What 'gay marriage' means for America: Robert Knight exposes plans to destroy family life

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, May 19, 2004 | Robert Knight

[JohnHuang2]

Just so Americans understand what we're in for with the creation of legal homosexual "marriage" in Massachusetts, here is some perspective.

Marriage, as a civic institution in Massachusetts, has been destroyed, not "expanded."

The very first homosexual couple "married" in the "gay" Mecca of Provincetown told the Boston Herald about their new "commitment":

[Jonathan Yarbrough] says the concept of forever is "overrated" and that he, as a bisexual, and [his partner Cody] Rogahn, who is gay, have chosen to enjoy an open marriage. "I think it's possible to love more than one person and have more than one partner, not in the polygamist sense," he said. "In our case, it is, we have, an open marriage."

"Marriage" in Massachusetts not only fails to require the presence of a wife, or a husband, but is not even tied to monogamy anymore.

Elsewhere in Massachusetts, a newborn baby recently was left on the doorstep of a Catholic church in Boston. The priest took in the baby girl, and immediately thought of a childless married couple in the church who were desperate to adopt. But when the priest called the social-services agency, the baby was shipped off to two homosexual men in the western part of the state. By design, this girl will never know a mother's love.

She's not the only victim of social engineering. During the March 11 debate in the Massachusetts Legislature over "gay" marriage, State Sen. Therese Murray, D-Plymouth, boasted, "Forty percent of children adopted have gone to gay and lesbian families." If Sen. Murray is correct, homosexuals, who constitute less than 3 percent of the population, are being given enormous preference over mom-and-dad families.

Homosexual activists say that marriage as the union of one man and one woman is "discriminatory," and that we no longer need a wife in a marriage, or a husband in a marriage. Also, it no longer matters in the least that children need both a mother and a father.

In a free country, deluded people can believe all sorts of things, and act accordingly on their own. But when the law imposes this understanding on everyone, government is creating lies and eventually will use force to promote acceptance of the lies.

In the old Soviet Union, the government routinely lied to the people – so much so that the Russian people became cynical and dejected. They developed a repertoire of black humor to cover their pain. We didn't think it could happen in the United States, but we were wrong.

The government of Massachusetts is telling its citizens that a union without a wife or a husband is a marriage. This bizarre lie will be imposed, through government force, on all institutions – from businesses to public schools – and it will result in immediate legal action in many other states, as activists try to use the Bay State's betrayal of marriage as a lever to destroy it elsewhere.

It's no use offering "civil unions" as a compromise. Appeasement doesn't work. If the state officially sanctions and promotes homosexuality, there are no longer any grounds to make distinctions in family law. Children, like the hapless baby girl in Boston, will be placed routinely in fatherless or motherless households. Who could object?

And once the moral distinction between marriage and homosexuality is lost, there is no stopping point for further redefinitions of the institution. Why not bless three or more who say they feel they are "married"? And why should churches which refuse to perform same-sex wedding ceremonies continue to enjoy tax-exempt status? Why, indeed, should the Boy Scouts not welcome homosexual men to take boys into the woods, if we cannot make any moral distinctions whatever or face charges of bigotry?

During the Supreme Court hearings on the Boy Scout case in 2000, pro-life pastor Rev. Rob Shenk was sitting in the audience next to the White House liaison for "gay" issues. Thinking the pastor was a fellow liberal, the woman whispered, "We're not going to win this case, but that's OK. Once we get 'hate crime' laws on the books, we're going to go after the Scouts and all the other bigots."

In Canada and Sweden, it is now a hate crime to criticize homosexuality in any fashion, including saying that marriage is once and forever the union of a man and a woman. How long will it be for the United States – in the name of "tolerance" – to criminalize the notion that marriage is God's way of blessing us and that homosexuality is immoral and unhealthy?

Homosexual activist Michaelangelo Signorile wrote in 1996 that homosexual "marriage" would be:

... the chance to wholly transform the definition of family in American culture. It is the final tool with which to dismantle all sodomy statutes, get education about homosexuality and AIDS in the public schools, and, in short, usher in a sea change in how society views and treats us.

So, next time you hear one of the newly "married" couples on television saying it's just about "being fair" and helping "loving couples" achieve equality, understand that something far more radical is underway.

One more thing. Activists will be saying in the coming weeks: "'Gay' marriage happened, and the sky didn't fall." No, radical social change does not happen overnight. When Uncle Sam began issuing welfare checks to unwed mothers, it took several years to destroy black families and achieve an out-of-wedlock birthrate of 85 percent in some cities.

