Showing posts with label false marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label false marriage. Show all posts

Saturday, November 19, 2022

The Fight is Not Over: STOP the DIS-Respect for Marriage Act

The fight to stop False Marriage is far from over at this point.

Yes, there was a procedural vote, but then there will be a floor vote.

A number of amendments have been added to this bill, as well, and we need to urge a larger floor fight for more amendments until this legislation can be bogged down entirely.



The US Senate will take a vote on the DIS-Respect for Marriage Act on November 28th, 2022--after the Thanksgiving Break.

What happened earlier?


There was a procedural vote to advance the bill in the US Senate a few days ago, but we need to marshall our reasons to target these US Senators after the Thanksgiving Break


Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
Susan Collins (R-ME): (202) 224-2523
Joni Ernst (R-IA): (202) 224-3254
Cynthia Lummis (R-WY): 202) 224-3424
Mitt Romney (R-UT): (202) 224-5251
Dan Sullivan (R-AK): (202) 224-3004
Thom Tillis (R-NC): (202) 224-6342
Todd Young (R-IN): 202-224-5623

These US Senators The legislation will fail if they do not muster 60 votes.

These US Senators are facing Re-election at some point, and we need to make their lives miserable for voting against their constituents once already.

You can find their contact information on the blogpost that I shared earlier this year.

Friday, November 18, 2022

The Mainstream Pro-Family Movement Has Failed

 


For decades, we have witnessed the slow but steady encroachment of the LGBT Agenda and its militant activists demanding special privileges. The normalization of homosexuality has become all too pervasive in our culture, and with it transgenderism. Now this perverse agenda is targeting children on an open, daily basis.

Sodom and Gomorrah has gone from the bedroom, to the boardroom, to the public square. It’s no longer about two consenting adults in private. It’s about forcing adults to consent to this agenda in public.

It has gotten so bad, that even now Republicans, the so-called pro-family party, has begun caving to the destruction of marriage and the normalization of homosexuality and transgenderism.

How did this happen? How did it get this bad, and why has the mainstream pro-family movement failed to stop all this perversion?

Most people are not aware of this, but there were two Republican Congressmen who admitted that they were homosexual shortly after Republicans took back the House of Representatives, the first time in forty years. Instead of removing them from the caucus, Newt Gingrich let them stay, and he refused to take a stand on the issue.

From there, the Republican party continued its narrow attachment to individual liberty, without any foundation in national identity or moral security. Conservatism became a watered-down fusionism of limited government and individual liberty as the two core values. However, liberty and limited government alone cannot conservative a culture, and those principles cannot protect the family or the children.

And from here, we can point out why the mainstream pro-family movement has failed over the last thirty years to stop this false marriage, false gender identity agenda. The pro-family movement never wanted to call out the inherent debauchery and destruction associated with homosexuality and transgenderism. They never wanted to take a firm stance for truth, for fear of sounding bigoted or homophobic.

They fell back on two weak arguments to defend marriage:  tradition and religious freedom.

These are the weakest arguments. Religious liberty or religious adherence in the past was used to justify all kinds of unbiblical principles and stances. Tradition alone can never serve as an argument, either, since it was tradition to enslave certain groups of people. Technological innovation naturally undermines certain traditions as well.

And yet, this past week, I have seen eblast after eblast from mainstream pro-family groups decrying the “Respect for Marriage Act” forcing its way through the United States Senate. They are talking about the potential harms to religious liberty, and how this legislation will open the door to polygamy.

Those arguments may have some truth, but they are not substantive or substantial. The mainstream pro-family movement has failed because they have refused to advance the following arguments and attack the proponents of false marriage and false identities notwithstanding:

1.       Homosexuality and transgenderism are mental illness, not benign forms of identity. These behaviors result from abuse, neglect, confusion, and/or molestation. Normalizing these behaviors only enables these harms all the more.

2.       No one is born homosexual or born in the wrong body. There is nothing loving or compassionate about enabling confusion.

3.       Marriage is not just about the two adults, but about the children. Children need their mother and father, their natural parents, in a natural marriage. Anything else deprives children of their basic needs and harms them for the long-term, according to numerous health and wellness metrics.

