America is at a crisis point. The ever-expanding size and
reach of government combined with our precarious economy are major threats, but
they are not the only threat. The largest threat that we face is the spiritual,
cultural, and moral collapse of our nation.
Having just finished the Thanksgiving holiday, we remembered
that the pilgrims left the decadence of their homeland behind to establish a
Christian colony in the American wilderness and begin a nation that would be
uniquely blessed by God. The “odds” were against them.
Thankfully, they did not
have pollsters back then urging them to give up!
If Americans continue to pray and stand for God’s truth - despite
adversity, despite “the polls,” despite what many in our government and most of
our media is pushing on us - will God abandon us? I don’t think so. My Bible is
full of stories of people, small groups of people - what the Bible refers to as
“a remnant” - who stood in the gap and prayed for their nation each and every
time that a moral decline like this has arisen.
So many people around us are telling us that same-sex “marriage”
across America is “inevitable.” Don’t believe it. They don’t have the truth.
Yes, America’s moral decline is more evident in the changing
attitudes towards marriage. Cohabitation instead of, and prior to, marriage has
become widely accepted. Divorce is now totally rampant across our nation. Broken
families, broken homes and nearly half of our citizens being born to single
mothers. This is a recipe for total moral and economic collapse. With marriages
needing all the help they can get, same-sex “marriage” threatens to be the
final straw!
If we look at other countries that have legalized same-sex
marriage, we see that natural marriages suffer because marriage as an
institution just isn’t taken seriously. America has wisely rejected this downgrading
of marriage and family as a national policy through the vast majority of our
history.
A mere decade ago same-sex marriage was nonexistent and was
a radical idea in our nation. Today people are pushing it to become mainstream.
Homosexual couples are portrayed with open admiration by Hollywood, television
shows and academia. The media has become outright advocates for the homosexual
lifestyle. And now, for the first time in our history, so has our President!
While he should be focusing on federal debt, the economy,
foreign policy, his collapsing healthcare policy - he is instead opted to use
his office, a position held by moral giants like George Washington, Lincoln, and
Reagan - to destroy the long-standing cultural and biblical definition of our most
important social institution - marriage.
Since the United States Supreme Court overturned section 3
of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in June, President Obama is misusing that
decision to assault natural marriage across our country.
From the IRS to the Department of Defense, government
agencies are now invoking interpretations of the Supreme Court decision the
justices never intended - to recognize federal benefits for same-sex marriages
even in states that hold a natural definition of marriage.
For example, now the IRS extends tax benefits to same-sex
couples and says that same-sex partners of military personnel are entitled to
marital benefits from the US military. That is absolutely not what the Supreme
Court said to do!
This also has implications on what is been a long-standing legal
understanding of states-rights. In a centralized federal government power grab –
under Obama the Department of Labor is attempting to preempt the marriage laws
of 37 states and launch federal same-sex benefits nationwide. Under the
Department of Labor plan, homosexual and lesbian partners would be considered “spouses”
for the purposes of pensions, 401(k)s, health plans, and other benefits under
federal laws governing such plans. Again, that is not what the Supreme Court
said to do!
The Department of Labor’s move is a direct challenge to the
autonomy and legal power strictly granted to the states by our Constitution and
by the parts of DOMA that are still in law. Even worse, it ignores the will of
the voters in a super majority of states who consistently cast their ballots to
uphold the definition of marriage as a union between “one man and one woman” - a
fact that is easily defendable by simply observing the natural order in our
world.
I believe strongly that the Department of Labor will soon
force same-sex marriage benefits on private employers who provide benefits
under ERISA (the Employee Retirement Income Security Act).
Mark my word, our president is on a power-trip, and has no
second thoughts about manipulating Supreme Court decisions, our laws, even
ignoring states’ rights as guaranteed by the Constitution - to force the nation
to change into his vision.
Let’s not be a naïve enough to think that the traditional
family will be the only casualty of this. If Obama and the federal government
and his Department of Labor or the DOJ are permitted to somehow normalize
same-sex marriage, you can certainly bet that religious freedoms guaranteed by
the First Amendment will be nullified. Christians and Christian business owners
will be forced to choose between living in accordance with the pinnacle truth –
between living by their Constitutionally Protected beliefs – and violating their
own conscious and breaking the law of the United States.
There have been hundreds of examples of this truth happening
already across our nation, but here’s just three:
Senior Master Sgt. Philip Monk didn’t agree with his lesbian
commander’s view affirming same-sex marriage. For this “crime,” his
distinguished, 19 year career in the U.S. Air Force is now in jeopardy. Monk
told Fox news, “Christians now have to go into the closet. We are being robbed
of our dignity and respect and our constitutionally protected rights. We are
not allowed to be who we are.”
