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Obama doesn't just want tolerance but recognition of homosexual marriage lies

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English: Seal of the President of the United States Español: Escudo del Presidente de los Estados Unidos Македонски: Печат на Претседателот на Соединетите Американски Држави. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It is a terrible lie that the push to redefine marriage is simply about couples who just want to love each other, receive civil protections and leave everyone else alone. More and more evidence is coming to light in recent days exposing this lie. Last week, none other than the President of the United States exposed this lie with his words, when he said in a press conference that: "one of the extraordinary measures of progress that we've seen in this country has been the recognition that the LGBT community deserves full equality, not just partial equality, not just tolerance but a recognition that they're wholly a part of the American family." Read that again: " not just tolerance, but a recognition… " What a perfect way to sum up what happens when m...

We hate to say ‘we told you so’: same-sex marriage & polygamy

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April 25, 2013 ( Breakpoint.org ) - In a scene from Jurassic Park , Ian Malcolm , the mathematician skeptical about whether the park is a good idea, watches the T-Rex burst out of its enclosure and says, “I hate being right all the time.” 'I hate being right all the time.' Indeed. Princeton Professor Robert George and other defenders of traditional marriage understand these sentiments. For years, they’ve warned that redefining marriage beyond the union of one man and one woman wouldn’t—indeed couldn’t—stop with same-sex unions. The same reasoning that extends marriage to same-sex couples would easily be applied to polygamy and polyamory also. The standard response to these concerns was scoffing and accusations of fear-mongering. Well, the fences are down and the beast is loose. On Valentines’s Day, the  Scientific American  published an article claiming that polyamorists could “teach us a thing or two about love,” and the only reason to oppose it was bigotry b...