Who are the Intolerant? Ken Blackwell Writes an Open Letter to General Powell

1/15/2013

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been recognized, true marriage declines. All over Northern Europe, when civil unions were enforced, true marriage ceased to be that special, God-ordained union is has always been.

Just as counterfeit money drives out true money, same sex marriage drives out true marriage.

Some leading liberals know this. George Washington University Law Professor, Jonathan Turley, told an overflow crowd at the Newseum in 2008 that critics say "gay marriage will lead to polygamy." He was wildly cheered by the educated, mostly white crowd when he said: "I'm for that!"

President Obama knows that the black community, and especially the black church, is not for that. In North Carolina--just three months before the Democratic Convention met in Charlotte--black voters providing the winning margin for a state referendum that affirmed true marriage. There was no stronger group of voters supporting marriage than black voters.

President Obama seemed reluctant to abandon this constituency that has so loyally supported him. Consider how much has changed and how fast. In 1996, the Defense of Marriage Act passed Congress by an overwhelming vote. It won 342 votes in the House and 85 votes in the Senate. It was so strong supported that this law would have been approved if there were no Republicans in either House of Congress.That's why President Bill Clinton felt he had no choice but to sign it.

President Obama has refused to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act and pledges to repeal it. He has openly joined the Marriage Enders. They're not changing marriage. They are ending it. If two men can marry, why not three? If gays and lesbians can marry, what about bi-sexual persons and persons who have sought to change their sex? Why can't they have one spouse of either sex?

After slavery, after Jim Crow, after the KKK, it is fair to say that among the worst things visited upon black Americans have been the targeting of our families by abortionists and the effort to end marriage.

That is why we are in a crisis. This is what happens when a major party rejects God.

Best Regards,

Ken Blackwell,

Visiting Professor , Liberty University School of Law, and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Commission.

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Pope Benedict XVI's Prayer Intentions for January 2013
General Intention: The Faith of Christians. That in this Year of Faith Christians may deepen their knowledge of the mystery of Christ and witness joyfully to the gift of faith in him.
Missionary Intention: Middle Eastern Christians. That the Christian communities of the Middle East, often discriminated against, may receive from the Holy Spirit the strength of fidelity and perseverance.

Keywords: Colin Powell, Ken Blackwell, Margaret Sanger, True Marriage, gay marriage, Pro-Life,

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judy claar
4 months ago
Ken Blackwell: I reiterate the words of Lindangel. Excellent Posts! (Not that i am such a superior in grading them, but that i enjoyed reading them and agreed!) Blessings...
Thomas E. Richters
4 months ago
Please send me your updates .
Lindangel
4 months ago
Thank you, Mr. Blackwell, for this excellant "open letter" to a ONCE admired Republican.
Mr. Powell has truly "sold his soul to the devil" so he could be a buddy to Obama.
The devil is very busy in Washington.
DLL
4 months ago
This is what the President and the Democratic party agenda has proposed all along. Catholic on line is the only place that truly says it as it is and that is why I know that God has blessed Cna and Catholic on line. The alternative is the left wing Huffington Post that is completely opposed To catholic on line and catholic news association. It is amazing to see how far apart they are on Defense of Marriage,abortion,gay rights,all political perspectives. President Obama is a Huffington Post hero. The comments about Catholics in the Huffington Post says it all as far as our country is concerned. If you believe the Post Ifeel sorry,they are all wrong. Thank God for Catholic on line they are telling the truth in all matters. This administration is all too predictable as are the compulsive lies that come from the liberal left wing agendas,all of which the current president vows to protect. Marriage and the stability of it is to support fundamental health laws as well. I do not get why that is never an issue with those in power who must govern to at least protect the general health of the general populace to minimize social deseases and birth abnormalities. The president and the country are immature in that our society is purely adolescent in its perspectives on most every issue these days. It is time for our nation to grow up or it can not survive its own confirmed sense of a kind of self approved of proud ignorance.
QuoVadisAnima
4 months ago
In exchanges with homosexual activists & supporters on their effort to re-define marriage, I have pointed out that this effort has already led to discrimination against people of faith and explicitly deprived them of their Constitutional rights to free speech and the free practice of religion.

Once you get them past all the denials, they invariably admit that they don't care. It has not occured to these folks that if you allow SOME people to be deprived of their rights, there is no longer anything protecting YOU from being deprived of those rights.
Linda
4 months ago
I am very disappointed with Colin Powell, I used to have a lot of respect for him but here lately it seems he has lost his way. Is he trying to win brownie points with this administration. I don't know of anyone against civil rights more than this administration
Paul-Emile Leray
4 months ago
I enjoyed your St. Thomas Aquinas quote. Also, St. Augustine wrote something similar. Tony de Mello (SJ) wrote "the law is an ass". Another Jesuit said the Nazis did win the war! Why? Look at their policies, many of them are now law! Obama cares about blacks? Obama cares about his political ideologies. I have many black friends, many, and I am white. And Obama is more white than I am! According to one great Jesuit, Hitler and Henry the SAVAGE the VIIITH were 2 of the worst men to have lived in the past centuries. I agree. The west is lost. The west is educated? WRONG. The west is instructed. In most countries, issues like gay marriages are not even taken seriously. Be careful of being too open minded, for one's brains and reason tend to fall right out of one's head if the mind is as open as a parachute. Faith and reason, both, in unified harmony. The extreme in one results in superstition and fanaticism. The extreme of the other results in cold hearted machine-like calculating and fanaticism as well. The true criminals? Those governing and passing laws, often. Now, with great joy I remind myself that no human escapes death; including world leaders, bankers, judges, lawyers, bureaucrats, administrators, public relations firms, advertising and marketing firms, and all those who shine light on truth when perceived convenient and advantageous while seeking truth not for itself but rather to manipulate it to perceived advantage whether real or imagined.

Mt 4.1-11
Mt 6.5
Mt 8.22
Mt 10.22
Mt 11.12
Mt 12.6
Mt 12.33
Mt 13.13

Look at the trees. Look at the fruit. And what are 'American positive laws' doing at present?

One of the best US supreme court justices at present is likely one of the most hated. Why? NORMAL. The truth is often met with violent opposition. If you are too popular, then worry. Why? It is the nature of truth that it often separates itself from the crowd. The majority is usually what? WRONG. And it has been this way for thousands of years. John the Baptist? Beheaded. Jesus? Crucified. The list is long indeed.

Politicians are wimps these days. A pile of poll gazing public relations talk show celebrity circuit goofballs! I openly, publically, in writing, despise the cowards! Some may be brave, but very few are courageous. There is a huge gap present between bravery and true courage.

Since the honey doesn't always work, then let us apply barrels of vinegar when necessary! Perhaps in the days of St. Francis de Sales, people were more open to listening in doses of teaspoon-sized honey supplies. These days, only honey seems to result in the honey-giver drowning in manure from the flies with small hearts and brains!

Paul-Emile Leray
Michael
4 months ago
excellent truth and light on very important topic marriage
Stephen
4 months ago
Colin Powell is no more of a Republican than are other liberals masquerading as conservatives such as Hagel of Nebraska, Hatch of Utah, McCain of Arizona, or Graham of South Carolina. These guys are all "trojan horses" and stalking horses (if I may mix my metaphors) for the Dems. They are in the GOP simply because when they began their public careers they all cynically concluded there was more room at the top for them in the Republican Party.

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