Posted on 03/19/2013 6:12:51 AM PDT by shortstop
Hillary Clinton came out yesterday as a supporter of gay marriage.
At the end of last week, a Republican senator from Ohio did the same thing.
They joined Barack Obama and a rising tide of political opportunists from both parties who are bending over backwards to be on the “right side” of gay marriage.
Apparently their polls have told them it’s time to change their principles.
Which is neither surprising nor troubling. In this country, we have long since abandoned the idea that politicians work from any sort of core values. Or that they have any interest whatsoever in truly addressing the country’s challenges.
Instead, they hop from issue to issue, pimping them each, saying whatever their pollsters and their campaigns tell them to say.
While steadfastly ignoring real problems and real solutions.
It is all a game of distraction.
So we argue about gay marriage and guns and birth control and illegal immigration, and all the while we are completely blind to other issues, big-ticket issues, that threaten our society and nation.
Like gay marriage and out-of-wedlock birth.
One is a sideshow, the other is the real deal.
The real deal we are ignoring.
Let me explain.
Gay marriage is a very passionate and contentious issue. Its supporters say it is a civil rights issue. Its detractors say it is an attack on the family.
It may be either, neither or both.
But what it mostly is is irrelevant.
If you round up, gay people are 2 percent of the population. Gay marriage is rubbed in the public’s face, like every other part of the gay agenda, but the real practical impact of gay marriage is zilch.
It is a PR topic at best.
But it is socially inconsequential.
Yes, it is – my faith teaches me – a perversion of man’s natural desire and a devilish attack on family structure and family values.
But in terms of devilish attacks on family structure and family values, it’s pretty small potatoes.
Here’s what I mean.
The family is under withering attack. The family is in deep crisis. Its very existence may be in peril.
But that’s not because homosexuals want to get married. It’s because heterosexuals don’t want to get married.
The death of the family isn’t because of the gays, it’s because of the rest of us. If they’re 2 percent of the population, we’re 98 percent of the problem.
As much a mockery of real marriage as gay marriage might be, the real, immediate and devastating threats to traditional family structure are out-of-wedlock births and delayed and avoided heterosexual marriage.
The majority of women under 30 have their children out of wedlock. For women whose highest education is a high-school diploma, 58 percent of them have their children out of wedlock. Women with a college diploma tend to have their first child two years after marriage. Women without a college diploma tend to have their first child two years before marriage – and usually with a man other than the one they will eventually marry.
In some lower-income and racial-minority neighborhoods, the out-of-wedlock birthrates can range from two-thirds to three-quarters.
And you can’t blame that on the gay guys.
Out-of-wedlock births would seem to be pretty exclusively a heterosexual problem.
Translation: We can’t blame that on them.
Sure, it’s nice to be able to point your finger at somebody. Having a scapegoat always makes life easier. But to blame your problems on somebody else, you’ve typically got to lie.
And lying accomplishes nothing good.
Marriage is the cornerstone of the family. The family is the cornerstone of society. Bearing children is the capstone of marriage and the purpose of the family.
And all those things are screwed up right now.
We delay or avoid marriage, and we delay or avoid having children. And when we do have children, we increasingly have them out of wedlock, thereby all but dooming them and the society in which they will live.
That’s our situation.
That’s our problem.
That’s our grave threat.
And that has nothing to do with gay marriage.
Gay marriage is a distraction. Those who support it will donate to and vote for Democrats. Those who oppose it will donate to and vote for Republicans. Both parties bang the drum in order to whip up frenzy, so that they can garner contributions and votes.
And nobody says or does a thing about what really matters.
The president is in favor of gay marriage. Hillary Clinton is in favor of gay marriage. The guy from Ohio is in favor of gay marriage. And they’ve all said so publicly.
While they’ve all been silent on what counts.
Nothing encouraging real marriage. Nothing spotlighting the cancer of out-of-wedlock birth. Nothing about nothing at all.
Just bull-crap political posturing about gay marriage.
That might help get votes, but it won’t help fix our problem.
Which shows what it is the politicians really care about.