4.       What consenting adults do in private has public consequences. Hiding behind the argument of “Live and Let Live,” or “Let’s just protect everyone’s liberty” has created this power-based stalemate, in which the more virulent actors with more money and more sympathy from the public will in. Hence, homosexual and transgender activists have been stomping on the pro-family competition for a long time.

5.       No one has had the courage to call out the malevolence of this whole agenda, poisoning kids and putting pressure on adults to abandon their natural rights and their constitutional liberties. This is not a chess game, but a street fight, and to this day the LGBT forces are shoving the chessboard up the pro-family movement’s ass.

It’s time to stand for truth, it’s time for a total offense in this culture war—and only MassResistance has the rhetoric, the record, and the results to get this done.

Thursday, November 3, 2022

Stop False Marriage! No on HR 8404

 

The midterm elections are in less than a week. Afterwards, no matter which party wins control of the next Congress, the current crop of US Senators will return to Washington DC for a lame duck session where they will take up HR 8404, the grossly misnamed Respect For Marriage Act. This legislation would impose same-sex ‘marriage’ on every state in the nation even if state voters have explicitly voted to define marriage solely as the union of one man and one woman.

Help NOM Stop HR 8404

But HR 8404 could do even more damage as it opens the door to forcing every state to accept polygamous marriages, men marrying child brides and every other perverse type of ‘marriage’ if judges or politicians in just one state legalize it there.


Shockingly, there is a strong possibility that Democrats could convince at least 10 Republican Senators to go along with HR 8404. We’ve got to stop them.


NOM has created this meme to help publicize just what is at stake in this battle:

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There are two things I am asking you to do right now to help us defeat this terrible legislation:

  1. Save this meme to your computer or phone and use it in all your communications for the next several weeks – send it to friends, put it in your email signature line, post it on social media, etc.

  2. Make an immediate donation to NOM to help us raise awareness and galvanize Republican opposition to HR 8404.

We have precious little time left before the midterm elections to raise awareness about this dangerous, dastardly legislation. Please act today to help.


To save the HR 8404 meme, just right click on the image and then save it to your computer or phone just as you would any other picture or add 'use the buttons below the image to share it on social networks.

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NOM is leading opposition to HR 8404 but we’re in a tough fight. Already a number of Republican Senators, including several who are retiring from Congress, have indicated they may vote for this legislation. It’s imperative that we turn up the grassroots heat on every Republican Senator in order prevail.


We need to raise additional money immediately. Please make a generous donation to NOM today.  Thanks to some supporters, every donation received will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to a total of $100,000.



NOM is doing everything in our power to defeat HR 8404, which really should be called the DisRespect For Marriage Act because it dismisses the views of over 50 million Americans who went to the polls in three dozen states to define marriage solely as the union of one man and one woman.


NOM has generated over 600,000 email messages to Senators from Americans demanding that they reject this terrible legislation, and our members have placed countless telephone calls to Senators' offices with the same message. With just days left until the midterm elections, we need to do even more.


Thank you for stepping up at this crucial time.



Thursday, October 13, 2022

Open Letter to PragerU Congratulating Two Homosexuals on False Marriage and Fake Adoption



Dennis Prager and the Prager Universe:

My name is Arthur Schaper, the Organization Director for MassResistance, the international pro-family group that makes the difference. For nearly thirty years, our organization has been taking on one of the most essential and controversial fights in the culture war on the Right: the fight against the LGBT agenda and the lies of the anti-family, anti-natural law Left.

Yet for the last five years, it has become increasingly clear that most so-called conservative "stars" and non-profits not only want to avoid this fight, but they have all but caved in and give this destructive LGBT madness one victory after another.

It was bad enough seeing CPAC descend to inviting drag queens and cross-dressers as featured guests at at their fake conference. It's no better when otherwise "conservative" news outlets give confused men like Bruce Jenner in drag a platform to pretend to be a conservative.

But now you and your team have congratulated out-homosexual Dave Rubin and his fake "husband" regarding their upcoming plans to become fathers via surrogacy?!

This is unconscionable. How man tenets of conservatism does this violate?

