SCOTUS AND SAME SEX
MARRIAGE
By Maj. Gen. Jerry R. Curry
(Ret'd)
If
this summer’s actions by the Supreme Court of the
United States (SCOTUS) reclassify same sex marriage
as a civil right, the homosexual lifestyle will
become the norm for American civilization, in spite
of the fact that for thousands of years marriage has
traditionally been only between a man and a woman.
In 1987 Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom said, ”Children who need to be taught
to respect traditional moral values are being taught
that they had an inalienable right to be gay.”
This
reclassification may work for a small minority of
people, but it won’t work for society as a whole. If
it were such a great idea, America’s citizens would
be able to freely participate in the gay life style
without doing harm to themselves and to society.
When a court is most convinced that it is doing well
is when it is most susceptible to be doing harm.
Someone who prefers to live the same sex lifestyle
is not just an American who wants to be treated like
everyone else. Homosexuals want to fundamentally
change American society and the heterosexual way of
life.
Evil is more than ignorance.
If
every American adopted this kind of lifestyle, a
hundred years from now America would cease to exist,
because during that period no children would be
born. Should SCOTUS actually declare homosexuality a
civil right, it logically follows that polygamy,
pedophilia and bestiality would one day also be
declared a civil right by the Court. In spite of
society’s thirst for more modernism, inclusiveness
and diversity, who would want to live in the midst
of such moral depravity?
From
where do our laws and rights emanate? The
Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4,
1776, explains the origin of our rights as the
Nation’s Founders believed them to be, “…to
assume…the separate and equal Station to which the
laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them.”
Then
our Founder’s declared, “We hold these truths to be
self evident, that all Men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights.” Our great nation’s Founders
assumed that our divine, God given rights transcend
the rights of government, that these rights are
entitlements bestowed upon mankind by the author of
history and the distributor of Divine Law, that is,
by God himself. Our forefathers clearly stated that
they believed man’s unalienable rights came from
this God, and that man inherited them at birth.
In
the view of the community and the American culture
in which I was born and grew up, homosexuality is an
evil, a sin, and an abomination. Participating in it
is not a right, and we should not approve of it just
because some people want to involve themselves in
it. Homosexuals are not just Americans who want to
be treated like everyone else. The aim of their
assault on the traditional American family is to
fully change and corrupt the existing American
society and the American family.
Just
because an adult thinks he has fallen in love with
his teenage son or daughter; or a six year old
thinks he or she has fallen in love with another six
year old child, is not reason enough or sufficient
justification enough for society to sanction their
being united in marriage. Traditionally this foul
way of life has been, and in my judgment should
continue to be, unacceptable to American
civilization.
This
is not just about SCOTUS endorsing same sex
marriage; it is about creating families, about
connecting with the human race; it is about
providing children with a father and mother image
that they can emulate, and having parents that can
mentor them. A family is more than a piece of paper
saying two people are legally connected.
Our
society and culture should not bless the homosexual
life style just so a child can have two or more
supposedly loving mothers or fathers. Because
someone thinks they have fallen in love with a horse
or a pet snake does not mean that they should be
allowed to legally marry those animals with
society’s blessing.
At
the settling of an estate, just because an animal is
mentioned in a will does not mean that that animal
should be awarded a collection of Picasso paintings,
a bank account, or a Bentley. For, over time, that
is where all this leads.
And
once SCOTUS throws wide open society’s homosexual
doors, it will be impossible to get the animals back
into the barn, let alone back into the stall. Even
worse, the lawyers will have a litigating field day.
It is impossible to imagine how much fun lawyers
will have and how creative they will become arguing
cases under such a Supreme Court ruling.
According to our Founders, citizen’s rights
transcend government rights; they are entitlements
bestowed upon mankind at birth by a just God, the
author of history and the Creator of divine law.
That same God bestows upon mankind certain
unalienable rights. Our government is crafted and
designed to protect those rights, not just to
exploit and enjoy the freedoms they provide.
In
its deliberations and decisions concerning whether
the Constitution permits citizens to openly flaunt
the gay life style, SCOTUS should be guided by the
natural law and moral code given to us by our
Creator, the God of our founding.
In a
society, without a moral basis for its actions and
beliefs, any and everything is permissible,
including the concocting of evil intrigues and
abominable life styles.