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Oregon House Passes Reciprocal Rights Measure
This afternoon the Oregon House of Representatives passed a measure that ensured the demise of Senate Bill 1000, which provided for civil unions in Oregon.
The Associated Press is reporting that they were not surprised, given that House Speaker Karen Minnis had said she had no intention of allowing a House vote on the Senate bill to open up to same-sex couples hundreds of benefits only available to married couples.
As an alternative to civil unions, the reciprocal benefits bill grants about 20 benefits to people over the age of 18, including relatives and same-sex couples. The rights center mostly around property issues and emergency or end-of-life suitations.
Rebekah Kassel of Basic Rights Oregon, the State's leading gay rights group, said, "This maneuver by the House Speaker is a cruel ploy designed to deny same-sex couples and their families real legal protections and security under the law."
Senate Majority Leader Kate Brown, D-Portland, said, "Civil Unions is going to happen. It's just a questions of whether the legislature has the courage to enact them or if the Courts will have to do it."
Perhaps it is not so much a matter of courage as it is conviction on the part of the legislature. Or at least, some of them.
There is no question that traditional marriage will be re-defined by liberal secularist politicians and activist judges, unless people of faith and conviction rise to the occasion.
The assault on traditional, Biblical marriage will continue. The question is simply, who will prevail? People who embrace their faith and the Judeo-Christian values that made this nation great must now more than ever before work together in spirit and in truth.
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Gary Randall
President
Faith and Freedom Network
1 Comments:
Kate Brown is pushing her own personal agenda. Although I don't hear it mentioned at all, she is a lesbian. I worked in the same law office with her for a year and she was pretty open about it. She is going to continue to push the legislature on this issue even if she has to force it through the courts. I hope Oregonians stand firm on this. This is too important of an issue.
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