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Does the constitution need to be amended to ban gay marriages?President Bush urged approval of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriages on Tuesday, pushing a divisive social issue to the center of the election campaign and setting a clear policy contrast with Democratic challengers John Kerry and John Edwards.
http://www.geocities.com/hugenoteblad/hist-hug.htmIt was Catherine de Medici who persuaded her weakling son Charles IX to order the mass murder, which lasted three days and spread to the countryside. On Sunday morning August 24th, 1572 she personally walked through the streets of Paris to inspect the carnage. Henry of Navarre's life was spared by pretending to support the Roman Catholic faith. In 1593 he made his "perilous leap"and abjured his faith in July 1593, and 5 years later he was the undisputed monarch as King Henry IV (le bon Henri, the good Henry) of France.
When the first rumours of the massacre reached the Vatican in Rome on 2 September 1572, pope Gregory XIII was jubilant and wanted bonfires to be lit in Rome. He was persuaded to wait for the official communication; the very morning of the day that he received the confirmed news, the pope held a consistory and announced that "God had been pleased to be merciful". Then with all the cardinals he repaired to the Church of St. Mark for the Te Deum, and prayed and ordered prayers that the Most Christian King might rid and purge his entire kingdom (of France) of the Huguenot plague.
http://www.huguenotsocietyofamerica.org ... ml#anchor8The Huguenots "carried with them the fixed principle of the supremacy of constitutional law. Liberty of thought; liberty of faith; liberty of worship -- these were the aspirations of the Huguenots. They fostered here the germ of independence, regulated by law, which brought to pass what... we call American democracy."
No less than eleven Presidents of the United States were descendants of Huguenot immigrants; George Washington (in whose home, Mount Vernon, hangs the Key to the Bastille), John Quincy Adams, John Tyler, James Garfield, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush.
Inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty are these words: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, the tempest-tost, to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door." What better place for this gift of France to stand than on Bedloe's Island (now called Liberty Island), named for a Huguenot who found refuge on these shores?
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit if happiness are inalienable rights for everyone, not just christians. banning gay marriages is an affront to those three things. The Bush White House needs to brush up on his country's history as well. I dont think most Americans will stand for the government reaching in our personal lives like that.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
From my point of view the state should have no right recognizing any marriage at all.Though I'm opposed to the state recognizing gay marriages,
CanadianBuddhist wrote:My feeling is, if you are gay then you would be in favor of gay marraiges
and if you are not gay then you should have no say whatsoever because it doesn't affect you in any way.
Well, that's a novel view. I think I like it. Wow, so I guess you are in favor of Gay Marriage and do not advocate an amendment to ban Gay Marriage? I will also pray for his friend, I will pray that man no longer plays God and loves each other equally as it is only Gods place to judge man.adherent wrote:juber3 old chap, the way to go is to follow in the foot steps of God. Its a narrow path as all christians should have found out by now. I will pray for your friend as you should too.
