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Saturday, May 19, 2007
Intellectual diversity
A year ago the academic bill of rights lost by one vote in our student assembly here at Cornell. However, this semester the bill finally passed — 10 - 8. I’ve attached a copy of the bill below. Resolution Regarding the Intellectual Diversity Initiative Whereas, intellectual diversity acts as the lifeblood of the academe, serving to ensure that students are educated1 rather than indoctrinated2; Whereas, this is an idea held especially dear at Cornell, given its stated commitment to fostering an atmosphere of “Open Doors, Open Hearts,” and, particularly important in this case, “Open Minds”; Be it therefore resolved that the Student Assembly recognize the importance of such diversity by supporting, both in word and in spirit, the attached initiative, thus signaling its desire for all precincts of this university to do the same. (more…)Education is defined as “the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life” (Dictionary.com Unabridged [v 1.1]. Retrieved April 26, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/education). [↩]To indoctrinate is “to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., esp. to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view” (Dictionary.com Unabridged [v 1.1]. Retrieved April 26, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/ browse/indoctrinate). [↩]
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Waiting in the wings
Last week I was jealous that I couldn’t hear Fred Thompson’s speech to the National Council for Policy in Virginia. Thompson has released the speech since then, and it’s available here. It’s a very simple speech on a simple theme — focusing on Roberts and Libby as they two intersect in the fight for the rule of law. In my favorite quote Thompson says:We have always held our federal judiciary in high esteem, even at a time when most of our institutions are under assault. However, if judges continue to act like politicians they will get the respect currently given to politicians. It is already rapidly headed in that direction. The antidote for this, of course, is good judges.
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Friday, May 18, 2007
The importance of the courts
Tom Goldstein from ScotusBlog has some intriguing analysis on the state of the court, especially as we head into the 2008 election. After looking back at the last four presidents who each were able to choose two justices, he writes:“The next President similarly will have two appointments immediately (replacing Stevens and Souter), and there also is a very substantial prospect that a Democrat would quickly be in a position to appoint a third (replacing Ginsburg). In fact, if a Democrat wins, there will be something of a race for the exits.” Goldstein further points out that if a Democrat president wins in 2008, and the three replacements (for Souter, Stevens and Ginsberg) will likely be young and able to sit on the court for several decades.Considering these prospects, it is crucial that we elect a conservative who will not back down from appointing strict constructionist judges in the mold of Justices Thomas and Scalia to the bench. We can’t let Bush’s legacy of Roberts and Alito go to waste.
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End of classes and the Cornell American
Classes have finally finished here at Cornell. The last tests have been completed, everyone (except the seniors) are packing their bags and heading out. It’s very nice to finally relax and have everything finished.On the political scene on campus there is sad news. Cornell’s two right of center newspapers — The Cornell American and the Cornell Review — have decided to merge into one paper. The new paper will start publishing next fall, will take the name of the Review and the slogan of the American — Limited Government. Traditional Values. America First.Although perhaps it’s good that the Review will no longer be ashamed of traditional values, I still think this development is on the whole very bad for the conservative scene on campus. Competition is good. If a conservative didn’t feel at home or like the people in one paper, he or she could join the other paper. There was room for diversity and there was the ability for both papers to focus on different aspects of the campus left. The more conservative groups that can host speakers the better.I also can’t understand why either newspaper would think it is in their best interest to merge, or why Eric (the old editor and chief and one of the founding members of the Cornell American) signed off on the deal. Maybe they just want to split up the work?Although we often didn’t agree, I was always very proud that Cornell had two conservative papers on campus. Unfortunately that is no longer true. . .
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Thursday, December 14, 2006
Stem cells from live babies
Several news agencies including the BBC are reporting on some very disturbing news out of Ukraine. From the BBC:Healthy new-born babies may have been killed in Ukraine to feed a flourishing international trade in stem cells, evidence obtained by the BBC suggests.Disturbing video footage of post-mortem examinations on dismembered tiny bodies raises serious questions about what happened to them.Ukraine has become the self-styled stem cell capital of the world.There is a trade in stem cells from aborted foetuses, amid unproven claims they can help fight many diseases.But now there are claims that stem cells are also being harvested from live babies.I find it curious and commendable that the BBC notes that there are “There is a trade in stem cells from aborted foetuses, amid unproven claims they can help fight many diseases.”LifeSite News has some more on this.
