Posted on 12/08/2008 2:45:13 PM PST by tcg
We are in the midst of a Cultural Revolution in the West. The foundation of our Western societies has always been the first society, authentic marriage and the family founded upon it. It is the first government, first economy, first school, first religious institution and first mediating institution. Marriage has been clearly understood as arising out of the consent between one man and one woman and intended for life. It has been given a privileged and protected legal and social status. It is viewed as the primary civilizing institution which is constituted for the bearing and caring of children wherein they can be nurtured, loved, taught and prepared for life in broader communities. This understanding of marriage has long been accepted in the West as having been revealed by the Natural Law...
We are experiencing a campaign to effectuate a radical change in our social order. It is being done with verbal sophistication and a well planned and funded legal strategy. Among the legal groups at the forefront of this Cultural Revolution engaging in a strategic use of the Courts is Lambda Legal.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholic.org ...
This lunacy has been allowed to fester and grow while most Americans remained silent, intimidated by the cries of 'discrimination' and 'equal rights' from the gay marriage advocates who receive total sympathy from the dominate leftmedia.
If 'gay marriage' isn't stopped once and for all, preferably by a Supreme Court ruling, heterosexual marriage will be relegated, by law, to just another 'lifestyle choice' with no real meaning. Unfortunately, the American people, in their collective wisdom, elected a leftist president who will very likely fill the inevitable Supreme Court vacancies (Justice John Paul Stevens is 88, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 75) with liberal justices that will probably uphold the 'right' of homosexual couples living together to be called a 'marriage'. How tragic for this nation.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H. L. Mencken
Homosexual agenda ping.
Thanks, I’ll be doing some pinging tomorrow if the other pinger doesn’t get to it.
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