State Senate President John Cullerton has scheduled a vote on gay marriage tomorrow–Valentine’s Day.
On her Crystal Lake Tea Party email, Mary Alger writes about that vote.
The Crystal Lake Tea Party logo.
“We met with Senator Pam Althoff in Woodstock yesterday and she still doesn’t know how she’ll vote on same sex marriage!
“Relevant Radio is saying she is a key vote for its passage.
“Please let her know she is being used to achieve their goal of peeling off the weak votes by inviting them into the process only to discard what she believes she achieves.
“It is CRUCIAL that you call her office NOW and tell her to vote NO on any and all same sex marriage bills! God is giving us this opportunity to defend our culture as it was created and enshrined in our Constitution.
“God has ordered nature in His supreme wisdom. This bill serves to create disorder and chaos which is exactly what the evil one seeks.
“Here is her contact information:
Offices:
M103C State Capitol, Springfield,
Phone: 217-782-8000
Fax: 217-782-9586
5400 West Elm, Suite 103,McHenry
Phone: 815-455-6330
Fax: 815-679-6756
Email: pamela@pamelaalthoff.net
Wow. I’ve seen some Tea party insanity but this has to take it to a whole new level: “God is giving us this opportunity to defend our culture as it was created and enshrined in our Constitution. God has ordered nature in His supreme wisdom. This bill serves to create disorder and chaos which is exactly what the evil one seeks.”
So a vote for gay marriage is a vote against God’s desires?
Not a particular religion but God himself? And to do otherwise is to do the bidding of “the evil one”?
If I were a member of this group I’d be frankly embarrassed to haver someone like this speaking for me.
Remember when the Tea Party supposedly cared about budget issues, and not social issues?
So much for that…
And absolutely no one expects Sen. Althoff to be the deciding vote. But she absolutely should vote for this.
Because it is the right thing to do.
We’ll all be looking back in 20-30 years at the folks that voted no, just as we shake our head in disgust now at those that were on the wrong side of segregation, inter-racial marriage, and other racial civil rights issues decades ago.
I just wrote to Senator Althoff to ask her to vote yes on marriage equality in Illinois.
I encourage all others who feel the same to contact Senator Althoff and urge her to vote yes.
The time is right and as Dave said: “It is the right thing to do”.
dave says: “We’ll all be looking back in 20-30 years at the folks that voted no, just as we shake our head in disgust now at those that were on the wrong side of segregation, inter-racial marriage, and other racial civil rights issues decades ago.”
That’s a pretty bold statement, peering into the crystal ball like that.
For thousands of years nations have acknowledged marriage as an institution created by God, not man.
No man or nation has the right to redefine it.
Those who don’t acknowledge the religious rationale, can at least acknowledge the documented negative impacts to children raised by same-sex couples revealed in long-term studies.
Pamela Altoff would be well within reason to reject the redefinition of marriage.
She will do the right thing and vote YES
Doesn’t anyone read and heed the BIBLE anymore? Or the
reasoning of thousands of years be thrown aside because
changing liberal thinking? If you wish to be a homosexual,
fine, but please don’t shove that lifestyle in normal people’s
faces.
I expect Pam Althoff and all Republican party members to vote according to the GOP platform!
If you wish to be a Christian, fine, but please don’t shove that lifestyle in normal people’s faces.
To Klatu. Sadly, the Bible is like an iTunes license agreement to most Christians as they don’t read it all and just click “yes, I agree.”
Maybe that’s an explanation for people abandoning the literal interpretation of 2,000 year old reasoning for liberal thinking – liberal by definition meaning, “Open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.”
And just to further clarify, the definition of values is “the worth, importance, or usefulness of something to somebody.”
Interestingly enough, the value of the “Old Testament” to many fundamentalist Christians pales in comparison to that of the “New Testament” and it just so happens that Leviticus is in the OLD Testament.
Also interesting, the Gospel writers sort of forgot to really mention anything about Jesus condemning homosexuality.
Which if it were such a big deal, you would think at Sermon on the Mount where he attempted to get rid of “black and white” thinking.
By the way, to all you fundamentalists out there, or young earth creationists, or those who literally interpret the Bible – if you are wearing clothes with two different kinds of fabrics, have ever eaten pork or lobster, have ever doubted the Holy Spirit just once, have ever looked at another woman/man in a lustful way, you are going to Hell.
Last Question: “Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic to direct us toward one holy entity of love, as opposed to a specific litigious text to direct the behavior of human beings? The Bible wasn’t literally written by a cosmic entity. It was written by people.”
That’s from Russell Brand.
In case you don’t know him, you probably will…. when you go to Hell for that bacon you had this morning.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Render under Caesar that which is Caesar’s.
The Christian Bible says there is a separation of Church and state.
Why don’t Christians get that?
Government is a civil authority (Casesar’s).
Gay rights don’t redefine Christian marriage.
That will stay the same.
We’re only really talking about civil rights.
Dave Says:
Yes, what happened to those issues?
If T had stuck to that they would have had more votes, but they are getting very far-edge.
Being conservative is different from being in other peoples’ bedrooms.