There can be no marriage beyond the union of one man and one woman.  There can be no family beyond the union of a man and a woman with the children whom they have reared and raised. There can be no civilization without family, without natural marriage, without a foundational regard for this natural law. 

Furthermore, children need their biological parents: the mother and the father. Surrogacy, and so-called same-sex "families" are inherently abusive, depriving children of their parents. Numerous studies and metrics have affirmed that children's psychological, emotional, and even physical well-being depend on their being raised by their biological parents.

When two homosexuals get (in blunt actuality, steal) children from their natural parents via surrogacy, it is nothing more than child-trafficking. This is disgusting, demeaning, and it should be criminalized in the United States. 

The necessary bases of natural marriage, sex, and family are a fundamental revelation which the Judeo-Christian heritage provided to the West -- and the world! The biggest reason why the West is in decline today--besides its growing abandonment of Spiritual, Biblical revelation as the fundamental value force for all good--is the decline and destruction of the natural family.

Let's be frank:

  • "Build the Wall" 
  • "America First" 
  • "Make America Great Again"

 All of these phrases, mottos, and mantras mean nothing if we do not:

  • Make Male and Female Great Again
  • Make Marriage Great Again
  • Make Mom and Dad Great Again

I must remind you that the Byzantine Empire had the thickest walls in modern history, and yet that empire fell to outside forces in A.D. 1453, in part because of the spiritual malaise which had overtaken the civilization from the inside. A key reason for that moral and cultural rot was the decline of natural relations between men and women, and the destruction of the family. The same doubly holds true for the Roman Empire and the several city states of Ancient Greece. Just read The Histories by ancient Greco-Roman eye-witness Polybius. 

Defense and promotion of natural marriage and natural family is essential to conservatism, or what is there to conserve in the first place?

I am beyond disappointed, Dennis Prager and PragerU.

And yes, sure, I am aware that you have received complaints from other well-known commentators across the country about that tweet, and that your team was thinking about taking down that tweet at some point. And yet here we are, and nothing has been done. In fact, it's too late. The news  about this public statement has gone so far abroad already.

PragerU, you are not even "controlled opposition," as some of your critics contend.

You are part of the cultural problem afflicting this country now.

Sincerely,

 

Arthur Schaper, Field Director

Website: MassResistance.org

Email: arthur@massresistance.org

Workcell: (781) 474-3005

Main Office: (781) 890-6001

Monday, October 3, 2022

American Family Association: Partial Victory on DIS-Respect for Marriage Act

 


 
 

Dear Arthur,

Great news! Because of your prayers, hard work, and your support, God has given us a victory in the U.S. Senate. If you’ve been keeping up with our action alerts, you know that the so-called Respect for Marriage Act is a Democrat priority. The bill would provide federal protection to same-sex marriage, undermining the ability of any state to ever challenge the 2015 Obergefell decision, which forced gay marriage on the states.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) had planned to put the Respect for Marriage Act on the Senate calendar for a vote this past September. Instead, after hearing from you, he lost the razor thin vote he needed to pass the bill.

We have been working hard to encourage Republicans to stick together to defend marriage. The Democrats need 10 Republicans to join them to avoid a filibuster on the bill. Because of your emails and calls, the tide changed. We won! Praise God!

However, as you know, this issue is not going away.

The sponsors of the Respect for Marriage Act have let it be known that they are going to force a vote on the bill in late November or early December – AFTER the November Congressional elections. Some Republicans – Susan Collins of Maine, for instance – are building a narrative that Republicans are going to vote for this bill, but just don’t want to do it before the midterm elections. “It takes a lot of the political sting out of it,” confessed Ohio Republican Senator Rob Portman.

Part of the delay is because of disagreements over religious liberty protections. On one side, Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and others are working on language that is little more than window dressing for their conservative base. On the other, Senator Mike Lee (also of Utah) is reportedly working on an amendment that would provide specific protections for Christian schools and nonprofit organizations.

As we reported in August, the Respect for Marriage Act could be used to eliminate the nonprofit status of Christian K-12 schools, universities, and nonprofits (even AFA). This is a very dangerous bill and is a sign of the trials ahead.

