07-10-06 Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING JULY, 10, 2006 scriptures, he hates all forms of immorality. How long can we as individuals and as a society walk in a rebellion to God, and then ask for his blessings. Please know that the God of heaven cares nothing about out political correctness, when it opposes his best for the world that he loves. He turned now to the children that will have to live with the decision that will be made here tonight. In the name of authority and society endorse what the God of heaven has called sin.Their rebellion causes many who follow to stumble and open the doors to a wake of broken lives. God would have all of us treat one another with respect and kindness and embrace the moral light of purity that he has prescribed in the scriptures and demonstrated in the life of his son Jesus. It is not only God’s will that concerns me, but the will of those who are the founders of the gay agenda in America. It is foolish for one to turn their head and not acknowledge that there is a gay agenda in this country, that is aggressively pushed by its leadership. It appears that they will stop at nothing until their promiscuity is celebrated and accepted by the general populous in America. Have you ever seen the video of the gay day parade in San Francisco? If so, no one could argue that there is such an agenda. In the video, float after float depicting homosexual acts each seemingly trying to increase the shock factor there was a float built by the North American Man Boy Society, this organization celebrates homosexual sex between men and minor boys. What would the organizers of the Gay Day Parade allow proponents child molestation in their celebration. It makes him as why do birds of feather really flock together. Two questions that should be considered: Should this amendment be passed in the City of South Bend, how long will it be until there is pressure placed upon the schools to host professionals who will be recruited to re- educate the children about the normality and freedom of homosexuality. When will a Michiana pastor of a bible believing church be confronted by the Human Rights Commission for in sighting prejudice or discrimination against homosexuals simply because he or she may read scriptures that teach all sexual immorality including homosexuality is a sin. He prayed that we turn our eyes to heaven and asked for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in Heaven may we do his will. Fred Everett, 22160 White Spruce Court, South Bend, Indiana, thanked the Council for their graciousness in giving so many people the opportunity to address this bill. He stated that there is no inconsistency with being in favor of civil rights and having respect for all human beings and truly caring about them while at the same time opposing this amendment. There is not any consistency. Mr. Mangan did a good job of describing why that is. The issue really is behavior and those of expression.The weight of the law should not come down against people who for sincere and religious reasons truly believe that certain types of behavior are objectionable. It is not simply just about who people are but what they do. Having such a broad protection is essentially having a special right or protection. Everyone should have their rights and civil rights respected, but not because of their behaviors. The fact is that we only protect things that are good. No one protects something that is bad, that doesn’t make sense. Part of the Council’s job is to see what things are good and what things are bad and hopefully to try to encourage people to do the goods things and discourage them from doing the bad things. When you say a certain behavior deserves protection how can one not conclude that what is being said is that this is something that is good, because it is being protected. Otherwise, why protect something that is bad, and so there is no way to escape the fact that passing an amendment of this sort is sending out a very clear message that this type of behavior deserves respect and protection and that it gives it legitimacy and validation it would not otherwise have. Mr. Dunlap raised the issue about catholic charities in the state of Massachusetts, who for more than 100 years were providing adoption services, and now suddenly, because of their clear ethical positions about believing that this would be immoral to place a child in a home with two homosexual adults, they no longer can do their work that they have done so well for over a century. Where is the tolerance there? Where is the willingness to be respectful of others? He happened to pick up today a children’s story at the South Bend Public Library, it is called King and King. He stated that he read it for the first time today, and it tells about the story of a young prince, who’s mother is very over bearing, and who basically gives the prince an ultimatum that he needs to get married. The Prince starts to interview all of these various Princesses. The prince’s mother wants the interview done very quickly, so ultimately, the Prince cannot find any princesses that he likes, but he does finds a prince, who he falls in love with. In the end, he ends up marrying him and so they are known as King and King. The last page has a very graphic picture of them both kissing each other with hearts by their 26