Posted by
KsReaganite on Sunday, July 30, 2006 4:14:00 AM
On one fundamental issue KsReaganite wholeheartedly agrees with the gay/lesbian lobby: it is the height of hypocrisy for so many Republican politicians to claim to ‘protect’ heterosexual marriage by various kinds of amendments. The idea of ‘marriage’ between two men or two women is beyond my imagination and beneath the dignity of a comment. But that preposterous idea is an extremely miniscule risk to traditional marriage compared to much bigger threats like adultery, spousal abuse, and no-fault divorce. And who are the loudest champions of prohibiting gay ‘marriage’? Here is a small sampling, federal and state:
- Congressman Steve LaTourette of Ohio, the adulterer who filed to divorce his wife and mother of his five children so that he could openly shack up with his young paramour
- Newt Gingrich…enough said
- Congressman Tom Davis III of Virginia, who left his wife of 30 years, and mother of his three children, to marry the protégé he was having an affair with
- State Senator Jeannemarie Devolitte of Virginia, who cheated on her husband of 24 years, and father of her four children, with Congressman Tom Davis
- Former U.S. Senator Tim Hutchinson of Arkansas, who left his wife of 30 plus years, to shack up with a tobacco lobbyist fifteen years his junior
- State Representative Mike O’Neal of Kansas, Chairman of the Kansas House Judiciary Committee, who left his wife of 15 odd years to put finishing touches on his affair
- United States Senate candidate John Spence of New York, who left his wife and mother of two children without even the formality of a divorce, shacked up with his secretary by whom he had three kids…polygamy at its best!
If these Republicans were as serious about protecting marriage, they would act more ethically in their own marriages and set good examples for others. And, if they must do something legislatively to protect marriage, such an effort should be directed towards reforming the divorce laws so that children’s homes are not broken up just because a parent has a seven-year itch. Unlikely that this would happen since any common-sense, equitable reform of divorce laws will bring instant bombastic opposition from three most powerful segments of our society that make their living on the backs of broken homes: sleazy male politicians, the American Bar Association, and the National Organization of Women.
Having Tim Hutchinson and Jeannemarie Devolitte protect hetrosexual marriages is like having Sarah Brady protect the Second Amendment.