GAY TRUTH

Humanity's very foundation of ‘being’ is rooted with the bond between man and woman. Archaeology shows the importance of the family unit working together as the first and most basic unit of human cooperation. There is overwhelming evidence that the unit of ‘mom, dad and children’ has been encouraged from the earliest pre-written record. The union between one man and one woman was the first and most lasting definition of marriage. Marriage did not originate from the state and does not have the legitimate authority to change its nature. Marriage may have been used for various power and control purposes at various times and by various cultures – but for the average person the basics of marriage have always been about moms, dads and children. Confucius (551 – 479 BC ) – A pre- Christian philosopher said: “Other things may change – but we start and end with family” “A married couple is the basic unit of the population. The very purpose of marriage is the cultivation of virtue.” “V

ALBUQUERQUE,  – Same-sex “marriage” has come to portions of New Mexico by judicial fiat.  Six of the state's 33 counties – Bernalillo, Doña Ana, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos, and Valencia counties – have begun issuing marriage licenses to homosexual couples, some after judicial orders and some voluntarily. However, state law does not provide for same-sex “marriage.” New Mexico is the only state to have no law either allowing or forbidding such unions. Without a specific law forbidding gay “marriage,” rogue officials began issuing licenses, and activist judges began ruling that the state's commitment to fighting “discrimination”  ipso facto legalizes “marriage equality.” Last Wednesday, Doña Ana County Clerk Lynn Ellins decided to begin issuing licenses to gay couples, law or no law. By week's end,  137  couples had received the licenses, which substitute “spouse and spouse” for “bride and groom.” Attorney General Gary King, a Democrat, said, although the rog

Same sex marriage has become the issue of our time. Michael Kinsley summed the situation nicely: “You may be in favor of raising taxes on the rich, increasing support for the poor, nurturing the planet, and repealing Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act , but if you don’t support gay marriage, you’re out of the club.” How did this come to pass? There’s no easy answer, which is not surprising. Same sex marriage is the issue because lots of different interests, concerns, and trends converge on it. The first thing to say is that the gay rights movement has been largely an upper middle class project. Thurgood Marshall attended Lincoln University, an all-black college in southeastern Pennsylvania, and then Howard University Law School . Gay activist Larry Kramer went to Yale. Judge Vaughn Walker went to Stanford Law School . I have little doubt that the first gay Supreme Court Justice will be a graduate of either Yale or Harvard Law Schools. There are many reasons why the gay rights

California has just passed a new law saying school districts may not bar transgender students from same-sex settings, like men's basketball teams or women's locker rooms ( Assembly Bill 1266 ). Opponents promptly submitted a  referendum to overturn the law. But it will take more than the usual political activism to stop the momentum on what some are calling the next major drive for "equality." It will take a serious, sustained program of education in both scientific facts and real respect. Every law has an implicit worldview, a set of assumptions that justifies it. The worldview implicit in the transgender movement is that our physical bodies have no particular value -- that our biology is irrelevant to who we are as persons. Consider the language used. Several states and school districts have passed laws on “transgender discrimination,” and most read something like this (from a 2011 California law ): "Gender . . . includes a person's gender identity and

August 26, 2013 ( Breakpoint ) - Sometimes, and for some people, leasing makes better sense than buying. For instance, if you like to drive a new car every few years, leasing allows you to drive an updated one for less money and enjoy the “ new car smell ” more often. Likewise, renting rather than owning your home makes it easier to move if circumstances or even wanderlust makes it necessary. Well, if a certain Florida lawyer has his way, there’s something else you’ll be able to lease every few years along with your new car and your new digs: a new spouse. I’m not kidding. Paul Rampell is a Palm Beach attorney specializing in estate planning. In a recent Washington Post article, he told readers “We all know that far too many marriages end in divorce . . .” And that’s true enough. According to Rampell, the problem isn’t that people no longer believe in marriage. On the contrary, he notes that many Americans want to expand the institution to include same-sex couples. The pro

Elaine Huguenin August 26, 2013 ( Albert Mohler ) - Anyone who still doubts that the normalization of homosexuality and the legalization of same-sex marriage will represent a seismic shift in the culture at large needs only to look to New Mexico to see that nothing less than religious liberty is now under threat—and in a big way. Jonathan and Elaine Huguenin are the owners of Elane Photography, a firm that operates as a commercial photographic studio. Elaine is the lead photographer and the Huguenins together run the business. In 2006, the couple refused to photograph a same-sex couple’s commitment ceremony and were sued. Last week the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that the Huguenins had violated the human rights of the same-sex couple and that the First Amendment does not allow Elane Photography to refuse to photograph same-sex unions. The court’s decision was unanimous, upholding a 2012 decision by an appeals court. The court’s decision declared that the Huguenins had ac

August 19, 2013 ( The Public Discourse ) - In a recent conversation with a dozen well-educated young social conservatives, I found that hardly any held to what ten years ago would have been considered the conservative position on marriage. A few had accepted the idea that marriage was a social construction that a majority could change. Others opted for the view that it was a religious institution, and political outcomes on the subject didn’t really matter. Still others thought that there were just other, more winnable, battles worth fighting. The most common sentiment: even though none thought a same-sex relationship was a marriage, almost none wanted to play for a losing team whose objective was a national stranglehold on people’s happiness. Common sense has apparently changed a lot in only a few years. When the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was passed in 1996, the overwhelming majority considered it common sense to protect such a fundamental institution as marriage. By the