Posted on 02/14/2014 1:18:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I want people to stop telling churches what definition of marriage they must support under threat of force. I want businesses to be free to not do business with those they have a religious qualm about working with.
Do you have a problem with that? Becuase, if you do... Then you are by default supporting what the government is currently doing.
See, that didn’t say anything.
You want churches, Mosques, and gay churches, and whatever religious cults to all make up their own definitions of marriage?
Can’t they already do that, as long as they don’t care if the government recognizes it?
That isn’t what they are doing though, is it...
You know it. You’d just rather lie about your motivations. Keeping that government whip hand is all you care about.
Disgusting.
That isn’t what who is doing?
If you don’t want the government to recognize your marriage, then why are you asking them to recognize it?
The problem with those of the Libertarian bent, folks who have been heavily influenced by Ron Paul and others, who are trying to surrender the fight to defend marriage and the natural family for us, is that they utterly fail to recognize a number of critically important things:
1) The fundamental nature of the marriage bond and its character as the basis for all human civilization, governance and economy.
2) The moral depravity that the homosexual idea represents.
3) The fact that if you give government over to moral depravity you will have destroyed the possibility of republican, constitutional self-government.
Our first President:
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness — these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.”
— George Washington
Our second President:
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net.”
— John Adams
Our third President:
“No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Our fourth President:
“The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.”
— James Madison
Marriage is of a unique, sublime, ineffable nature. It is a God-breathed mystery. It is among His greatest gifts to mankind, the nexus of His eternal plan and all true, lasting, earthly riches. It is the foundational building block of all decent civic, governmental institutions. It is the basis of all true economics. It breeds peace and prosperity. It is the great stabilizer of civilizations. It is the well-spring and nursery of posterity. It must be protected, or America will fail and fall.
Marriage is the familial, societal, governmental, and economic building block of our civilization, our country, and our communities. It is a God-ordained, God-given institution, the first and most important one. It is fundamental to the laws of nature and of nature’s God, and absolutely necessary to the fulfillment of the ultimate stated purpose of the U.S. Constitution, which is “to secure the Blessings of Liberty to our Posterity.” It must be fiercely defended on every front from any and all who would pervert it or subvert it, or America cannot possibly survive. The attack on the natural family represents an existential threat.
100% correct
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Dittoes to post 46 and 47. As I always say; As goes the American family ~ so goes America.
That why we must have direct government involvement in protecting marriage. Our nation’s future depends on marriage. But simply because the liberals want to redefine marriage is no reason to surrender.
Well, I for one am not surrendering.
Your type are the ones who demanded Governent get involved in the first place. Well, you got what you wanted. Now shut up and take it.
L
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