"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."  ~William Makepeace Thackeray

 

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty." -- Unknown 

 

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, 2nd President of the United States

 

Last month we celebrated Mother's Day, and later this month we will celebrate Father's Day. We celebrate these holidays because as a country and as a people we have long known what so many generations before us have known...that God provided a divine structure under which children are best raised and cared for, through which they are protected, loved, nurtured and educated. Despite what the fashionable social theories of the day dictate, we know that men and women are born with unique physical and emotional traits, and our children benefit most when they have both to learn from. It is a tragic reality of our day that too often, through death, divorce, neglect, abandonment or other circumstances, children are deprived of the opportunity to have both a loving mother and father in their lives. It is tragic enough when these circumstances occur on their own, but it is doubly tragic government encourages these circumstances through misguided policies that marginalize and attempt to replace the parents.

 

A battle between the forces of liberalism and conservatism as regarding the traditional family has been raging for several decades, but we are seeing the left move now with a swiftness that is alarming. For those of us that were raised to believe in the wisdom of traditional Judeo-Christian moral values, we see this not as an issue of what is politically correct or politically expedient, but what is right and wrong. We understand intuitively that the traditional family has been successful for thousands of years as the foundational unit of a strong civilization, and we understand that the increase in divorce, teen pregnancy, abortion, child abuse or neglect, and the vast majority of the social ills of the day are the logical conclusions stemming from having abandoned these core values, a "me-first" attitude that shuns sacrifice, and the embracing of politically correct "alternative" lifestyles. We are not surprised by the continued erosion of moral values and the subsequent problems that we see, which is why we work so hard to fight against a world permissive of these things as we try to instill these values in our children.

Now, none other than the President and the Democrat majority in the Congress are launching the next wave of the assault on the traditional family. That assault is coming from multiple fronts, and they must all be repelled. However, it will not be easy, because those on the other side of the social divide are salivating at the prospect of finally getting what they have so long worked for. The evidence is all around us. One of the major prongs in this assault by the left comes in the form of the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 (H.R. 1913 and S.909), which adds "sexual orientation" to the list of government protected classes. Under the guise of preventing hate crimes, it actually punishes Christians and others that believe in moral absolutes. It creates a protected class in direct violation of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, for all people with the "disability" of sexual deviancy as defined by the American Psychiatric Association (and covered under the definition of sexual orientation). Speaking to his colleagues on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) stated:

"This bill addresses our resolve to end violence based on prejudice and to guarantee that all Americans regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability or all of these "Philias" and fetishes and "isms" that were put forward need not live in fear because of who they are. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this rule."

Democrats are knowingly protecting sexual deviants who engage in exhibitionism, homosexuality, transgenderism, cross-dressing, bestiality, voyeurism...every one of the 547 sexual deviancies defined by the APA, including pedophilia! This means that if you are at a park and your child wanders off and you go to find her, and you find her being molested by a pedophile, if you hit that pervert then you can be prosecuted for a felony because under the law you have committed an assault against a member of a protected class.

Now you may say, "Surely this can't happen, and the Democrats just didn't realize that this was a possibility". Not so fast. To make sure a travesty like this scenario did not occur, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) offered an amendment that was simple and unambiguous: "The term sexual orientation as used in this act or any amendments to this act does not include pedophilia." This amendment was rejected (as were a number of others along the same lines), and Chairman Conyers immediately called for an end to debate and rushed an immediate vote.

At the same time that these deviants are being protected, Christians and others that share our moral belief system will be targeted by the law. While proponents of the bill dismiss these claims as just so much inflammatory rhetoric, they refuse to protect under cover of law those with religious views in opposition to these practices. This means that if you are propositioned by a homosexual and make a disparaging remark (even just expressing disgust) concerning the offender's sexual orientation, you have violated the rights of a member of a protected class. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) stated during a Judiciary Committee hearing on April 23rd that "We also need to protect those potential victims who may be the recipients of hateful words or hateful acts, or even violent acts". It seems sticks and stones may break my bones but words will get me 10 years in the federal penitentiary. Under this bill, simply expressing your religiously held views in opposition to homosexuality and other forms of sexual deviancy constitutes a hate crime. The sad thing is that FBI statistics show that less than 1% of all violent crimes can be categorized as "hate crimes", and in a rare candid admission, prominent gay-rights activist Andrew Sullivan admitted that claims of rampant violence against homosexuals are nothing more than fund raising ploys.

Clearly, Democrats are pushing hard to please their constituents among the pro-homosexual/deviancy crowd. Here are some other examples:

President Obama became the first president to refuse to publicly observe the National Day of Prayer(he probably thought it would be awkward to offer a prayer to himself), but he enthusiastically proclaimed June to be LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered) Pride Month, including an official presidential proclamation. Nice...

The New Hampshire legislature passed, and Governor Lynch signed, a bill legalizing gay marriage. This was initially voted down...but only because the governor insisted on religious protections! However, a new legal battle is looming because the pro-gay lobby will now move to have the religious protections eliminated now that the government has recognized homosexuality as protected.

President Obama is attempting to remove the "conscience clause", which would criminalize a doctor, nurse, pharmacist or other health care provider if they refuse to perform an abortion or provide the "morning after" abortion pill based on religious or moral reasons.

The San Fransisco Unified School District has launched a website that promotes homosexuality and "tolerance" of that lifestyle, and targets children as young as kindergartners. One school even gives extra credit in order so that "kids who wouldn't be exposed to this kind of programming [and that is the right term to use] will be taught to think about it." It gets worse though. Because of the ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the 2005 case Fields vs. Palmdale School District that parents' fundamental right to control the upbringing of their children "does not extend beyond the threshold of the school door," and that a public school has the right to provide its students with "whatever information it wishes to provide, sexual or otherwise". The Alameda Unified School District is also considering a supplemental curriculum designed to eradicate homophobia in kindergartners. What kindergartner even has a concept of homosexuality at that age? They're still eating glue and picking boogers, for heaven's sake!

The ACLU is suing to have a 7-foot cross removed, erected in the Mojave Desert in 1934 as a memorial for fallen soldiers, claiming it violates the separation of church and state (side note: the "separation of church and state exists nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution...go ahead, try and find it. Bonus question, where did the phrase first appear?).

Okay, okay, this sounds really bad and it is. But don't get discouraged, because we are fighting back and getting wins of our own. Most notably of late was the California Supreme Court voting to uphold Proposition 8, the voter referendum amending the constitution of that state to define marriage as being between one man and one woman. Another was the reversal of an attempt by San Diego officials to require a permit to hold a Bible study in a private home. And for the first time since 1995, a Gallup poll shows that the majority of Americans identify themselves as "pro-life". 

Discouragement should not cross our lips because we know that we are on the side of all that is good, that which our Founding Fathers cherished and fought and died for, relying on divine providence as their protector and their guide. We know that as has happened so many times in the past, these philosophies and policies will fail, not because we want them to, but because human nature and the experience of generations say they must. Which is why we must have hope and sound the clarion call to our friends and neighbors to return to those values that made us great.