Passing the Piers Morgan Test: How to Fight for Natural Marriage

Ryan Anderson of the Heritage Foundation
failed the Piers Morgan test miserably

Pro-family forces have had a bad record when it comes to making their case for the pro-marriage cause.

The biggest example of this occured with Piers Morgan when he confronted one of the spokesmen for the Heritage Foundation.

He asked a very basic question: "Why does the marriage of these two women (or two men) affect you? Why is that a problem for you?"

Many pro-family groups have utterly failed on this point. They have not rightfully or rigorously thought through all the issues, the ups and downs when it comes to defending natural marriage. For too long, pro-family forces in particular and conservatives in general have fallen back on one of three talking points to defend their views on natural marriage:

1. I just believe that marriage is for one man and one woman.

2. It's tradition, and we should not trifle with tradition.

3. I oppose same-sex marriage because of my faith

All of these answers do not work. Most people who fight for false marriage do not care about God, religion, or tradition. Worse yet, many so-called churches and other religious institutions are caving on LGBT issues, celebrating false marriages and fake adoptions. It is disturbing how many mainline Christian denominations have caved on the normalization of homosexuality and transgenderism.

No real answers have been offered to rebuff the nonsensical arguments pressing for the normalization of sexual perversion.

For the last year, I have been studying this issue extensively, working to set up proper research and understanding so that every pro-family activist can argue for natural marriage, natural parenting, and the proper rearing of children.

And that's the first point: it's about the children.

Children need their parents, but more specifically they need their biological mother and father. Sex is not a purely private matter, and neither is marriage. The whole institution of marriage in large part is about the kids! Too many pro-family activists, including the speakers who have debated this issue with Piers Morgan and other liberal propagandist pundits, have ignored or neglected the damage caused by depriving children of their natural parents.

So, next time a liberal loony presses you on false marriage, fire back with the following: "So, you want to deprive children of their parents. If marriage can be anything and anyone, then parents become optional. You want to deprive children of their mother and their father. That is wrong."

But then go one step further.

For too long, the pro-family movement has been to reticent, shy, even cowardly about pointing out some harsh truths about the origins of homosexual conduct. Yet the behaviors are inherently harmful, destructive, and degrading. Furthermore, pro-family activists by and large refuse to discuss the causes of these behaviors. Why do individuals start developing an attraction to the same sex?

In every instance, one will find one or more of the following causes:

1. Abuse

2. Neglect

3. Confusion

4. Molestation

The fact is that homosexuals and transgenders are victims. They have been terribly harmed, filled with lies and deceit from a world that virtue-signals off their plight.

It is essential to call out anyone who claims to be an LGBT ally that they are in fact pro-abuse, neglect, confusion, and molestation, too.

It's about more than religious sentiment. It's about the creation of families, and it's about mental health. Most importantly, it's essential that we point out the truth:

1. People are not born that way.

2. The behaviors are not normal or ideal.

3. Children do not learn at a young age that they are LGBT.

Heritage Foundation Goes Full SJW: "America is a Racist Country"

I did not have the chance earlier this year to comment on this trainwreck of an article.

Thank God for Tucker Carlson going out of his way to expose the cancer among Conservative Inc, and particularly how the commentators have shown no interest in standing up to the falling cultural malaise that has become all too common in the United States.

Instead of stoking the flames of racism, the head of the Heritage Foundation Kay Coles James needed to point out that the United States is one of the least racist, if not THE least racist countries in the world. Why would anyone want to come to this country if the United States is so racist?

The problem is not that the United States is a multi-ethnic or monolithic country. This country has withstood and stood firm by the promise that people can come from anywhere in the world and become American citizens.

What has been happening, however, is that interest groups in place have wanted to push for their own power by stoking racial division and animus. That is the problem. Furthermore, communistic infiltrators have been barging into academia for decades, teaching the next generations of students that the United States is a fundamentally hateful, racist, perverse country which must be destroyed.

The truth is that the United States has had the flaws which other nations have endured, but unlike those countries, the United States and its people have overcome these flaws, these failures. They did not simply allow for slavery or the degradation of fellow man to remain extant within the confines of the country. The American people have fought back time and again to end these evils and make sure that our elected official live up to the principles and precepts laid out in the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

And yet for all that our country has endured and overcome, with have Conservative Inc. talking heads like Kay Coles James (who takes money from Big Tech), telling us tha the United States still has the cancer of racism at its core:

End Racism that Afflicts America's Soul Like a Cancer

The senseless and completely unjustified killing of George Floyd – an unarmed black man – by a white police officer in Minneapolis on Monday should shock the conscience of America.