That’s why we are going to keep monitoring this situation – and we are going to keep asking you to tell your U.S. senators to stand against the Respect for Marriage Act. No amendment is going to make this bill better. The entire bill is based on a lie – the false premise that two people of the same sex can actually marry one another. Marriage is meant to be a lifelong union between one man and one woman. Same-sex marriage is not marriage, and we will never, ever support any legislation seeking to codify this lie.

The most recent Republican Party Platform states:

Foremost among those institutions is the American family. It is the foundation of civil society, and the cornerstone of the family is natural marriage, the union of one man and one woman. Its daily lessons — cooperation, patience, mutual respect, responsibility, self-reliance — are fundamental to the order and progress of our Republic.

Same-sex marriage is not settled law. It will never be settled law. Same-sex marriage is deeply offensive to God and is absolutely contrary to the principles of ordered liberty upon which our country was founded. That’s why AFA is committed to defending one-man, one-woman marriage, no matter the odds.

God is bigger than the U.S. Senate. And God, just as He always does, in His own way and in His own timing, came through for us. So, let’s give Him all the glory and the praise, even as we keep fighting and watching.

We’re going to keep the pressure up, reminding Republicans of the party platform and of the truth about marriage. Stay tuned for our next action alert on this. We need Republican senators to go on record about where they stand on this bill.

And let us all continue to “approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need” (Heb. 4:16). With your prayers and support, we are committed to winning this battle.

Sincerely,

Tim Wildmon, President
American Family Association

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Pastor John MacArthur's Open Letter to Governor Gavin "Groomer" Newsom



Governor Gavin Newsom

1021 O Street, Suite 9000

Sacramento, CA 95814

Sir,

Almighty God says in His Word, “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people” (Proverbs 14:34). Scripture also teaches that it is the chief duty of any civic leader to reward those who do well and to punish evildoers (Romans 13:1–7). You have not only failed in that responsibility; you routinely turn it on its head, rewarding evildoers and punishing the righteous.

The Word of God pronounces judgment on those who call evil good and good evil (Isaiah 5:20), and yet many of your policies reflect this unholy, upside-down view of honor and morality. The diabolical effects of your worldview are evident in the statistics of California’s epidemics of crime, homelessness, sexual perversions (like homosexuality and transgenderism), and other malignant expressions of human misery that stem directly from corrupt public policy. I don’t need to itemize or elaborate on the many immoral decisions you have perpetrated against God and the people of our state, which have only exacerbated these problems. Nevertheless, my goal in writing is not to contend with your politics, but rather to plead with you to hear and heed what the Word of God says to men in your position.

“Let all kings bow down before Him, all nations serve Him” (Psalm 72:11).

“He who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God, is as the light of the morning when the sun rises” (2 Samuel 23:3–4).

“It is an abomination for kings to commit wicked acts, for a throne is established on righteousness” (Proverbs 16:12).

What God said to Cyrus is a truth you should take to heart: “I am the LORD, and there is no other; besides Me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known Me; that men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun that there is no one besides Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other” (Isaiah 45:5–6).

In mid-September, you revealed to the entire nation how thoroughly rebellious against God you are when you sponsored billboards across America promoting the slaughter of children, whom He creates in the womb (Psalm 139:13–16Isaiah 45:9–12). You further compounded the wickedness of that murderous campaign with a reprehensible act of gross blasphemy, quoting the very words of Jesus from Mark 12:31 as if you could somehow twist His meaning and arrogate His name in favor of butchering unborn infants. You used the name and the words of Christ to promote the credo of Molech (Leviticus 20:1–5). It would be hard to imagine a greater sacrilege.

Furthermore, you chose words from the lips of Jesus without admitting that in the same moment He gave the greatest commandment: “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength” (Mark 12:30). You cannot love God as He commands while aiding in the murder of His image-bearers.

Psalm 50:16–19 speaks to people who pervert the Word of God for their own sinful ends:

But to the wicked God says,“What right have you to recount My statutesAnd to take My covenant in your mouth?For you hate discipline,And you cast My words behind you.When you see a thief, you are pleased with him,And you associate with adulterers.You let your mouth loose in evilAnd you harness your tongue for deceit.”