Elaine Huguenin, a New Mexico photographer politely declined
to photograph a “commitment” ceremony between two lesbians. Why? Because her
Christian and religious beliefs conflicted with the message communicated by the
ceremony. As a result, Elaine was fined almost $7,000 by the New Mexico human
rights commission. The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that being forced to
compromise her Christian faith was “the price of citizenship.” (Really – now that’s
tyranny!)
Recently, considering the case of Christian sportscaster
Craig James - he was fired by Fox Sports, not for anything he said on the air,
but for saying that “marriage is a union between a man and a woman” during a
campaign for U.S. Senate several months prior.
If this is not a violation of both free speech and the
rights of individual beliefs of consciousness - than I don’t know what is.
We need to wake up and recognize that tyranny is already
here!
The very same people who want to use the force of law to
silence Christians, are the very same people who are doing everything they can
to stop any healthy discussion regarding the medical, scientific, and cultural
debate for preserving the definition of marriage as one man and one woman. They
want to confuse the issue by claiming that same-sex marriage is a “civil right”.
They compare this issue - to the civil rights issues that faced black Americans
from the Civil War and up until the late 1960s.
To compare the “choice” of the homosexual lifestyle to that
of someone being born black or any other color - is both an intellectually
bankrupt argument - and a total insult to those people in our communities who fought so hard for their civil rights.
Newsflash - study after study, scientific research after
scientific research coming from the CDC, independent medical groups and
universities around the world - it has now been clearly shown that there is no “gay
gene”. The truth and the situation is that the jury is still out as to what are
causes or drivers as to why people choose the homosexual lifestyle. There are
certainly studies about hormonal imbalances in both men and women; as well as
various birth defects that have some credence to them. That being said, there
is no scientific evidence whatsoever that indicates that a person is “born gay”.
To state that someone is born that way is an intellectually dishonest statement
and it does not align with reality - the very reality that has been revealed through
scientific research thus far; and the reality of the natural order of man that
has been in evidence since the dawn of human history.
Beyond that, we do have hundreds of studies now available (and
any of you can find them documented online) - that are from reliable scientific
sources such as the CDC, independent funded studies and those of universities.
Overwhelming evidence suggests that embracing the homosexual lifestyle and
validating it leads to terrible outcomes both for individuals, their families
and society as a whole.
From the tidal wave of media coverage we see in TV news
programs and read in the papers, you would think that homosexuals, lesbians,
and the transgendered were in the majority. The truth is they are not. In fact,
a recent Gallup poll estimates that homosexuals, lesbians, and the
transgendered only make up 3.4% of the US population. The other research that
has been done as previously noted, has the highest possible estimate at 9% of
the population.
No one with any set of decent morals, religious beliefs or a
person of integrity is calling for homosexuals or the transgendered to be
violated or harmed. They certainly have every right to choose to live the
lifestyle they do. Our nation and our states have laws on the books that are
there to protect them from being discriminated against in employment, consumer
transactions, and financial institutions - etc. Those laws are good and they do
the moral right thing and protect all people; not just homosexuals - from being
violated or harmed via immoral practices by employers, individuals or
organizations. In short, those within the homosexual community have the same
rights and protections as the rest of us do.
Protecting individuals from harm and discrimination is a very different subject than the idea of
creating federal law or using the force of government power to “validate” a
lifestyle that has been demonstrably proven through research, science and
studies to be harmful to individuals and society as a whole.
But - those who disagree with us cannot win the argument on
its merits - so they will use the force of law and regulatory action to silence
us.
That is tyranny!
As Augustine said, we love the
truth when it enlightens us, but we hate it when it convicts us.
Links, Sources
& Resources – I have provided extensively – because detractors will propagate
lies and misinformation.
Health Facts of
Homosexual Activity
Even if we ignore the cultural issue of procreation or any arguments
based on religious grounds, the evidence shows that homosexual unions are
medically inferior to man-woman unions.
Homosexual behavior:
- Results in numerous health
problems to those who practice it, including increases in AIDS, other
STDs, colon and rectal cancer, and hepatitis. According to the Center for
Disease Control, more than 82 percent of all known sexually-transmitted
AIDS cases in 2006 were the result of male-to-male sexual contact.
Moreover, gay and bisexual men account for more than 60 percent of all
syphilis cases.
- Shortens the life span of
homosexuals, probably by eight to twenty years (see data on homosexual
life span studies, some of which are controversial). Smoking, on average,
reduces life span by seven years. Since we discourage smoking, why are we
thinking of endorsing homosexuality?
The actual AIDS figure is probably higher than 82 percent
because nearly all of the supposedly heterosexually-transmitted cases have a
“risk factor not specified.” Since homosexual contact is one of the most
efficient ways of transmitting the disease, many of those not specified cases
probably originated with homosexual contact.
