McCain/Palin vs. Obama/Biden
on SS Marriage/Hate Crimes

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“We also have to do more to support and strengthen LGBT families, and that's why we have to extend equal treatment in our family and adoption laws.”      -Barak Obama

     We post the following to display the sharp differences on “homosexual” issues between the McCain and Obama camps. An Obama win, alongside a Democratic majority in the House and the Senate, threatens to reshape the United States in a radical manner – against the laws of Christ and the natural law.
   The following was recently sent to CFN from a “gay” website, explaining why homosexuals despise Sarah Palin.
   During her 2006 run for Governor, Sarah Palin filled out an Alaska Eagle Forum questionnaire that reveals her stance.
   Palin was asked what her top three priorities would be while Governor.  Palin answered, “#2 - Preserving the definition of 'marriage' as defined in our constitution.”
   “I'd say we have a pretty definitive understanding of where Sarah Palin stands on issue of equality for our community. Sarah Palin is against recognizing our [homosexual] relationships, against domestic partner benefits, and against hate crimes laws. She championed that her second top priority in office would be preserving an anti-gay definition of marriage,” said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese.
    She was also asked about her views on expanding hate crimes laws. The question reads, “Will you support an effort to expand hate crimes laws?”
   Palin answered, “No, as I believe all heinous crime is based on hate.”
    Another question from the same survey asked, “Do you support the Alaska Supreme Court's ruling that spousal benefits for state employees should be given to same-sex couples? Why or why not?”
   Palin answered, “No, I believe spousal benefits are reserved for married citizens as defined in our constitution.”
    Senator McCain likewise does not score well with homosexuals. Another “gay” website complained that “John McCain opposes adoption by LGBT people.”; “John McCain does not support gay marriage and campaigned for a state amendment that would have banned civil unions and domestic partnerships”; and “John McCain has voted against hate crimes legislation three times.”
    By contrast, the Obama/Biden postion sets the stage for liberal federal judges to impose same-sex marriage nationwide by forcing states that have passed their own acts in defense of marriage to recognize same-sex marriages contracted in states such as California, where state judges declare a state “right” to same-sex marriage.
   The following comes from Terrence Jeffrey writing for TownHall.com (October 21).
    In June, Obama sent a letter to the San Francisco-based Alice B. Toklas Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club. It was read at the club's June 29 meeting and reprinted in full in the July 2 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle under the headline “Obama opposes proposed ban on gay marriage.”
   Yet that was not all Obama said he opposes — or supports — in this letter. He also declared that he opposes all state constitutional amendments that limit marriage to a man and a woman, that he opposes a federal amendment that would prevent states from being forced to recognize same-sex marriages, that he wants to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act, and that he wants to fully open the military to gays.
   “I want to congratulate all of you who have shown your love for each other by getting married these last few weeks,” Obama wrote. “I support extending fully equal rights and benefits to same sex couples under both state and federal law. That is why I support repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and the 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' policy, and the passage of laws to protect LGBT Americans from hate crimes and employment discrimination. And that is why I oppose the divisive and discriminatory efforts to amend the California Constitution, and similar efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution or those of other states.”
    To make clear that he wants no distinction in law between traditional married couples and same-sex couples — including in laws regarding the adoption of babies — Obama sent a second letter Aug. 1 to the Family Equality Council, a group that says it envisions “a country that celebrates a diversity of family constellations.”
    “We also have to do more to support and strengthen LGBT families,” Obama told this council. “And that's why we have to extend equal treatment in our family and adoption laws.”
   The federal Defense of Marriage Act that Obama wants repealed does two things. It defines marriage for federal purposes as the union of a man and a woman, and it says states will not be forced to recognize same-sex marriages contracted in other states, as they ordinarily would under the Constitution's “Full Faith and Credit Clause.”
    The Full Faith and Credit Clause requires all states to recognize the judicial acts of other states but says, “Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.”
    If the policies Obama supports come to pass, California will have same-sex marriage, and the federal law protecting other states from recognizing California's same-sex marriages will be repealed.
   Then it would be up to the sort of federal judges Obama would appoint to decide whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause — barring an act of Congress saying otherwise — would require every other state in the union to accept California's marriage law as their own.
   This is consistent with Obama’s track record. In a letter to a “gay” newspaper in Chicago in 2004, Obama called the Defense of Marriage Act “Abhorrent”, and vowed to vote to repeal it on the Senate floor. Obama also said in his letter, “We must vigorously expand hate-crime legislation and be vigilant about how these laws are enforced.”

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