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PfcHammer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 12:12 PM
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A wave of initiatives to promote marriage
http://csmonitor.com/2004/0504/p01s01-uspo.html

from the May 04, 2004 edition

A wave of initiatives to promote marriage

Interest groups concerned with aggressive moves to legislate most personal of institutions.

By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON – Call it Bush v. Murphy Brown: the rematch. After the spring of 1992, when Vice President Dan Quayle denounced CBS TV character Murphy Brown for bearing a child alone and calling it "just another lifestyle choice," the vice president's moralistic tone became grist for political humorists for years to come.

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So far, many of the new moves are modest - and in their infancy. But critics say that such programs could involve government in a relationship where it does not belong, and produce misguided policy, including encouraging women and children to stay in a possibly violent household.

New federal moves are wide-ranging. Among them: eliminating barriers to marriage - such as the permanent repeal of the so-called "marriage penalty" in the US tax code, which the House passed last week, and a pending rewrite of national welfare laws to provide $300 million in incentives for programs to promote "healthy" married families.

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In Senate hearings last week, lawmakers also discussed whether Washington should make it harder for couples to end a marriage, by challenging several states' "no-fault" divorce laws.

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SCDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 12:16 PM
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1. Create jobs and quit outsourcing
If people are happy they will get married. When people are married and one loses his/her job and then there is financial stress in the marriage guess what? They get divorced. Gawd, how much money is being thrown away at this crap.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 12:17 PM
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2. These initiatives are based on Moon's marriage education programs.
Trace the backgrounds of those involved and you'll see how they almost all end up linking to Moon in some way.

Marriage will become a duty to society's greater good and as a base for security. Love and nature are not given weight.

Fockin' Moonies.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 12:25 PM
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3. Wow, could the Busheviks get any more Imperial?
www.unrv.com/government/julianmarriage.php

http://www.roman-emperors.org/auggiex.htm

These Imperial Scum don't even bother hiding it, though in truth they have almost as many similarities (partiuclarly in the propaganda-style) to the Nazis.
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BayCityProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 12:33 PM
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4. No Money to churches
Edited on Tue May-04-04 12:34 PM by BayCityProgressive
but I would support initiatives to help married couples seek counciling ect. It is better to avoid a divorce if it is something over money or disagreements. Maybe we could help couples with an accountant or a therapist. It would save a lot of trips to court and a lot of hurt kids. That being said...I wouldnt want married couples being favore dover unmarried couples or money going into churches. Another idea for strengthening marriage....LET EVERYONE MARRY GLBT included.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 01:05 PM
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5. Actaully, the Busheviks ARE ALREADY giving our tax money to his religious
pals.

This is in direct violation of the Constituion but being Emperor means killing many more poeple than the number fo times you ahve to say "I'm sorry", which is NONE.

www.csmonitor.com/2003/0206/p02s01-uspo.html

Remember when we lived in a Free Country and stuff like that was illegal and undoable as a result?

(sigh) So do I.
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damnraddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-04 01:53 PM
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6. If they mess with the divorce laws, that will bring the firestorm.
Let's face it: divorce is a more-popular institution than is marriage. ;-)
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