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(CNSNews.com) -- The contentious social issues of abortion and homosexual "rights" will continue to feed public debate and drive American politics, according to experts on those issues who addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., Friday.

While they believe conservatives are gaining ground on those issues, the speakers agreed there is still much work to be done to protect both unborn children and the traditional definition of marriage.

Alan Chambers -- president of Exodus International, a ministry to those seeking to leave the homosexual lifestyle -- told CPAC attendees that Americans have come "to depend on counterfeits." He compared the country's obsession with sex to its growing consumption of fast food.

"Fast food is a counterfeit. And it may fill you up, but a long-term diet of it will kill you," Chambers argued. "Parallel this with our over-sexed culture. More men today find pleasure from a computer screen, from magazines or movies, through fantasies and through pre and extra-marital relationships than they do lifelong, loving and committed marriage relationships with a member of the opposite sex."

Chambers, a former homosexual who now has a wife and two children, said homosexuality attracts some people for reasons that can seem logical.

"The selfish counterfeit of instant gratification is easier to attain than its real counterpart, which is healthy relationships born out of hard work and mutuality," Chambers said. "It's true that our bodies will accept bad food over no food. Similarly, we've come to accept bad love because it's better than no love at all; enter homosexuality."

The same longing for fulfillment that drives some people to homosexuality, Chambers said, pushes an even smaller minority to pursue counterfeit "marriages" with their same-sex partners.

"Marriage has become a counterfeit means of validation to the small percentage of 'gay' men and women who are fighting to co-opt it," Chambers argued. "Marriage rights mean forced acceptance and forced validation of their broken lives and broken hearts."

He concluded that homosexual "marriage," if legalized, "will not only result in altering marriage from its created purpose, to bring forth healthy children and a healthy society, but rather it will destroy those children and the world that we leave them."

Maryland Republican State Sen. Alex Mooney said homosexual activists have managed to gain legal recognition as a minority, based solely on their lifestyle choices, through so-called "hate crimes" and domestic partnership laws. He predicted that they would not be satisfied politically, even if same-sex "marriage" is legalized nationwide.

"Even if homosexual 'marriage' comes in, it's not going to stop; the radicals pushing this stuff are not going to stop," Moony warned. "They're going to go for 'hate speech.' If you actually speak against the homosexual lifestyle, maybe from the pulpit if you're a pastor, then you're in trouble.

"Then they're going to go to the schools, to your kids in the schools," he continued. "They'll want to teach it to the children in schools."

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