Posted on 05/23/2004 5:03:35 PM PDT by neverdem
With gay marriage on a roll, it's time to move on to another battle.
For decades, social conservatives have been fighting and losing culture wars. Contraception and abortion — once taboo topics — have been enshrined into law. The rates of premarital sex, out-of-wedlock births and divorce have soared since the 1950s (though lately most of these indexes have leveled off or declined slightly). In school, prayer is out; sex education is in. On TV, characters used to say "gee whiz" and sleep in twin beds; now they curse as if they had Tourette's syndrome and flash skin as if they were Gypsy Rose Lee.
This doesn't mean that America is in cultural decline; no one who saw the response to 9/11 can think we are soft or decadent. It does mean there is little mystery about how the latest culture war — over gay marriage — will turn out. Opponents of same-sex marriages may have most of the public on their side for now, but they've already all but lost this battle.
How do I know? Simply by looking at the arguments being advanced by both sides. Advocates of same-sex marriage speak in the powerful language of civil rights and liken their cause to that of African Americans fighting anti-miscegenation laws in years past. And what do opponents say in response? Once upon a time, the case would have been open and shut: Sodomy is a sin, period. Many people may still believe that, but that's no longer a tenable argument in our secularized politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Suicidal political correctnesss
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America is in cultural decline.
America is on a cultural decline. The people who are fighting back against our enemies are not the same as the people who infest our corrupted courts, universities, media, and entertainment industry.
Boot's got his head in the sand.
Brought on by a court that chooses to make Law, not enforce it. The people of MASS were denied the right to decide the legal interpretation of marriage by the stste Senate, aided and abetted by the Boston Globe. This travesty of justice requires a response by the people.
This is not the Right's fight, this is for everybody's sake.
For the life of me, the last time special rights were given for people's racial or sexual preferences was in Nazi Germany.
So I guess liberals do have a point, liberals can ultimately transform the US of A into a social fascist state. Nothing to gloat about.
The smelly libs are shooting themselves in the foot with this line of reasoning. The civil rights defenders have been denouncing the gay marriage agenda.
"...no one who saw the response to 9/11 can think we are soft or decadent."
Right after,ok.How about since?
The downward spiral continues.
Cal Thomas expounds HERE
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Because effing is the major cause, not homosexuality. If we had a constitutional amendment against effing and applicable enforcement it would end the AIDS crisis (of course it would also end the human race, your choice).
His point is solid-- because we can't win the argument on our fundamental point (that sodomy is wrong), we'll lose the argument. You have to get them to accept that sodomy is wrong before you have any chance at getting them to agree with us on gay marriage.
So, he's saying that our will to survive proves we're not soft or decadent? The soft part, maybe I'll give him, although we've been easily turned around on Iraq, so that mitigates what he can actually cash in, but if he thinks that our will to survive proves we're not decadent he's out there.
I checked your link. The most common cause of the spread of HIV is gay male sex; second most common cause (35% v. 42%) is heterosexual sex. Meanwhile, lesbian sexual contact isn't even on the chart; presumably lost in the 1.8% "other". By your logic, we should ban all sex except for lesbian sex.
Don't listen to Cal Thomas.
He made his millions as a moral crusader, now he tells us that Christians should not get involved in our culture and in politics.
So, Cal, why don't you give back all the speaking fees you made from Right to Life dinners? [$7000 each] And from all your books.
I ABSOLUTELY agree!!
...which is why we are now facing the abomination of gay "marriage". This travesty didn't pop up out of nowhere. It's a progression from the passive/aggressive embracing of heterosexual immorality. Which was a progression from turning from God to the creation (idols). Which was a progression from ingratitude towards the Father. (Read Romans for details.)
Premarital sex/out-of-wedlock births/divorce = Vagabond, fatherless children/spiritual vacuum/increased susceptibility to sexual immorality and perversion.
(Somewhere in this demonic mix belongs the occult explosion of the 60's and 70's, which played a huge part in this cultural nosedive we face.)
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