North Carolina Bishops support Gay Marriage Ban

Bishops support gay marriage ban
Posted: Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009
RALEIGH North Carolina's two Roman Catholic bishops joined dozens of religious leaders, conservative state lawmakers and traditional-values activists seeking an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage.
Bishop Michael Burbidge of Raleigh and Peter Jugis of Charlotte attended a news conference at the legislature in Raleigh on Tuesday.
Supporters – including Jugis and Burbidge – hailed the introduction of a bill in the Senate and one expected in the House that would amend the state constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman. Proponents emphasized that North Carolina remains the only Southern state without such an amendment.
Similar legislation has been introduced in previous years, but Democratic leaders did not permit a vote.
North Carolina has a law against gay marriage, but one liberal judge can knock it down, supporters of the proposed amendment said. They warned of unhealthy family environments, teaching children that homosexuality is correct, forcing changes in inheritance law and ending marriage as God intended.
“Moms and Dads are not interchangeable,” said Sen. Jim Forrester, a Gaston County Republican and chief sponsor of the Senate bill.
(Raleigh) News & Observer and AP

Who's laughing now?

New Hampshire delivers the BO a WARNING

A hat tip to my dad who calls me whenever something interesting politically happens.

Thanks, Dad!!

Something smells in Washington, DC......

The Democrat Reformation and conservative rebuild

There are so many grassroot efforts coming into being. In fact the very word, grassroots, has taken on a whole new level of urgency in my opinion. The Republican party is no different. The encouragement of forming grassroot clubs is taking root. We have been encouraged my our RNC chairman, Michael Steele, to get to work from the grassroots up.

As I just twittered to former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, "Why does all this have to happen, why this stimulus package when cap gains seems to be the majority of the conservatives' opinion?

It seems like the Reformation all over again. Think about it, when Martin Luther had viable complaints, he was put out and the door slammed behind him. His followers clamered with him and through the years separated themselves further and further away from the Catholic Church...even to the degree that much of the truth of the faith has now been ignored and rendered base. The Democrats, in the political arena, have come in with their sleeves rolled up and have literally undone important strides for a better and sound nation. To top off the initial "hostile takeover" of this administration is this stimulus package that was the "test of the waters" to see just how gulible BO's followers are. It worked, he seems triumphant.

Can the grassroots handle the challenge, can we stop the Democrats' reformation before it goes too long? Causes too much damage?

The US is the "House Divided"

Here we are, just as Christ teaches us in Mark 3:23-27

"If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if
a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
and if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand; that
is the end of him. But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his
property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder
his house."

Well, looking at what is going on in Washington, DC, what do we have here?

All the pride, gluttony, wasteful thinking, individual agendas, "we won" mentality, blame gaming, anti-partisanship activity taking place in our nation's government, we are truly a house divided and in these dangerous times, this is VERY irresponsible. The United States is a fishbowl, with the rest of the world watching us and all the folly going on here. What an extremely terrible example we are!

Who is leading this mess? It looks like the Democrats are a bunch of children, whose parents, the Republicans, have gone to sleep and the candy store's door was left unlocked.

Another great American, Tom DeLay

Former Congressman, Tom Delay, spoke at the North Carolina Federation of Republican Women's Winter meeting last weekend. I got to ride the elevator down to the first floor where we were meeting just before and he is such a nice guy. I married a Houstonian and lived in Fort Bend county where much of Mr. DeLay's talk was about. Boy, did I get homesick for my life Texas...oh gosh, did I forget about the horrid humidity? The pavement that could bake full-size layer cakes on em? Oh my gosh, the flatness of the place, where as you rise above the land on a beltway ramp, you can see several counties in the distance. But with those things that I didn't like about Houston, there were things that I did like about it, the food, opportunities, convenience of having most everything and anything within a 40 minute trip....through traffic.

Anyway, it was very nice to meet Mr. DeLay and today I received his book, "No Retreat, No Surrender" with it autographed. How great is that? I do hope to see him back in the saddle again in Washington, DC.

It was great meeting you, Mr. DeLay and THANK YOU for the book! I'm sure to devour it over the weekend. Possibly a book review will be in the making, I do them over at my other blog, so why not here as well.