“My family is typical of families all across America. We love each other; we stand up for each other; and we pray for, and rejoice in, each other’s happiness. My daughter Ashley’s path in life has led her to happiness with a lovely young woman named Casey, and our family and Casey’s family are looking forward to celebrating their marriage in just a few weeks.”
He added: “As Becker reports in her book, I told Ashley that what matters most is that I love her and she loves me.”
seems the fix was in and the case was intended as a loss with all sides wanting the same outcome.
He should have disowned her. It is no different than if she was dead.
Interesting. One of my daughters was “flirting” with it when in high school. I mean to the point where we were concerned about certain friends that would sleep over and she actually lived with her basketball coach and lesbian lover for a few months after running away (long story. She came back and apologized).
But at no time did I ever even entertain the idea of “living with it” and treating it as normal.
She ended up being straight and even had a college room mate (lesbian) that had a crush on her but my daughter would not have any part of it. I bring it up to point out that a LOT of her friends were lesbians in college and set up the next sentence:
She and I were talking about the “it gets better” movement. She said, “No, it doesn’t.”
If she was to have told me she was marrying a woman, I would have said that she is my daughter and I love her, but I will not support any sin in her life in any way shape or form. This would include homosexual relationship or even the relationship she has now (lives with boyfriend).
Because after all, who are you? A mere citizen with no standing to challenge a Federal Court Judge.
“What I will say only is that my views evolve on issues of this kind the same way as other people’s do"
Which is what happens when you get your moral values from the culture rather than from principle.
A lot of families have loved ones with moral problems. It does not change moral principle.
“As Becker reports in her book, I told [his daughter] that what matters most is that I love her and she loves me.”
Of course you do. She's your daughter. It doesn't change moral principle.
Law rests upon a moral foundation. When that foundation crumbles, the law itself must ultimately collapse.
Be sure to coerce a Christian photographer and baker to take part in this.
Love does not make evil OK.
When does he come out?
.....and another life is destroyed by ignoring God and continuing open rebellion against Him.
Isaiah 5:20 applies:
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
I remember when my oldest daughter told me I had to accept her right to have premarital sex. I told her I did not.
“Then you’ll never see your grandkids”, she replied.
“Then I won’t see them until they are adults”, I replied, “because I won’t be blackmailed!”
Some years later, we get along fine and she agrees marriage ought to come before pregnancy, and she tells her kids the same thing. Her ability to sin doesn’t mean I have to approve of it any more than she needs to approve of any of my sins.
If you care about someone’s happiness, you rebuke sin. Can you imagine her Dad saying, “My daughter Ashley’s path in life has led her to happiness with a lovely young goat named Jack...”?
“Charles J. Cooper, a former top official in the Reagan Justice Department and onetime “Republican lawyer of the year,” learned of his daughter’s sexual orientation during the legal battle over California’s Proposition 8...”
If that is true, then it may be grounds to rehear and overturn the Prop 8 case as it is evident that Mr. Cooper at the time of the case was before the SCOTUS was not acting as an advocate for Prop 8 and the Pro Family Christian voters of California, but was instead conspiring with the homosexual opponents of Prop 8.
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