The Da Vinci Senator : uses Opus Dei to justify an anti-gay amendment

The Da Vinci Senator

By Bob Geiger, AlterNet. Posted June 19, 2006.

Why was a U.S. senator citing an Opus Dei study to justify an anti-gay constitutional amendment?
The United States Senate is often called "the greatest deliberative body in the world," which usually raises the bar on the tenor and intellectual content of speeches given on the floor, if not for the official record.

Not so for Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., who took to the Senate floor last week to deliver a strident push for the bigoted "Marriage Protection Amendment." Alongside the typical massive distortions of the issue was an argument that was based almost solely on the opinion of a little-known conservative think tank affiliated with the Roman Catholic organization Opus Dei.

"The problem we have in front of us is the institution of marriage has been weakened, and the effort to redefine it on this vast social experiment that we have going on, redefining marriage differently than it has ever been defined before," the Kansas senator grimly intoned last week. "This effort of this vast social experiment, the early data that we see from other places, harms the institution of the family, the raising of the next generation. And it is harmful to the future of the republic."

Brownback then went on to give figures for how various states have shown their hatred of gay people with their own prohibitions on same-sex marriage and used that as his rationale for a similar amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

http://www.alternet.org/story/37668/

hate gays....who's next handicapped....mixed marriages....

Wake up America....this is where they want to take this country...

A real hateful right wing Fundy..

And what is this "early data" he's referring to? He's so full of shit that he could fertilize his whole state.
:crazy:

What does that tell us about the people of Kansas?

Let's not forget what state the Reverend Phelps and his inbred church of idiots, comes from.

Not trying to 'dis the people of Kansas, but they are yours.

Don't feel bad though we have George Allen and the former Mr. Elizabeth Taylor here in VA., and hopefully Allen will be out of a job come November.

I see so much of it and its all bullshit of course. So tell me, which is the target of the article, Opus Die or the asshat Senator?

to Catholicism.

he's a member of opus dei.