Homosexual Marriage Zealots and immoral Government
They say that too often people don't value something until it's in danger of being taken away. But the flip-side of this is the blessing of renewed appreciation for the things we hold dear when we face the task of defending them from attack.
While it is a sad and worrisome thing to witness how the definition of marriage has come under attack for over a decade now, this has also made more people reflect on the meaning of this ancient institution that we always took for granted.
One recent remarkable reflection of this sort comes from a gay journalist in Ireland who wrote a very strong piece about why he opposes same-sex marriage:
Same Sex Marriage [sic] is not some warm fluffy equality bunny, it's a bare-faced state power grab. The state gets to entirely remake marriage, not as the man/woman/child model we've inherited from 10,000 years of history and across all cultures but as an anything-goes irrelevant partnership agreement between adults.Only a man and a woman have children despite every fantasy the gender-busters want us to believe. Every child has a right to that natural life. Same sex marriage asks us to ignore reality and children's rights to a mother and father. Marriage will be made irrelevant because this re-make says that, for the first time, children and parenthood has no natural place in marriage. If you have children, the kindly, benevolent state will set your relationship with them.If you don't want a gay marriage don't get one? Everyone gets one because, in the eyes of the state, marriage will be about adults, not about a man and a woman committing to making and raising children.
"Of the People, by the People, for the People..."
The other part of the "remaining task" highlighted by Lincoln seems as pertinent as ever today, as well. It isn't hyperbole to say that we've witnessed a scandalous undermining of our very system of government in some of the ways that same-sex marriage has been foisted on the people of states around the nation.
Whether it be activist judges ruling imperially from the bench, or bought-and-paid for legislators selling out their constituents, or ballot initiatives tainted by multi-million dollar misinformation campaigns or obfuscation in the wording of a measure (such as claims that a redefinition of marriage will somehow strengthen religious liberty when the opposite is true), we've seen anything but "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" in the ways marriage redefinition has been achieved.
Will government of THE PEOPLE and the ideal of democracy "perish from the earth"? Well, not if we can help it!
In 2014, NOM will be gearing up for state battles where finally we're back on a level playing field — well, at least as far as politics are concerned. You see, the same-sex marriage movement has now picked all of the low-hanging fruit after targeting states like Illinois and Hawaii where both the legislature and governorship were already at the Left's beck and call.
Now, the battleground will be shifting to states like Indiana and Ohio. And these are states we can win.
How? We can win by "government of the people, by the people, for the people" — by lettingthe people decide on marriage!
But as I said above, a lesson that same-sex 'marriage' teaches us all is that we can't take things for granted. And even though until 2012 every state that had allowed the people to vote on marriage always swung in our favor, we suffered losses at the ballot box in that year for the first time. And why? Because we simply couldn't compete with our opponents' media machines due to a huge funding deficit.
I remember hearing that people in Minnesota, after the legislature there redefined marriage, were shocked that it had happened — even though some of these same people voted just months prior against an amendment to protect marriage! The campaign in support of the proposed Marriage Amendment that NOM supported with our allies in Minnesota warned voters that without the amendment, marriage could be redefined by politicians and judges at the first opportunity. And if it was redefined, there would be real consequences to Minnesotans. But our messages were overrun by our opponents who outspent us by $7 million. Months later, marriage was redefined just as we predicted it would be.
They'd bought the other side's lies that defeating the amendment was about preserving the status quo and not "writing discrimination into the constitution." By a slim majority, voters decided to not enact the amendment, believing they were voting to maintain the status quo that defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Now that marriage has been redefined, they realize that it's they — the majority of voters who believe in marriage as one man and one woman — who are the victims of discrimination.
Thank you for all you do in defense of marriage and the other values and freedoms we all hold so dear. We're on the right side of history, and history remembers worthy words and actions even when their value isn't recognized in their own time. Stay strong, and may God continue to bless our cause and to bless our great nation.
