The following excerpt is taken from Chapter 5, "The Family Under Attack" Marriage and the family are under attack by homosexual activists and their allies, both in America and internationally. At a conference at the University of London called “Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage: A Conference on National European and International Law,” one of the main themes of discussion was whether marriage should exist at all. The attendees laid out strategies to circumvent each nation’s democratic process via the judicial system to force governments to sanction and accept same-sex marriage. There was open talk about ultimately abolishing marriage so adults could be free to pursue any sexual relationship they want with no legal restrictions whatsoever.
1 Parts of Europe have already proceeded well down the road to the abolition of marriage. Same-sex "marriage" is already legal in the Netherlands,
2 and many other European countries have some sort of formal recognition of same-sex couples. In January 2003, Belgium joined the Netherlands in officially recognizing same-sex "marriages."
3 Radical homosexual activists readily acknowledge that the redefinition of marriage is just a tool in their greater agenda to reorder society. While they will not admit it, children are mere pawns to be used as they strive for total acceptance of their behavior. Consider this quote from Evan Wolfson, the former president of the LAMBDA Legal Defense and Education Fund, a leading lobbying and legal action group for homosexual "marriage":
“We can win the freedom to marry . . . We can seize the terms of the debate, tell our diverse stories, engage the non-gay persuadable public, enlist allies, work the courts, and the legislatures in several states, and achieve a legal breakthrough within five years. I’m talking about not just any legal breakthrough but an actual change in the law in one state, ending discrimination in civil marriage and permitting same-sex couples to lawfully wed. This won’t be a change in the law either; it will be a change in society. For if we do it right, the struggle to win the freedom to marry will bring much more along the way” [emphasis added].
4 George W. Dent Jr., writing in
The Journal of Law and Politics, writes that once same-sex "marriage" is affirmed, then other forms of “marriage” will quickly be affirmed as well, such as polygamy, endogamy (the marriage of blood relatives), bestiality, and child marriage.
5 In fact, the policy guide of the American Civil Liberties Union calls for the legalization of polygamy, stating,
“The ACLU believes that criminal and civil laws prohibiting or penalizing the practice of plural marriage violate constitutional protections of freedom of expression and association, freedom of religion, and privacy for personal relationships among consenting adults.” 6 As marriage is redefined, so is the concept of monogamy. Lesbian writer Camille Paglia has written:
“After a period of optimism about the long range potential of gay men’s one-on-one relationships, gay magazines are starting to acknowledge the more relaxed standards operating here, with recent articles celebrating the bigger bang of sex with strangers or proposing ‘monogamy without fidelity–the latest Orweillian formulation to excuse having your cake and eating it too.” 7 Openly homosexual author Andrew Sullivan has admitted that homosexuals’
“understanding of the sexual commitment in marriage is considerably broader than what nearly all heterosexual couples would tolerate.” 8 As one observer of the homosexual movement has warned,
“Gay activists are sexual Marxists. Legitimizing same-sex marriage is a warm-up act. Ultimately they want to eliminate any barriers, any signposts, that limit or channel the exercise of human sexuality.”9 Homosexual writer Michelangelo Signorile has told activists
“to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits, and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely . . . to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution . . . The most subversive action lesbians and gay men can take . . . is to transform the notion of ‘family’ entirely.” 10 Besides marriage, radical homosexual activists have the family, and particularly innocent, vulnerable children, in their sights as well. This has been accomplished by going after the right to adopt children. They have presented their efforts as “being in the best interests of children,” but it is hardly that.
Adults seeking to change the family and traditional sex roles to suit their own desires are using innocent children again (as they did with divorce and feminism). To intellectual elites, homosexual activists, and their allies, children are a social experiment, instead of individuals that need love, care, discipline, and nurturing. In the name of “rights,” children continue to be used as pawns to push a radical social agenda.
We have now learned in a painful way that the divorce movement of the Sixties started a cycle of dysfunctional relationships that is affecting future generations–leading to premarital sex, out-of-wedlock births, increased likelihood of dropping out of school, early marriage and divorce, and so forth. In contrast, children who grow up well grounded in two parent, traditional families are far more likely to have higher grades, are less prone to substance abuse, and less likely to engage in premarital sex. When the institutions of marriage and the family are tinkered with, children are ultimately the losers.
Footnotes
1 “Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage: A Conference on National European and International Law,” King’s College at the University of London, July 1-3, 1999.
2 “Netherlands OKs Gay Marriages,” Associated Press, September 13, 2000.
3 “Parliamentary Vote Turns Belgium Into Second Country to Approve Gay Marriages,” CBC News, January 31, 2003.
4 “All Together Now,” The Advocate, September 11, 2001.
5 George W. Dent Jr., “The Defense of Traditional Marriage,” Journal of Law and Politics, Vol. XV, No. 4, Fall 1999, pp. 628-637.
6 ACLU Policy Guide, 1992.
7 Camille Paglia, “I’ll Take Religion Over Gay Culture,” Salon.com, June 1998.
8 Andrew Sullivan, Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality, 1995.
9 Don Feder, “Vermont Storms the Citadel of Marriage,” Jewish World Review, May 1, 2000.
10 Michelangelo Signorile, “Bridal Wave,” OUT, December-January 1994.
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