We have now learned that George Floyd pretty much did himself in by getting high on depressants and stimulants all at the same time. This Floyd creep was no hero at all. This is Michael Brown and Ferguson all over again.

Besides, what happened in Minneapolis had nothing to do with race. If it had been a black man with his knee on another black man's neck, the outrage should have been the same, right? Besides that, there were police officers of different ethnic backgrounds who were standing around, doing nothing to get Officer Chauvin to remove his neck from the George Floyd.

While I understand the frustration and anger, I do not condone the violence spreading across this country in response to Floyd’s horrific killing. Rioting tearing apart Minneapolis and cities coast-to-coast will never lead to anything but more suffering. Those who are committing crimes are distracting us from the even larger group of people who are peacefully demonstrating.

Here's the thing: most of the peaceful protests were not peaceful to begin with. This uproar over Floyd turned into another excuse to raise hell and push a Marxist revolution, all under the banner of Black Lives Matter.

But we cannot shrug off Floyd’s killing – along with the killings of so many other black Americans throughout our nation’s history and up through today.

Why are so many black Americans getting killed, though? They are killing each other. Does anyone want to talk about those harrowing statistics? Anyone?!

How many more black people must die, and how many more times will statements of sympathy have to be issued? How many times will protests have to occur? How many more committees will have to be formed until America admits that racism is still a problem in this country?

Racism is a problem in the United States? OK, but is it the biggest problem? Hardly. Black Americans across the board talk about concerns for the well-being of their families, economic opportunities, and the need to confront the steady breakdown of the black family. Why aren't we talking more about black fathers? Why are we not confronting the alarming number of children born to single mothers, and there is no father? This breakdown of the family needs more attention than all this talk about racism.

Racism in America is a fatal wound. Every time another incident occurs we put a Band-Aid on it, but the Band-Aid keeps falling off. Band-Aids are not enough to ever stitch this country back together.

Kay, cut the crap. The United States is not only the least racist country in the world, but it has seen a growing, marked decrease in racist events and episodes. Once again, what happened in Minneapolis was not about race in any way, shape, or form.

The arrest of fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Friday on charges of manslaughter and third-degree murder is a welcome step, but it is just a Band-Aid.

Now we know that this arrest was unjustified. George Floyd died of cardiac arrest at the scene, granted. The police officer did not kill him, though. He did not pass our and die fromm asphyxiation folks. His drug-abusing ways killed him. George Floyd was no martyr. Not at all.

Chauvin is seen on cellphone video kneeling on Floyd’s neck as Floyd lay on the pavement handcuffed and helpless. Other officers with Chauvin did nothing as they watched Floyd die, and should face justice for their inexcusable inaction.

During my 70 years on this Earth I have lived through the civil rights movement, I have seen the highs and lows of this country, I have seen America’s goodness, and I have seen its hatred.

Oh really, Kay? This country's hatred? That hatred does not belong to the entire country. That hatred stems from individuals or movements within the country. Did Kay Coles James really think she could get away with such overheated rhetoric? She must have thought that she could such false, inflammatory remarks simply because she was black--and that is racist in itself. No one should believe that they are more or less immune to criticism because of their skin color. Let's talk Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at his word, and let's judge people not by the color of their skin, but rather by the content of their character.

There is no other country like ours in the world – nothing compares to its greatness. But the issue of racism is America’s Achilles’ heel. It has been embedded into our culture for 400 years, since the first Africans were seized from their homes on the other side of the world and brought to colonial America in chains and enslaved.

No, racism has not been embedded in the culture. It more likely, or rather most likely has been embedded into Mrs. James' education in higher institutions of learning, or she is just going along with the race-baiting talking points because the Heritage Foundation gets big money from Big Tech.

The racism experienced by black Americans is not a political issue and to anyone who tries to use it as one, on the left or the right, I say shame on you. No longer should our communities be pieces in a grand chess game.