(See Center for Disease Control, Cases of HIV infection and
AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2006 HIV/AIDS Surveillance
Report, Volume 17, April 2008. See Table 17: Reported AIDS cases, by age
category, transmission category, and sex, 2006 and cumulative—United States and
dependent areas). Available online at:
According to the Centers for Disease Control, gay and
bisexual men account for the vast majority of syphilis cases (more than 60
percent in 2005). See also William Dunham, “Syphilis rise in U.S. gay, bisexual
men causes worry,” Reuters, May 4, 2007.
R.S. Hogg, S.A. Strathdee, K.J. Craib, M.V. O’Shaughnessy,
J.S. Montaner, and M.T. Schechter “Modeling the impact of HIV disease on
mortality in gay and bisexual men,” International Journal of Epidemiology, Vol
26, 657-661.
Jeffrey Satinover, M.D., Homosexuality and the Politics of
Truth (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1996).
For a recent study on HIV soaring among men having sex with
teenage boys, see
More controversial studies have been conducted by Dr. Paul
Cameron
Some researchers and many homosexual activists question the
methodology of Dr. Cameron’s life span studies which found that the median age
of death for male homosexuals is in the forties and lesbians in the fifties. A
summary and discussion of Cameron’s research can be found in “Only the gay die young”? An exchange
between Warren Throckmorton, Morten.
Additionally – Homosexual behavior:
- Spreads disease to innocent
people who never engage in homosexual sex. A prominent example is Ryan
White, the teenage boy who died of AIDS after a blood transfusion. There
are thousands of Ryan Whites—according to the CDC, there are nearly ten
thousand known cases of innocent people in the United States who have
contracted AIDS the same way, including 160 in 2005 and 131 in 2006 (this
despite improvements in blood screening). Moreover, there are thousands of
innocent heterosexuals (many are spouses) who have contracted STDs via
sexual contact with bisexuals.
Center for Disease Control, Cases of HIV infection and AIDS
in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2005 HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report,
Volume 17, Revised Edition, June 2007. See Table 17: Reported AIDS cases, by
age category, transmission category, and sex, 2005 and cumulative— United
States and dependent areas.
for 2006 number.
Homosexual behavior costs Americans millions in higher health
insurance premiums because increased health costs from homosexual behavior are
reflected in those premiums. In fact, the homosexual lobby has induced some
states to prevent insurers from asking potential consumers any medical
questions, including if they are HIV positive! As a result, every consumer is
paying a higher premium because insurance companies are prevented from
identifying clients who engage in high-risk sexual behavior.
The bottom line is that homosexual behavior is unhealthy.
All sexual behaviors are not equally beneficial, and some of them can have
negative consequences; both private and public consequences. Innocent people
can and do get hurt. Due to the devastating health effects of male
homosexuality, most of the research into gay health issues has been
concentrated on homosexual men. However, the research that has been conducted
with respect to lesbians does not yield good news. Lesbians experience many
more health problems than heterosexual women.
Even the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association admits the
following about lesbian women:
Lesbians have the richest concentration of risk in the
following area:
- Factors for breast cancer
than any subset of women in the world.
- They have higher risks for
cervical cancers.
- They are more likely to be
obese.
- They use more tobacco,
alcohol, and illicit drugs.
A study of over 1,400 lesbians found the following:
- Lesbians experience higher
rates of bacterial vaginosis and hepatitis C.
- They have more than twice the
number of male partners than heterosexual women (only 7 percent who
identify themselves as lesbians never have sex with men).
- They are 4.5 times more
likely to have fifty or more male sexual partners in a lifetime.
- They are three to four times
more likely to have sex with men who are at high risk for HIV—
homosexuals, bisexuals, and IV drug users.
They are six times more likely to abuse drugs intravenously.
Other studies also confirm lesbian health problems.
Many homosexual
activists get angry when you cite these health facts. But why would anyone get
angry over facts?
All quotes and
statistics above – otherwise not referenced can be found in:
For a summary of lesbian health problems, see John R. Diggs,
Jr. M.D, “The Health Risks of Gay Sex,” Corporate Resource Council, 2002, pgs.
5-6.
David Dunlap, “In Age of AIDS, Love and Hope Can Lead to
Risk,” New York Times, July 27, 1996.
Mike Stobbe, “CDC understated number of new HIV infections
in US,” Reuters, August 2,2008.
Jeffrey Satinover, M.D., Homosexuality and the Politics of
Truth (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1996), the data from which Dr. Satinover
draws these figures is the Sex in America survey published by researchers from
the University of Chicago in 1994.
