Comments on: Pennsylvania Senators introduce Marriage Equality Bill

By: Gene

Gene — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:38:21 +0000

Though I have already written to my senator to encourage her to be a cosponsor, as well as to Lynch to congratulate him, the bill has no realistic chance of passage during this term. It is meant to counter an anti-marriage equality constitutional amendment, as well as to give other legislators a fallback position to help push through House Bill 300 which would expand the Human Relations Act to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

People can vote down the two outlying positions while still expanding the anti-discrimination bill, all while appearing to be centrist to the Pennsylvania hillbillies.

Pennsylvania is Pittsburgh and Philadelphia separated by Alabama. (Apologies to Alabama: I had a very good dinner at a brasserie in Fort Payne once.)

By: tbrough

tbrough — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:15:33 +0000

One of the reasons this bill was introduced was to counter Republican state Sen. John Eichelberger’s attempt to get an anti-gay constitutional amndement off the ground. Third Reichelberger’s the GodNazi nutjob who recently said on NPR that gays should stop complaining becuase “we allow them to exist.”

My guess is the bill has little chance of getting much further up the food chain, but getting it announced alone in Pennsyltucky is a major step ahead.

By: gyzmo

gyzmo — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:40:39 +0000

Pastor Devlin IS a train on the express track to extinction. He and the likes of him are all on the same train.

By: Bob (PA)

Bob (PA) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:17:15 +0000

With a republican controlled Senate, the bill has little chance of passing, but even by gaining some support the Constitutional Amendment introduced by Sen John (we allow gays to exist in PA)Eichelberger can be stopped.

By: JERRY@SARASOTA

JERRY@SARASOTA — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:55:40 +0000

It would be nice if Pennsylvania, joined her New England neighbors in recognizing that ALL residents should be treated equally. Hopefully the bill will pass….but we will have to wait and see….and watch the situation closely.

By: Franz

Franz — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:29:27 +0000

“…deny rights for children, such as having a mother and a father”

Doesn’t even have anything to do with same-sex marriage.

By: BlaBla

BlaBla — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:31:36 +0000

How come they never get mad at their “GOD” if he/she controls all that happens then be mad at them for causing some kids in the world to not have a mother and father…

I live some place where a very big natural disaster happened and I remember everyone saying “O thank God” we are still alive, etc…

Well, why didn’t they curse God for sending the damn disaster and killing the thousands that died in the first place?

So, that being said, IF it is GOD”S WILL as they like to say things are, then why can’t they think that maybe it is “God’s Will” that LGBT have marriage equality!

I am feeling that it is “God’s Will” that Marriage Equality happen and is going to, so they should quit fighting God or maybe she’ll put another Storm on their asses!

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:24:08 +0000

Pastor DEVLIN, I didn’t know that “marriage” was a requirement to have childrem, nor did I know that “having children” was the only reason to marry? What happenes to all of those infertal couples or all of the single parents? “Traditional marriage” is so “sacred” that 60% end in divorce…the only train wreck I can see in this entire dialog is the lack of logic from the good pastor……now go sell your daughter into slavery, and have a good seafood meal from the profits, or maybe buy yourself a nice article of clothing made from multiple types of fibers, etc….traditions can and should be changed.

By: Nat

Nat — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:00:44 +0000

PA has 50 state senators… not a great sign that only 3 of them are supporting this.

By: noyz

noyz — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:47:08 +0000

Marriage is not related to children’s rights.

Pastor, go in your church and lock the door. Let the adults do their thing and you can play with your book all you want, k poopsie?