On the contrary, the racism experienced by black Americans is very much a political issue. The Democratic Party, the regressive Left, all these institutions of left-wing lunacy have been pushing their racist dogmas, dog whistles, and doctrines for decades. This is very much a political issue. The Democratic Party pushed for the enslavement of black people. The Democratic Party enacted Jim Crow laws and segregationist policies throughout the South and the United State as a whole. 

The promise of the Declaration of Independence that we are all created equal applies to people of every race. This is not about politics – it is about morality.

Now this is absolutely true. Would that James had begun her editorial with the Declaration of Independence rather than a Declaration of Systemic Racism.

It’s time America takes responsibility and expands human flourishing to all of its citizens – not just the majority of them.

Who exactly needs to take responsiblity for what is happening in the United States regarding these riots and race-based conflagrations? These outburts of violence are not even about race. They are Marxist hordes determined to tear down the United States. These hateful crowds are made up of mostly racist white liberal, bubble-head bobble brats who think that the world owes them everything. So suffused with a sense of entitlement, these Antifa-Black Lives Matter hordes want the whole world upended and turned into a radically fair utopia where everyone has everything they need, and no leader ever fails "the people." Such dystopian fantasy will never come about, of course. The havoc and destruction wreaked in the question for this communist nightmare are all too apparent.

Instead of bad-mouthing the United State as some racist empire, James should have talked about all the good that the United States and her people have accomplished. Yes, she could acknowledge that there is still racism, since this perverse need to distinguish, discriminate, and denigrate is all to present and prevalent in human nature, but that the United States crafted a system of government, or rather of governments (state as well as federal) to check, to frustrate the hasty powers of men, including the most racist and base among us.

This country’s founding principles have created a system for injustices to come to light. They are designed to enable the human flourishing of all America’s citizens.

Let’s use those principles to guide us. It’s time America takes responsibility and expands human flourishing to all of its citizens – not just the majority of them.

It's time for Democrats to take responsibility for their policies of hatred and division. James is all wrong to cast all the blame on all Americans.

Americans must speak up and reject the racism and division in their own communities. There has always been a remnant outside the black community fighting for racial equality. It can no longer be just a remnant. Racial equality is something that every one of us, regardless of skin color, must work toward on a daily basis.

There is hardly any racism in many communities throughout the United States. The most racism one will find occurs in aggressively "progressive" cities that are pushing all kinds of destructive outcomes, which hurt the very people whom they claim to care about.

Individually, we can make a difference by promoting peace and prosperity for all people, knowing that life is better for everyone when we as Americans succeed together.

All of a sudden, Kay Coles James is talking about individual actions and individual responsibilities. These are the themes, the ideas that she needed to talk about at the outset. Where was the responsibilithy and accountability for George Floyd, who had committed multiple felonies in the past? Where was the accountability for the politicians in Minneapolis who spent more time virtue-signalling rather than signalling virtue?

It will take courage to speak up, but it is the only way we can overcome racism and the problems plaguing our nation.

Mrs. James, we were looking for the real courage to call out this false narrative of America's so-called "systemic racism" problem. Systemic racism occurs in municipalities where political operatives and machines put the well-being of their party and their own profit ahead of the people whom they are supposed to represent.

Simple acts like starting a dialogue with a neighbor or teaching your children the difference between right and wrong can have a profound impact now and for generations to come.

Nothing can bring George Floyd back to life. But if his horrific and needless death proves to be a turning point to make Americans finally end the ugly racism that stains our nation’s history and afflicts us like a cancer of the soul, he will leave behind a legacy we sorely need.

His death was needless, but we don't need to blame the entire United States of America for this death. It was George Floyd's fault at the outset, since he was high on drugs, low on morals, and determined to break the law, even admitting that he had passed a fake note at the convenience store before he was pulled over the Minneapolis police department.

Final Reflection

It's a really sad reflection on our political commentary, especially on the right, that we see everyone rushing to blame "systemic racism" for every failing in the United States. What happened in Minneapolis was not an issue of race. It was an issue of bad actors, bad policies (there is no reason to keep one's knees on a suspect's neck when he is down for good), and bad decision-making.

For the head of the Heritage Foundation to play the race card the way she did, however, is just inexcusable. No, the United States does not have this fatal flaw of racism. No, the problems which came to a head in Minneapolis were not a result of racism. Conservatism must do better than just repeat left-wing talking points.

Dodd-Frank Regulatory Reforms, and Ongoing Burdens to the States

                      



I am glad to hear that regulatory reform and rescission of costly banking burdens are getting some rollback.

