It has taken me a while to to come to the point where I can post on the passage of WI's budget without including language that I would prefer not to use.
I think those legislators who voted for this monstrosity have lost their focus on the people of WI and are using their positions to advance their own agendas to look good in the eyes of an increasingly politically correct MSM. I think they need to stop worrying about looking "nice" to the outside world and start thinking about their primary duties as legislators of the state of WI. Those duties are to the people of WI. NOT to illegal aliens, not to special interest groups such as trial lawyers or gay rights groups, but to the people of WI.
I'm not saying that those who choose a homosexual lifestyle or trial lawyers or illegal aliens are not people. I must, however point out that the legislators of our state should not be legislating to benefit a tiny portion of the state's population, in the case of those who choose a homosexual lifestyle and trial lawyers, at the expense of the overall population. As for illegal aliens, the duty of our legislators is to prosecute them and to protect the citizens of this state from them -just as it is for every other criminal. I am flabbergasted that not only were such policy items included in the state's budget, but they were allowed to remain. Have we taken leave of our senses? Is it the air in Madison? Or is it simply a departure from what used to be common sense?
As a citizen(for now) of WI, may I say to all of those legislators-I don't have any more money to feed to your politically correct machine. I cannot afford to be nice to any more of the people you think should get my money instead of me. I don't have any more money to give to the state if I want to be able to eat and keep a roof over my head. There are only so many pennies in a dollar and between the state of WI and the folks in D.C. precious few of those pennies belong to me anymore. There can be no more rationalizing that this will only cost each taxpayer 1 cent of every dollar they make. The reality is there are no more pennies. They have all been taken by you and Washington. You were elected to serve my interests. It is not in my interests to make a beggar out of my family or myself in order to benefit criminals and special interest groups. This budget is an affront to common sense and an insult to the people of the state of WI. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
"None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity."~Isaiah 59:4
Thursday, July 23, 2009
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How exactly does allowing gays to marry harm the overall population again?
For starters, it raises the cost of health insurance for everyone. I have read one study that suggests that the health risks of that lifestyle choice exceed the health risks incurred from smoking, alcoholism and illegal drug use combined.
There is also the problem of the high rate of promiscuity among those who choose that lifestyle and the problems of those who secretly engage in these activities while in a marriage. Those who share these diseases with their unsuspecting wives and sometimes children (as many of these diseases carry health risks to the baby, especially when the pregnant woman is unaware that she has been infected.
There is the loss of the children who might have been produced by those who would not otherwise have defied societal barriers to choose such lifestyles. That is a loss we are just beginning to feel although the demographics of Europe are quite dire.
Please see this link. (Or if you have an hour and a half, see this link. ) If you think anyone will be allowed to choose a homosexual lifestyle in a Muslim country, you have been sadly misinformed. Christians may regard that choice as sinful, but they are willing(for the most part-people are people and I certainly don't speak for everyone.) to allow people to make their own choices on their journey to a saving knowledge of Christ's work. Sharia law does not.
Then there is the whole issue of legislation by redefinition. It is a danger to the rule of law to allow any group to gain a legislative shortcut by changing the definition of a term like marriage so that their group may benefit in prior legislation containing that term without going through the legislative process.
Doing so also negates the ability of anyone to craft legislation that may not be twisted by such terminology adjustments. It may seem like an attractive shortcut, but it is really an undermining our entire system of law.
Then there is the morality aspect. You and I both know why the term marriage is so important and it is not for the legislative benefits but rather for the moral legitimacy such a term bestows upon those who can claim that status. The fact is, that in American culture and in Christian culture (as well as many others) the practice of homosexuality has been defined as immoral for our entire history. In Christianity, it is clearly labeled as a sin. To remove that detrimental view of such an unhealthy behavior is to feed the decay of moral relativity. It denys the wisdom of generations of people and their collective experience. To make such a change without a truly in-depth study of why this is the case and what effect changing it will have upon one's society is an appalling idea, What will become okay in the views of the moral relativists next?
What if someone claims they have a "natural" urge to kill people? Should we redefine murder so that those who wish to indulge in it are no longer viewed as criminals or sinful? Shall we use a media campaign to make those who don't wish to be the victims or the families of the victims of these murderes feel guilty for wanting to squelch a "natural" behavior?How about kleptomaniacs? Should they just be allowed to continue stealing from others because for them that behavior is "natural"?
There must be standards of behavior that are commonly accepted in a culture/society for that society to continue to function in a civilized manner.
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ~John Adams
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