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Gay Marriage - The Repercussions for America
By Kevin Fobbs
May 24, 2004

On Monday, May 17, 2004, America experienced an earthquake in Massachusetts. 1000 "couples" have exchanged vows in the first state sanctioned (or more accurately-court sanctioned) marriage ceremonies for homosexuals and lesbians in the United States of America.

Where do we, as a country, go from here? Is it going to be possible to put the genie back in the bottle? How do we reverse the apathy of the American public to get angry enough to fight the continuing potentially destructive social changes in our country - that are being led by a group of activist judges?

When did we lose control of our own country and how do we get the control back? Well folks, the time is now and it's past time that we take our democracy back and place it in the hands of our representatives where it belongs and out of the courtroom's of judges who are insistent in making law, not following the Constitution.

For example, the Supreme Court is about to hand down a decision on the "Under God" line in our Pledge of Allegiance. It was the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that decided some lawyer out in California who was offended by his daughter's recitation of the pledge with "Under God" offended him. It didn't offend his daughter - she's not even a party to the case. But because it offended his atheist belief system, the rest of the country may well have to live with the ramifications.

When exactly was it, that minority rule took over this country? We are supposed to be a nation built on the notion that democracy rules, that through our representatives in Congress and on the state level, the majority will speak its peace and affect our laws.

This is an election year people. Our representatives tend to listen more during an election year. All of our congressmen and women and all of our state legislatures are up for re-election. It's time to let them know how we feel about the march to a god-less, moral-less, and the everybody let live society these judges seemed intent on forcing upon all of America.

There exists in America a silent majority, which feels somewhat demoralized with these out-of-control self-important liberal leaning jurists. However, we should not feel defeated by their aggressive actions against our principles, values, and beliefs. Rather, we, as parents, as grandparents, uncles, aunts, and most importantly as citizens of this nation, must be equally as affirmative in our actions to take back our culture, and just as judicious to exercise our options to protect our children's future and the nation they will soon inherit. Otherwise, our founding principles will slowly evaporate and fade away, until we will have an America our founding fathers or even our grandparents will not be able to recognize.

Gay marriage is but another bold stroke in the liberal activist's playbook. As it is, parents are fighting a losing battle against activist teachers in our public schools, against media executives force-feeding sex, violence and alternative life-styles in their programming early in the evening, a music industry getting rich with gangsta-rap, teen pop stars who go from mouseketeer to tramp in less time than Michael Jackson's latest plastic surgery and a film industry that gives Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine) and Roman Polanski (The Pianist) an Oscar, but scorns Mel Gibson when he dares to make a moving tribute of Jesus Christ in his last 12 hours of life.

But we digress - we can guarantee that one of the 1000 "couples" who have gotten married in Massachusetts in the last few days will move to another state and immediately demand that their "marriage" be recognized.

This "New Couple" will be followed by other "New Couples" who will appear on every available news network, radio commentator program, be interviewed by print journalists, and will be encouraged to speak boldly and proudly of their new legally sanctioned privilege and to insist that this privilege be extended to all 50 states immediately.

They will claim discrimination, loss of freedoms, and lack of equality. They will protest all these social wrongs, lay the blame solely on the Christian Right as opposed to laying the blame where it belongs, with the citizens of America from all races, creeds, and color that care about upholding the Constitution of the United States of America and the founding principles on which this country is based.

Some Gay activists have already likened their cause to the Civil Rights movement of the mid-fifties and sixties when African Americans sought their rightful place to be treated equally and fairly in America by fighting for basic rights and privileges afforded under our Constitution.

These new "Couples" will also attempt to make the comparison, but as Rev. Jesse Jackson, 30 ministers in Atlanta, and a host of African-American leaders and religious leaders in Massachusetts firmly stated on May 17th, the 50th Anniversary of the historic U.S. Supreme Court Brown V. Board of Education decision, it would be disingenuous for America to accept the comparison. "To compare the gay marriage agenda to the hard fought rights of African Americans is a terrible insult to the tens of thousands of African Americans and others who fought for and died for the right to be treated as equal under the law of our land," stated one of the African-American religious leaders in Boston .

These "new couples" will ignore the intent of the civil rights movement, intended to fix the historical wrongs of individual rights. They will hang their self righteous banners of moral affliction on the backs and legacy of legitimate civil rights efforts of African-Americans, to create a new right for couples that has never existed and then with legal counsel joined at their side, will head straight to the nearest courtroom.

Lawsuits and liberally supportive decisions will fly out of these courtrooms quicker than tornadoes going through Kansas. Unlike the childhood movie favorite, "The Wizard of Oz," after the tornado when Dorothy woke up in the comfort of her home, America's trip via this activist tornado will not bring us safely home, but to a land our founders, nor us, will ever recognize again.

We will be faced with liberal jurists claiming that we are denying "Mrs. and Mrs. Smith or "Mr. And Mr. Brown" full citizenship, and will base their decision on the "Full Faith and Credit Clause" of the Constitution and more than likely the "Equal Protection Clause" as well. The Federal "Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)" and the 38 states that have state versions of DOMA, or something similar, will also immediately be challenged.

The legal morass that will now ensue because of four judges from Massachusetts, which has become, of course, a sham and a rather cruel mockery of our legal system's protections. Their act of gay marriage suffrage will be far-reaching, expensive, and damaging to the fabric of this country. In a few years, the U.S. Supreme Court will be the final arbiter in sorting out the legal mess that Massachusetts has put the country through. But we can and need to stop this before it ever gets to them.

It's time we step up America and join President Bush in his call for a constitutional amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will forever define marriage in America, as a union between one man and one woman - period.

Call your state representatives, your congressional representatives, and your governor. Sign petitions in your state if there is a ballot proposal to amend your state constitution and let your leaders know loud and clear that this slippery slope we are now engaged in as a country is one ski run we are not willing to go down and we're ready to take our country back.

For our country, for our families, for our children -

THE TIME IS NOW AMERICA, LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD.

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