Want to keep the cause for "traidtional marriage" going? Well, we'll just date your girlfriends.
Hilarious response from College Humor:
Dedicated to ending Bullying, Teen Suicide, LGBTQ hate and Homelessness.
Showing posts with label Civil Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil Rights. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Jon Stewart analyzes Mike Huckabee and gay marriage.
Always good for a laugh at the expense of the ultra conservative GOP and it's mother, The Tea Party, this video will make your day just a littel brighter...watch here:
Friday, October 28, 2011
Government and Law Enforcement Twist Google’s Arm For Data, Google Complies | Addicting Info
One by one the Constitutional freedoms Americans supposedly "enjoy" are being eroded slowly away without most people even knowing it. In this Google issued Transparency Report, Google was requested by the government, courts, local and state police to erase from its database:
Everything from videos of police brutality, to information supposedly pertaining to national security were among the requests. The report also states one request from American authorities was to remove a video it believed to be critical of the government.
Separately, the report declares American law enforcement requested data from Google on 11,057 different users or accounts. Google said it complied with 4,700 of those requests. Almost all of this data sharing was done without a warrant.(from Addictinginfo.org)
The ECPA has been met with criticism through the years including its failure to protect all communications and consumer records. Under the ECPA it is relatively easy for a governmental agency to demand service providers hand over consumer data that has been stored on servers. All that is required of the agency is a written statement certifying that the information is relevant to an investigation of foreign counterintelligence with no judicial review required. It also increased the list of crimes that can justify the use of surveillance as well as the number of judicial members who can authorize such surveillance. Data can be obtained without a warrant on traffic and calling patterns of an individual or group allowing an agency to gain valuable intelligence and possibly invade privacy without coming under fire because the actual content of the communication is left untouched. While workplace communications are in theory protected an employer must simply give notice or a supervisor must feel that the employee’s actions are not in the company’s “interest” to gain access to communiqué. This means that with minimal assumptions an employer can monitor communications within the company. The ongoing debate is where to limit the government’s power to see into civilian lives while balancing the need to curb national threats. The ECPA falls directly in the middle of this debate both sides wanting revisions and clarifications made by the courts and legislation.
You might want to consider what you say online with any computer entity, send over the line, or even think of commenting on.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
New Hampshire House Panel to Vote on Gay Marriage Repeal | New Hampshire | The Advocate
The bill — HB 437, sponsored by Rep. David Bates — would also expand the state’s civil-union law to any two unmarried adults, even if they’re related.
“If we’re going to create a legal status for individuals with rights and responsibilities for the special relationship they have, there’s no good reason to make that exclusive to homosexuals,” Bates countered. “We’ve heard for years how it’s none of the state’s business what people do in their own homes and how we have to get the government out of people’s bedrooms. That’s exactly what this legislation does. We created a civil- union status where there does not need to be any expectation of a sexual relationship. It’s more similar to a limited-liability corporation, where people enter into partnerships for a variety of relationships all the time. This bill doesn’t encourage incest any more than an LLC law.”Hopefully the governor will remember his veto power when it comes across his desk for certain signature.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
A Question of Integrity - Supreme Court Justices
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Adrian Smith demoted for not backing gay marriage after criticising new law on Facebook | Mail Online
Sometimes I believe that a cause, protest, even the "right" for equality of same-sex marriage can go a little too far. Don't get me wrong, I believe that equality is needed for all of us and has to come about soon. And it is in many ways with same-sex marriage legal now in six states and civil unions in a few others. But sometimes, in our zealous fight to win, we have collateral casualties that shouldn't be.
I believe this is the case with Adrian Smith, a Christian and employee of the Trafford Housing Trust, living in the UK, who placed a somewhat inocuous statement on his personal FaceBook page stating his belief that, "allowing gay weddings in churches was ‘an equality too far’." His statement and page were only viewable by his friends and not the general public, but apparently one of his co-workers complained, asking : "‘Does this mean you don’t approve?’ The following evening after work, Mr Smith, who attends an evangelical church in Bolton, responded: ‘No, not really. I don’t understand why people who have no faith and don’t believe in Christ would want to get hitched in church.‘The Bible is quite specific that marriage is for men and women. If the State wants to offer civil marriages to the same sex then that is up to the State; but the State shouldn’t impose its rules on places of faith and conscience.’
Recent legislation proposed in the UK would allow gay ceremonies to be held in churches and other religious places.
Lawyers
for Mr Smith, whom friends describe as affable and non-confrontational,
say his comments were merely expressing an ‘honest belief’ based on his
Christian faith.
I believe that this is a fair expression of his personal beliefs and a violation of his civil rights . Unfortunately, his life has been affected by this as his employer suspended him, then demoted him to money support adviser, handling rent collection. His pay was reduced from £35,000 to £21,396 a year, phased in over a year, and he was given a final written warning.
The question remains thus: can we sometimes, in our fight for equality, go too far and create the very same situation for people for which we are fighting for?
I believe this is the case with Adrian Smith, a Christian and employee of the Trafford Housing Trust, living in the UK, who placed a somewhat inocuous statement on his personal FaceBook page stating his belief that, "allowing gay weddings in churches was ‘an equality too far’." His statement and page were only viewable by his friends and not the general public, but apparently one of his co-workers complained, asking : "‘Does this mean you don’t approve?’ The following evening after work, Mr Smith, who attends an evangelical church in Bolton, responded: ‘No, not really. I don’t understand why people who have no faith and don’t believe in Christ would want to get hitched in church.‘The Bible is quite specific that marriage is for men and women. If the State wants to offer civil marriages to the same sex then that is up to the State; but the State shouldn’t impose its rules on places of faith and conscience.’
Recent legislation proposed in the UK would allow gay ceremonies to be held in churches and other religious places.
 |
| Adrian Smith |
I believe that this is a fair expression of his personal beliefs and a violation of his civil rights . Unfortunately, his life has been affected by this as his employer suspended him, then demoted him to money support adviser, handling rent collection. His pay was reduced from £35,000 to £21,396 a year, phased in over a year, and he was given a final written warning.
The question remains thus: can we sometimes, in our fight for equality, go too far and create the very same situation for people for which we are fighting for?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
LinkWithin
