Comments on: Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee On Gay Rights http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/ I'm not together, but I'm getting there Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:33:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Brian http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-27282 Brian Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:58:52 +0000 http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-27282 @ joanharvest: Many years ago, I had a friend that would do anything to get high. It was a trying experience for me, since loving him made me want to give him my last dime, but loving him also made me not want to facilitate his habit. I can somewhat sympathize with what your going through, but it must be much harder when it's your child. My heart goes out to you. Feel free to vent here anytime. ;) @ joanharvest: Many years ago, I had a friend that would do anything to get high. It was a trying experience for me, since loving him made me want to give him my last dime, but loving him also made me not want to facilitate his habit. I can somewhat sympathize with what your going through, but it must be much harder when it’s your child. My heart goes out to you.

Feel free to vent here anytime. ;)

]]> By: joanharvest http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-27206 joanharvest Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:50:41 +0000 http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-27206 When I found out my son was a heroin addict I would much rather have found out that he were gay. As a gay young man he could lead a happy life and accomplish his goals, have a family. As a heroin and crack addict he's got nothing. Fortunately he is now a year into recovery but his life will never be the same. He still smokes pot, he still comes to us for money, which we finally learned not to give him. I still and always will love him no matter what he is but he still has the addictive personality. If he were gay he could still live with me but I won't live with an addict. He still lies and tries to manipulate me but I am learning. It seems to me that drugs should have a much higher priority then who marries who. It's nobody's business who marries who or who falls in love with whomever. But it is our business when so many of our children are doing hard drugs. My son's ex-girlfriend died of an overdose of heroin in Sept. I don't know why I just wrote all this to you. I suddenly needed to vent and there was your blog plus you are a friend of Wendy's (Life with Buck). I've known her personally since our son's have been best friends since they were 7 and they are now 26. Have a great day!!! When I found out my son was a heroin addict I would much rather have found out that he were gay. As a gay young man he could lead a happy life and accomplish his goals, have a family. As a heroin and crack addict he’s got nothing. Fortunately he is now a year into recovery but his life will never be the same. He still smokes pot, he still comes to us for money, which we finally learned not to give him. I still and always will love him no matter what he is but he still has the addictive personality. If he were gay he could still live with me but I won’t live with an addict. He still lies and tries to manipulate me but I am learning. It seems to me that drugs should have a much higher priority then who marries who. It’s nobody’s business who marries who or who falls in love with whomever. But it is our business when so many of our children are doing hard drugs. My son’s ex-girlfriend died of an overdose of heroin in Sept. I don’t know why I just wrote all this to you. I suddenly needed to vent and there was your blog plus you are a friend of Wendy’s (Life with Buck). I’ve known her personally since our son’s have been best friends since they were 7 and they are now 26. Have a great day!!!

]]> By: Jersey http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-26949 Jersey Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:04:44 +0000 http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-26949 Again, why does everyone attack gay marriage but not the divorced lifestyle, single-parent homes, and families with alcoholism, domestic abuse problems, and the like?!? Aren't these things a little more centuries' old and still need to be resolved as well? Again, why does everyone attack gay marriage but not the divorced lifestyle, single-parent homes, and families with alcoholism, domestic abuse problems, and the like?!? Aren’t these things a little more centuries’ old and still need to be resolved as well?

]]> By: Brian http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-26884 Brian Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:22:13 +0000 http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-26884 @ Karen: You're right. <em>Tying The Knot</em> did a wonderful job of explaining the history of marriage. I wish more people would take the time to watch it. @ fightingwindmills: I think I've heard it all now! Craziness. @ randomyriad: I agree completely. @ Stephanie: It cracks me up, too, when it doesn't make me angry. ;) @ fightingwindmills: We've used God and scripture to justify discrimination far too long, and you've provided an important example. @ Karen: You’re right. Tying The Knot did a wonderful job of explaining the history of marriage. I wish more people would take the time to watch it.

@ fightingwindmills: I think I’ve heard it all now! Craziness.

@ randomyriad: I agree completely.

@ Stephanie: It cracks me up, too, when it doesn’t make me angry. ;)

@ fightingwindmills: We’ve used God and scripture to justify discrimination far too long, and you’ve provided an important example.

]]> By: fightingwindmills http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-26858 fightingwindmills Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:11:49 +0000 http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-26858 Judge Leon Bazile was trying to uphold Virginia's Racial Integrity Act when he ruled against an interracial couple who wanted their rights recognized across state lines. Of course, he played the God card: "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix." Did "activist judges," as conservatives like to call them, on the Supreme Court not change and reshape marriage in Virginia and other states in 1967? Come on, marriage is not a static, stable institution. There's not really any such thing as a traditional American marriage unless you just want to perpetuate patriarchy and white supremacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia Judge Leon Bazile was trying to uphold Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act when he ruled against an interracial couple who wanted their rights recognized across state lines. Of course, he played the God card: “Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.”

Did “activist judges,” as conservatives like to call them, on the Supreme Court not change and reshape marriage in Virginia and other states in 1967? Come on, marriage is not a static, stable institution. There’s not really any such thing as a traditional American marriage unless you just want to perpetuate patriarchy and white supremacy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia

]]> By: Stephanie http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-26851 Stephanie Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:40:30 +0000 http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-26851 There’s never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived. Stuff like this cracks me up. Apparently he wasn't paying attention in history class when we learned that the first King Henry CREATED HIS OWN RELIGION so that he could divorce his wife. Before that, annulments were absolutely forbidden by the church. It's a good thing he didn't rewrite the rules of marriage otherwise we'd have more divorces than successful marriages today. Oh wait... There’s never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.

Stuff like this cracks me up. Apparently he wasn’t paying attention in history class when we learned that the first King Henry CREATED HIS OWN RELIGION so that he could divorce his wife. Before that, annulments were absolutely forbidden by the church. It’s a good thing he didn’t rewrite the rules of marriage otherwise we’d have more divorces than successful marriages today. Oh wait…

]]> By: randomyriad http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-26850 randomyriad Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:43:23 +0000 http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-26850 I wish we could get the God out of politics. I wish people could realize that religion is a personal, subjective, experience, something to be shared with but not forced on others. I love the quote. It says it all so well. I wish we could get the God out of politics. I wish people could realize that religion is a personal, subjective, experience, something to be shared with but not forced on others. I love the quote. It says it all so well.

]]> By: fightingwindmills http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-26848 fightingwindmills Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:51:06 +0000 http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-26848 http://www.liberty.edu/libertyjournal/index.cfm?PID=15758&ArtID=42 LOL! Endorsing Huckabee, Jerry Faldwell Jr. said, “if this candidacy really took off it would have to be a God thing.” I'll have to tell that to the Jehovah's Witnesses. http://www.liberty.edu/libertyjournal/index.cfm?PID=15758&ArtID=42
LOL! Endorsing Huckabee, Jerry Faldwell Jr. said, “if this candidacy really took off it would have to be a God thing.”
I’ll have to tell that to the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

]]> By: Karen http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-26846 Karen Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:03:01 +0000 http://inrepair.net/2007/12/10/presidential-candidate-mike-huckabee-on-gay-rights/#comment-26846 Anyone wanting to know a bit more about the history of marriage should check out the documentary "Tying the Knot." About the degradation of marriage and family: our ability to be faithful to each other is far more critical to social stability than whether there are two penises in a relationship or just one. Anyone wanting to know a bit more about the history of marriage should check out the documentary “Tying the Knot.”

About the degradation of marriage and family: our ability to be faithful to each other is far more critical to social stability than whether there are two penises in a relationship or just one.

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