After admitting the inevitable yesterday Focus on the family's Jim Daly is back with dire words of warning
Many of these watershed movements have delivered precisely and as powerfully as promised (woman’s suffrage and civil rights) while others have failed (prohibition and no-fault divorce).
And we all know where divorce leads....
Fathers abandoned their families in droves. Poverty levels skyrocketed. Prison populations increased at dramatic levels, a consequence of kids now growing up without a father in the home.
But this is nothing when compared to the doom that awaits.
Tragically, over 48 million babies have now been aborted and the beauty of life has been cheapened as a result, while child abuse has skyrocketed.
What that has to do with gay marriage and the price of tea heaven alone knows since previously he discussed teh biological imperative thingy, if only their were more gays...oh...oops.
;-)
Anyhows he gets back on topic
The expansion of welfare promised to alleviate human suffering. While in some ways noble in intent, it disincentivized work, undermined the family unit and created a perpetual cycle of dependency and poverty. Fathers were no longer needed to be an integral part of the family.
Goddamned welfare! So anti-christian in nature! Oh....hmm...what would Jesus do? I suppose give the money to the rich whilst they are struggling with that eye of the needle and dealing with enraged camels business? Are the camels to be held responsible for the trickle down effect?
Anyway...he goes on [doesn't he just]
Further, a home with two unmarried partners has proven to be the most dangerous place for children in the U.S. Children who live with their mother and boyfriend are 11 times more likely to be sexually, physically, or emotionally abused than children living with their married biological parents.
Sooooo, marriage is the cure?
Apparently not..
Here lies the last great frontier and the last gasp for those determined to re-engineer marriage. Those committed to this form of radicalism have systematically broken down the cultural barrier to same sex marriage by desensitizing people on the issue, stigmatizing those who oppose the movement and potentially criminalizing anyone who stands in opposition to them. The irony in our cultural discussion currently, is if you support traditional marriage, you are the one perceived by the cultural elite to be the radical.
Not only that
If religious liberty is lost in America, we will cease to be the nation our Founders intended us to be. Our rights will no longer be derived from God but from man, and therefore, dangerously beholden to political despots.
What he is talking about is his brand of Christianity because earlier he pointed out correctly....
But on what basis should I expect people who don’t believe as I do to likewise oppose same-sex marriage?
Nothing perhaps?
Just mind you own business for example?
And those of us within the orthodox Christian community understand that many in the culture see this issue very differently, and hold to very passionate views on the subject.
So passionately that they believe everyone must have their values.
So much for religious freedom?
Pretzel logic to justify their own narrow minded bigotry.
Hate to remind you Jim, but you are losing the debate as you so rightly noticed yesterday.
1:05 PM PT: Just remember what we are up against, from the Southern Poverty law Center
On Focus' 47-acre campus in Colorado Springs, some 1,300 employees battle against gay rights, sex education and women's rights with an enormous annual budget of $130 million. Dobson's radio show, dispensing homespun parenting advice along with jabs at "the militant homosexual agenda," is heard daily on more than 9,000 radio stations worldwide, giving him an estimated listening audience of more than 200 million.
http://www.splcenter.org/...