a matter of fact, last Friday night, I hugged my wife. You know I've been married for 37 years. I hugged my wife. I felt like our love was just a little more meaningful last Friday night because thousands of other Iowa citizens could hug each other and have the state recognize their love for each other. No, Senator McKinley, I will not co-sponsor a leadership bill with you."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2s2R5qKhbo