"Protect marriage" anti-gay proposition LOSING in AZ!!!!

[demzilla]

It'll be close but common sense is ahead by 4 points:

http://www.azsos.gov/results/2006/general/BM107.htm

[deepthought42]

1. That is good to hear

If we'd had anything like that in MD this time around, you can bet I would vote against it!

[Robeysays]

2. yeSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hu-ray!

[Divine Discontent]

3. that is such good news for us...

in a sully night for gay rights issues

[Pushed To The Left]

4. As a Californian, I'm impressed!

Looks like Arizona may be becoming more progressive than our state! Good for you, Arizonians!

[jpwhite]

5. gay marriage is good for everyone

Gay marriage is a good thing for all Americans. This is something that encourages monogamy. One of the biggest complaints made by conservatives about people who are gay is that they are too promiscious. The solution is simple, let people who are gay have the same rights that people who are straight have.

Oh yeah, ultra conservatives think homosexuality is a sin. Of course, they won't come out and admit that will they.

James
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[newyawker99]

6. Hi jpwhite!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[bluedawg12]

7. They do think it's a sin.

The far right does think that homosexuality is a sin. That's why they (claim) they can't legitimize any form of gay union, because, in their mind, they can't legitimize a sinful union.

However, they claim that it is a sin based on laws from Leviticus, which mentions many outdated social/religious laws, and they also quote St. Paul aka Saul who brought the Mosaic law into the new Christian Church. Look in the New Testament, Jesus never ever mentioned homosexuality.

The far right has been using gay issues for such a long time as a way to scare people and to dangle gays as bait through all kinds of stereotypes and fear mongering that it's almost futile to argue theology with those that have deeply biased beliefs based on prejudices against other human beings.

Dehumanizing a certain group and fear baiting the rest of society was a deft ploy circa 1933 Germany.

Here are some examples of the laws, which are no longer applied, so there is selective use of
the laws.


Leviticus, chapter 20
8: And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
9: For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
10: And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
18: And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
25: Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

Leviticus, chapter 21
17: Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
18: For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
19: Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
20: Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken

Leviticus, chapter 24
16: And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.
17: And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.