Dodd-Frank reform legislation passed earlier this week.

What did the Heritage Foundation have to say about it, though?

There is good in the latest reform:

• Limited regulatory off-ramp for some banks with less than $10 billion in total assets. This provision, known as a community bank leverage ratio, would exempt certain small banks from the risk-weighted capital requirements first imposed in the 1980s.
• Safe harbor for ability to repay rules. Under Dodd-Frank, only mortgages that meet a certain set of requirements (qualified mortgages) automatically meet the ability to repay standard (have a safe harbor). The Senate bill provides a qualified mortgage safe harbor for banks with less than $10 billion in total assets that hold mortgages on their books rather than sell them into the secondary market (where they are packaged into mortgage-backed securities by companies such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac).
• Stress testing relief. The Senate bill would decrease the number of scenarios—from three to two—that must be included in both Fed-conducted and company-conducted stress tests, and also changes the frequency for company-run tests, from “annual” to “periodic.”
• Volcker Rule relief. The Volcker rule ostensibly prohibits banks from what is called “proprietary trading”—trading for their own accounts rather than on behalf of clients. 2155 provides an exemption from this rule for banks with assets less than $10 billion and with total trading assets and liabilities not exceeding more than 5 percent of their total assets.
• Higher SIFI threshold. Under Dodd-Frank, banks with $50 billion or more in assets are subjected to enhanced supervision and regulatory standards on the theory that their failure would cause widespread economic harm. These banks are commonly referred to as systemically important financial institutions, or SIFIs. Section 401 of the Senate bill would raise that threshold to $250 billion, but with several major caveats.

The reforms proferred and the rollbacks enacted are OK.

But there is much to be desired.

The legislation does not get rid of the misnamed Consumer Financial Protections Bureau, for starters. How about allowing more free enterprise and competition to challenge and undo the bad banking practices? FDIC regulations are making it all too easy for banks to overleverage their assets, too.

Banking is a risky business for consumers largely because of fractional reserve banking. These institutions ultimately create money when they lend out funding for other projects, yet the actual cash stock is not in the bank to begin with. How can Congress regulate this problem?

What are the consequences for doing so?

Can Congress achieve lasting reforms on more pertinent issues, too, like immigration and national security? What about the national debt and the entitlement strains which are dead-set to bankrupt this country?

Tax Reform Passes the House: Who Voted Against It?

Once again, the House of Representatives is getting busy, and they have passed a comprehensive tax reform bill.

Here are the key factors in the bill which direct toward lowering costs and lowering taxes for American citizens (CBS News reports):

Here's what the House version of the measure would do:

• Corporate tax rate would be cut from 35 percent to 20 percent;
• It nearly doubles the standard deduction -- from $6,350 to $12,000 for individuals and $12,700 to $24,000 for married couples;
• The child tax credit would be expanded from $1,000 to $1,600, and the child and dependent care tax credit would be continue at $300;
• The home mortgage interest deduction would be capped at $500,000;
• It eliminates the Alternative Minimum tax;
• The bill also eliminates the Estate tax

Here are the Republicans who voted against the bill:

• Rep. Dan Donovan (New York)
• Rep. John Faso (New York)
• Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (New Jersey)
• Rep. Darrell Issa (California)
• Rep. Walter Jones (North Carolina)
• Rep. Peter King (New York)
• Rep. Leonard Lance (New Jersey)
• Rep. Frank LoBiondo (New Jersey)
• Rep. Tom McClintock (California)
• Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (California)
• Rep. Chris Smith (New Jersey)
• Rep. Elise Stefanik (New York)
• Rep. Lee Zeldin (New York)


The vast majority of the voters represent constituents in high-tax blue states. The House Bill removes deductions for state taxes, and because the state incomes taxes are so high, the argument follows that these blue state residents will end up with a higher tax burden.

Yet Stephen Moore spoke to this concern at the October 2017 CAGOP Convention in Anaheim:

The biggest takeaway? The federal income tax rates were coming down much lower, which would allow for savings on that end, even if there was no longer an state income tax deduction.

Three Republicans in the California delegation voted against the bill, all citing the removal of the deduction for stateincome taxes.

I contacted Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's office, since I was surprised that he had voted against the legislation, though. His staffers informed me that he had received a large volume of calls in opposition to the bill, and therefore he decided to vote against it. I guess all the calls from the Indivisible Movement are having an unprecedented impact after all.

