The Pain In Maine II (Homosexual Militant Admits Target is Children)

Andrew Sullivan: The truth about civil marriage - why it is the essential criterion for gay equality - is that it alone explodes this core marginalization and invisibility of gay people. It alone can reach those gay kids who need to know they have a future as a dignified human being with a family. It alone tells society that gay people are equal in their loves and in their hearts and in their families - not just useful in a society with a need for talented or able individuals whose private lives remain perforce sequestered from view.

This is why it remains the prize. And why our eyes must remain fixed upon it. In my view, the desperate nature of the current tactics against us, the blatant use of fear around children (which both worries parents and also stigmatizes gay people in one, deft swoop) are signs that what we are demanding truly, truly matters.

“There used to be a solid 75% opposed to gay marriage.”

Then we need a better PR campaign. The only reason the depraved Left is gaining on us in this issue is because they have a great PR campaign (through the News media, pop culture, television, theater, movies etc.)

We need to start a campaign telling the truth about same sex marriage and homosexual behavior, and how it will lead to the perverted sexualization of children, the breakdown of the traditional family, the erosion of civil society as a sexed up society isn’t civil, easier government control over our lives as immoral people are easier to be controlled, and how same sex marriage will discriminate against religious institutions and individuals and force them to accept this sex act or be fired/lose their tax exempt status/be forced to close down/etc.

But the important thing is that we have to be ACTIVE on this. So many Churches and Synagogues are silent on this issue. They give evasive reasons ranging from “it isn’t our fight” to “we need to stop global warming”. (I mean come on. Global warming? Putting aside that its a red herring to force a tax on all of us, religion has a law against homosexuality and has no mention of climate change. The same sex marriage issue seems more up our alley).

While the patriots are fighting against Barack Hussein Obama’s Marxist Health “Care” package, the social conservatives need to run ads and start actually PREACHING for a change about homosexual marriage.

It is both a blessing and a right.

Aside from being an inalienable right that is endowed by the Creator:

United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959)

Principle 6

The child, for the full and harmonious development of his personality, needs love and understanding. He shall, wherever possible, grow up in the care and under the responsibility of his parents,

Convention on the Rights of the Child
U.N. General Assembly
(12 December 1989)

Article 7

1. The child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality and, as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents.

"But civil rights victories... are always built on the foundations of defeats. Sometimes, the defeat of a minority's sincere aspiration to equality helps reveal the injustice of the discrimination and the cruelty of the marginalization. Sometimes, it helps show just how poorly treated we are, and galvanizes a community to fight back more fiercely... That has certainly been true of previous civil rights movements. It is just as true of ours."

Surely, Mr. Sullivan needs his head examined. I can assure him that if blacks had the numbers and influence in govt., entertainment, and media that gays have now; if blacks had the per capita income that gays enjoy now; they never would have needed to ask for a civil rights bill.

Gays suffer no injustice. They have the same rights we all have. They want special rights. Because they believe that laws giving them special rights will somehow give them legitimacy, will take away that hole in the middle of their souls, that bottomless pit that gnaws at them everyday telling them that what they are doing is wrong, that they need to stop before it's too late. No court, or law created by any government will be able to change the act that God says is an abomination into anything worthy of praise.

Their loss is to their and our gain and even when they think they win, they lose.

When these documents were written "Parent" - by definition was biological. Others were called "parental guardians." That was not politically correct for the left so they've been changing the definition to their liking.

Here is an expert from Lord Blackstone, author of "Commentary on the Laws". This was one of two books (the other being by Coke) that lawyers during our founding were required to study completely:

THE duty of parents to provide for the maintenance of their children is a principle of natural law ; an obligation laid on them not only by nature herself, but by their own proper act, in bringing them into the world : for they would be in the highest manner injurious to their issue, if they only gave the children life, that they might afterwards see them perish. By begetting them therefore they have entered into a voluntary obligation, to endeavour, as far as in them lies, that the life which they have bestowed shall be supported and preserved. And thus the children will have a perfect right of receiving maintenance from their parents. And the president Montesquieu has a very juft observation upon this head : that the establishment of marriage in all civilized states is built on this natural obligation of the father to provide for his children ; for that ascertains and makes known the person who is bound to fulfil this obligation: whereas, in promiscuous and illicit conjunctions, the father is unknown ; and the mother finds a thousand obstacles in her way ; --- shame, remorse, the constraint of her sex, and the rigor of laws ; --- that stifle her inclinations to perform this duty : and besides, the generally wants ability.

Mostesquieu was author of "Spirit of the Law" the most widely read philosophical work of our founding generation.

This is the price children pay:

63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census)

90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes

85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes (Source: Center for Disease Control)

80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes (Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol. 14, p. 403-26, 1978.)

71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes (Source: National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools.)

75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes (Source: Rainbows for all God`s Children.)

70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988)

85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home (Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992)

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