My concern, Governor Newsom, is that your own soul lies in grave, eternal peril. “Each one of us will give an account of himself to God” (Romans 14:12). One day, not very long from now, you will face that reality. Nothing is more certain. “It is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). You will stand in the presence of the Holy God who created you, who is your Judge, and He will demand that you give an account for how you have flouted His authority in your governing, and how you have twisted His own Holy Word to rationalize it. As you look over the precipice of eternity, what will your answer be? When you look ahead of you and see that nothing awaits you but eternal misery—the just punishment for your sins—what will all the clever rationalizations and political talking points avail for you then? And by then it will be too late for any remedy or redemption. “It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (Hebrews 10:31).

My plea to you, Sir, is that you would not let it come to that—that you would not go to that day of judgment apart from receiving forgiveness and righteousness through faith in Christ alone. In Psalm 50, after rebuking the wicked for uttering God’s words in a profane way, Scripture makes this promise: “Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there will be none to deliver. He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies Me; and he who orders his way, I shall show the salvation of God” (Psalm 50:22–23).

So there is salvation for those who repent. Christ purchased full redemption for all who will turn from wickedness, forsake their evil thoughts and actions, and trust fully in Him as Lord and Savior.

Our church, and countless Christians nationwide, are praying for your full repentance. Please respond to the gospel, forsake the path of wickedness you have pursued all your life, turn to Christ, ask for forgiveness, and use your office to advance the cause of righteousness (as is your duty) instead of undermining it (as has been your pattern).

Seek the LORD while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and He will have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. (Isaiah 55:6–7)

Governor Newsom, “now is the acceptable time, behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2).

For the Master,

John MacArthurPastor-Teacher

Monday, September 26, 2022

More Grooming: Gays for Kids Academy

Now there's a  "Gays for Kids Academy"?

The grooming just never stops.

This program purports itself to help homosexuals adopt and "Raise" children.

This is rank child abuse, depriving children of their natural mother and father, all while placating and pleasing selfish adults putting their desires ahead of the needs of children.

Why are we allowing confused adults to confuse children?

The targeted grooming has gone from bad to worse, and Facebook enables this disgusting madness.




Monday, August 15, 2022

Texas MassResistance: "Log Cabin" Hate Group Gives Up Trying to Corrupt Texas Republican Party

 

Texas LGBT “Log Cabin Republicans” group admits defeat – after Texas MassResistance gets strong “anti-gay” language inserted into state GOP Party Platform.

Follows a string of previous Texas MassResistance GOP successes.

Chairman of “Log Cabin” group resigns after latest Texas MassResistance victory.

August 15, 2022
ALT TEXT They're not really invincible if you're willing to stand up and fight back!

Texas MassResistance is leading the way back to normalcy!

On July 24, the Texas Tribune, a prominent left-wing newspaper, published a banner article, “We failed”: Gay Republicans who fought for acceptance in Texas GOP see little progress.” The article described how the Texas branch of the Log Cabin Republican organization, which pushes homosexual and transgender issues into the Republican Party across the country, was now admitting defeat in Texas.

But what was the tipping point? The Texas Tribune article specifically mentions the “anti-LGBTQ” language inserted into this year’s Texas GOP Party platform despite LGBT objections.

At the 2022 GOP Convention held in Houston on June 16-18, Texas MassResistance delegates Tracy Shannon (our Texas MassResistance leader) and Kevin Whitt and their group were vocal and determined. They insisted that the strongly worded language regarding homosexual behavior which had been dropped from the state party platform in 2018, be re-inserted: "Homosexual behavior is contrary to the fundamental truths that have been ordained by God in the Bible."

The Platform Chairman finally agreed to submit a different but powerful phrase, for a vote by the Platform Committee: Homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice.

The debate on that plank was quite animated. A “gay” Platform Committee member and other “LGBT” people in the room vigorously objected to it. But Tracy, Kevin, and their group were not backing down an inch from insisting that the Texas Republican Party tell the truth. The “gays” were unsuccessful – and our people were persuasive. The Platform Committee voted 17-14 in favor.

ALT TEXT Tracy Shannon (left) and Kevin Whitt giving strong words to the Texas GOP Platform Committee.