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Thursday, November 16, 2006
Romney, Mormonism and the Evangelical vote
Richard Land had some interesting comments about Mitt Romney’s presidential chances today when talking about the 2008 field with Bill Bennett. (Land is the president of Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), the public policy entity of the Southern Baptist Convention.)Land mentioned Romney with McCain and Brownback as someone who might be able to get the evangelical vote. Contrary to the assumptions of the media elite Land thought Romeny’s mormonism wouldn’t be a problem. According to Land:I have people tell me well you know a Mormon can’t be elected. Well, I disagree with that. I think that if you look at the polling that says that thirty-seven percent of Americans would not vote for a Mormon, the majority of those are seculars who don’t like religion anyway and look at Mormonism as religion on steroids. Most evangelicals understand that we’re voting for a commander-in-chief and not a theologian-in-chief, and it’s going to depend on where they stand on the issues whether or not they’ll get the support of Evangelicals.I think Land is right. The issues a candidate stands for matters more than the church they go to to most evangelicals. Just ask Harriet Meiers.
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Thursday, November 9, 2006
November 2008 GOP straw poll
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Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Looking back and a time in the wilderness
It has been a bad night, in some way very much expected but a lot worse than I had hoped. . . I’ll write more later after I’ve collected my thoughts.I do find this statement from Mike Pence encouraging. Pence is chairman of the House’s conservatives caucus:We Did Not Just Lose Our Majority, We Lost Our Wayby Rep. Mike PenceElection Day 2006 will be remembered as a turning point in American political history. Twenty-five years after the Reagan Administration came to Washington with a conservative agenda of limited government, the American people chose a different course. It is the duty of the losing party in a free election to humbly accept defeat and to acknowledge that the people are sovereign in the People’s House. As we examine the results of this election, it is imperative that we listen to the American people and learn the right lessons.Some will argue that we lost our majority because of scandals at home and challenges abroad. I say, we did not just lose our majority, we lost our way.While the scandals of the 109th Congress harmed our cause, the greatest scandal in Washington, D.C. is runaway federal spending. After 1994, we were a majority committed to balanced federal budgets, entitlement reform and advancing the principles of limited government. In recent years, our majority voted to expand the federal government’s role in education, entitlements and pursued spending policies that created record deficits and national debt. This was not in the Contract with America and Republican voters said, “enough is enough.”Our opponents will say that the American people rejected our Republican vision. I say the American people didn’t quit on the Contract with America, we did. And in so doing, we severed the bonds of trust between our party and millions of our most ardent supporters.As the 110th Congress convenes next year, Republicans must cordially accept defeat and dedicate ourselves to advancing our cause as the loyal opposition knowing that the only way to retake our natural, governing majority, is to renew our commitment to limited government, national defense, traditional values and reform.
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Tuesday, November 7, 2006
The results coming in. . .
I’ll track the results coming in for the NY-24 race below:Update(10:38): Foxnews calls it for Arcuri. My vote hasn’t been counted yet, but oh well. 9:48PM — 13% precincts reportingArcuri 9,262 56%Meier 7,211 43%Sylvia 113 1%CNN has the fastest coverage here.This is still to early to say anything, but of course it would be nice to be ahead. Tompkins county hasn’t been counted yet.
