THIS WEEK ON WASHINGTON WATCH: GAY MARRIAGE IN DC?
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The issue of gay marriage is coming to a head in the nation’s capital and DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is ready to fight — FOR gay marriage. Roland asks her how she thinks this controversial issue will play with strong voices on both sides speaking up and out.
TELL US: Do you think gay marriage will be legal in Washington, DC?
Roland, everyone has the right to love and to be free.
People should be able to be free to be happy or free to be sad.
All people should have the right to marry and to be protected in their marriages. Americans are bemoaning the fact that there is a 50% chance of divorce so why are we trying to stop people who WANT TO legally create a family and adopt and love unwanted children that we ’straight’ people won’t adopt?
If my neighbor is gay and married — how does that negatively impact my life? It doesn’t. But not being able to marry might impact their lives negatively.
This is not about my personal beliefs; it’s about gays’ rights and they should have legal rights.
God gave us ALL free will; why then are we trying to take free will away from others? Do we know better than God?
Hello Roland, I wanted to comment on your segment today on marriage. Being a single mother, I find that some want to blame the plight of gangs etc. on single mothers, which is simply biased. Marriage is nearly dead in the black community not because of the woman as suggested in your show today but partly because black men are not interested in marriage mostly anymore let alone date exclusively. I recently heard on a radio show (Ballantyne) that many (black) men don’t want to get married for fear of child support when the marriage ends; this to me just plain spells irresponsible. I think black women should be commended for being the strong women they are instead of as the congressional representative eluded to today as “.. give me health care, give me food stamps, give me a job…” I mean come on. that is so unfair; the game has changed and black men are no longer engaged. Why don’t you focus on the irresponsibility of the men in our communities instead of tearing down the black female. I am sure the rep’s constituents are some single black women in DC too. I hope she knows that. Also the 39.6 figure also includes not just “never married” women but divorced women and widowed women; a lot of black men ARE IN PRISON TOO! so where is the outrage of them leaving their children to go to jail leaving these, for lack of a better word, bad black single mothers alone to do the best they can. I just feel that in the black community, the idea of marriage is no longer the norm but the abnormal mindset of black men, which is sad. And let me tell you that because of attitudes like this and the bias of some towards single mothers as seemingly held by your guest today, I, for one, do not intend to have another child period but I can tell you this I will not marry a man who will make my life miserable.
I found the comments of Ms. Norton apropos to the quantity of marriages in Black America to border on insanity. To imply that same sex marriage is a fix for the shortage of Black marriages is ludicrous. Let’s get real in Black America! One of the major reasons life in general as deteriorated within our race is due to our separation from our Creator. No nation, man, woman, race or anything else can survive if they elect to turn from the Almighty. We as a People, have forgotten what has sustained us for generations; believe me it wasn’t politics, same sex marriage or any other temporal worldly device. Please don’t take my word for this, rather read the Old Testament carefully and one will rapidly discover the only real, true and lasting formula for what is most important and meaningful as we make this journey from the cradle to the grave.
Subsequent, to my earlier commentary, we as Christians need to learn:(1) not to trust the political process for establishing godliness; (2) to look instead to the power of Christ and His Spirit in the struggle for a more righteous social order; and (3) to understand that a deteriorating moral climate can end in nothing, but divine punishment. I am in no way, shape or form, a member of the clergy; rather a mere lay person who loves the Lord.
gay marriage has nothing to do with civil rights. all men are created equal – the only inequality we have seen is within minority communities due to skin color. marriage is a covenant between man woman and God. homosexuality is a sin- period. men should not be married to men and women should not be married to women it is an abomination before God, and is the most unnatural thing humans can do – even animals in their base state don’t mate with the same sex. homosexuality is perversion – our community lacks morals that pertain to life and godliness. we need to get back to the basics of following Jesus Christ – he is missing from our homes schools, and everyday life. families can’t survive without knowing God. we as a community and individuals need to know who He, and who we are in him. this is not a political issue it is a moral issue; one in which we have lost our identity and have forgotten we are created in his {Jesus } image.