Next, the plank had to pass a floor vote of the full GOP Convention. The LGBT contingent was fully organized to stop it. But Tracy, Kevin, and the Texas MassResistance team outworked them and were more vocal. The convention overwhelmingly passed it!

ALT TEXT The full text of the plank on homosexual behavior (#143) in the Texas GOP Party Platform.

That victory was devastating to the “gays.” Within a week, the chairman of the Texas Log Cabin Republicans resigned, blaming the new GOP Platform language and a “path of divisiveness” and “lack of respect.” A few weeks later, the Texas Tribune article “We Failed” article came out.

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Just the latest in a series of Texas MassResistance GOP successes

This was just the latest in a series of GOP Platform setbacks for the LGBT movement at the hands of Texas MassResistance. In recent years, Tracy and Kevin, have been successful in organizing efforts to insert language condemning transgender medical procedures on children, same-sex “marriage,” and “Drag Queens” reading to kids – and language supporting reparative therapy for those who suffer from same-sex attraction.

ALT TEXT Planks #144, 145, 146, and 208 - dealing with Gender identity, sex change on minors, counseling, and Drag Queen Story Hour in the Texas GOP Platform.

And more …

In addition to the GOP Conventions, Tracy and Texas MassResistance worked relentlessly pressuring the Texas State Legislature to stop the legal transgender “sex change” procedures on children.

ALT TEXT Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller speaks at the MassResistance rally in front of the Texas State House to protect children from transgender "sex-change" procedures. Next to him (at left) is Weston Martinez, the State Real Estate Commissioner. At center in front are Tracy Shannon and Kevin Whitt.
ALT TEXT Inside the Texas State House were days of sign-holding.
ALT TEXT During the session, our Texas MassResistance chapter arranged for this banner to be flown around the State House!

When that bill got derailed by the GOP leadership, Tracy publicized how the GOP Governor, Lt. Governor, House Speaker, and Attorney General had accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from the “transgender medicine” lobby.

So success came: All this activism ultimately helped prompt the Attorney General to rule that so-called “sex change” procedures constitute child abuse under existing Texas law – and the Governor to direct the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate such “clinics” in Texas.

Texas MassResistance pressure also helped force the largest “transgender medical clinic” for children in Texas to close.

ALT TEXT Texas MassResistance activists outside the Dallas Children's Hospital "Genecis Clinic" that performed horrible "gender" treatments on children.

(Although the Texas Log Cabin Republicans publicly claimed not to support transgender “sex-change” procedures on children, they appeared to do nothing to confront or try to dissuade those LGBT groups and corporations who were supporting it.)

Final thoughts

There is a belief among conservatives that the LGBT movement is invincible. Not true at all!

A lot of thanks go to the Texas GOP Platform Committee for not wilting before political correctness or backing down in the face of anger from the LGBT movement – and to the delegates on the Convention floor for voting the right way. These grassroots folks are the kinds of Republicans people appreciate. But it also took strong, unrelenting efforts from Tracy Shannon, Kevin Whitt, and the other great activists.

On the other end of the spectrum are states like Massachusetts, where the Republican legislators – including both GOP candidates for Governor – have basically become water-carriers and advocates for the LGBT movement, and the State Party is too timid to take a stand on that issue.

We need to push every state GOP to follow the Texas example!

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Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Nullify Obergefell--No False Marriage, Restore True Marriage!

 From the desk of Pastor Scott Lively:

This article is archived here for those who prefer to read from a website

FEDERAL TYRANNY VS STATES RIGHTS ON TRUE MARRIAGE

WND recently covered a story from the U.K. in which a public health agency has declared – with total conviction – that Christian beliefs regarding marriage are “incompatible with human dignity.”

In America, and much of the Western world, public policy on the many variants of homosexuality and “transgenderism” has left the world of rationality and plunged increasing deeper into literal insanity. Normal people are being punished for “misgendering” those who invent new “gender identities” and matching pronouns for themselves; many young people are clamoring to be chemically and surgically mutilated; women athletes (no matter how strong their feminist credentials) are routinely suffering humiliating defeats by men in drag; and even conservative media have so lost their bearing that sodomy-based partnerships (like that showcased by the unfortunately named Peter Buttigieg) are applying the word “marriage” to them without challenge, with or without quotation marks.

