Gays aren't biggest threat to marriage
Gays aren't biggest threat to marriage
Copyright by The Quad-City Times
May 13, 2006
“Government policy shouldn’t be promoting a dangerous and unhealthy lifestyle.”
David Smith, Protect Marriage Illinois
Which unhealthy lifestyle should we pick first?
How about gambling? Illinois brings in $1.8 billion in lottery tickets sales each year. The state paid comedian Bernie Mac almost $1 million over the past three years to promote more lottery gambling. Is that healthy for Illinoisans?
How about riding motorcycles without a helmet? State law says you must wear a seatbelt if you are traveling inside any steel-reinforced vehicle. But Illinois law says it’s A-OK to hurtle down the highway on a motorcycle with nothing between your head and the pavement. Is that healthy?
How about smoking? It definitely kills people who do it and sometimes, the people close to them. Yet Illinois does little to prevent this dangerous lifestyle choice that costs taxpayers millions each year.
David Smith, head of a group called Protect Marriage Illinois, believes the unhealthy lifestyle promoted by government is homosexuality. He believes it’s dangerous and unhealthy because some gay people have contracted sexually transmitted diseases. Of course, heterosexuals with STDs of all varieties outnumber similarly afflicted gays. The culprits are promiscuity and unprotected sex, not gender preference.
Smith believes what one pair of consenting adults chooses somehow influences what other consenting adults might choose to do. Further, he believes that marriage promises made by gay couples inexplicably diminish the promises made by him and other heterosexuals to their
committed partners.
Marriage is under fire, no doubt. Divorce would be the No. 1 culprit. The institution of marriage faces no threat from people — of any gender preference — who want to get married.
Copyright by The Quad-City Times
May 13, 2006
“Government policy shouldn’t be promoting a dangerous and unhealthy lifestyle.”
David Smith, Protect Marriage Illinois
Which unhealthy lifestyle should we pick first?
How about gambling? Illinois brings in $1.8 billion in lottery tickets sales each year. The state paid comedian Bernie Mac almost $1 million over the past three years to promote more lottery gambling. Is that healthy for Illinoisans?
How about riding motorcycles without a helmet? State law says you must wear a seatbelt if you are traveling inside any steel-reinforced vehicle. But Illinois law says it’s A-OK to hurtle down the highway on a motorcycle with nothing between your head and the pavement. Is that healthy?
How about smoking? It definitely kills people who do it and sometimes, the people close to them. Yet Illinois does little to prevent this dangerous lifestyle choice that costs taxpayers millions each year.
David Smith, head of a group called Protect Marriage Illinois, believes the unhealthy lifestyle promoted by government is homosexuality. He believes it’s dangerous and unhealthy because some gay people have contracted sexually transmitted diseases. Of course, heterosexuals with STDs of all varieties outnumber similarly afflicted gays. The culprits are promiscuity and unprotected sex, not gender preference.
Smith believes what one pair of consenting adults chooses somehow influences what other consenting adults might choose to do. Further, he believes that marriage promises made by gay couples inexplicably diminish the promises made by him and other heterosexuals to their
committed partners.
Marriage is under fire, no doubt. Divorce would be the No. 1 culprit. The institution of marriage faces no threat from people — of any gender preference — who want to get married.
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