December 28, 2007
The thought of us getting rights just scares the crap out of them.
While tooling around the Intertubes I came across this little pile of nonsense.
A spokesman for Concerned Women for America warns that yet another piece of legislation being promoted in the Democrat-led Congress would force taxpayers to subsidize immoral and dangerous behavior.
Of course the legislation to which CWA is referring is HR 4838, which proposes to provide same-sex domestic partner benefits to federal employees.
The article goes on to say:
“For the government to take a moral stance here [regarding] people who engage in homosexual conduct is essentially equating that conduct to natural sexual relations between married, heterosexual couples,” states Barber. “This really introduces us to the whole idea of gay ‘marriage’ at the national level to federal ENDA.”
No, what it does is recognize that committed same-sex couples have the same rights to benefits that opposite-sex ones do. It has nothing to do with what people do in the bedroom, if they do anything at all. Only the RRRW has an unnatural obsession with what goes on in peoples’ bedrooms.
Barber believes most people do not realize that all of the major benefits being sought by homosexual “couples” are already available through relatively simple means, such as power of attorney and rights of inheritance….”It’s just a matter of filling out the paperwork,” he explains.
First of all, many of the rights, such as health insurance, dental insurance, survivors benefits, and the like would not be available “through relatively simple means” such as power of attorney and rights of inheritance. These rights must be granted through one partner’s employer to the other partner, and while some do it as a matter of company policy, it typically takes a law to force them to do so.
Second of all, even those rights that can be made available through power of attorney and rights of inheritance require partners to obtain the services of attorneys, file legal paperwork, and sometimes even carry that paperwork with them to ensure their rights are enforced. This adds up to innumerable legal battles and costs that opposite-sex couples don’t have to face and it is patently unfair.
“But I think the big issue here again, the big problem, is that this lends official government recognition to unhealthy and immoral behavior.”
Unhealthy and immoral behavior? Like engaging in a pre-emptive war which has killed 86,942 and counting, based on lies? Like penalizing people who try to feed poor/homeless people? Vetoing health care for needy children?
Funny how narrow certain people’s idea of “unhealty and immoral behavior” is. They don’t care if people are dying in the streets, being slaughtered over seas, or going without health insurance. But if the federal government allows gay couples to have rights that’s a travesty. As far as I’m concerned, some people have horribly skewed ideals.
Filed under: Concerned Women, Employment/ENDA, Homophobia, Marriage Equality