To all of this, I say “I told you so.” Elections have consequences, but more importantly, so does the logic of legal arguments. When you, as voters or through your representatives, stipulate in binding anti-discrimination laws that it is morally and ethically wrong to reasonably discriminate against the behavioral disorders (aka “sexual orientations”) of a militant, implacable army of political activists (instead of preserving sexual normalcy as essential to a healthy society), you are GUARANTEED that their disorders will eventually be mainstreamed. And, you are guaranteed that these malicious bullies will use their new legal powers force you out of the mainstream, exploiting your unthinking agreement that “discrimination” is morally, ethically and legally wrong. You essentially abandon the moral and legal high ground to your cultural adversaries, all to save yourself from the discomfort of being called a “hater” – by people who will never stop calling you that unless you totally surrender on every subsequent point.

Despite intense persecution by the left, I have worked diligently to educate the conservative movement on these matters in several books, including “Redeeming the Rainbow” (my Th.D. doctoral thesis, which I converted into the only textbook ever written on the subject) and countless sermons, speeches and articles. About 20 years ago I boiled it down to a simple lesson called “The Five Stages of Homofascism.” These stages are Tolerance, Acceptance, Celebration, Forced Participation, and Punishment of Dissenters.

Tracking and backing this cultural transformation had been the U.S. Supreme Court during the entire tenure of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s reign as the all-powerful “swing vote.” Kennedy, the worst enemy of biblical marriage in American history, not only wrote the majority opinion in all four of the landmark cases that established LGBT cultural supremacy over Christianity, he also paved the way for the normalization of pedophilia in his 2002 majority opinion that “simulated child pornography is protected free speech,” a fact I cited in my recent prediction that Mark Zuckerberg’s emerging “Metaverse” will allow pedophiles to indulge their perversions with virtual children in that artificial world, feeding their inner demons with real-world consequences.

The LGBT agenda has always been the point of the spear of Cultural Marxism, and thus it is no surprise that the triumph of the putative Biden presidency is most gloatingly in-your-face in the heartbreaking, sexually dysfunctional parade of America’s children dancing willingly into the flames of Sodom as the demonic media and politicians applaud.
But, suddenly there is a small glimmer of hope thanks to a bold conservative legislator in Texas named James White. White, who happens to be black, contends that Texas state law on marriage trumps Obergefell v. Hodges, the so-called “gay marriage” ruling, which was the pinnacle of Justice Kennedy’s LGBT championing-career in 2015.

I have always contended that the Obergefell ruling is illegitimate and void because both Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan performed “gay weddings” during the pendency of the case. That was the most egregious violation of judicial ethics in the history of the court, making a mockery of the bedrock principle of judicial impartiality every jurist owes to every party before the court regardless of their personal views or past rulings on similar cases.

The White strategy appears to be an expansion of the states rights movement that has grown powerfully over the past few years as federal tyranny on leftist social policy has angered conservative states. This battle has been most obvious on gun rights and more recently “vaccine” mandates. But the battle for true marriage was encouragingly bolstered in October 2020 by the comments of Justices Thomas and Alito regarding a case that was actually unanimously denied review by SCOTUS on a technicality. As NPR wrote in a blind panic: “Nevertheless, [Thomas and Alito] said, the case ‘provides a stark reminder’ of the consequences of the same-sex marriage decision. By choosing to endorse ‘a novel constitutional right over the religious liberty interests explicitly protected in the First Amendment, and by doing so undemocratically, the court has created a problem that only it can fix,’ they said. ‘Until then, Obergefell will continue to have ruinous consequences for religious liberty.'”

Right now, we’re awaiting an opinion by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and are guardedly optimistic based on his record. But the far left is not waiting at all, their attacks being led by the Lincoln Project – the LGBT propaganda arm of the establishment wing of the Republican Party – which I exposed as such last July.

A pro-family victory in Texas would undoubtedly start a stampede of conservative states to follow suit (remember that 35 states and counting banned “gay marriage” before Kennedy nullified the peoples’ will by judicial fiat in Obergefell). So amidst all the doom and gloom, here’s at least one reason for hope and cheer (and optimistic prayer) as we head into the Christmas season.