"Gay marriage" has an inexorable logic that leads us to the destruction of the most basic moral understandings. And it contains the seed of totalitarianism as this lie is imposed, through government force, on those of us who believe God when He said in Genesis, "A man shall leave his mother and father, and join his wife, and they shall become one flesh."

Whenever you're tempted to think this will blow over and won't amount to much, think of that baby girl in western Massachusetts.

It is now up to average Americans to decide whether they will submit to a sexually perverse and oppressive future, or to hold public officials accountable for bringing this down upon us and our children and grandchildren.

[MeekOneGOP]

Oh, man. Totally sick. :^(

[EdReform]

'Youth Pride' festival a poor place for kids

[MeekOneGOP]

[mrustow]

During the March 11 debate in the Massachusetts Legislature over "gay" marriage, State Sen. Therese Murray, D-Plymouth, boasted, "Forty percent of children adopted have gone to gay and lesbian families." If Sen. Murray is correct, homosexuals, who constitute less than 3 percent of the population, are being given enormous preference over mom-and-dad families.

I guarantee you, she's lying. There are so few homosexual couples (at most, two-three percent of all couples), that the only way her statement could be true, would be if the state cut the number of adoptions by over 90 percent, and gave every single homosexual couple (whether it wished to adopt or not) a child that had been freed for adoption. If children were given to couples without reference to their sexuality, at least 97% would go to married couples.

Sen. Murray's statement tells us much more about her, than it does about the state of adoption in the Bay State.

[mrustow]

I don't know if GLSEN is the most dangerous organization in America -- the competition for that title is varied and fierce, but it sure is doing its darnedest to earn the title.

[little jeremiah]

I'm glad you pointed that out. It was sickening, and hard to believe it was true. Although with the "gay" radicals being what they are, one never knows - common sense is no guide anymore.

[John O]

Now rich heterosexual yuppies often adopt pretty Chinese or Korean kids instead as a "trophy child".

I agreed with everything you said except for this. I know lots of families with foreign born adopted children and every last one of them went to a foreign land to adopt because they couldn't adopt here.

Any exposure of children to homosexual behavior is child abuse.

Every 'homosexual' working in a field involving children should be executed. We can't let them continue destroying our kids

[John O]

If children were given to couples without reference to their sexuality, at least 97% would go to married couples.

But we know that children are being given to sodmites purely because they are sodomites. One child given to sodomites is one too many

Any exposure of children to homosexual behavior is child abuse

[ChevyZ28]

When people give up their rights for the reason of tolerance, we have lost everything for what USA stands for. With anything in life you need a frame work. If you do not have a clearly stated boundary then you have nothing. People can question anything that want to, but when people want to add a new law for the few people that feel strong about something then you have laws for the minority and not the majority. In this country we have laws and these laws tells us how to live with in the law, the problem is people push what is right and what is wrong. When a parent can sue a gun company for making a gun that shot their kid, that is wrong. They sue the gun company but not the kid that shot their kids, what is wrong with that picture? People now do not take responsibility, they pass them on to somebody else. When I had a speeding ticket for going 16 mph over the posted speed limit I knew I was speeding so I paid the fine and moved on. Now most people would have said "it is improper equipment" were is the responsibility, not with them. This is the same issue. In the Bible, homosexuality is a sin, not a bad choice but a sin. God does not make people that way, because He does not create some one to commit a sin He has condemned that is only going to destroy them. He loves them and gives them a chance to know His unfailing love. How many happy old gay couples do you know? Not a lot if any at all. One more thing to consider, look at history and the fall of all the great powers, from the Greeks to the Romans to the Babylonians. When homosexuality became the norm, God turned His blessings from those countries and you know that "the good times are over". Homosexuality goes against the very nature of God because we are created in His image and that image is not with the same sex. Comparing the USA to other countries is out of the question, because no other country has been blessed like the USA, we are the only country in the world not to feel helpless against another nation. Living in blessings does not mean we are protected by God's grace no matter what we do. Like my dad said "Do not mistake my kindness for weakness." Please people pray that God moves in this nation and not just in the minds of it people.............but in the hearts of its people

[MeekOneGOP]

A little fun with Adobe PhotoDeluxe .....

[F16Fighter]

"Perverts used to have to lurk in public toilets, now they work for our schools, seducing our kids into the homosexual death-style."

Objections of which will be defended and protected by "hate-crimes" legislation and sanctioned by "educational" diversity.

So when do we call in the air strike? ;-)

[EdReform]

I encourage you to get a copy of the book The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values by Tammy Bruce, and read Chapter Four: First the Culture, Then the Children: The Agenda of the Radical Gay Elite and Chapter Seven: Destruction of the Innocents: The Left Targets Children. You won't believe it!

