Yet you keep spreading this misinformation.

Shame on you

Slavery was about the right to own another human being as you would a pet or a cow. SSM is about people wanting special rights to redefine marriage for all of humanity. How can you equate owning a person to granting special privileges.

Many types of slavery, but only one definition of marriage.

If the biblical definition of marriage is irrelevant in Bermuda, why are we limiting marriage to two people. What about Muslims, polygamists, there is a definite and lasting historical argument for that.

All laws discriminate based on how society benefits from its application.

The point stands that Dr. Robert Oscar Lopez and numerous others say they were raised in loving SSC homes, but all the love in the world did not replace their right to a mom & a dad.

His video is on the preserve marriage bermuda website under resources.

The right of adults to enter into consensual marriage is enshrined in international human rights standards.

Article 16, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR):
Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.

Why should Bermuda allow the government to set us up for a third and final blow.

It is a proven and known fact, on both sides of the argument that civil unions are the prelude to SSM. PM represents the view of over 9,000 Bermudians who had an opportunity to sign the petition. Many seniors and others were unable due to lack of Internet, etc.

Recognizing is not legalizing, or else the entire European Convention which is about 52 countries/territories, etc. would have automatically had mandatory civil unions or same sex marriage.

Why is it that countries are voting on something you say is mandatory?

Give the people a vote, referendum. Does Bermuda arbitrarily plop every European Court mandate into Bermuda? Is Bermuda no longer a democracy?

The Bermuda government didn’t get involved with marriage records until 1866. The older records were held primarily by the church.

Many people still go to their pastors for divorce and family counseling. Unfortunately, many people plan for the wedding but not the marriage. It is this cavalier attitude toward marriage & family that has led to both the divorce culture and all of the attacks on marriage.

The attacks on marriage weren’t started by the SSM activists but their intentional dissolution of marriage values is certainly aimedto finish it off.

Just hear the words of same-sex activist Masha Gessen .

The sad reality is that people are too ignorant to understand what the true outcome of all of this will be and too complacent to research the information for themselves.

Since when does. “Science based professional organization” make up a diagnoses, sell it as science and then have no research whatsoever to back it up. Just fear of being labelled hateful.

1. The law to say that it should be illegal for unmarried people to have children, as only married couples of different genders are capable of rasing children.

2. The law to say any married couple of different genders should be banned from getting a divorce as soon as they are pregnant with their first child, or for a divorce they forfeit their child and it be legally given to a wedded couple of different genders to raise as their own; as only married couples of different genders are capable of rasing children.

3. The law to say that any child that is born out of wedlock should be taken from the mother/couple as soon as it is born and legally given to a wedded couple of different genders to raise as their own; as only married couples of different genders are capable of rasing children.

Frankly, their entire arguments hold no actual weight in reality as there is more than enough scientific and testimonial evidence to debunk their central stance that only stable different gender couples can provide the environment to raise a child successfully.

http://youtu.be/30n8fyUFn6E

Don’t drink the “kool-aid”.

The idiocy of it all, is that this is not new, we’ve been down the road of barbarism and anarchy. Just because you sign it off with educated dialogue and emotive language like love and equality doesn’t make it right.

Our government let us down. The European Court told Italy the same thing our Chief Justice told Bermuda. Assess the margin of appreciation; get the people’s input, as in a referendum. Italy failed and Bermuda failed its people.

Will the people now fail our children and future generations or will we hold ourselves and our government accountable.

Watch the video on what gay marriage did to Massachusetts.

http://youtu.be/EZX55HUPFSU

No one can claim ignorance.

These are real rights that real children want and deserve, to legislatively say that a child’s rights to yearn for the protection of a father and the soft embrace of a mother is insignificant is quite sad.

Read this statement by Dr. Robert Oscar Lopez

“We all have a right to be born free, not bought, sold or manufactured.
Nobody, gay or otherwise, has a right to deprive us of those rights. Nobody has a “right” to us. To believe that people can have a “right” to another person is to believe in slavery.
When children’s rights are violated , human rights are violated, in perpetuity, because even as adults, human beings have been violated if they must contend with memories of being bought or sold for adult whims, uprooted from their heritage, denied the love of both sexes (and therefore all of what makes humanity human), or denied a legacy. The crime against humanity that occurs when an adult violates one of those basic children’s rights is a lasting intergenerational crime. It is a violence against the family tree to which another human being is entitled by the eternal life cycle that unites all of us.”
Huffington Post online: End the Witch Hunt: In Defense of Dr. Robert Oscar Lopez

Unfortuantely our cuture of winner-take-all politics means that winning is the first goal of any debate. Reaching a logical conclusion, protecting the important gains we have made in human rights, or indeed just defending the rights of individuals is totally secondary and politically stupid.

These people we are talking about are by the vast majority law abiding citizens, contributors to our community and in many cases famous and important people in Bermuda. Without them we are smaller, weaker and frankly, stupider. Even so the plan is to insult and shame these people? Deny them equal rights? Is that really who we want to be? I am guessing that is who we already are.

Preserve marriage is clearly not about preserving marriage. They are about denying equality for all people.

Fine, keep marriage between a man and a woman.
But now you’re also against a civil union?
The goal is to punish these people for what is, in your belief system, a sin?
Is the next step to bring back stonings? Guess what. Adultery is a sin listed in the commandments. Stonings are the punishment demanded by the bible.
How many of PM are prepared to throw those stones and cause people physical pain, people they probably are friends with, people that are family, maybe it’s even themselves because getting divorced and remarried is the same as adultery? How many of PM are prepared to draw blood and break bones? How many of PM are prepared to kill in the face of their beliefs?
Don’t tell me it’s ‘different’, it’s just as cruel, it’s just as hateful.

We look at the Middle East and the atrocities that are happening there. At the judgment and the cruelty and the use of religious beliefs in order to justify hateful actions.

Don’t tell me it’s different. There you have the plant in full growth. Here we see the seedling being nurtured.

because sexual orientation is like the flu, right?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stefano-baldolini/italy-is-finally-on-its-w_b_9010576.html