Posted on 06/22/2012 5:33:17 PM PDT by scottjewell
Marriage is how society recognizes and protects this right. Marriage is the planet’s only institution whose core purpose is to unite the biological, social and legal components of parenthood into one lasting bond. Marriage says to a child: The man and the woman whose sexual union made you will also be there to love and raise you. In this sense, marriage is a gift that society bestows on its children.
At the level of first principles, gay marriage effaces that gift. No same-sex couple, married or not, can ever under any circumstances combine biological, social and legal parenthood into one bond. For this and other reasons, gay marriage has become a significant contributor to marriage’s continuing deinstitutionalization, by which I mean marriage’s steady transformation in both law and custom from a structured institution with clear public purposes to the state’s licensing of private relationships that are privately defined.
I have written these things in my book and said them in my testimony, and I believe them today. I am not recanting any of it.
But there are more good things under heaven than these beliefs. For me, the most important is the equal dignity of homosexual love. I don’t believe that opposite-sex and same-sex relationships are the same, but I do believe, with growing numbers of Americans, that the time for denigrating or stigmatizing same-sex relationships is over. Whatever one’s definition of marriage, legally recognizing gay and lesbian couples and their children is a victory for basic fairness.
This is not a retreat, it’s a surrender. He surrendered for strategic reasons, but this is a surrender. Waiting to see what Maggie’s reaction is…
Today, David Blakenhorn, author and champion of traditional marriage, has capitulated to the homosexual agenda. As the author of this piece says, "this is a surrender".
A direct line of causality can be drawn to the nomination of Mitt Romney, the father of Gay Marriage in America.
Their perverted practices are not in any way, shape, or form anywhere close to the same as the natural union between a man and a woman and they never will be, and deep down I think they know it.
The desire to commit sodomy is not love, it is demonic perversion. As such, it has the same "dignity" as the desire to commit blasphemy, idolatry, disrespect of parents, murder, theft, adultery and fornication, bearing of false witness, and coveting.
IOW, it has no dignity at all.
“For me, the most important is the equal dignity of homosexual love.”
How’s he going to explain it to his wife about being on the down-low?
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul . . .
I think the worst part is the way the homosexual agenda has advanced by stealth, and then openly, until its ideology has pervaded every nook and cranny of the culture:
From the corporate sector to retail giants to the GOP to public schools and universities. Way back when they demanded to stop being persecuted, no one dreamed that once granted, this would be a trickle that became a gigantic waterfall of demands and political power plays.
Blakenhorn was one of the most scholarly voices against same sex marriage. Conservative intellectuals admired him. Now he says: “We must allow marriage equality.”
“For me, the most important is the equal dignity of homosexual love.”
There is no dignity to sticking your cock up another guy’s butt.
No compromise.
The best that can be said about these turncoats is that they are cowards of the lowest order!
It’s just time for the religious to cede the state apect of sanctioning of unions. The state had no business in it (it arose to manage miscengenation). By wasting time and enegy on the “debate” it’s been pushed to the forefront enough that the ACTUAL definition of the word faces changing. Marriage is the union of man and woman, saying otherwise is like saying “Cat is Dog”. Homosexuals could have “garriage”, or “homorriage”, but by arguing over the fact pointlessly, hauling it into the court of public opinion (where most of the jury is retarded) and making it a huge “issue” it’s going to be “ruled upon” as having the meaning of just union regardless of sex eventually.
So, individuals who are Christians or other conventional sects should just marry each other under a priest and the eyes of God. Screw the state and the homoactivii. If you want to insure either spouse isn’t cheated in a separation just WRITE A CONTRACT FOR THAT ASPECT LIKE FREAKIN’ ADULTS AND QUIT TAKING ISSUES LIKE THIS TO THE COURTS AND MEDIA!
I guess the Administrators for whatever reason took the piece from the American Conservative down and replaced it with the New York Times direct piece, and changed the title from “Anti-Same Sex Marriage Giant Falls” to Blankenhorn’s op-ed title. Hmmm. Odd.
I think I agree with you. But withdrawal has its own risks (removing oneself and one’s children from the general public culture but still having to live and work in the midst of it. . . )
Men living together are friends. Women living together are friends. It is that simple.
Basic biology says that they cannot be spouses because only a man and a woman can achieve true sexual union. Male/male or female/female union is achieved by means of sexual perversion that leads to both physical and mental health problems. Plus deviant sexual acts add risk to the health and safety of the general population via AIDS and STDs.
Pretending that homosexual behavior is "normal" is either stupid or insane or both! It is wrong to covet what you cannot have; it is wrong to pretend that perverse and risky behavior is normal. No matter how hard they try to be upright and responsible caretakers, sexual deviants are likely to commit acts of child endangerment somewhere along the line during the child's development, in my opinion.
There is no dignity in sexual perversion.
Thanks for posting. Otherwise I might have stumbled across something this feckless moron wrote and paid attention to it.
Agreed. And this is why it is so very, very strange that Blankenhorn has suddenly announced his reversal on this issue. He always said basically what you have set forth here. Someone got to him. But how?
Ha. I know, I took him very seriously up until this moment.
Heterosexual marriage yields a real family unit the way God intended. Our free will and sin nature can screw it up, but that doesn’t mean that God’s design was wrong, it means we fail to live up to task to do what’s expected.
The first imperative of life is survival and the perpetuation of the species - human beings have a right and an obligation to ensure that their species is continued and marriage is the vehicle through which this is achieved - by protecting a special relationship between a man and woman which provides for the most effective and beneficial setting for the procreatin and raising of children - this concept is not invalidated because some people get married for the wrong reasons or eventually do not see the marriage through, but it should be preserved by allowing only the uniting of a man and woman to be called “marriage”......
Here is a statement from National Organization for Marriage’s Maggie Gallagher:
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“David Blankenhorn Gives Up”
“My friend and mentor and one-time boss David Blankenhorn has just published a New York Times op-ed in which he gives up on opposing gay marriage. I haven’t yet read it carefully enough to respond, except to say that “the argument from despair” is the single most powerful argument gay-marriage advocates wield. I wish you well, old friend. “
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/303744/david-blankenhorn-gives-maggie-gallagher#
Well, I’m posting from one of those periods of exasperation. Conservatives are like the dog that repeatedly goes back for a held out scrap, only to be smacked up side the head instead of given the treat.
Personally, I think the entire movement should shift to economic war. Concentrate on paying off debt and accumulating inflation resitant stuff over all, to hammer the large banks, and then on the home front start asking every place you purchase stuff from where the ownership/management stands on issues. If it’s a libtardian stance, search elsewhere for the item/materials...
The system is going to eventually collapse anyways, and one thing you can rely on for sure is that conservatives are FAR better at surviving stuff than your run of the mill liberals. Might as well get it over with before I’m to old to see the mil dots.
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