A Stitch in Haste

Another fine example of the legislative process in action:

After unanimously endorsing a conservative think tank's resolution supporting the "natural family," Kanab's City Council is coming under fire — naturally.

Gay-rights advocates and even some residents are scolding city leaders for embracing a nonbinding proposal that:

--Labels marriage between a man and a woman as "ordained of God."

--Sees homes as "open to a full quiver of children."

--Envisions young women "growing into wives, homemakers and mothers and . . . young men growing into husbands, home builders and fathers."
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[Resolution author Paul] Mero calls the resolution an affirmation of marriage and family. He also maintains that, contrary to what critics say, the document is meant to keep government out of crafting moral standards for a community.

So a resolution invoking marital discrimination in God's name and calling for Twenty-First Century women to remain barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen has nothing whatsoever to do with "crafting moral standards for a community"? I wonder what he would consider "crafting moral standards."

Perhaps the saddest part is that the Sutherland Institute, the think tank pushing this neanderthal resolution uses (deceptively, of course) a great deal of libertarian rhetoric — invoking goals of "limited government" and "fiscal responsibility" and even quoting Milton Friedman. You can't easily tell from their website, unless you dig a bit, that they're just another petty bigot brigade.

Meanwhile, in the spirit of full disclosure, let the record reflect that other Utah towns are rejecting this silly resolution right and left. Good for them!

(Via Fark.)