[Vision2020] Jeb Bush Featured in Gay Marriage Ads

[pkraut at moscow.com]

You are trying to argue with the state and this is a church issue. The 
church does not want to marry homosexuals because the bible talks about it 
being an no-no. The church also questioned marrying outside of their 
religion and race because the bible suggests it is not a good thing. By 
taking the issue to the church you would actually have to discuss this 
problem with some reality which of course is why it is presented to the 
state. If the church decided to marry outside of race you need to seek the 
answer from churches. There are churches that are willing to marry 
homosexuals also...with some of the same problems that happened when some 
chose to marry outside of race. 





> >From today's (June 3, 2007) Spokesman Review -
> 
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> 
> Jeb Bush featured in gay marriage ads 
> Lesley Clark 
> McClatchy
> June 3, 2007
> 
> WASHINGTON - Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the poster child for gay
> marriage?
> 
> A coalition of civil rights groups that back gay marriage is using 
photos of
> prominent couples like the former Republican governor and his Mexican-
born
> wife, Columba, in an advertising campaign marking the 40th anniversary of
> Loving v. Virginia, a U.S. Supreme Court decision that gave interracial
> couples the right to marry.
> 
> The groups say they hope to use the couples and the court case to bolster
> their contention that marriage is a civil right that should know no 
bounds -
> even for those of the same sex.
>  
> "We're honoring and celebrating something that just over 40 years ago 
some
> Americans said was immoral and wrong and could not happen," said Jimmy
> Creech, the executive director of Faith in America, a gay rights advocacy
> group that is bankrolling the ad campaign. "We're celebrating the wisdom
> that prejudice and bigotry was removed from the law books and Americans 
were
> given the right to marry the person they loved, regardless of race."
> 
> The "Freedom to Marry" advertising campaign - to be launched Monday -
> consists of six ads that will run in two Capitol Hill publications, Roll
> Call and Politico. They feature photos of interracial couples like golfer
> Tiger Woods and his wife, Elin, and former U.S. Defense Secretary Bill 
Cohen
> and his wife, Janet Langhart, who have authored a book about their 
marriage,
> "Love in Black and White." Couples married to someone of a different
> ethnicity, like the Bushes, are also featured.
> 
> The ads note that 16 states still banned interracial marriages until the
> Supreme Court struck down a Virginia law in 1967, finding "the freedom to
> marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights 
essential
> to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men."
> 
> "Jeb and Columba Bush couldn't marry today if discrimination were still 
the
> law of the land," the ad that features the former Florida first couple
> reads.
> 
> Bush didn't respond to a request for comment. But John Stemberger, an
> Orlando attorney who is spearheading a petition drive to put a gay 
marriage
> ban up for a vote in Florida in 2008, called the ads "a little bit 
silly."
> 
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> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in
> Albany, Georgia and St. Augustine, Florida, and many other campaigns of 
the
> Civil Rights Movement.  Many of these courageous men and women were 
fighting
> for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, 
and
> I salute their contributions."
> 
> - Coretta Scott King (March 30, 1998)
> 
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