From Chapter Four:

"The radicals in control of the gay establishment want children in their world of moral decay, lack of self-restraint, and moral relativism. Why? How better to truly belong to the majority (when you're really on the fringe) than by taking possession of the next generation? By targeting children, you can start indoctrinating the next generation with the false construct that gay people deserve special treatment and special laws." (Pg.88)

"I believe this grab for children by the sexually confused adults of the Gay Elite repesents the most serious problem facing our culture today." (Pg.94)

"Between GLSEN, the Happy Penis, Phil, and now Kami, I'd say the Gay Elite have your children as a captive audience. Whether you like it or not, they have appointed themselves your children's moral tutor." (pg.119)

See also:

Targeting Children - How the gay movement intends to capture the next generation

Targeting Children - Part two: How the homosexual movement uses public schools as instruments of change

Targeting Children - Part three: Activists encouraging experimentation

Targeting Children - Part four: Access to children: homosexuality and molestation

[EdReform]

See reply #52

[EdReform]

BTTT

[EdReform]

LOL!

[mrustow]

Thanks for the ping and the links. Now that I see some of the stuff Bruce deals with, I'll be buying her book as soon as I read a couple of the books I just bought.

[lentulusgracchus]

During the Supreme Court hearings on the Boy Scout case in 2000, pro-life pastor Rev. Rob Shenk was sitting in the audience next to the White House liaison for "gay" issues. Thinking the pastor was a fellow liberal, the woman whispered, "We're not going to win this case, but that's OK. Once we get 'hate crime' laws on the books, we're going to go after the Scouts and all the other bigots."

Who was this woman? Anyone know?

[lentulusgracchus]

In a couple of years it'll be a "hate crime" to punch out swishy fags who wink and blow kisses to your adolescent son.

I fully expect to read -- a lot sooner than I thought a couple of years ago, evidently -- about a pederast going before a forum-shopped liberal federal judge (a Clinton appointee, no doubt) and obtaining a court restraining order against the parents of a boy he wants to "skin".

[lentulusgracchus]

.....our local radio host who spent three hours yesterday telling people he couldn't see how gay marriages would hurt anybody.

Please ping back to this thread and let us know if that DJ does anything but ignore what you sent him.

From back here in the 25th row, it sounds as if your radio host is "on message" for the Homosexual Rights Cabal. If he's working a line, he won't give you the time of day.

But by all means, follow up with a phone call to him, and then let us know what he said.

[lentulusgracchus]

[reformedliberal] We have noticed, over the past decade, that when lesbians enter an institution, like the public schools or the County Board, they make a concerted effort to bring in other lesbians over time, until they have a majority.

You're probably right. Check this out, from seven years ago:

NATIONAL DESK | November 30, 1997, Sunday
Homosexual Foster Parent Sets Off a Debate in Texas

By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK (NYT) 1157 words
Late Edition - Final , Section 1 , Page 20 , Column 5

ABSTRACT - Rebecca Bledsoe, Texas child welfare supervisor, sparks controversy by ordering emergency removal of baby boy from foster parents who are lesbians; bases decision on rarely-enforced 118-year-old statute that makes homosexual activity crime, arguing that those who engage in them should not be considered fit serve as foster or adoptive parents; says foster children placed with gay or lesbian couples do not have parental role model of one sex or another; has been rebuked by state's Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, which quickly overruled her decision to take boy away from Dallas-area woman and demoted her; has become heroine to many conservatives, but target of withering criticism from gay rights advocates; has filed labor grievance; she comments; photo (M)

Since then, it has turned out that:

a. The current governor of Texas, then lieutenant-governor Rick Perry, has been accused of having gay affairs while governor. The notoriously liberal/pro-gay Austin American-Statesman supposedly has the story but spiked it after negotiations with Perry's office (so: what did he tell them? that he was going to sue?), and Democrats rallying in Houston taunted Perry with cries of "Come on out, Rick -- We'll support you!!"

b. Then-governor George W. Bush, in 2000, made a major overture to the Log Cabin Republicans (behind the backs of social-conservative Republicans, whom he kept at arm's length), which he converted into a continuing, structured relationship through the intermediation of point woman Mary Matalin, who was on Bush's campaign staff in 2000 and now works for Dick Cheney:

GOP 2000 Convention Outreach to Gays; Mary Matalin Role

Matalin added that she favors gay marriage "because it's logical."

"You want to reduce promiscuity, you want to enhance stability -- duh, marriage, OK?" she said.

Current "Earstohear.com" Commentary Page on GOP's Gay Lobby: Totally Wired-In