For the next four years at least, the phrase “moral values” will be uttered with increasing frequency by politicians and lobbyists. Democrats are trying to figure out why they lost so stunningly last month, and some have correctly concluded that a little moderation on abortion and other controversial issues is in order.
The homosexual lobby has similar ideas. Stunned by the overwhelming approval of bans on so-called same-sex marriage, even in states that John Kerry carried, they’ve decided to back off the marriage issue or at least soft-pedal it while Bush is in office. From the New York Times (reg. req.):
In the past week alone, the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay and lesbian advocacy group, has accepted the resignation of its executive director, appointed its first non-gay board co-chairman and adopted a new, more moderate strategy, with less emphasis on legalizing same-sex marriages and more on strengthening personal relationships.The leadership of the Human Rights Campaign, at a meeting last weekend in Las Vegas, concluded that the group must bow to political reality and moderate its message and its goals. One official said the group would consider supporting President Bush’s efforts to privatize Social Security partly in exchange for the right of gay partners to receive benefits under the program.
I don’t know what “strengthening personal relationships” means, but I’m willing to concede “partnership” benefits in exchange for homosexuals toning down the marriage rhetoric.
How the mighty (culture) have fallen! That I’m writing about or even envisioning the spectacle of a wedding between two men is just a symptom of our culture’s deeply embedded rot. Speaking of rot, one day, I predict, we will be like France (that hurt to write), a country that punishes “homophobic” speech. One day, sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ will be hate speech. To a certain extent, it already is. With these ridiculously laughable and nonsensical legislative scribblings known as “hate crime laws,” we’re not far from it.
As long as a child is not involved (I’m speaking of pedophilia. This is not about homosexuals adopting children.), I really don’t care what people do in their bedrooms, despite homosexuals’ insistence that conservatives do. But I have serious difficulty grasping the concept of “gay rights,” which I call “special rights.” As I’ve written on this blog many times, people who sleep with members of their own sex possess all the guarantees of liberty as those who don’t, but two to three percent of the population wants to overhaul the institution of marriage, consequences be damned.
When people like myself complain about this, homosexuals say I’m pushing my morality on them. Blind as bats, they can’t see that they’re doing the same thing! Under their value system, whatever you want to do with a consenting adult is called a “right.” Fine. But doing whatever you want to the institution of marriage, which I believe was created by God and designed according to his purposes, is not a right, and that’s where me and my big mouth step in, like it or not.
And don’t get it twisted. This has nothing to do with wanting to create a theocracy, another word that’s being uttered with increasing frequency. Created by God and recognized in law, the very definition of marriage is the union between only one man and only one woman. Leave it and me alone, and I’ll leave you alone. Deal?
I’m pleased to see that the powerful homosexual lobby has a few reasonable folks discerning enough to know that flamboyant displays of men standing before altars saying, “I do” are a little too much for Americans to handle, even those who voted for John Kerry.