I agree. It’s an emotional issue designed to take people’s attention away for the economic crisis and failings of the Obama administration.
Every day...I hear gay this, gay that....They’re one big pain. Their agenda is to make us all pro-gay or go to jail.
You know America is in deep Kimchi when the #1 issue is “gay marriage”. Geeesh. We’ve got too many morons living in this country. No wonder the country is in the toilet.
And yes, homosexual practices are perversions.
Even if they are done by heterosexuals.
Why do the 2-3% who are homosexuals have such huge political/social/cultural clout? It´s no great mystery. It´s the huge numbers of "straight" allies who are into similar or identical perversions.
And who share the identical underlying philosophy: sex is primarily for adult gratification. It has no other dimensions of meaning. Or, if it does have other dimensions (the making of a permanent, exclusive bond that lasts until death, the procreation of children, the union of the sexes, the consummation of the solemn vows of fidelity, the blessing of Almighty God) those other meanings are secondary or tertiary, and entirely optional.
It´s only "adult gratification" which is considered non-negotiable.
That´s the root of ALL perversion.
Even if it remains unspoken, I think everybody knows that.
The long time problem with politicians is that when they are trying to get elected, they claim to have values and beliefs that their voters support.
Then after they get elected, they abandon their pre-election values and beliefs and adopt those of the other side.
Referring to Republicans of course.
The Democrats stay true to their hard core socialist/fascist beliefs.
That's right. God does not call Homosexuality "inconsequential" at all. He says it is an "Abomination" to Him (Leviticus 18:22) and to Israel a warning "lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean" (18:26). Will the God who dealt severely with Ancient Egypt and Babylon turn a blind eye on our sin? Oh, No!
“Gay marriage is rubbed in the public’s face, like every other part of the gay agenda, but the real practical impact of gay marriage is zilch.”
The ‘gay marriage’ fight is about using the power of the state to punish those who will never buy into ‘gay marriage’ or whatever other impossibility the state decides to call marriage at the time. Who you can hire, who you can do business with, what insurance you have to provide. Not zilch, in my opinion.
If you would have told someone 30 years ago about ‘gay marriage’ being accepted in 9 states in 2012 they would have thought you were nutso. I think it is reasonable to at least speculate that in 30 years from now, the state may be punishing those faiths who will not accept ‘gay marriage’ by fines, loss of tax exempt status, whatever. After all, ‘gay marriage’ is being framed as a civil right.
Freegards
I disagree with the author.
Once gay “marriage” is an accepted norm, the next step is to go after the remaining churches that refuse to perform gay “marriages”
Almost every major societal problem today can be traced back to government intrusion, manipulation and clumsy attempts to control and mold our thought and behavior.
Big Government means big problems cause by government.
Interesting timing.
I wonder why she didn't come out for gay marriage when she was visiting Mohammed Morsi in Egypt back when she was Secretary of State.
OK, so the supreme court says yes and I hope that is just for CA and not a blanket across the land for every state like abortion? Then what will they want?
Do you think they are going to stop there? What do they really want?
Namely, bisexual marriage. After all, who are we to say that a man who loves a man who also loves woman should not allowed to marry.
Am not buying it. My theory is this issue and many others are agenda driven. There are lies and liars, and then there are statistics and lies. I vote with we are being lied to.
That is the real and underlying reason for the left to push gay marriage. To destroy the church.
Once it is considered acceptable, gays will be going into churches and demanding they marry them. If the church refuses for religious reasons, they will be taxed or shut down and the pastor put in jail.
It was never because the average gay wants to get married.
Especially on the Federal level.
Especially on the Federal level.
And government has restricted our Right of free speech and our right of free association by making it a hate crime to point out the perverts for what they are.
Geez! It's become a topsy-turvy world.
“Then after they get elected, they abandon their pre-election values and beliefs and adopt those of the other side.
Referring to Republicans of course.”
I disagree. Based on their behavior I’ve come to the conclusion most Republican politicians have no beliefs. For them it is all about winning elections and feeding at the public trough. In contrast, the Democrats are united and relentless in forcing their world view on the public.
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