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Monday, November 6, 2006
Arcuri: trying to have it both ways on the Military Commissions Act
Take Back NY-24th had some intriguing news on Michael Acruri’s position on the Military Commission’s Act. Originally Arcuri had stated that he fully supported the law. This lead to quite a backlash among some of the more liberal elements in the district. However, even in the midst of much pleading Arcuri stood firm.That is, until now. Perhaps in a bid to attract more hardcore liberals to the polls, Arcuri has decided to take on a much more nuanced stance on the Act. According to Take Back NY-24th’s post early this morning:I got a telephone call this morning from a Democratic office holder in my town informing me that Michael Arcuri has finally reversed his endorsement of the Military Commissions Act, and now opposes the law. This person told me that the Arcuri for Congress campaign has promised people to announce Arcuri’s opposition to the Military Commissions Act on the Arcuri for Congress web site.I regard this source as very credible. This source also told me that this statement promising to declare opposition to the Military Commissions Act has been made by Michael Arcuri to several different people. The blogger immediately called the campaign headquarters, but was told that Arcuri’s position hadn’t changed one iota.A rumor like this swirling around just before election day seemed curious though, and there had to be more truth to the fact than first apparent. Consequently I rang up the campaign headquarters and asked them if anything had changed.And it has. Although earlier Arcuri supported the Military Commissions Act whole-heartedly, according to the lady I spoke with Arcuri now “has a lot more reservations” and would “work to reform the law”. After listening to Cheney’s speeches on the interpretation of the law Arcuri’s support has become more nuanced. However, I never was able to get a clear answer on whether he would now have voted for the law as is.Trying to have it both ways? Well, it’s not the first time Arcuri has done that.Update: From liberal blog Irregular Times:Democrats in Michael Arcuri’s district are thus left today wondering why they should trust anything that Michael Arcuri tells them.Indeed.
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Santorum within four points
This poll is pretty startling, but it does jive with the momentum Republicans seem to have in the last few days. From Santorum blog:McCulloch polled over the weekend. U.S. Senator Rick Santorum has gained ground in his bid to win re-election, according to a new poll released Monday. The poll of 800 very likely general election voters, was conducted by McCulloch Research & Polling, an independent polling company out of Chicago, on November 4-5. Santorum’s opponent, State Treasurer Bob Casey, Jr., led the incumbent Senator 48.1-44.1%, according to the poll. “Senator Santorum has a history of closing hard at the end of his campaigns,” said pollster Rod McCulloch. “It looks like this campaign will be no different.” Treasurer Casey racks up his largest margin geographically in Southeast Pennsylvania, where he leads Senator Santorum 53.7%-37.1% in the region encompassing Philadelphia and surrounding counties. Senator Santorum, who racked up overwhelming majorities during his last election in 2000 in Central and Northwestern Pennsylvania, is seeing some of those voters returning to the fold, according to the poll. The second term Senator leads in Central Pennsylvania (55.1-38.8%), South Central Pennsylvania (55.0-44.1%), Northeastern Pennsylvania (54.6%-38.1%), and Northwestern Pennsylvania (48.3%-41.4%).The Santorum Blog has links to all the latest polls in this race as well.
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Claire hits back
A couple posts back, I chastised Claire Readhead of the Cornell Daily Sun for her rambling dialogues, asking if her latest column was “insightful prose, art, or just the output of a lazy columnist?”Today in Claire’s column she responds to my criticism:The “cutting-edge conservative commentary” of Cornell University slammed my column; I take this to mean that I am doing something right. “Sounding the Trumpet” accused me of being lazy, to which I respond that I view laziness as a continuum. There are many degrees of laziness. Some have refined it to an art; others dabble.For instance, when I was dancing in France and had the choice between going to rehearsal and sunning my bosom on the sandy shores of Cannes, I chose the latter. Those at the Trumpet may consider this behavior remiss, but had any of them ever been a ballerina in southern France, they too may have thrown assiduity to the wind and basked in the luxuriance of sloth, squinting into the sunlight at yachts gliding by and sipping a G&T with cucumber.I was also charged with the ubiquitous crimes of rambling and being silly: true and truer. In addition, they lamented that The Sun had once produced the likes of E.B. White, and now they are producing the likes of — well — me. I happen to rather admire E.B., especially his children’s stories, but then again, that is probably because I am silly. Yet, I really parted from the E.B. camp when I discovered that he had co-authored a book entitled Is Sex Necessary? If I were to write such a book it would consist of one page on which would be inscribed the simple word — YES. Perhaps I would add the phrase, “especially during long and dreary Ithacan winters.” (Honestly, E.B., you should know better.)All Cornellians understand that the only way to make it through the last months of the fall semester is to acquiesce to the pressures of coupledom. . . . If you are dying to find out about the pressures of coupledom, you can read the rest (in a list form) here. Claire, if you’re going to mention us could you have the courtesy to put a link to us in your column? Also, perhaps you could notice that “cutting edge conservative commentary” is not our name, it’s our tagline. Our name is Sounding the Trumpet. We are also a blog, which is something that’s not at all clear to readers from your reference to us.
