Judge Judy Sheindlin on Larry King Live:
“We’ve got a lot of trouble in this country. We’ve got a lot of trouble in the world. Why the state should be interested in proscribing the word marriage from two people who love each other, who are responsible, tax-paying, productive people, who have created a family … why the state would have an interest in proscribing that kind of conduct, I don’t understand.
“I understand the anger about poverty. I understand the anger about AIG. I understand the problem about the banks. I understand the problem about Afghanistan and the Taliban and everything else. But I don’t understand the preoccupation with gays being permitted to marry.”
- Topic: News & Comment
- Topics: Congress
Judy, Judy, Judy-you have such a way with words!
A Practical Way To Attain Gay/Lesbian Rights
“Which is?”
“Beginning on, say, April 1, a nationwide daily 30 minute vigil is held in which all one has to do to participate is stand outside one’s residence for 30 minutes, holding up a handmade sign inscribed with “Gay/Lesbian Marriage, Yes We Can.”
“For how many days?”
“Until President Obama & Congress meet our demands.”
“How will they know about it?”
“Initially through the Internet, but as the vigil gains momentum, MSM will pick up on it, and, when it really takes off, there’ll be aerial and satellite imaging.”
“What’s the advantage over the traditional rally &/or march?”
“Firstly it’s new & secondly there’s the ease in joining a vigil merely by standing outside one’s home compared to the hastle of having to travel to this/that destination for a once every few months rally or march.”
“But what if one is the only person on the street who’s in the vigil? Won’t that be embarrassing?”
“Maybe at first but the next day there’ll be someone else, then two or three more and, before long, signs up & down the street.”
“Anything else?”
“We can do this.”
Gay Marriage Issue:
A main concern about Gay Marriage and the law is that gays will be allowed to sue churches that won’t marry them. A Church should not be forced to marry gays if it’s against their beliefs. If gays want to get married by the Justice of the Peace that would be okay. Therefore, the law allowing gays to marry should have that understood.
No Sara Clark, that’s a stupid, false concern. Churches don’t have to marry anyone now or if same-sex marriage were legal in all states. I don’t know if you’ve heard about the missing child case in Northeast Florida, but the father recently married his 17-year-old girlfriend. The church in their tiny town refused to perform the service so they did it in the backyard. Churches usually restrict the ceremony to their own members, and even then, the minister can decline for other reasons, such as failure to attend marriage classes or the bride being 17. Your concern is just an anti-gay marriage argument put up by Mormons and others to confuse the issue. Don’t buy in to it.
Sara Clark wrote:
A main concern about Gay Marriage and the law is that gays will be allowed to sue churches that won’t marry them.
You really are grasping at straws. Exactly the same argument would apply to all forms of marriage, but somehow never gets trotted out when a church refuses to marry a man and a woman.
Come on now, Sara Clark. Why would a gay or lesbian couple want the most special day of their lives, their wedding, to take place in a church where their very existence is preached down upon each and every week? Where your ‘Men Of God’ actually teach young Gay & Lesbian children that they are going to burn in Hell for all eternity strictly for being who they were put on this Earth by God to be? I mean, seriously, Sara Clark…
WHO on EARTH would want to have their wedding in such a place?
Answer: Straight people.
I can’t imagine why, either. Seems like a horrible, nasty place to me. The church, that is.
But then again, I’m a big homo, so there you go.
Sarah, A church can refuse to marry anyone, if they are straight, gay, whatever. If you dont go to church, then the church can still refuse to marry you! The question is not “Is gay marrage a right?” but rather more “Is gay marriage allowed?”. I don’t agree with forced marrages at all, weather its forced on the wedding party or even the minister!
It’s all about getting rid of absolute truth so folks can say that, whatever it is that they do is OK for x number of reason, or just because it feels good and they dont’ need a reason. Judge Judy, read the Bible clearly, or you will be required to stand before your Judge and give an account of your sinful actions.