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LAMAR, Mo. – Since last Friday, the political blogosphere, particularly on the political left, has been focused on a video of Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Harrisonville, making comments at an Eagle Forum event regarding allowing same-sex marriage.
“Well, think about it,” Hartzler said. “That starts you down the road to opening up licensure to basically meaning that the license would mean nothing.”
“We’re saying marriage is between a man and a woman….It’s not a right in the Constitution as far as that goes either. It’s not a right of… a 3 year old to be able to drive a car. The government has set some parameters,” she said.
Speaking to PoliticMo Monday, Hartzler clarified, saying she said – or meant to say – 13 year old, not three year old.
“I was saying that if you change the standard in the country to having marriage be, which is what they want, that just anybody that has a loving and committed relationship, then you set yourself on a slippery slope legally in courts to having other people come forward with similar arguments that would be objectionable to almost everyone,” she said. “So, that’s another reason why it makes sense to just keep the traditional definition of a man and a woman and that it’s my main point there is that it’s wise public policy.
“So, obviously those comments are just being misconstrued by those,” she said.
Previous to being elected to congress, Hartzler led the anti-gay marriage movement in Missouri, working to change the constitution defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
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Hello, I am a family man, wife and 2 children, ages 13, and 15. My wife and I are 53 years old.
Thank you for speaking out on how you feel.We, as a nation, need to be more up front with our conservitive thoughts, and speak our minds, soon, and I thank you from Central Ill. God Bless You, and your family!
Dan,Susan, Lauren and Ryan Greene
Good on her, she is absolutely right.
Marriage is NOT endorsed by governments simply because a man and a woman love each other.
It is because it is the only natural way to have children and it is still the best environment in which to raise children.
Same sex people can’t have natural sex. Neither two men nor two women are physically capable of having natural sex, nor can they naturally produce children.
That should indicate to any logical thinker that same sex marriage is totally unnatural.
your claim is that “So, obviously those comments are just being misconstrued by those,” she said
This woman continues to falsely equate LGBT people to criminals, pedophiles and bigamists. She also has a penchant for claiming LGBT people are the same as those that engage in bestiality.
The video lets you hear exactly what is being construed.
She said it and she has for years.
Do you really want to be represented by this Constipated Woman of America type who would try and tell you that you are evil and loathsome? That her moral judgement should preclude you from your Rights as an American?
I served the U.S. Military for 20 years, I shed my blood in places most of you never heard of. I did this to defend the Constitution and the Ideal that all of us are equal.
I did not come home crippled so bigots and freaks like this woman can turn the U.S. into a theocracy run by her brand of Religious bigotry.
Those like her claim to be True Americans, but in fact they are just the American Taliban. They would have you live under a pseudo-christian version of the Sharia laws. Laws they perpetrate on others to control the actions of others.
LGBT people, Muslims, Hispanics and Women are often targeted by her as groups to hate. To despise and revile. She depends on roiling the fears of people to stay in the public spotlight. She revels is using God as a weapon of mass destruction.
She would lead a genocide if she thought she would not get caught.
Let her know she will not succeed.
Hate is not a family value, nor a christian one.
We don’t let children drive cars because it puts other drivers in jeopardy. I honestly can’t believe that she even needs an explanation. This woman is an elected official. She is one of 537+ people who are running the lives of 308 million. Her 3rd-grader logic scares me.