Posted on 09/09/2003 8:43:10 PM PDT by webber
by Rev. Louis P. Sheldon
Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition
Washington, DC - Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) held a hearing last week (9/4/03) on the need to strengthen the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) against attacks by homosexual activists who are seeking to undermine the institution of traditional marriage.
In a press release from Sen. Cornyn's office, he observed: "I believe we must do whatever it takes to safeguard the institution of marriage and ensure that the principles defined in DOMA remain the law of the land."
I sent a representative from the Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) to this hearing, and she came back to the office outraged at the cavalier attitude displayed about traditional marriage by the five liberal Democrats on the committee.
These liberals apparently all received the same "talking points" memo because their individual statements sounded eerily similar. They repeated their obviously staged mantras throughout the hearing. Senators Kennedy (D-MA), Leahy (D-VT), Durbin (D-IL), and Schumer (D-NY) all wondered why the hearing was needed when so many other important issues were at stake. Senator Russell Feingold (D-WI) bragged that he had voted against DOMA when it was passed in 1996. And they argued that DOMA is not under legal threat.
While the federal DOMA law has not yet been formally challenged, it will be. State DOMA laws are currently being challenged.
For example: In Hawaii, two homosexuals who got "married" in Canada recently have filed an ACLU- funded lawsuit to have that state's DOMA law overturned.
Homosexuals in Nebraska-aided by Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) and the ACLU filed a court action against that state's DOMA law back in April.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the national debate over same-sex marriage isn't about homosexuals getting "married." Homosexual activists and their polygamy and polyamory allies are beginning to admit what I've been saying for years: The ultimate goal of homosexual activists is to destroy the concept of monogamy and traditional marriage altogether.
What they really are after is a society that recognizes every sexual arrangement as normal-even group sexual liaisons and polygamous ones.
Mitchel Raphael, the editor of a Canadian homosexual magazine called "Fab" was quoted in The New York Times recently about so-called "gay" marriage. He noted: "I'd be for marriage if I thought gay people would challenge and change the institution and not buy into the traditional meaning of 'till death do us part' and monogamy forever. We should be Oscar Wildes and not like everyone else watching the play."
Raphael's words are echoed by other radical homosexual activists such as Paula Ettelbrick who says: "Being queer means pushing the parameters of sex and family, and in the process transforming the very fabric of society."
Homosexual activist Michelangelo Signorile, writing in "Out!" magazine (Dec./Feb. 1994) said that homosexuals should work for "gay" marriage as a way of subverting the entire institution of marriage. He says the most "… subversive action lesbian and gay men can undertake-and one that would perhaps benefit all of society-is to transform the notion of family entirely."
This subversion of traditional marriage is the subject of a recent article in "The Weekly Standard", by Hoover Institution scholar Stanley Kurtz. According to Kurtz, there is an aggressive polygamist/polyamory movement now seeking to capitalize on homosexual victories in our nation's courts.
Polyamory refers to group sex involving any numbers of men and women who engage in orgies with each other. An orgy will now be redefined to be a "family" if the group sex advocates get their way.
According to Kurtz, "Society depends on stable families. Up to now, with all the changes in marriage, the one thing we've been sure of is that marriage means monogamy. Gay marriage will break that connection. It will do this by itself, and by leading to polygamy and polymory.
What lies beyond gay marriage is no marriage at all."
This is where so-called same-sex marriages are leading this nation. Once the family-the single most important unit of society is destroyed-our entire civilization will eventually collapse into social, legal, and moral chaos.
We are headed toward the same kind of cultural collapse that destroyed Rome.
According to historian Edward Gibbon, in "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," Rome's destruction was due-large in part-to the rampant spread of pedophilia, homosexuality, gender confusion, and sex orgies that sapped the strength of its people. A nation that consistently violates God's moral laws is doomed to destruction.
Is this what we really want?
Why bother wasting their time with that straw dog? The institution of marriage has been gutted by no-fault divorce laws and a growing divorce industry funded with state and federal tax dollars. This whole "defending traditional marriage" thing is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Raphael's words are echoed by other radical homosexual activists such as Paula Ettelbrick who says: "Being queer means pushing the parameters of sex and family, and in the process transforming the very fabric of society."
These statements are very noteworthy, proving that homosexual activists aren't interested in "tolerance" or a "seat at the table". All that sort of talk is pure propaganda to fool uninformed sheeple. They are only interested in dominance, and destroying civilization. The foundation of civilized society is the natural family, which is based on eternal moral absolutes. Homo-activists and their brethren such as pornographer Flynnt admittedly want to destroy traditional morality. They derive thrills from destroying lives, morality, and any restrictions on sexual behavior (which will result in total destruction of peaceful civilization).
We either fight back (and the best defense is an offense) or we continue to be wimps and watch as our country - and indeed, the rest of the world - succumbs to worse than animal life.
It never ceases to amaze me how so many people actually choose lives of chaos over mental health.
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