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Monday, September 15, 2008
Star Parker :: Townhall.com Columnist
Barney Frank and the politics of family values
by Star Parker
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I'm not holding my breath waiting for Barney Frank to write an outraged column about the abrogation of Crystal Dixon's freedom. I'm not expecting much respect and compassion from the congressman for a woman who lost her job because she is a Christian and tired of sitting by quietly and passively as others force their counter-world view on her.

Barney Frank calls James Dobson "one of the leading advocates for imposing moral choices on the rest of us."

Frank introduced last year the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007 making it a federal crime for an employer to deny employment to an individual because of their sexual orientation.

Dobson talks on the radio. Frank, a congressman, wields major political power and wants to pass legislation imposing his sense of right and wrong on every employer in America, and yet he sees Dobson as the threat to freedom.

As the many Americans who quietly go to church and unobtrusively raise their families have sat by quietly and passively over the years, left-wing activists such as Frank have hijacked our nation and our culture. Now that those who care about traditional values respond, they are called intolerant.

Initiatives to constitutionally define marriage as between a man and a woman have not come out of the blue. They are in response to left-wing inspired judicial activism that, if ignored, would result in homosexual marriage becoming a formal and legal reality in America.

Of course, conservatives are thrilled by the candidacy of Sarah Palin.

And, of course, Christians understand that to err is to be human. Forgiveness is a pillar of our faith.

We even forgive Barney Frank. Our only intolerance is toward his campaign to tear down the traditional values foundation of our country and replace them with his culture of nihilism.

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Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition for Urban Renewal & Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty, as well as author of White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay.
 
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eddie too
You just proved my point is valid. Inside of the bedroom, there is nothing exclusive going on. PUBLIC comportment isn't
either.

When a gay person is engaging the public in their profession, relationships as a couple and/or parent, or performing in socially responsible and affirming institutions, THEY ARE NO DIFFERENT, nor have to be treated as such and excluded unless you are prepared to do the same against a heterosexual engaged in the SAME PRIVATE behavior.


And you're not (and civil law cannot) because you don't and can't go beyond that particular veil of privacy.
You have NO IDEA what people are doing (and have no reason to shy of criminal activity against someone) and therefore can't discriminate because of it.

You aren't smart enough to argue the legal aspect (because you haven't), so don't try argue on behalf of what doesn't exist.

As for any other questions people. You KNOW what marriage is. You know what it means and you know what people are expected to do with it.

DP's, civil unions, anything other than marriage, you don't know what it is or it's definition.

THAT is why it has to be marriage or nothing and no reason why it shouldn't be. If only to not have things so impossibly, stupidly and unnecessarily complicated.

Standing Up For what's Right
One thing is for sure,we had better defend our country's traditions and morals,because life isn't do as you please.
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