Posted with permission.
By DON WALTON
Make no mistake about it; same-sex marriage has nothing to do with equal rights. Homosexuals already have the same right to marry as everyone else. If a gay man wants to marry a woman or a lesbian wants to marry a man, they have every right to do so. The problem with homosexuals is that they don't want to marry, but to redefine marriage to fit their perversion.
If homosexuals are permitted by law to redefine marriage according to their sexual preference, then the law will henceforth be prohibited from discriminating against additional redefinitions of marriage required to accommodate all other sexual preferences. Once same-sex marriage is enshrined in law, polygamists, bisexuals, transsexuals and pedophiles will insist that the nuptial boundaries be redrawn to include their sexual perversions within the borders of matrimony as well.
In the end, any and all consenting relationships, no matter how immoral or perverse, will have to be deemed legally marriageable. Otherwise, the law will be put in the untenable position of self-contradiction, forced to argue against what it actually argued for in the case of same-sex marriage. There will be no closing of this Pandora's Box once it's opened. Marriage, as it has always been understood, will be continuously reduced to the lowest common denominator until finally rendered indistinguishable and indefinable.
Now, many will protest that I have no right as a Christian to force my morality on others. Yet, what's happening in America today is the exact opposite. Others are forcing their immorality on me. Homosexuals argue that what they do in the privacy of their own bedrooms is none of my business. I agree. What homosexuals do in the privacy of their bedrooms is totally between them and God. My problem is that many homosexuals today refuse to keep it in the privacy of their own bedrooms. Instead, they insist upon publicly parading on "Gay Days" and in "Gay Pride Parades." The problem today is not Christians flaunting our faith in homosexuals' faces, but homosexuals flaunting their sex lives in all of our faces.
No one is forcing morality on homosexuals, but many homosexuals are trying to force their immorality on all of the rest of us. They want to force our public schools to teach the moral equivalency of homosexuality to heterosexuality, regardless of whether your children are being taught differently in your home and in your church. They want to force states like ours to legalize the adoption of children by same-sex couples. They want to force organizations like the Boy Scouts of America to enlist gay scoutmasters to take young boys into the woods for weekend camping trips. They want to force your church to accept practicing homosexuals into its membership, as well as to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies in its facilities. And they want to force you to rent rental properties to same-sex couples, to hire homosexuals in your business and to disclaim your God-given convictions in order to embrace their alternative lifestyles.
Rather than being about equal rights, same-sex marriage is all about legitimizing homosexuality. It is the strong-arming of our society into conformity to the homosexual agenda. Armed with judicial fiats (the legalizing of same-sex marriage in California and Massachusetts by despotic state supreme courts), politically correct legislation (the recently passed "Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act," which normalizes homosexuality and criminalizes any opposition to it), ACLU lawsuits and a libelous press, today's Gay Rights Movement is armed and dangerous. By holding to our heads the triple threat of legal prosecution for hate crimes, financially ruinous litigation for discrimination and reputation destroying bad press, homosexuals hope to force us all into silence and submission.
All of the arguments put forth by homosexuals for same-sex marriage are easily proven bogus upon close examination. For instance, we often hear how same-sex marriage is necessary to assure inheritance rights to same-sex couples. However, this can be accomplished by simply writing a will. There is certainly no need to radically redefine the God-ordained bedrock institution of all orderly society.
Another argument often put forth in favor of same-sex marriage is the need to assure same-sex couples of hospital visitation rights. I for one would like to know the name of a hospital in today's politically correct culture that is denying homosexuals the right to visit their sick same-sex partners. You know as well as I do that such a hospital would be vilified on the front pages of today's liberal press, not to mention run the risk of jeopardizing its state and federal funding for such things as Medicaid expenditures.
If it doesn't bother you to:
Pull marriage, the God ordained bedrock for all orderly society, out from under American society.
To rob children of their needed role models — father and mother.
To rob children of needed relationships — paternal, maternal and sibling.
To live in a country where all sexual relationships are deemed marriageable, and all dissent is condemned as discriminatory.
To live in a country where schools teach the moral equivalency of heterosexuality, homosexuality, inappropriate behavior with animals and pedophilia.
To live in a country where children are not the product of their parents' love, but of artificial insemination and vials of sperm stored in sperm banks.
To live in a country where your church forfeits its tax exemption because of its unwillingness to accept practicing homosexuals into its membership.
To live in a country where both you and your pastor face litigation — you for your refusal to rent property to a gay or lesbian couple and your pastor for his refusal to perform a same-sex wedding ceremony.
To live in a country where the words of sacred Scripture are considered hate speech, the practice of the Christian faith a hate crime, and all Christians hate-mongers, then feel free to vote "no" on Amendment 2.
On the other hand, if you find all of the above as appalling as I do, then you better vote "yes" on Amendment 2 and get as many other voters to the polls to do likewise as you possibly can.
It's high time that Christians realized that this battle over same-sex marriage is the "Waterloo" of the Culture War. If we lose it, it's over. Our country is lost, as is proven by the soon demise of every civilization in history that legitimized homosexuality.
