Posted on 05/18/2006 9:05:00 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback
Note: This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship President Mark Earley.
I have a quick test for you. Don’t worry, it’s a multiple-choice test and won’t take long. Ready? Here’s the question. Which of these things doesn’t belong: A) children, B) Easter egg hunts, or C) political activists?
Unfortunately, the homosexual activists of the Family Pride Coalition did not pass this test on Easter, when a nearly 130-year-old tradition of hunting for eggs on the White House lawn suddenly became the bull’s eye of controversy.
Three months before the event, the Family Pride Coalition announced that gay and lesbian couples would be attending the Easter Egg Roll with their children to raise awareness of gay and lesbian “families.” While I echo the sentiments of Easter Egg Roll hostess Laura Bush—who said that all are welcome provided they comply with the rules—I categorically disagree with what the activists did. They used a children’s event to make a raw political statement.
While it saddens me that the activists chose to politicize the event, it does not surprise me that children were once again the unfortunate casualties in the war on the weak. It fits the pattern.
From the get-go, the quest to legitimize gay “marriage” in this country has not really been about marriage. It has been about the pursuit of unlimited personal autonomy—no matter what the cost to society or to its most vulnerable members, our children—because, in the end, what gay “marriage” proponents are doing, intentionally or unintentionally, is undermining the institution of marriage itself. And when that happens, children are the real victims.
Now, lest we fail to remove the plank from our own eye first, we need to admit that the problem with marriage in this country began with no-fault divorces. The take-it-or-leave-it attitude toward marriage was the first step in undermining the sanctity of marriage. Selfishness, sexual sin, high divorce rates, and casual attitudes toward marriage in general have opened wide the door to redefining marriage in a way that leaves the voiceless, in this case, children, vulnerable and at great risk.
It’s distasteful when children are used as political pawns, but it’s disastrous when a society fails to protect its weaker members. This is especially true when it comes to protecting the institution of marriage. As Dr. Timothy Dailey concludes in Homosexual Parenting: Placing Children at Risk, “The complementary aspects of parenting that mothers and fathers contribute to the rearing of children are rooted in the innate differences of the two sexes, and can no more be arbitrarily substituted than can the very nature of male and female . . . [despite] accusations of sexism and homophobia . . . , [despite] attempts to deny the importance of both mothers and fathers in the rearing of children, the oldest family structure of all turns out to be the best.”
Children need a mom and a dad. And children need us to protect the institution that protects them best, whether that’s fighting for strong marriages, or fighting against no-fault divorce laws and against so-called same-sex “marriages.” In a little less than a month, there will be a vote in the Senate on the Marriage Protection Amendment. Please call your United States senators. If Christians don’t protect society’s most vulnerable, then who will? And if we don’t do it now, then when?
This is part two in the “War on the Weak” series.
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"From the get-go, the quest to legitimize gay “marriage” in this country has not really been about marriage. It has been about the pursuit of unlimited personal autonomy—no matter what the cost to society or to its most vulnerable members, our children—because, in the end, what gay “marriage” proponents are doing, intentionally or unintentionally, is undermining the institution of marriage itself. And when that happens, children are the real victims."
That pretty much sums it up!
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BTW, you just gotta love the headline ABC news used to report this story on their website: "Brokeback Bunny?: Gays Vie for Easter Egg Roll."
BTW, you just gotta love the headline ABC news used to report this story on their website: "Brokeback Bunny?: Gays Vie for Easter Egg Roll."
LOL - even the Easter Bunny isn't safe from homosexuals.
He shouldn't act so naive. The Gramcian Marxists have been deliberately trying to destroy the institution of marriage since the 1920's.
"I wish I could quit you!"
I doubt very much that he's being naive. Remember that you have to reach people where they're at. If you come out and say "Gay marriage is a commie plot" people dismiss you as a loon, but if you point out the implications you're still telling the truth and can reach more people with it.
Bottom line - their goal is to get every perversion normalized and accepted. We've seen the start of polygamy's attempt at normalization during the last few months, next is the lowering of the age of consent and normalization of pedophilia.
Good post, Sir. while I stopped joining in the celebration of pagan fertility rights some years back- And prefer to
refer to the day as Passover (as it ought be recognized)
I do allow my grandaughter to hunt for the sweets while she is yet small enough to be unaccountable-- no objection
to tooth fairy ,Santa Clause, or Easter Bunny-I believe the
People House ought to have excluded any poitical activists
on that day. But recall how D.C. never has taken a moral stand on much of anything.Remember they protected the
bare breasted lesbians during the Promise Keepers Sacred
Assembly back in 97.
Just curious: back in the years when you used to join in pagan fertility rites, were you a devotee of pagan gods and goddesses? And what did you and your pagan friends do?
FYI: A good commentary on a recent topic.
**It's all about normalization and recruitment anyway. Normalize these "relationships" and allow them to adopt children, then the kids grow up thinking all families are like theirs (or that theirs is normal and others aren't), and then they'll be open to sodomy.**
Unfortunately, you are right. The whole homosexual agenda is about it's normalisation. Wanting "gay marriage" in order to force homosexual acceptance by everyone.
If marriage between same sex couples becomes 'institutionalised', then it would be very difficult to argue against teaching about it in schools.
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