[Vision2020] Idaho House OKs Gay Marriage Ban Amendment.

[thansen@moscow.com]

I agree Melynda.  Care to join me in putting up a sign on east-bound Highway 8 
at the Idaho/Washington state line?

"Welcome to Idaho.  Please set your watches back 50 years."

Tom Hansen
Intolerista to the Stars


> According to a piece in the Statesman, 53 House representatives voted 
> yesterday to approve a constitutional amendment against gay marriage in 
> Idaho.  The debate lasted 20 minutes.
> 
> "Rep. Lawerence Denney, R-Midvale, who co-sponsored the bill, said America 
> is moving into the second generation of the sexual revolution and the result 
> is a rejection of Christian values and an embracing of situational ethics. 
> That, in turn, Denney said, has led to an increase in unstable homes.
> 
> " 'We have to protect the family,' said co-sponsor Denney in his closing 
> remarks.
> 
> " 'If we don´t set boundaries, we lose our structure and all we have is 
> chaos. We can and we should legislate morality.' ”
> 
> Now of course I've got a horse in this race:  I've been married without 
> portfolio for 12 years, and we've got two kids to protect.  But help me to 
> understand, as we say in the conflict resolution business, what Idaho 
> families could possibly gain by keeping me legally single and our kids 
> without legal relationships with their parents?  Marriage is not, as far as 
> I know, a zero-sum game.  Unlike moose tags, no lottery is required for 
> conservation purposes.  For Heaven's sake, 13-year-old first cousins can 
> marry in Idaho--in striking contrast to most other states.
> 
> Whether Lawerence Denney likes it or not, I've got a family, and it's not 
> going anywhere.  It's an Idaho family--three people in it were born in 
> Moscow, and both of the adults in it are voting, tax-paying citizens of 
> Idaho.  It's lasted 6 years longer already than 50% of first marriages in 
> the U.S.  It does not sow chaos, or even untidiness, in my town.  I have 
> never for even one moment disturbed the flow of heterosexuality around me.  
> Mr. Denney vastly overestimates my powers if he thinks I can degrade 
> marriage further than, say, Britney Spears has.
> 
> I don't know if I can even convey how insulting and painful it is to be the 
> object of this kind of legislative conversation--but I'd like to invite 
> every heterosexual person on Vision 2020, whether married or not, to imagine 
> for a moment how you'd feel if it were your family, or your marriage, that 
> was targeted by not just a law, but a constitutional amendment.  If you've 
> got kids, think about how you'd explain to them that your family is so 
> unwelcome in your state that the Constitution needs to say so.
> 
> Melynda Huskey
> 
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