Posted on 08/16/2003 6:06:24 PM PDT by Theodore R.
Standing boldly for marriage
Posted: August 16, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern
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As homosexual activists intensify their effort to achieve marriage rights in America, some interesting events have taken place, leading me to believe that proponents of traditional marriage have just begun to fight to protect the sacred institution.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard joined the effort to protect the man-woman bond this week, saying that the institution of traditional marriage is one of "the bedrock institutions of our society."
Furthermore, in Canada, where the courts are attempting to mandate homosexual marriage, a new poll of members of parliament found considerable opposition, even among liberal members.
Here in America, Colorado Rep. Marilyn Musgrave's Federal Marriage Amendment is gaining support. As I write this column, the amendment has gained 76 co-sponsors, including six Democrats.
And tens of thousands of people have already signed my Petition of Support for the Federal Marriage Amendment.
My good friend, Gary Bauer, noted this week that, during the congressional recess, many members of Congress will be at home meeting with constituents and holding town-hall meetings. I join him in encouraging individuals across this nation to (in Bauer's words), "politely, but firmly confront your elected representatives about this crucial issue – and preferably at a public forum."
I believe that many elected officials who support traditional marriage are somewhat fearful of publicly saying they support the Federal Marriage Amendment because they don't want to appear "intolerant" or "anti-gay" – catchphrases that the left frequently uses in its often hysterical and tedious war of words.
However, if these lawmakers understand that their constituencies largely support the Federal Marriage Amendment, they will have no choice but to sign on.
Pat Buchanan, in a column titled, "Yes, Virginia, there is a religious war," this week wrote of the need for Americans to get involved in this critical war to protect the Judeo-Christian values of our forefathers. If we continue to sit on our hands, traditional marriage will be lost and multiple denominations will ignore biblical teachings by embracing homosexual rights.
Pat recounted how Rev. V. Gene Robinson, now bishop-elect of the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire, is "a flaming fraud."
"Fifteen years ago, Robinson dissolved his marriage, dumped his wife, abandoned his two little girls and went off to shack up," Pat noted. "He thus violated his marriage vows, flouted the teachings of the Anglican faith he was ordained to uphold and entered into a sinful liaison his church has always taught was perverted."
"Having failed to conform his life to scriptural command," Pat continued, "Robinson now demands that Scripture be reinterpreted to conform to his deviant life style. To see Robinson elevated to bishop is to be reminded that in the French Revolution, the Paris mob used the high altar at Notre Dame Cathedral to canonize the town tramp as their Goddess of Reason.
"Now, with massive moral arrogance, Robinson protests that if the Episcopal faithful do not accept him as a consecrated bishop, they – not he – will have broken communion and be responsible for dividing the church."
This is the moral quagmire we find ourselves in today. The proponents of homosexual marriage, homosexual adoption and the church approval of homosexuality are involved in a campaign to recklessly redefine what is historically and biblically right and wrong.
Once this dark crusade for moral ambiguity gains enough steam, there is no stopping it. The ultimate end to this effort is comparable to a time defined in the Bible: "In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes" (Judges 17:6).
Rather than follow the laws of God, man became a law unto himself. Self-justification – even among those claiming to know God – became the law of the land. Mass corruption and unrest followed.
As that mentality accelerates in American classrooms, in many churches, in the mainstream media and in our government, our once-Christian nation could quickly become a distant memory.
Pat Buchanan noted, "Christianity, dying in Europe, is under siege in America. A paganism that holds homosexual unions to be 'sacramental' – the Rev. Robinson's term – is ascending."
The solution is a vast uprising of Christians in America, people of faith who will sacrificially work to preserve the sanctity of marriage and boldly take a stand for the Judeo-Christian standards that brought about this nation. Join me in taking this stand by signing the Petition of Support for the Federal Marriage Amendment.
So how can they be pro-marriage but not be anti-divorce?
Now that I've read the interesting bio that you supplied I see that she abandoned her (probaly illegitimate) daughter as well as other immoral behaviors.
Again, pardon me, but if that is who you admire you shouldn't be making moral judgements about other people.
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