What "Gay" Marriage Will Mean for our Children

Mission America ^ | 2/22/04 | Linda P. Harvey

[GrandMoM]

What "Gay" Marriage Will Mean for our Children

By Linda P. Harvey

Column originally published on WorldNetDaily.com, July 19, 2003 © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

"Same sex marriage? It doesn't bother me!"

In many circles, this is the prevailing sentiment regarding the possible legalization of same-sex relationships as "marriages" in the U.S. If the Supreme Court in the state of Massachusetts rules in favor of the homosexual couples who have sued for marriage rights, then other states will most likely be forced to recognize these couplings as marriages under the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

There's just one problem with this angle: It doesn't take into account the impact on children. If same-sex relationships become the law of the land, then homosexual marriage will be presented to America's schoolchildren as the equivalent of heterosexual marriage.

Here's how and why it will happen. Right now, the vast majority of U.S. public school districts have put themselves in a very vulnerable position, one that conservatives have been warning about for years but few school boards listened. What they've done is add under their non-discrimination policies the category of "sexual orientation." It only remains for enough time to elapse - and for same-sex marriage to be legalized - for "gay" education activists to force schools to implement sweeping changes in curricular content.

Among those changes will be "diverse" textbooks that include same-sex couples as role models, even for little children. To refuse such content will be considered "discrimination," and the American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal Defense Fund will take that district to court, as they have recently in order to force homosexual clubs onto schools. If not those two well-heeled groups, then the National Education Association will sue, as it has promised, on behalf of any teachers involved. Increasingly liberal courts, modeling themselves after the Supremes, are pretty likely to rule in favor of such plaintiffs.

That also goes for the "right" of teachers who are homosexual to wear wedding rings, talk about their homosexual spouses with students and introduce spouses at school functions. Your little Katie will learn in kindergarten that "Mrs." Jones is married to another "Mrs." Jones - and that she can grow up and choose to do the same if she wishes. It is, after all, her "right."

Grade-school and middle-school anti-bias units will now crank into high gear the focus on homosexuals and cross-dressers. Because marriage is now legalized, children will be persuaded in misleading material that anyone who objects to homosexual behavior is not simply biased, that person is breaking the law. The take-away for students from these shallow lessons will be that it is illegal to criticize homosexuality, and every person young or old should be protected from the mean conservatives. Standing up for equality in America will translate into the freedom to practice homosexuality for every student who "discovers" such inclinations.

Sex education will be required to take into account this new form of "family" and abstinence - until - marriage education will take a twisted new turn. Suddenly, it will be co-opted by Planned Parenthood and other liberal activists with their own unique spin. Every student will be taught that, of course, abstinence until heterosexual or homosexual marriage is fine if that's one's choice. But since pregnancy isn't a danger for homosexuals, sex can be a wonderful option for younger and younger people - as long as it's carried out "responsibly," of course - like brushing one's teeth. To not teach this would be, again "discrimination" based on sexual orientation. Condoms are always available for those who can't wait. Let's show you third-graders how this condom fits on this banana, just so you are prepared.

Expect a whole new crop of young adult novels featuring same-sex romance leading to marriage to appear instantly and be adopted just as magically by middle-school and high-school language departments throughout the U.S. Your 13-year-old Kyle will be required to read and give a book report on a novel where Bruce and Jason meet, date and get married. What won't be covered is how Bruce and Jason split up a year later after cheating on each other dozens of times.

And it gets better (or worse). This stop-gap standard will last for just a few years, until the inevitable next piece of the puzzle is in place. Hank and Jim will petition the courts to allow Mary, the biological mother of "their" adopted child, to become part of their marriage. After all, what business does the court have in their bedrooms, determining who they have a right to love? Along about this same time, Cindy and her partner, Luke (who is really Lucy, except that she dresses like a man) will demand that the law recognize Luke as a "husband" in spite of her biology. And so will emerge the accompanying new curricular materials reflecting the legalization of group marriage and transgender unions, making sure every U.S. school child knows that these are future options for him, her or them.

In such a legal and educational environment, what happens to religions that don't believe homosexuality is moral? Will those religions and their ancient teachings eventually come before some future Supreme Court and be told that they are guilty of discrimination? That their beliefs are no longer constitutional because of privacy rights?

If this sounds like lunacy, it's because it is. What we do in the bedroom has always been public, in the form of what we call a family. It becomes what we teach and pass on as wisdom to our children. And if we aren't sure what "wisdom" entails, by golly, the homosexual activists are here to tell us.

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[Quix]

YUP . . .

except that God's judgment will fall along there somewhere . . . probably sooner than we think--especially sooner than San Francisco thinks.

