Posted by
Bert Chapman on Monday, February 28, 2011 7:46:39 PM
Anyone who believes Barack Obama wishes to encourage and sustain traditional marriage should have had the blinders pulled from their eyes by now. The administration has decided to quit enforcing the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act signed by Bill Clinton, hardly an exemplar or marital fidelity or personal virtue, in order to demonstrate its continuing and unswerving fealty to the gay lobby. An excellent example of the stakes involved in preserving traditional marriage was eloquently expressed in the
Washington Times last week by Jeffrey Kuhner which makes effective use of historical precedent and the multiple negative consequences of increasing societal acceptance of morally aberrant sexual behavior. It also effectively demolishes the liberal canard that marriage is a "right" regardless of its rhetorical construction or the parties involved in such a compact. Efforts to impose morally aberrant sexual behavior on society are not just confined to the U.S. This story from the London
Daily Telegraph
describes how two judges from the British High Court ruled that a Christian couple from Derby could not serve as foster parents due to their principled religious objections to homosexuality. Such a ruling also has a negative impact on people from other religious traditions who consider homosexuality morally repugnant and destructive. Like water cutting through rock over time, traditional heterosexual marriage is being continually eroded by the rhetorical, legal, and media assaults of its enemies. That is why we need constitutional amendments and other legal and regulatory mechanisms to defend the sanctity of male-female marriage from its ruthless enemies.