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Sunday, November 5, 2006
More Meier and Arcuri news
I just came across this article in the Press & Sun Bulletin where Ray Meier’s and Michael Arcuri’s views are are also run through. This seems like a good supplement to the two posts on Meier and Arcuri’s positions we wrote earlier.Also from the Press & Sun Bulletin we have fascinating article in a day in the life of Arcuri. I looked on their website, but I can’t see anything similar for Meier. Maybe that will come out tomorrow. Arcuri has made a big deal of the energy he has campaigned with: “29,500 miles on his Buick, 1,800 doors knocked on in 26 communities.” I do hope Meier and his volunteers have been even more energetic. I’m sure there is a strong GOTV effort on the part of the Meier campaign, but so far I haven’t heard much on it. Republican GOTV does tend to be under the radar. There’s probably several reasons for this. . . one being the simple fact that most journalists in the msm are liberal and more likely to focus on liberal campaigns.Also, the blogger at the new blog Support Meier for Congress noted that Clinton is coming into campaign for Arcuri tomorrow (Monday).Update: A day in the life of Ray Meier here.
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Zogby polling. . . massaging the data?
Zogby has been polling the NY congressional races, only his methods have been so suspect that WSYR and the Syracuse Post Standard decided not to run it.Here is an item published by Roll Call on Wednesday that we almost missed about two Zogby polls in New York’s 25th District that two media outlets refused to run: The Post-Standard newspaper in Syracuse and WSYR-TV had asked Zogby to conduct a second poll of the race after the pollster acknowledged that his firm had improperly weighted the results of a survey last week. In that case, Zogby polled the 25th district but then weighted the data using voter registration information from the more-Republican 24th district. Zogby promised the two media outlets that he would do a new poll from scratch, but when the results of that survey came in both declined to run them. Jim Tortora, the news director of WSYR-TV, wrote on the station’s Web site that after consulting with outside polling experts, he was concerned that Zogby had conducted the second poll using the same larger sample of 5,000 likely voters as he had on the first survey. “With respect to Mr. Zogby, we felt the questions raised … left us with only one choice: We had to pull the poll,” Tortora wrote.Polster has the rest of the details.
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Saturday, November 4, 2006
Lets vote our values
A few days ago, Focus on the Family sent out a letter encouraging voters to vote their values. Since I thought it had some interesting points on what a Democratic congress would look like, I’ve pasted it below. (more…)
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Ray Meier on the Eric Kuhn show
In the middle of his busy campaign schedule Ray Meier has made time to once again come on Eric Kuhn’s radio show. There were some recording troubles, so it’s shorter than the last one. Head on over and check it out.If you want a real good and in depth look at how Meier thinks and what kind of congressman he would be you should really listen to the earlier (and longer interview) here.
