Tony Zirkle for Congress
About Tony
- 2006-02-21-Tony Zirkle for Congress
- 2008-02-10-Zirkle Proposes Abortion Reform
- 2008-02-12-Zirkle Comments on Luke Puckett's Announcement
- 2008-02-27-Zirkle on FISA and the Exclusionary Rule
- 2008-04-11-Zirkle Answers S.B. Tribune Questions
- 2008-04-11-Tony Zirkle Answers Questionnaire from Michigan City News Dispatch
- 2008-04-14-Zirkle's Final 3 Weeks Schedule of 2008 Primary
- 2008-04-24-Tony Zirkle Answers Logansport Pharos-Tribune Essay
- 2008-04-18-Tony's Final 3 Weeks Contingent Schedule
- 2008-04-25-Tony Zirkle Responds to Death Threats
- 2008-04-29-Press Release 1. TV 2. MSNBC 3. 4-30 & 5-2 Press Conf. 4. 4-30 Penn H.S. Town Hall 5. Pastor Wright 6. 5-3 Rally in S. Bend
- 2008-04-30 Zirkle on Jobs, Health Care, Afghanitstan, Narco-Terrorist States & Gas Prices
- 2008-05-02 Tony Zirkle Jabs Back
- 2008-02-03-Zirkle Offers Pro Bono Legal for Suspended Drivers
- 2004-05-03-Highway Bill Update & May 3-4, 2004 Agenda
- 2004-05-010-Why Tony Zirkle is the better choice for the Republican Party
- 2004-01-07-Zirkle Stakes His Position on Gambling Boats and Money Laundering
- 2004-02-04-Zirkle Speaks on Drug Crime
- 2004-02-25-Education and Affirmative Action
- 2004-03-05-Anti-Gerrymandering and Zirkle's View on President Bush's Marriage Constitutional Amendment
- 2004-03-17-Zirkle launches Web site and accepts Hispanic Leadership Council's invitation to speak on immigration.
- 2004-02-to-04-Taxes and Social Security Reform
- 2004-or-2006-Election Q&A for Lafayette newspaper
- 2004-or-2006-Post-Tribune Q&As
- 2004-or-2006-Terror/Cultural Wars and Porn-Prostitution
- 2004-or-2006-NWI Times Q & As
- 2004-or-2006-Michigan City News-Dispatch Q & As
- 2004-or-2006-South Bend Tribune Q & As.
- 2008-05-02 Site 360 Interview Self-Determination
- 2008-03-18-Zirkle Supports Veterans
- Press Coverage Links
- 2008-04-29-Television Transcript for WNDU & Comcast
Same Sex Movement/Marriage
If you think we live in a democracy, think again. One state legislator, Pat Bauer from South Bend has prevented even a vote in the Indiana House on passing a constitutional amendment defining marriage. I believe we now live in a "judocracy" where judges are legislating from the bench even though the U.S. Constitution states that Congress shall make "all laws." We now have at least two mayors in San Francisco and in New York thumbing their noses at legislative statues and voter initiatives.
While I would vote for Bush's proposal on a federal constitutional amendment, I would prefer not to lose this chance in a lifetime to fix our government. See my statements above on activist judges.
We now have judges saying that state governments have no rational basis in promoting marriage over gay unions. African-Americans and women gained their rights through constitutional amendments and legislative enactments. The homosexual movement should follow the same course. If the constitution is interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court to not protect homosexual sodomy in 1986 in the Bowers decision but that it does in the 2003 Laurence decision, then I ask if we are not reminded of what Martin Luther said about church councils in that they had no authority for him because they contradicted one another. Justice Thomas recently wrote that the constitution should mean the same thing in 25 years as it does today. I agree.