Tom McClintock and Darrell Issa had decided against the legislation for the same reasons.

Walter Jones was a unique stand-out in the list, as well. His press release indicated his concerns with the growing national debt, and that tax reform would end up increasing the deficits and put the national security at risk because of continued borrowing.

Election 2016, and The Millennial Conservative Resurgence on Marriage

One of the best news I heard from the Election 2016 RNC Platform Committee discussion.

Millennials were the key architects for ensuring a more conservative political party platform.

That's right -- the "young people".

Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council reported on this interesting development.

I am aware that a large number of Millennials currently support gay marriage.

This disturbing trend is a really a problem starting with our terrible public schools, and the Alinsky-ite rhetoric overtaking our political discourage.

Most young people have been hit so many times with the fear of shame--of being labeled a backward bigot--that many of them have simply caved on the issue.

More young people are becoming pro-life, by the way.

The cowardice of our elders, our political leaders, and the teachers in our churches I think deserves more blame.

Mom and Dad matter, and gender is not something that can be changed, altered, removed, or ignored simply because we feel like it.

Why is it that so many Millennials are on board with "gay marriage"?

They do not see how the destruction of the family affects them.

They have been inured into this Libertarian fantasy by some conservatives, and a sense of resigned acquiescence by the older people in their midst.

We either have a society founded on the rule of law, natural law, God's law, or we do not.

When younger people learn the destructive consequences of perverse behaviors, they will reject this agenda.

And more of them already are.

The Baptist Press reports:

Called to speak at the March 26 marriage rally in Washington, D.C., Alison Howard ran to the stage's microphone in an adrenaline-fueled burst. The 24-year-old graduate of Liberty University said she wanted to "talk to the grown-ups" supporting traditional marriage at the event on the National Mall.

"Do not give up on us young people," said the communications director for Concerned Women for America. "The media will tell you that I don't exist. Well, I'll be the unicorn. I do exist, and I believe in the marriage between a man and a woman."

It's not too late.

What is needed, though, is moral courage and political will.

Read more about her incredible life and views heree:

Her first job was at a New York consulting firm. The company decided to celebrate National Coming Out Day by having its employees wear badges in support of the gay community. Seery, a Catholic, dealt with the social debate the way many in her generation do: by blogging. That led to her position with the network, which has chapters in 25 schools.

Confrontation remains part of the job: In February, a liberal group at Columbia University hijacked a Love and Fidelity values conference by reserving the bulk of the tickets. They interrupted the speaker, standing to protest with signs.

But Seery doesn't believe the marriage cause is lost: "Just because things are polling one way today doesn't mean that will always be the case. Forty years ago the media said that all young people are becoming pro-choice. We proved them wrong. The youngest generation is the most pro-life generation."

Yes indeed!

Another Millennial explains the core of the conflict for many young people.

Eric Teetsel, the 29-year-old executive director of the Manhattan Declaration, also spoke at the March 26 rally in Washington, encouraging the crowd not to grow weary. Teetsel sees young believers who struggle with being fully Christian while enmeshed in contemporary culture. They go to church, but they also watch "The Daily Show." And, according to Teetsel, they often don't do well integrating those worlds. Fearing blowback on Twitter and Facebook, many young Christians remain silent on marriage even if they have not embraced the changing attitudes.

Young people need to know that they are called to the Benjamin Generation, to have courage and receive the grace of God to reign in life, and overcome the reproach of men.

Then this Millennial explains a deeper reason why the fight for natural marriage has met unprecedented challenges:

"We wasted a generation by being complacent and by believing that people would always understand what marriage is and why it matters," said Teetsel, whose group promotes life, marriage and religious liberty. "That's no longer true, and now we have got to show them."

We need to teach one another and the next generation why marriage matters!

Here's another great video affirming natural marriage.

This video outlines the biological, sociological, and moral advantages of natural marriage.

Compare this presentation with the one-side discussion between Piers Morgan and Ryan Anderson of the Heritage Foundation.

As long as we do not equip young people about the biological necessities and moral values about natural marriage, we are depriving Millennials--and all marriage proponents--with the tools needed to establish the necessities of natural marriage, and how to counteract the homosexual agenda trying to upend and redefine this fundamental institution.