Marriage

I Believe:

Marriage is a contract either verbal or in writing that says some number of people will stay together until they die.  Today more than 50% of all marriages end in divorce so the Defence of Marriage Act should really be about stopping divorce and not about stopping loving people getting together.  Marriage is a way to protect children until they are able to take care of themselves period.  If children were born completely able to take care of themselves then there would be no need for marriage. 

Changing the name of marriage to a domestic partnership is just a smoke screen.  If a domestic partnership has exactly the same rights as a marriage than it is a marriage.  A Rose is a Rose.

It does not matter if you believe god said"Be fruitful and multiply" or if you believe in evolution and "the survival of the fittest."  Marriage is to protect children biological or adopted.

So whether marriage is between a man and a women or a man and a man or a woman and a woman or multiple partners if it is what is best for the children in that situation then it should be allowed.

For my family marriage is between a man and a woman to protect and cherish our twin adopted daughters.

Your family may be different.

The Presidency

It is 2012 and once again we are in a Presidential year. So what that means is we will be seeing advertisements on TV and campaign placards sprouting like weeds from lawns. In the 2010 election only about 38% of the voting population actually voted. So a little more than a third of the people are electing the highest office in the land. You can not even get a law passed with this kind of percentage. I believe one thing we could do to increase voter turnout is to lengthen the term of the president to 6 years, but limit the presidency to the one term. In addition to increasing the voter turnout every 6 years we would see competition for the nomination in both parties instead of the incumbent not facing the same scrutiny that the opposition party goes through. Also this would stop the president from becoming the campaigner in chief, maybe we could even limit what the president could do as far as campaigning for his or her successor. Right now the president's first year is his honeymoon, the second and third year are working years and the fourth is a campaign year. If he wins the fifth through seventh year are working years and then the eighth he is a lame duck. In a six year term the first year is the honeymoon two through five are working years and the sixth he is a lame duck. So we get five years of work out of every six instead of six years out of eight.
So I believe we need to go to a six year single term presidency.