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Michael Arcuri’s positions
It’s a little late, but below we’ve included our rundown of Arcuri’s positions. We’ve also updated our post on Meier’s positions.Ray Meier has been very open and honest in what he believes and what kind of specific philosophical ideas or policy proposals he supports. Unfortunately his opponent Mike Arcuri has been a lot less forthright. In debates Arcuri has often (I almost want to say always) resorted to unsubstantial platitudes or Bush-bashing.I’ve tried to get as many specifics about what Arcuri believes as I can. Like I mentioned for Ray Meier, if I missed anything or misrepresented anything, please let us know so we can correct it.So far I can’t find any specific position on taxes, illegal immigration, or academic freedom. (For taxes the only thing specific I can find is that he opposes the Bush tax cuts.)War on Terror IraqOn Iraq Arcuri has been all over the place. In a forum hosted by local veterans a couple weeks ago he stated that he did not support a date specific for pulling out of Iraq. He changed his opinion in some of the later debates. In a recent WSYR debate Arcuri said he wanted to pull out the National guard troops out immediately, and have all the troops out by 2007. (more…)
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Monday, October 30, 2006
Ray Meier’s positions
Probably one of the more frustrating aspects of the NY-24 race is the fact that it’s hard to get solid information on the candidate’s position on different issues. Arcuri’s and Meier’s websites don’t give information on all their positions and it takes a lot of time to listen to every interview and debate. Fortunately, you can also call the campaign office to ask about a position. This is something I’ve done in a couple questions with both the Meier and Arcuri campaigns. The Meier campaign responded forthrightly; I have yet to hear back from the Arcuri campaign.In this post I’m going to attempt to give a detailed rundown of Ray Meier’s position on a variety of issues that I’ve gleaned from his website, statements to the media and debates and interviews he’s taken part in. In a couple days I’ll do the same for Mike Arcuri.The information below is what I could find at the moment, I’ll update this post as we collect more information. If I’ve made an error, missed an topic, or misrepresented Meier’s position please respond by commenting or emailing me at coyote.soundingthetrumpet [at] gmail.com. Also, just because there is no information under a topic, doesn’t mean that Meier has not addressed this topic. It just means that so far I haven’t been able to find information about it.War on Terror (more…)
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Sunday, October 29, 2006
Fighting for the poor
David Brooks in the NY Times writes today about Rick Santorum’s work for the underprivileged. (Unfortunately, you need a subscription or access to Lexis Nexis to read it.) I’ll excerpt some of the poignant parts below:For there has been at least one constant in Washington over the past 12 years: almost every time a serious piece of antipoverty legislation surfaces in Congress, Rick Santorum is there playing a leadership role.In the mid-1990s, he was a floor manager for welfare reform, the most successful piece of domestic legislation of the past 10 years. He then helped found the Renewal Alliance to help charitable groups with funding and parents with flextime legislationMore recently, he has pushed through a stream of legislation to help the underprivileged, often with Democratic partners. With Dick Durbin and Joe Biden, Santorum has sponsored a series of laws to fight global AIDS and offer third world debt relief. With Chuck Schumer and Harold Ford, he’s pushed to offer savings accounts to children from low-income families. With John Kerry, he’s proposed homeownership tax credits. With Chris Dodd, he backed legislation authorizing $860 million for autism research. With Joe Lieberman he pushed legislation to reward savings by low-income families.In addition, he’s issued a torrent of proposals, many of which have become law: efforts to fight tuberculosis; to provide assistance to orphans and vulnerable children in developing countries; to provide housing for people with AIDS; to increase funding for Social Services Block Grants and organizations like Healthy Start and the Children’s Aid Society; to finance community health centers; to combat genocide in Sudan.I could fill this column, if not this entire page, with a list of ideas, proposals and laws Santorum has poured out over the past dozen years. It’s hard to think of another politician who has been so active and so productive on these issues.Like many people who admire his output, I disagree with Santorum on key matters like immigration, abortion, gay marriage. I’m often put off by his unnecessarily slashing style and his culture war rhetoric.But government is ultimately not about the theater or the light shows of public controversy, it’s about legislation and results. And the substance of Santorum’s work is impressive. Bono, who has worked closely with him over the years, got it right: ”I would suggest that Rick Santorum has a kind of Tourette’s disease; he will always say the most unpopular thing. But on our issues, he has been a defender of the most vulnerable.”Santorum doesn’t have the jocular manner of most politicians. His colleagues’ eyes can glaze over as he lectures them on the need to, say, devote a week of Senate floor time to poverty. He’s not the most social member of the club. Many politicians praise family values and seem to spend as little time as possible with their own families, but Santorum is at home almost constantly. And there is sometimes a humorlessness to his missionary zeal.Hat tip: K-Lo @ The Corner
