You know you have the right candidate when Focus on the Family, ACLJ, NRA, etc. are supporting him, but the Log Cabin Republicans aren't.
The Log Cabin Republicans talk a good game about "inclusion," "fairness," "equality," and that sort of thing, but what do they really mean? They want sodomy to be included in our public life. They want to teach our children that it's unfair to demand that unhealthy, morally abominable activities be called "sin." They would have us believe that, in order to guarantee sodomizers equal treatment under the law, we must grant them special legal privileges and protections in our society.
The fact is that homosexuality is sin, similar in many ways to adultery. Just like adulterers, homosexuals have the liberty of practicing their lifestyle in private, but they have no reason to expect the public at large to appreciate, much less endorse, their lifestyle. But public endorsement is exactly what groups like the Log Cabin Republicans want.
They want the general public to endorse their destructive behavior. They want you to pay for their increased health care costs: statistics show clearly that HIV and AIDS are expensive consequences of homosexuality, and homosexuals tend to have more serious psychological problems (which, by the way, they like to blame on our "discriminatory" culture--as if the rest of us are somehow responsible for their choice of lifestyle). They want you to ignore the fact that the homosexual community molests children at a much higher per-capita rate than the heterosexual community. In short, they want you to ignore the fact that homosexuality is a deviant lifestyle that is dangerous not only to those practicing it, but also to the society that endorses it.
To those who say, "You can't legislate morality," I ask why, then, do we legislate that theft, perjury, murder, and speeding through school zones are illegal?
The dividing issue is not "inclusion." Homosexuals have the same constitutional rights and responsibilities as everyone else in our society. It's not "fairness" or "equality" either; the law doesn't care about one's sexual habits. The dividing issue is all about special protections and privileges. The Log Cabin Republicans want to eliminate marriage, because marriage is all about one man and one woman. They want to create a new kind of "marriage" that has no gender requirements, which is to say they want to take something that is not, cannot be, marriage, and call it "marriage." They want to place a couple of (maybe several?) sodomizers on a pedestal and hold them up as the model relationship.
They want to call good evil, and evil good. I, for one, am grateful that George W. Bush says "no" to that idea.
Posted by jon at September 11, 2004 12:44 AM