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08/09/2011
Focus focusing on 2012; seeks Big Discrimination lobby's taxing resurge
In a new article, Focus on the Family writer Karla Dial lays out the inadequacies of a tax law where certain citizens find their legal marriages recognized under state but not federal law while also noting/criticizing The New York Times for discussing the options available to the couples who are faulted by such shortsightedness. So to conclude said article, Focus' Judicial Analyst, Bruce Hausknecht, reaches the following decision:
“The policies on it are so valuable and connected between federal and state,” he said. “I think if Americans will elect conservative majorities in Congress, as well as a conservative president, you’ll see another push for a marriage amendment to the U.S. Constitution that defines marriage as one man and one woman.”
[SOURCE: Focus on the Family Citizenlink]
So basically, because an America of the past seven years has arrived at a place where six states and the District of Columbia offer legal marriages to same-sex couples without incident or conservative-predicted fallout, Bruce is suggesting that this same great nation should regress to a failed proposal. To shore up our tax code, Focus on the Family's solution is to more fully discriminate against some citizens who have been married for as long as seven years under their state law. Here in an America where equality runs only one decidedly forward direction, Bruce is seeking a federal steamroller that would not only block further progress, but would actually lead to the wanton crushing of certain people, their families, and their related protections.
Sorry, but no. We had a conservative president and conservative majorities in Congress, and the so-called Federal Marriage Amendment was still D.O.A. So here in the now, where legally married gay couples exist on the west coast (pre-Prop 8 Californians), in the heartland (Iowa), and all across the northeast, the idea of Big Discrimination 2.0 is not only deeply offensive -- it's also absurd. And distracting. And time-wasting. And deeply unfocused (on the family).
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