[Chris Talk]

We already are leaving children far too much at sea, with no moral compass or star to guide them. Then to add THIS, their poor little psyches are literally going to come apart.

Children already are BEGGING for adults to tell them which way to go, or at least give them some moral principles and basis upon which THEY can decide for themselves, then.

[Quix]

IF

I agreed with the idiot leftists, Godless hedonists etc. that

there is no absolute right or wrong.

Given that THE CREATOR BOSS declares otherwise . . . I think it's wiser to do it as He designed and orders.

We have bread several generations with chronic, patholotical, deeply ingrained rebellion as their birthright . . . perhaps even as their god.

There is a price for that. The chickens will come home to roost.

Repeatedly giving God the finger is not only not polite,

it's terminally suicidal for any society, group, individual that tries to get away with it.

[helives]

"only sex with children and animals is not OK, IMHO"

says who???, 30 yrs ago someone would have written that sex with children, animals or members of the same sex is not ok. Obviously gays are going to live together as couples but why do they have a need to have society say that what they do is ok? Answer, because they have a massive need to feel accepted due to their unholiness and non belief in Jesus. They want acceptance from society so they can feel good about themselves. And society, without God as the umpire, is falling foul of the whining about this and many other issues and changing the societies morays and in history every society that has debased Gods morals has disappeared into oblivion. This is the beginning of the end and society as well as individuals should not condone these things. Love them all the more but do not condone their sin or anyones sin for that matter.

[Quix]

There is AT MOST a 10-20% predisposition hormonally, and/or genetically toward homosexuality.

You might consider buying into the leftist propaganda less easily.

[Peach]

the word is "recruitment" and it's the dirtiest word in the language now.

That's it EXACTLY.

[Peach]

My mother was a teacher in Delaware in the mid 80's.

Part of the curriculum was Heather Has Two Mommies.

People have NO idea what's going on in our public schools.

[Quix]

You are a rarity to know so many such.

Statistically, the long term monogomous "gay" relationships are a miniscule proportion of the gay population.

I don't have to rattle the cages of those not being activists. But increasing numbers are being activists. And they are in cahoots with those destroying our Constitution, way of life and doing all they can to usher in the world government.

When do you plan, if ever, to stand against that more or less loosely unified onslaught?

[b4its2late]

What "Gay" Marriage Will Mean for our Children

It means that eventually there won't be any......

[Quix]

Because for at least 50 years . . . communists funded from Moscow at least [funding documented since the fall of USSR], and possibly from Beijing have deliberately targeted particular sub groups in the society to set off against the traditional society and society in general toward the goal of disintegrating our society, our culture, our nation.

They've obviously done a d*mn good job from their perspective.

They have even cornered the media which even frames the discussions, the definitions of 'right' and 'wrong' and more or less controls what meager debate there is.

Evidently you believe that a society increasingly fractured with subsets of it increasingly at each other's throats and actively, deliberately destroying the Judeo/Christian substrate is a good survival practice.

All of recorded history indicates otherwise.

[Neets]

I think it means there will be children brought up in the environment that will cause a rise in the number of gays and lebsians....

[b4its2late]

Thanks. I didn't read the article.....

[beckysueb]

Care to tell the folks where AIDS came from?????

[Neets]

I didn't read it either,,,but it's the only logical conclusion...they don't want to just "marry"..they want to "marry" and then raise children...and if they raise children to accept the "lifestyle" they live, it's only natural what this will lead to.

[b4its2late]

Boy child wants to get on puter.... Later gator.

[Blake#1]

Are you saying that thousands of years of male-female marriage is to be abandoned. What, in your great compassionate culture, will replace hetero marriage? Keep in mind during this time all cultures forbade "queers" legitimate marriage. Now, however, you and yours come along with your superior wisdom and are going to change all this. Do you really think that a nation can have a culture on the relationship of buggery?

[SuziQ]

Despite years of scientific studies, there is no evidence that homosexuals are born with that orientation. There are reasons both psychological and in their environment which may encourage people to develop that state, but they are not BORN that way.

[beckysueb]

Your absolutely right. If they had been born that way, The Lord wouldn't condemn it. Romans 1, verses 22-32. I wonder if some of these people have ever heard of Sodom and Gomorrah.

[hasegawasama]

nothing is black or white.

[ProfoundMan]

Whoa Quix, easy there... I'm pretty sure that if you read my response(s), you'll find that we agree... and I appreciate you bringing in the fact that 50 years of incrementalism has led to this. I read the Communist goals from '63. I'm with ya...