RSS Feed MenuDespite the opposition of many D.C. residents, the D.C. City Council bypassed a ballot vote, ignored constituents and passed legislation legalizing gay marriage. Congress has final approval over legislation passed by the District and can choose to intervene or allow legislation to become law. Thirty-seven House Republicans and two Senators filed an amicus brief with the D.C. Superior Court, asking that the issue be put on the ballot. The court challenge argues that the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics overstepped its authority when it determined that putting the issue to a vote would discriminate against gays.
But the District already had a domestic partnership law, and a lot of Americans – including myself – thought that was a good compromise. We aren’t bigots. We fear that the breakdown of the American family has led to bad news for this country and this city.
According to a study by the National Center for Health Statistics in 2007, 72% of black women gave birth out of wedlock compared to 28% of white women. The study also found that of the 4.3 million births in the U.S., 40% or 1.7 million were illegitimate.
Sadly, many black boys born to unwed mothers end up in prison all because American culture has come to accept out of wedlock pregnancy as a societal norm. A woman told me when her son attended a private school in D.C. a decade ago, a student became pregnant. Several parents decided to give her a baby shower and invited her classmates. This woman politely told the parents her son would not be attending. She explained her decision drew ire from some parents but as she said “this wasn’t something to celebrate.”
Now is the time for Republicans to support, protect and defend the institution of marriage against erosion because it leads to a more stable society for everyone – and a more equal chance for all children.
quailhunter // Jan 28, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Oh Crystal. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the responsibility for the breakdown of the American family rests squarely on the shoulders of rock music. Rock music, and desperate “Conservative” women (who also happen to suck at writing, but I digress…) who bone married men with children (I mean bone married men who have children [three to be exact], not that you engage in group sex with married men and children, though moral lapses are moral lapses so I wouldn’t rule that out either, come to think of it). Anyway, I enjoyed whatever it was you were trying and failing to write about–gay “people” giving AIDS cancer to black babies or whatever. It’s an outrage, etc.!
corndog96 // Feb 1, 2010 at 6:02 am
Crystal, it would be interesting to hear your response on this board. A number of people have said you broke up a family by sleeping with a married man who is the father of three. And yet you write of your concern for the American family. Please explain (if you can) why you’re not a pathetic hypocrite.