Why aren't Repubs defending the sanctity of marriage today?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

Just askin' :shrug:

[NVMojo]

1. cuz they are having second thoughts about blow jobs from interns??

[Technowitch]

2. Because it doesn't suit their purposes today, on this issue

There's never been a shortage of cynical hypocrisy among the Repugs.

Just as, for example, they'll how about how "good fundamentalist Christians" are being denied their right to have the 10 commandments displayed on public property, they'll turn right around and deny the right of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Wiccans to have THEIR highest laws so displayed as well. Or the right of the Atheist to say "There is no God."

[Fovea]

9. I heard a Florida Pug Rep on CSPAN

defending the rights of the disabled while grandstanding for Karl's big reach-around for the religious right that is the Shiavo case.

I had to go throw up. At that moment I was so pissed at the cynical 'support' for the disabled that I could have given that guy a lobatomy with a butter knife.

[MsTryska]

3. Because clearly -

the Republicans would prefer if NO ONE had any rights. It doesn't matter whether you are gay or stright. You're rights are irrelevant. As the Terry Schiavo case is making readily apparent.

[merh]

4. More importantly, why aren't they defending the Constitution as they

swore to do when they took their oath of office?

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." --10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

???

[grannylib]

5. Per Tom DeLay, that pure arbiter of morals and ethics, the sanctity of

life outweighs the sanctity of marriage.
This makes me sick. I am 46, and my parents have NEVER had a discussion with me about my wishes if this kind of thing should ever happen to me; but my HUSBAND sure knows (and yes, we have the paperwork done!) I have asked many friends and NONE of them said their parents had a clue about their wishes; all said it should be the spouse. Hardly scientific, but I'd be willing to bet most folks feel the same way. This is an outrage, but then the most egregious hypocrisy by the Reich Wing goes unnoticed by the Poodle Press and the double-digit IQ crowd...

[sandnsea]

6. Or God's Will

I find it odd that a Catholic would advocate divorce over accepting death and eternal life too. :shrug:

[meow2u3]

8. The Repukes think God died and left them in charge

Not only that, but they also confuse doing God's will with doing God's job: deciding who lives and who dies.

[Solly Mack]

7. Hey Teena. My siblings and I went through this ordeal with our mother

before her surgery for aneurysms (which eventually killed her)

Why people think they have any right to determine how a family deals with such tragedy is beyond me. It's incredibly selfish of people to stick their unwanted noses into what is already a very painful situation. Those asswipes judging others remind me of how harpy and stupid my aunts got during the situation with my mother. We got called all kinds of horrible names for sticking to my mother's wishes. "Do NOT let me linger as a vegetable"...Fortunately, after 2 years of rehab, she recovered for the most part.

But what we went through just to get the DNR orders and the papers in place so she wouldn't linger as a vegetable in the mist of all that hypocrisy and anger from selfish people...whew...I pity the Shiavo family and wish they could deal with their family matters in private...without a bunch of blowhard busy-bodies with fanatical zealotry sticking their the unwelcome and unwanted opinions in ...


How the government thinks they get a say shows just how delusional the government has become....and it's not just the government that's delusional.

The hypocrisy on this issue from all quarters would be laughable if the circumstances weren't so tragic.

[seventythree]

10. You are on my wavelength

I was thinking the same thing -- they want the sanctity of the marriage vow upheld between a man and a woman and give this as an excuse not to allow gay marriage and then turn around and trash it by saying a person's parents, not his/her spouse should make these difficult decisions.