Must be running scared that religious Americans might actually change things. If you prefer to be areligious, fine, but religion defines a person in many ways. True christianity has brought freedom to the whole world over the centuries, mostly before the 20th century, after which it began to be practiced in form and not spirit. Any time that religious fervor picks up, it can be hijacked by legalists who worship the tenets of it, but don’t practice them from the heart. True religion is compassionate, but doesn’t overlook the sin. They have compassion on the individual, but in love try to help the individual to overcome the sin.
There is no reason to put down our Christian religious beliefs as if they do not have a place in our government. Just the opposite. If you do a complete study, and not from a leftisit point of view, you will see that many tenets of the US Constitution originate in the Bible, as it was the Bible that steered many settlers to the New World to enjoy religious freedom. It was the Bible that framed the documents called the Magna Charta, the Declaration of Independence, etc.
If you strip religious significance from our Constituion, you’ll have a dead piece of legalism. Today, we have tried to water down the religious effects on the Constitution and what we have is lawlessness unequaled to any period before in our history.
It’s time to have a true spiritual renewal in America. Actually, it’s way overdue!
Although the author is right in saying that the core tea party message is a winner, and the Republican candidates should stay on message, I don’t think he’s right in saying that gay marriage can’t be discussed without using religion.
1) Gay marriage is extinctionary.
If everyone did that, stuck with it, didn’t “cheat”, humans would go exinct in about 120 years or so.
That’s a bad result. We don’t want that. So, as a matter of public policy, we don’t encourage extinctionary behaviors. In fact, we should be encouraging stable, procreative behaviors.
2) Marriage is a union of man and woman. Always has been.
And gays want to change the meaning of the word. I’ll pass.
3) The people don’t want it. It’s been voted down everywhere.
I don’t think gay marriage should be used as a wedge issue this time around. Limited Constitutional Government, the tea party message, is a strong winning message this year, and the candidate should stay on message. Also, transsexuals is a better wedge issue than gay marriage. That, too, can be discussed without religion.