Thanks,
TT
By DON WALTON
Make no mistake about it; same-sex marriage has nothing to do with equal rights. Homosexuals already have the same right to marry as everyone else. If a gay man wants to marry a woman or a lesbian wants to marry a man, they have every right to do so. The problem with homosexuals is that they don't want to marry, but to redefine marriage to fit their perversion.
If homosexuals are permitted by law to redefine marriage according to their sexual preference, then the law will henceforth be prohibited from discriminating against additional redefinitions of marriage required to accommodate all other sexual preferences. Once same-sex marriage is enshrined in law, polygamists, bisexuals, transsexuals and pedophiles will insist that the nuptial boundaries be redrawn to include their sexual perversions within the borders of matrimony as well.
In the end, any and all consenting relationships, no matter how immoral or perverse, will have to be deemed legally marriageable. Otherwise, the law will be put in the untenable position of self-contradiction, forced to argue against what it actually argued for in the case of same-sex marriage. There will be no closing of this Pandora's Box once it's opened. Marriage, as it has always been understood, will be continuously reduced to the lowest common denominator until finally rendered indistinguishable and indefinable.
Now, many will protest that I have no right as a Christian to force my morality on others. Yet, what's happening in America today is the exact opposite. Others are forcing their immorality on me. Homosexuals argue that what they do in the privacy of their own bedrooms is none of my business. I agree. What homosexuals do in the privacy of their bedrooms is totally between them and God. My problem is that many homosexuals today refuse to keep it in the privacy of their own bedrooms. Instead, they insist upon publicly parading on "Gay Days" and in "Gay Pride Parades." The problem today is not Christians flaunting our faith in homosexuals' faces, but homosexuals flaunting their sex lives in all of our faces.
No one is forcing morality on homosexuals, but many homosexuals are trying to force their immorality on all of the rest of us. They want to force our public schools to teach the moral equivalency of homosexuality to heterosexuality, regardless of whether your children are being taught differently in your home and in your church. They want to force states like ours to legalize the adoption of children by same-sex couples. They want to force organizations like the Boy Scouts of America to enlist gay scoutmasters to take young boys into the woods for weekend camping trips. They want to force your church to accept practicing homosexuals into its membership, as well as to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies in its facilities. And they want to force you to rent rental properties to same-sex couples, to hire homosexuals in your business and to disclaim your God-given convictions in order to embrace their alternative lifestyles.
Rather than being about equal rights, same-sex marriage is all about legitimizing homosexuality. It is the strong-arming of our society into conformity to the homosexual agenda. Armed with judicial fiats (the legalizing of same-sex marriage in California and Massachusetts by despotic state supreme courts), politically correct legislation (the recently passed "Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act," which normalizes homosexuality and criminalizes any opposition to it), ACLU lawsuits and a libelous press, today's Gay Rights Movement is armed and dangerous. By holding to our heads the triple threat of legal prosecution for hate crimes, financially ruinous litigation for discrimination and reputation destroying bad press, homosexuals hope to force us all into silence and submission.
All of the arguments put forth by homosexuals for same-sex marriage are easily proven bogus upon close examination. For instance, we often hear how same-sex marriage is necessary to assure inheritance rights to same-sex couples. However, this can be accomplished by simply writing a will. There is certainly no need to radically redefine the God-ordained bedrock institution of all orderly society.
Another argument often put forth in favor of same-sex marriage is the need to assure same-sex couples of hospital visitation rights. I for one would like to know the name of a hospital in today's politically correct culture that is denying homosexuals the right to visit their sick same-sex partners. You know as well as I do that such a hospital would be vilified on the front pages of today's liberal press, not to mention run the risk of jeopardizing its state and federal funding for such things as Medicaid expenditures.
If it doesn't bother you to:
Pull marriage, the God ordained bedrock for all orderly society, out from under American society.
To rob children of their needed role models — father and mother.
To rob children of needed relationships — paternal, maternal and sibling.
To live in a country where all sexual relationships are deemed marriageable, and all dissent is condemned as discriminatory.
To live in a country where schools teach the moral equivalency of heterosexuality, homosexuality, inappropriate behavior with animals and pedophilia.
To live in a country where children are not the product of their parents' love, but of artificial insemination and vials of sperm stored in sperm banks.
To live in a country where your church forfeits its tax exemption because of its unwillingness to accept practicing homosexuals into its membership.
To live in a country where both you and your pastor face litigation — you for your refusal to rent property to a gay or lesbian couple and your pastor for his refusal to perform a same-sex wedding ceremony.
To live in a country where the words of sacred Scripture are considered hate speech, the practice of the Christian faith a hate crime, and all Christians hate-mongers, then feel free to vote "no" on Amendment 2.
On the other hand, if you find all of the above as appalling as I do, then you better vote "yes" on Amendment 2 and get as many other voters to the polls to do likewise as you possibly can.
It's high time that Christians realized that this battle over same-sex marriage is the "Waterloo" of the Culture War. If we lose it, it's over. Our country is lost, as is proven by the soon demise of every civilization in history that legitimized homosexuality.
Thanks,
TT
