Watch the religious right "squeal like pigs" when they don't get their way .
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-Tock
"stay on topic" <heirarchy@newsgroup.com> wrote in message
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 05:14:23 -0400, Yang Phd (n.a.) <ying@N0SPAM.C0M>
wrote:
Nothing remotely relevent to state political newsgroups. This belongs in
national
political newsgroup forums.............
Posting Netiquette
Senator Lincoln figures that Arkansas voters will not remember Pro
Homo Marriage Vote in November
By Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman, American Family
Association
Arkansas Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor recently voted to
legalize homosexual marriage. Now, they will tell you that is not
true. But if you take away all the rhetoric and put the issue of their
voting against the Federal Marriage Amendment down to the bottom line,
that is clearly what they did. They opposed marriage as being only
between one man and one woman.
They voted to use America's children as guinea pigs in a grand social
experiment making homosexual marriage the equal of a marriage between
a man and a woman. And they voted to allow one activist federal judge
to overturn the marriage laws in 50 states.
Why would two "conservative" Democratic senators from Arkansas vote to
legalize homosexual marriage in a conservative state where voters are
expected to overwhelmingly approve a state constitutional amendment
defining marriage as only between a man and a woman? Let me explain.
Since Sen. Lincoln is up for re-election in November and Sen. Pryor is
not, I will use her to answer the question.
Sen. Lincoln's first loyalty is to Sen. Tom Daschle and the Democratic
Party, not to the voters of Arkansas. You see, she has to face Sen.
Daschle and the Democratic Senatorial leadership every day and she has
to face the voters in Arkansas only once every six years. So when it
comes time for her to choose between the two in a close and
controversial vote, Sen. Daschle and the party will win every time.
Arkansas voters forgive and forget. Sen. Daschle doesn't. So if Sen.
Lincoln wants to get prized committee appointments from Sen. Daschle,
she must do as he says. And if she wants to get millions of dollars to
spend at re-election time, she must play ball with the most liberal
Democrats in the U.S. Senate. After all, the name of the game in
politics is to get re-elected. That goal always takes precedent over
everything else in a good politician's life.
Second, if she is confronted with her vote to legalize homosexual
marriages, she can always explain her vote in a confusing manner. The
voters are too dumb to understand what her vote against the FMA really
means. She can, and will, tell Arkansas voters that she was voting for
state's rights. That will play well in Arkansas. Truth is that she
voted to do the exact opposite. She voted to refuse to let voters in
Arkansas have a voice in the legalization of homosexual marriage. The
Federal Marriage Amendment would have allowed Arkansans to vote if she
and the other liberal senators had allowed the FMA to pass.
Next, her vote for homosexual marriage will mean she will get hundreds
of thousands, if not millions, of dollars from liberal sources in her
re-election bid. She can use that money to run thousands of TV spots
telling the voters in Arkansas how much she has done for their state.
Her re-election should be a shoo-in. She is running against an unknown
opponent who will receive little, if any, money from the Republican
party. She will be able to outspend him 10-1. The liberal media will
give her a big, big push. She feels safe.
No doubt this is her thinking: the people may be upset a little right
now, but by election time they will have forgotten her vote to
legalize homosexual marriage. They will only remember her name and the
fact that she is their Senator, and they will vote to send her back to
Washington for six more years. Those who are upset with her vote will
not work, give nor vote. That is her thinking, and I must confess that
if history is any indication, she is probably right.
Sen. Lincoln, I tip my hat to you. You are a very shrewd politician.
Your re-election should be a shoo-in.
Unless, that is, the voters remember in November.
The Democratic party-Proudly Celebrating 60 Years of Aid & Comfort for
America's Enemies.
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