Conservatives didn’t lose, society lost.
I don’t think we lost it here (not even sure it is lost, yet.)
We’re losing here the same way we are losing many other ways: the media and education.
Until we get strength back in these institutions, we’ll continue to lose.
I predict:
A tiny segment of the gay population will ever get “married.” The astronomical rates of promiscuity and disease among active homosexuals will not budge.
The “legal” status of same-sex “marriage” will be used by Democrat activists to persecute Christians in every manner they can devise—which is what this is all about, anyway.
Libertarianism introduced a language and a fig leaf for natural born liberals to corrupt conservative/republican conversation, and to blur and confuse the lines dividing conservatives from rinos.
The catch phrase on the road to the gates of hell and to the end of civilization is, “I’m libertarian on social issues, but conservative on economics”.
Get used to it folks, that is the new language of the Romney /Rockefeller wing of the GOP.
I don’t agree with Rush on this point.
Ditch the federal designation of marriage and the turd burglars won’t want it anymore.
We lost the fight a long time ago, as demonstrated by the fact that the GOPe is run by guys like Romney or Preibeus who think of Christians as inconveniences who make it harder for them to maintain power.
It’s time to dump these fools and continue to fight the good fight.
As a nation, we’ve turn away from God. It’s time to stop sending missionaries to Africa and start sending to our local neighborhoods.
If you want to win back the culture, start building up the church.
If there is one thing I agree with him on is that language is the problem.
Liberals get away with changing it. They change their names from progressives to liberals back to progressives; they are currently changing Global Warming to Climate Change; they controlled the language with “Main Street vs Wall Street” when it was they that were the problem, they were the ones that created the housing mess.
Led by, none other than the gay POTUS. He’s good at leading when it comes to things destructive to our founding principles. As far as ‘constructive’, he’s not interested. Destruction is the mission.
We will never again be the kind of country we once were, "moral" but with religion treated subjectively. When the forces of evil are finally defeated it will be by Theocracy, and religious truth will be universally recognized as objective as any other truth.
Conservatives lament the "rights" the Left has produced in the past few decades, but the Founding Fathers gave us the non-existent "right" to practice idolatry. To condemn lesser sins while treating idolatry as unimportant illustrates an extremely skewed view of things.
IMHO Steve Deace is an excellent alternative.
Vigilantes in Mexico have taken over a corrupt town in Mexico because they’ve had enough of the ruin. And in America, Rush Limbaugh says we lost and tucks tail. It doesn’t have to be that way.
The way marriage could be won back is for the Orthodox religions to band together with any conservative Protestant faiths, to reassert that marriage is “solely” a religious sacrament, and that they will not recognize secular marriage.
This means that they only recognize sacramental marriages that each other conduct. Then different faiths may add to the requirements, but may not subtract from them.
This means that any of their particular faith who are married in other ways must be remarried in their faith, if their faith’s rules allow it.
As a group, these religions also must agree to a definition of divorce, and that secular divorce is not recognized, either.
To do this does take some intestinal fortitude on their part, but the alternative is what is being seen in Canada right now, where clergy are forbidden to say things written in the Bible, for fear of being prosecuted.
So it’s a simple choice. Stand up for what you believe in, or be swept away by a secular agenda that seeks to destroy you. Doing nothing is not an option.
If this is “lost,” then the country is lost.
Let it burn. No country left worth lifting a finger for anymore. Just a pathetic sewer of a country.
My mom remembered him from back in the day. She said you wouldn't know it by looking at him, but he was a talented musician once and, evidently, a very handsome young man.
Apparently, he caught syphilis and it ran its course. She let that sink in. Mom was almost a generation older than my friend’s parents. Medicine was different then, both in her day before and during “The War” and ours sitting in that 1973 GM car.
Growing up in small towns and seeing real life examples of the various consequences of years earlier behavior, whether missing fingers lost to a saw or some misbehaving farm equipment or a discombobulated brain and nervous system from not wearing a lead-lined prophylactics, or whatever it might have been, seeing them around me was helpful negative feedback for "getting my mind right" and avoiding similar consequences.
Things are different now...or so they seem. We've removed some of the negative feedback. Medicine has made acceptable and convenient what was once taboo and often deadly. I remember when AIDS first appeared and famous people began dying ugly deaths from this new mysterious illness.
I remember being surprised when I would hear that so and so was "gay", only that's not the word most people used. Whether famous people or the not so famous, all died slow, very scary ugly deaths.
Once we figured out that straight people could get it, and not just from a transfusion, real fear set in, and all around, briefly.
I remembered the occasional WWII VD posters when I was growing up. I remembered how things were prior to our guinea pigging those first vaccines against the deadly diseases once common to childhood. There was talk about what to do with this new epidemic. Would we lock "them" up and isolate? What if their blood got on you? If they sneezed on you? We fear what we don’t understand, especially if it can kill us.
Medicine has removed the danger and with time, we’ve lost the fear, discarded the stigmas and moved forward, passing through acceptance, all the way to open armed embrace.
Interesting how far we've come down a once forbidden road, and so fast!
And, interesting that a deadly disease, something that once would have motivated an entirely different set and subsets of behaviors, is now, instead, an unnoticed stepping stone on that road, along the way to that embrace…and beyond.
But, beyond…to what? On this road we’ve been taken, what lies ahead? Is this a crossroads or an ambush?
This is a test.
Sad truth is that we’ve lost the war on homosexuality & transexuality (worse than gays). In 1992, the discussion would be that there is something wrong with gay/lesbian behaviors & that there is something wrong with sex change mutilations-they must make it a crime to do sex changes.
But since 2000, discussion mainly is about marriage. & it’s not Democrat/Republican. Too many Republicans are apologists for gay/lesbian behaviors, so not a Democrat/Republican topic. Too many young people (those under 30 years old) see nothing wrong with gayism/lesbianism. When people see nothing wrong with gay/lesbian behaviors, then marriage becomes inevitable as Mr. Rush H. Limbaugh said. All you posters who are my age (born 1969) & older know that when it comes to information war, we have lost this on the gay/lesbian topic because too many young people (again those under 30 years old) see nothing wrong with gayism/lesbianism & transexuality & this isn’t 1992 anymore where many to most people would agree with us that there’s something wrong with gayism, lesbianism & transexuality.