The Crumbling of Marriage and Culture

Continued from page 2

GARY BAUER

Campaign for Working Families, June 18, 2003

Campaign for Working Families, June 26, 2003

Campaign for Working Families, June 27, 2003

Campaign for Working Families, July 1, 2003

Campaign for Working Families, July 2, 2003

Campaign for Working Families, July 3, 2003

Campaign for Working Families, July 7, 2003

CHUCK COLSON

Prison Fellowship Ministries, June 30, 2003

KEN CONNOR

Family Research Council, June 19, 2003

Family Policy Network, June 20, 2003

Family Research Council, June 23, 2003

Family Research Council, June 26

Family Research Council, June 30, 2003

Family Research Council, July 1, 2003

Family Research Council, July 9, 2003

DAVID CROWE

Restore America, July 3, 2003

JERRY FALWELL

Old-Time Gospel Hour, June 26, 2003

ROBERT KNIGHT

Culture and Family Institute, July 2, 2003

Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families, July 2

Halfway There

The President today, when pressed for his view on an amendment to the Constitution banning same-sex marriages, had this to say: "I don't know if it's necessary yet." Unless the President's lawyers are from Mars he will likely be told that the Supremes' decision was so sweeping that it imperils the traditional definition of marriage. The President also said, "What I do support is a notion that marriage is between a man and a woman." Every legal scholar I have talked with believes that the Defense of Marriage Act will be ruled unconstitutional in light of last week's sweeping sodomy ruling. The only solution is a Constitutional Amendment now! The White House hopefully will be fully engaged in time.

Robert Knight, Culture and Family Institute, July 2

Bad Law, Bad `Science' Produce a Very Bad Decision

How bad was this decision? It was the most destructive federal power grab since Roe vs. Wade. The damage goes far beyond the question of sodomy laws. Here is some perspective:

First, the court struck down Texas' sodomy law not on constitutional grounds but on the idea of "privacy rights" established in Roe and expanded here.

Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion, cites the Model Penal Code, which the American Law Institute concocted in 1955, and which is based on the "sex science" of Alfred C. Kinsey. Kinsey, who was unmasked as a fraud and a homosexual masochist, worked with Harvard law professor Herbert Weschler to produce the code. The idea was to overhaul and weaken America's sex laws.

Over the years, legal activists used the code to reduce penalties against sex offenders, thus putting more women and children at risk. In 1961, as Kennedy notes, the code was instrumental in Illinois' becoming the first state to strike down a sodomy law.

One of the most shocking elements of the decision is Kennedy's invoking the authority of the European Court of Human Rights. Since when is an American Supreme Court decision subordinate to anything European?

In saying the Texas statute lacked any "rational basis," the majority ignored the moral right of the people of Texas to govern their own communities, and put all criminal laws against sexual misbehavior, such as bigamy, adult incest, bestiality, and obscenity at risk.

The court also ignored voluminous medical evidence in amicae briefs documenting the harm that sodomy wreaks among homosexuals, men in particular.

Civil libertarians, who are tone deaf when it comes to the importance of family and faith to the preservation of freedom, may celebrate. But they are guaranteeing more government, not less, as judicial activists sweep aside the protective influence of families and communities.

David Crowe, Restore America, July 3

The U.S. Supreme Court, under the deception of the spirit of this age, has ruled that the state no longer has a compelling interest in upholding moral behaviour. It prefers to provide privileges based on sexual behaviour, and morally bankrupt rather than honor the Laws of God, the Constitution and the will of the people.

Restore America is preparing to launch a national campaign to register and turnout the Christian vote in 2004. It is called the "America Under God." As you celebrate July 4th, take a few minutes to ponder these matters, and ask yourself if there needs to be another Independence Day, a day in which we celebrate our freedom from tyrants from within...and from without. That 'day' should be the day we cast our ballots, and vote our values and Christian world view, all 52 million of us!

Help bring us back from the precipice. God has called us to "occupy til He comes."

Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families, July 3

White House Dilemma

The President's ambivalence yesterday about the need for a Constitutional Amendment to preserve marriage led to a page two story in the Washington Post this morning. Headline: "Bush Unsure Ban on Gay Unions Is Needed." Even more disturbing were the quotes by GOP strategists.

A GOP leader said, "The president does not want to go back to the culture wars of the 1980s and early 1990s. He remembers what happened to his father in 1992." A longtime friend of the President added this, "This is just not an issue we want to talk about. It plays to a negative stereotype of Republicans as sex-obsessed and narrow-minded. Swing voters--and the libertarian elements in the Republican Party--will not enjoy a debate about a constitutional amendment on gay marriage."

I hope and pray these are not the voices the President is listening to. Preserving the institution of marriage as it has been defined for centuries in the Judeo-Christian tradition is the right thing to do, morally and politically.

Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families, July 3

Who Rules America?

The Texas sodomy case has caused a firestorm among conservatives who see it as one more example of un-elected Judges taking over the authority that elected officials are supposed to exercise. Unfortunately it is even worse than that.

Justice Kennedy in his majority decision referred to a legal brief filed by Mary Robinson the former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. In the brief, Robinson cites pro-gay rights developments in "other nations with similar histories, legal systems and political cultures" and insists that "This Court should pay due respect to these opinions of humankind."

The implications of this case grow in seriousness the more we examine it. Are we still a self-governing people?

Ken Connor, Family Research Council,
July 9

Will Gay Marriage Start Its Pilgrimage in Massachusetts?

In a decision expected either Friday or next Monday, the Massachusetts Supreme Court will decide whether to create a "right" to same-sex marriage, possibly becoming the first state in the nation to do so. Should the court rule in favor of same-sex marriage, pro-homosexual activists will undoubtedly resort to lawsuits based on the Constitution's "Full Faith & Credit Clause" to push for marital rights in every other state.

Marriage is an institution which no court has the authority to redefine. Its existence transcends cultures and precedes the laws and Constitution of the United States. Its definition has been recognized throughout history. Any attempt to stray from its fundamental meaning will not only make marriage meaningless, but likely extinct. Marriage is the foundation of civilization and of the family. Weaken marriage, and families and societies become imperiled. You simply cannot build a strong society on the backs of weak families