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Friday, October 27, 2006
Charlotte Wyatt and censorship part II
We’ve blogged often about Charlotte Wyatt, the little girl who was born prematurely to Darren and Debbie Wyatt in Portsmouth, England. Charlotte is three now, and every year of her life has been a tremendous fight to stay alive. The National Health Service fought for a “do not resuscitate order”, and won from the courts over the strenuous objections of her parents. Now the courts have ruled that Charlotte can’t live with her family, but must go to a foster home. Darren is fighting to continue to take care of her, but so far it has been a loosing battle.Then yesterday, blogger took down the Charlotte Wyatt site hosted at blogspot without notice, saying that a British court had issued an injunction against the site. The blog had been regularly updated with pictures and news of Charlotte. Fortunately, most of the blog was available in the google cache and moved very soon afterwards to a new site SaveCharlotte.com. Hannah, one of the bloggers at Save Charlotte writes:Past experience has taught us that trust in the “system” and their views about what is best for disabled children is, at best, badly misplaced, and we feel that it is important that information about Charlotte’s case is available to the public. Therefore this blog will continue to be maintained.The shutdown of Charlotte Wyatt’s blogspot site raises important questions. I’m not a lawer, but I thought Blogger was an American company based in California. Why did it listen automatically to a court order from a foreign country? Is Blogger also registered in the UK? Are there courts in other countries that can give similar injunctions to take down Blogger sites?Lord Matt is hosting the google cache. Perhaps SaveCharlotte.com should be mirrored elsewhere as well, so that whatever happens information about her will not be wiped out.
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What he does
Ray Meier is out with a new ad this evening:
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Thursday, October 26, 2006
Novak overly pessimistic on NY-24
From Human Events:The complaint in Washington is that state Sen. Ray Meier (R) in open District 24 won’t go negative enough against Oneida County District Attorney Mike Arcuri (D). But Meier’s campaign offices have become tense as publicization of Arcuri’s personal scandals actually appear to be backfiring against Meier, even though he has avoided bringing them up himself. Meier feels enough pressure that he has convinced the retiring incumbent, Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R), to come out of hiding and help him. Leaning Democratic Takeover.
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Charlotte Wyatt and censorship
Blogger took http://charlottewyatt.blogspot.com off because of a court injunction from the Portsmouth City Council. There’s only a short notice on the site right now:Charlotte’s website has been removed from this domain due to an injunction filed by the Portsmouth City Council against disseminating information about her. We’re currently negotiating this issue and considering our options; and will have more information here shortly. In the meantime, you can contact us at charlotte.paige.wyatt @ gmail.comFortunately, most of the website is still in the Google cache, including many of the pictures that were posted in recent days from Charlotte’s third birthday. I’ve include a couple of them below:   I’ll keep you updated as I learn more.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Meier-Arcuri debate
WSYR has a debate online between Ray Meier and Mike Arcuri.
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Rights deeply rooted in tradition?
From the majority ruling in Lewis vs. Harris:Only rights that are deeply rooted in the traditions, history, and conscience of the people are deemed to be fundamental. Although we cannot find that a fundamental right to same-sex marriage exists in this State, the unequal dispensation of rights and benefits to committed same-sex partners can no longer be tolerated under our State Constitution. With this State’s legislative and judicial commitment to eradicating sexual orientation discrimination as our backdrop, we now hold that denying rights and benefits to committed same-sex couples that are statutorily given to their heterosexual counterparts violates the equal protection guarantee of Article I, Paragraph 1. To comply with this constitutional mandate, the Legislature must either amend the marriage statutes to include same-sex couples or create a parallel statutory structure, which will provide for, on equal terms, the rights and benefits enjoyed and burdens and obligations borne by married couples. We will not presume that a separate statutory scheme, which uses a title other than marriage, contravenes equal protection principles, so long as the rights and benefits of civil marriage are made equally available to same-sex couples. The name to be given to the statutory scheme that provides full rights and benefits to same-sex couples, whether marriage or some other term, is a matter left to the democratic process.
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