I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.
I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.
No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children.
I do not think our priorities are misplaced when we are looking at creating a whole new class of children from these gay marriages who could end up completely dependent on the State, on the taxpayers - the American people.
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, 'Ohhh-kaaay.'
I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.
Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking faith with that covenant. America must reduce its federal spending and accumulation of debt for the sake of generations to come.
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