From the Texas GOP's 2006 party platform comes this gem.
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5. We believe that traditional marriage is a legal and moral
commitment between a natural man and a natural woman.
We recognize that the family is the foundational unit of a
healthy society and consists of those related by blood,
marriage, or adoption. The family is responsible for its own
welfare, education, moral training, conduct, and property.
No where has marriage ever been defined with the words natural, it's a very recent, very Republican addition.
What constitutes a natural man or woman. How does a intersexed individual, who is not strictly male or female as we generally understand them, get classified. I think it's clear that this modification to the definition of marriage is aimed at transsexuals.
Republicans have won most of the battles over gay marriage through the hatred and bigotry of the average under educated, religiously brainwashed, uninformed citizen. With that base of support assured, the Republican Party appears to believe that it is now ok to start redefining marriage in their favor.
Another interesting tidbit from the Texas Republicans 2006 Party Platform:
QuoteThe family is responsible for its own welfare, education, moral training, conduct, and property.
Polispeak translation: If you or your family need any kind of help don't come looking at your government for help, and you can definitely forget about asking the Republican Party for any either.
The Republicans are not interested in helping you even though they would be required to do so if they were real Christians. Instead they really are this fake ass, lets pretend to be "Christians" to get the rubes vote, for our own personal political power, hypocrite kind.
When are the few remaining die hard Republican supporters gonna take their heads out of their asses and leave a party which has clearly degraded from the party of Abraham Lincoln, the party of fiscal responsibility, the party of smaller government, the party which protects your civil liberties, the party which gives a hand up not a hand out, into the party of let them eat cake, while we ignore the working man, and give ourselves huge automatic yearly pay raises, eat away at your constitutional rights, vote in perks for the rich, and screw everyone else over as hard as we can. When is enough going to be enough!
A black (not the African American kind either) and white world view can not, and does not work in a world that is in reality colored in infinite shades of gray.