GAY TRUTH

Future historians will likely be flummoxed by the moment we’re living in. In what amounts to less than a blink of an eye in the history of Western civilization, homosexuality has gone from a diagnosed mental disorder , criminal offence to something to be celebrated — or else. Indeed, the rush to mandatory celebration is so intense, refusal is now considered tantamount to a crime. And, in some rare instances, an actual crime if the right constable or bureaucrat concludes that you have uttered ‘hate speech.’ HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS HAVE FORCED INSTITUTIONS TO CHANGE THEIR MINDS. The Bible condemns homosexuality as a sin. The enlightenment wanted freedom from religion so it invented the concept - private sphere and public sphere where the state took no interest in what happens behind closed doors. This philosophy has since been devastating. Domestic violence and pedophilia now happen behind closed doors and was permitted until the law was slectivle changed. Many groups had accepte...

Marriage and religious freedom will stand or fall together. In recent essays here at Public Discourse , Mark Regnerus argued that same-sex marriage would harm marriage for everyone, and John Smoot argued that it would be bad for children in particular. Today I want to show the damage that redefining marriage does to religious freedom. At bottom, even the defense of religious liberty is a struggle over what is true and false about the meaning of marriage. Should the truth about marriage—that it unites men and women so that children will have fathers and mothers—be defied by the laws of the land, we cannot expect the religious freedom of those who believe in that ancient truth to be respected under the new dominion of falsehood. After all, if redefining marriage to include same-sex couples accords with justice and moral truth, there is no good reason for the new legal order to make room for “conscientious” religious dissenters, for clearly their consciences are malformed an...

WASHINGTON, D.C. , March 14, 2013 ( Heritage Foundation ) - The media likes to present the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community as if they speak with one voice, as a monolithic group. But more and more members of that community are speaking out in defense of marriage —between a man and woman. Doug Mainwaring. Doug Mainwaring is one such advocate. An adoptive parent and openly gay man , he is perhaps the unlikeliest opponent of  redefining marriage . But his own experience as a parent revealed to him that children need a mom and a dad, and that marriage is ultimately about putting the needs of children before the desires of adults. In a  recent article  at  Public Discourse  titled “ I’m Gay and I Oppose Same-Sex Marriage ,” Mainwaring makes the bold claim that: To be fully formed, children need to be free to generously receive from and express affection to parents of both genders. Genderless marriages deny this fullness. ...