Is that why the Netherlands, Massachusetts and Iowa have been reduced to a pile of smoldering ash? alchemist19 on March 20, 2013 at 1:13 AM

If evil were punished every time with such obvious consequences, there would be no need for faith.

One example should be enough for all time.

a double-digit swing in public opinion

In five years? No. Push-polling designed to influence opinion. Why, it’s how we got Romney as the nominee. Polls showed that he was the choice of 97.8% or something of Republicans and 107% of Democrats.

Sodom and Gomorrah.
Crimes against nature.
The short future of the once greatest country on earth, destroyed by the likes of this fat opportunist.

maryo on March 19, 2013 at 11:12 PM

Is that why the Netherlands, Massachusetts and Iowa have been reduced to a pile of smoldering ash?

pannw on March 18, 2013 at 11:16 PM

Lucano on March 19, 2013 at 12:42 AM

Mother-in-law is not to be trusted. Got it. Lol :)

Traditional marriage has been kneecapped already. Same sex marriage destroys it, reduces it to a living arrangement, and divorces it from biology and the contraints of that ordered society and liberty require.

We’re all brides of the state now.

SarahW on March 19, 2013 at 12:10 PM

Care to back up any of these assertions with evidence?

This is the kind of reality-free nonsense the American public (including more and more Conservatives) is rejecting in increasing numbers, day by day.

Dire predictions of societal destruction from SSM are wishful thinking by opponents. Their greatest fear is that nothing at all will happen and married gay couples will fit seamlessly into society, as they already are in states where they can marry.

Maybe you’re a bride of the state, SarahW, but I’m still married to my wife.

We’re all brides of the state now.

EVERY poll regarding gay marraige has proven to be false for decades!

In Cal, the pollsters were claiming defining the word marraige as between a man and a woman would fail by a 66 to 33 margin the day before the election. And yet, just one day later, it passed.

I wonder what gay supporting group funded this poll?

Hot Air’s new motto: ALL gay marriage, all the time!

IF gay marriage is so popular why does it usually get defeated when placed on the ballot?

You mean like in Maine? Whoops, never mind.

I’m calling shenanigans!

How does Hot Air like being on the same side of this divisive issue as Hillary, Obama and Dan Savage?

PaddyORyan on March 18, 2013 at 11:22 PM

I’ve often wondered why that very fact doesn’t give people pause to say well, maybe I better review and evaluate my thinking.

There’s a reason why totalitarians and statists don’t like marriage and don’t like families and work to undermine them.

Do some indpendent research into what qualifies as a charity hospital and how much tax exemption they get for it.

We’re all being gamed by two competing sides. The govt wants the authority church has in society to reside with them, and religious affiliated orgs want the benefits of being associated with religions, but not actually hold to the spirit of the idea behind it.

Church. State. Total. Separation.

budfox on March 18, 2013 at 8:21 PM

Throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

The government gives individuals a tax break for charitable donations. Does that make charity just a government function?

Churches teach. It’s one of the most fundamental ministries that churches do.

Churches give to the poor. That’s a practice and tradition established by Jesus Christ himself, and pushed by all the apostles. The Council at Jerusalem that gave their blessing to Paul the Apostle and his ministry to the Gentiles, by Paul’s own testimony, “… only they would that we should remember the poor, the same which I also was forward to do.”

“Pure religion before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

Don’t be like the liberals — hypocrites who lecture about the separation of church and state while allowing the state to circumscribe what exactly the churches have freedom to do.

“Hacker Begins Distributing Confidential Memos Sent To Hillary Clinton On Libya, Benghazi Attack…

Armed with confidential memos to Hillary Clinton that were stolen from the e-mail account of a former White House aide, a hacker has distributed some of the documents to a wide array of congressional aides, political figures, and journalists worldwide.

In a series of weekend e-mail blasts, the hacker known as “Guccifer” disseminated four recent memos to Clinton from Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of the former Secretary of State.

The 64-year-old Blumenthal, who worked as a senior White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, had his AOL e-mail account hacked last week by “Guccifer,” who has conducted similar illegal assaults against a growing list of public figures, including Colin Powell, relatives and friends of the Bush family, and a top United Nations official.

The hacker’s e-mails went to hundreds of recipients, though the distribution lists were dotted with addresses for aides to Senate and House members who are no longer in office. But many of the addresses to which the Blumenthal memos were sent are good (though it is unclear whether karl@rove.com is a solid address for the Republican mastermind).

Most of the e-mail recipients were sent four separate memos that were e-mailed to Clinton by Blumenthal during the past five months. Each memo dealt with assorted developments in Libya, including the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi. One memo marked “Confidential” was sent to Clinton on September 12…”

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/sidney-blumenthal/hacker-distributes-memos-784091