I Refuse...
... to recognize gay marriage.
It's an oxymoron. It's deplorable. It's dispicable. It shreds the fabric of global society. I fully support the proposed FMA (Family Marriage Act):
Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this constitution or the constitution of any state, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups.
As much as we'd all like to ignore the issue of gay marriage and hope it goes away, this issue has truly become a real and total crisis. Nov. 18th, 2003: the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that gay couples have the right to wed. By a 4-3 decision, the Court gave the state legislature six months to rewrite the state's marriage laws to include homosexual couples.
THIS HAPPENED, PEOPLE. Are you getting this?? UNELECTED judges just told us what we have to do. The people of America did not decide this. The people of Massachusetts didn't even decide this! The people who decided are judges, whom we did not choose to put in power. That right there is incredibly dangerous.
Let me give you a taste of what Stanley Kurtz, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, has to say about what consequences are in store for us: "Marriage will be transformed into a variety of relationship contracts, linking two, three, or more individuals (however weakly or temporarily) in every conceivable combination of male and female... the bottom of this slope is visible from where we now stand."
Can you see it? I can. Jeff Jacoby writes: " The adoption of same-sex marriage would topple a longstanding system of shared values. It would change assumptions and expectations by which society has long operated -- that men and women are not interchangeable, for example, and that the central reason for marriage is to provide children with mothers and fathers in a safe and loving environment ...... My foreboding is that a generation after same-sex marriage is legalized, families will be even less stable than they are today, the divorce rate will be even higher, and children will be even less safe. To express such a dire warning is to be labeled an alarmist, a reactionary, a bigot, and worse ..... But it is not bigotry to try to learn from history, or to point out that some institutions have stood the test of time because they are the only ones that can stand the test of time."
Dr. Dobson's words of warning:
"If the God-ordained basis for the family does fail on a large scale, children will pay a terrible price. Social sciene confims that two parents of the same sex, however loving or nurturing they may be, cannot meet the unique needs of children in the same way that a mother and father can.
"The destruction of the traditional family will condemn millions of kids to temporary relationships, involving multiple "moms" or "dads", six or eight "grandparents," and perhaps a dozen or more half-siblings who will come and go as those who care for them meander from one sexual relationship to another.
"These children will be shuffled from pillar to post in an ever-changing pattern of living conditions. Parenthood itself will come to be defined as only an act performed by two or more androgynous being. "Mother" and "Father" will become meaningless words that will not define anything substantive about women and men. Any apparent differences between the sexes will be seen as merely superficial and of no practical consequence."
Scared yet? You should be. Don't let this happen. Pray without ceasing. If nothing else, this must be stopped for the sake of the children whose hearts and minds and souls are at stake. They NEED a family... A mom and a dad... Don't let this happen.
-Jack-
