Kent Lambert Quotes
It’s a mind control experiment by the majority party, the Democrats in Colorado, to force everybody—including children in schools, everything else—under penalty of law to believe in homosexual marriage.
Lambert’s quotation is a classic example of some religious extremists who honestly believe that if a government does not legally prohibit something that their faith believes is a sin that the government is firmly endorsing that behavior rather than being neutral about it. So they believe that by making homosexual marriage legal, the government is brain washing the community including children to “believe in” the behavior as a very wholesome and beneficial behavior. This would imply that by allowing alcohol to be sold in the state, the government is brainwashing citizens including children to drink. Or that the state is endorsing adultery because it is no longer a crime. Most of the Christian Religious Extremists are very selective over what sins the government should prohibit. Children who do not honor and respect their parents is actually a capital crime in the Bible, but there is no serious religious effort to criminalize the behavior or to all fathers to execute their misbehaving children.
Kent Lambert, Colorado State Senator (Republican), Statement about the Colorado State Civil Union Law, TV Statement, Pray In Jesus Name, September 24, 2013
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At the time he and the Obama administration had favored legal domestic partnerships for gays but opposed same sex marriage. However, he and the President were having moral and legal doubts and there seemed to be an acceptance of homosexuality emerging in society. The administration then changed their position and within just a few years, same sex marriage had become legal in over 10 states and was being politically debated in many others. In many parts of the country, Biden’s prediction came true in much of America, and the change in political and public opinion was occurring in more and more places.
His view was that since gay marriage did not affect anyone else but the gay couple, it should not be illegal. This is an early Thomas Jefferson idea (see {604940} ) where Jefferson argues that since it does not effect him or anyone else if a person worships 20 gods or none, he and society has no business legislating against it. Those on the opposite side argued that if someone was an atheist or a pagan, it damaged the culture as a whole and offended their sense of morality. Therefore there must be a state religion. In modern times we are debating the same principle only gay marriage is the subject. Should the majority moral view control all or only those things that directly and negatively affect other people and not their moral sensibilities.
Earlier, he had opposed same sex marriage, but as the population as a whole had a change of mind on this issue, so did he. By 2013, 16 States had modified their laws to allow gay marriage.
What made this quotation very dramatic was that the state of Virginia, under the previous administration dominated by religious fundamentalists had passed a law banning same sex marriage. Several private Virginia citizens had sued the State in Federal Court, asserting that their Constitutional rights were violated by the ban. The Attorney general normally defends the state in any court proceeding. However, Herring agreed with the plaintiffs on the case, that the Virginia law was unconstitutional, so he and the State entered the case on the side of the plaintiffs and against the state law. His reference to the right side of history was related to the fact that as late as 1964 Virginia had a law prohibiting interracial marriage which they enforced and the Supreme Court invalidated. Thus, on marriage, Virginia had a track record of being on the wrong side of history and the law.
This quotation is hardly believable, even for an ultra extreme, evangelical, Christian, fundamentalist. His paranoia and homophobia went so far as to claim that somehow the only gay Congressman, Jared Polis, was going to bankrupt Christians who did not endorse his homosexuality. How he might do this Klingenschmitt never explained. But then to associate Polis with the Muslim Fundamentalist Terrorist organization ISIS—which executes homosexuals—and claim that Polis would behead Christians in America was over the top. The quotation illustrates the freedom of speech allowed in American political campaigning where the most absurd, libelous, falsehoods are allowed, as well as the fact that an obvious unbalanced person can freely run for office.
Kent Douglas Lambert is a former legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado. A United States Air Force veteran, Lambert was elected to the Colorado General Assembly as a Republican in 2006. Most recently, he represented Senate District 9, which encompasses northwest Colorado Springs, the United States Air Force Academy, Monument and Black Forest.
