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Prop 8 ruled unconstitutional. More later tonight, I’m going out.
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dandy: ...from The Daily Howler piece, "Mitt Romney’s candid
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Newt Gingrich’s response. No really ( I tried different fonts, doesn’t work here. So in brackets is mine, the rest is truly his.):
“Judge Walker’s ruling overturning Prop 8 is an outrageous disrespect for our Constitution and for the majority of people of the United States who believe marriage is the union of husband and wife (Newt’s commitment to this ‘one man-one woman’ idea extended to one man and three women-in-a-row). In every state of the union from California to Maine to Georgia, where the people have had a chance to vote they’ve affirmed that marriage is the union of one man and one woman (in Newt’s moral world though, a second wife, while sick with cancer, being served Newt’s divorce papers WHILE IN THE HOSPITAL BEING TREATED FOR CANCER, but before her possibly dying, then a third) one woman. Congress now has the responsibility to act immediately to reaffirm marriage as a union of one man and one(, two, or three (perhaps more to come) women as our national policy. (At least in the Islam religion some are open about one man marrying multiple women. Oh hey, come to think of it – so do the Mormons!! Mitt – care to comment??) Today’s notorious decision also underscores the importance of the Senate vote tomorrow on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court because judges who oppose the American people are a growing threat to our society.”
This is a new one I hadn’t heard – Elena Kagan opposes the American people?????
I mean, as opposed to Newt Gingrich who (actions not words) opposes this so-called Traditional Marriage?
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