GAY TRUTH

Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could do for same-sex marriage what  Roe v. Wade  did for abortion-on-demand. What concerns me, besides the obvious prospect of having marriage permanently redefined in American law , is the impact of such a ruling on religious freedom . As you know from listening to BreakPoint, there is ample reason for concern on that score. Recent events have demonstrated that the clash between gay rights and religious freedom is a zero-sum game . That’s why a recent column by Frank Bruni of the New York Times concerned me so profoundly. From the start, Bruni, who is himself gay, demonstrates that he does not, or perhaps cannot, understand this issue. He begins by telling readers that he “chafes” at being called “a threat to your religious liberty.” He then goes on to dispute the idea that allowing “men who have romantic relationships with other men and maybe want to marry them” will somehow run roughshod over someone’s cr...

Image via Wikipedia On a weekend when  Bridesmaids  and  The Hangover Part II  continued as two of the biggest-grossing movies of the year, legislators in New York fabricated same-sex “marriage.”  Taken together with the same-sex celebrations in the streets of New York that followed the passage of that legislation, the thoughtless attitudes towards sex – and the opposite sex – in these blockbusters appear to reveal something about young voters' attitudes towards marriage. Moreover, they are two of many indicators that demonstrate a gap between the values of Gen Y and those who went before them. For example, all too many in Gen Y are no longer simply walking to the beat of their own drum (which is a youthful norm), but have actually become disengaged from society altogether.  Somewhere among the myriad new technological distractions unveiled each day, the mind-numbing medical antidotes available for quelling anxious moments, and the breakdown i...