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January 25, 2005
Newt and the Republicans hate marriage
Speaking of marriage protection, David Corn has the story about how Newt left his second wife after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. This was after he left his first wife while she was in the hospital dying of cancer.
Oh yeah, and Corn writes:
Newt, 57, secretly had been having an affair with congressional aide Callista Bisek, 34, whom he plans to marry next month in Alexandria, Va. That would make the blond-haired Bisek wife No. 3 for the onetime Republican revolutionary.
Here's the talking point, progressives: Republicans actually hate marriage. They hate marriage so much that they want to pass a constitutional amendment preventing an entire segment of the population from marrying. And... they often divorce their wives (Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich to name a couple), which decreases marriages.
Next time you encounter a Republican, ask him or her:
"Why do Republicans hate marriage so much?"
Posted By Bob Cesca | January 25, 2005 5:51 PM | DIGG ME!
Comments
hi. i like this site, and i hope this doesn't come off as a snipe, because it's a genuine puzzlement with me, a liberty fiend:
i do not understand when i hear the left or the right complain about the other side whacking them over the head via government. when one supports a powerful government (which both the left and the right now do), it seems to me awfully infantile and naive to figure that he is then going to own that government, and that it's only going to do things that he supports. the obvious intent and occupation of both sides is to force their agenda on the other, which then leads to others being occupied simply defending themselves from the onslaught (as described above). government has become nothing but a way to attempt to inflict one's view of the world on everybody else. and people are astonished or miffed when the gorilla they fed so it would accomplish their goals turns out to be not such a nice, discriminate gorilla? how can these endless attempts to control our brothers and sisters lead to peaceful interaction? why is it okay for the power of force to be called out for one social view, but not another?
if somebody could explain to me a good, moral reason why government has anything to do with marriage, i'd value it. far as i'm concerned, the left got what it's been clamoring for all these years -- a government big enough to crush anything that gets in its way. so why the complaint?
wouldn't minding one's own business in every matter possible be a solution, even if something's a pet cause, dear to one's heart? well, love this post or hate it, please don't mistake me for a republican.
Posted by: charley hardman ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.bobcesca.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at January 26, 2005 1:29 AM
Government shouldn't have anything to do with marriage. All gay Americans should be allowed to live with the same rights and liberties as the rest of us.
Posted by: Bob Cesca at January 26, 2005 8:34 AM
