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Ten Q&A on Same-Sex Marriage Canards and Evasions

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By Stella Morabito

Forces pushing for genderless marriage are a wellspring of fallacies and unanswered questions about the consequences.  Let’s explore some of them.

1. What’s love got to do with it? 

Nothing.  Romanticizing this debate by claiming that any two people in love should have a civil right to civil marriage is a foolish distraction.  Neither judges nor legislators have any business discussing “affection” as a factor in defining civil marriage.  Clergy who bless marriages have a legitimate and separate role in discerning the internal dynamics of couples.  But not the state.

2. What is the state’s interest in marriage? 

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Erick Erickson: Fox News Contributor Equates Gay Marriage With Incest and Polygamy

www.policymic.com/articles/33189/erick-erickson-fox-news-contributor-equates-gay-marriage-with-incest

“…So why not fathers marrying sons and moms marrying daughters? Is it because of the ‘ick’ factor? Why should that preclude it? If life comes down to who you love and who loves you back, if a father and son love each other so much they want to get married, there is little moral difference between two people of the same sex getting married who are not related and want to be and two people of the same sex who already are related becoming closer…”

Yup.  Question is, will Mormons or Muslims be the first to fight the discrimination in the courts?

Ravi Zacharias — Why I am not an atheist

From Princeton University:

Louisa Wall: Same-sex “marriage”, Nero and bestiality

Louisa Wall highlighted the fact that “same-sex marriage between men was not uncommon in the days of the Roman emperor Nero”, in her First Reading speech (ref. 1) in parliament in support of her private member’s bill – the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill.

She put forward the erroneous argument that because “the civil and social institution of marriage” had [allegedly] “changed dramatically” over the period “pre-dat[ing] government and Christianity” and leading up to the present-day, as illustrated by the legalisation of homosexual marriage in Rome in the time of Nero, New Zealand MPs should therefore support her bill and embrace homosexual marriage.  

Then she made the claim that for opponents of her bill to “even raise such concerns” as “polygamy, bigamy, bestiality and incest … within the context of discussion about marriage equality” [i.e. homosexual "marriage"] was “insulting” to her and those championing her bill, because such practices constituted “criminal offences” under current NZ law.

Read the full story here: www.spcs.org.nz/2013/louisa-wall-same-sex-marriage-emperor-nero-flippancy-and-bestiality/

Same-sex “Marriage”: The Roman Emperors

As the Supreme Court takes up two cases regarding the legalization of same-sex “marriage,” Americans may be surprised to learn that same-sex marriage was legalized once before.

The practice of homosexuality in the Roman Empire had increased during the early years until the Romans accepted and adopted the pederasty of the Greeks (fornication with boys ages 12 to 18). Though at first the acts were considered acceptable only if the boy was a slave, the Romans eventually extended their tolerance of homosexual acts to adult men, both free and slave. Same-sex marriage, once unthinkable, was not far behind.

Early Roman poets and critics wrote about the practice, from Juvenal’s satire that mentions Gracchus, who “arrayed himself in the flounces and train and veil of a bride,” to Martial, a first-century poet who observed that homosexual marriage was not uncommon in the empire during the first century. Both Juvenal and Martial gave us accounts of men who “played the bride” in wedding ceremonies, wearing bridal veils like women.

Read the full story here: www.spcs.org.nz/2013/same-sex-marriage-the-roman-emperors/

Hardly a gay outlook for kids of “gay” parents

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Image courtesy of Family First New Zealand.

Former Dutch MP Admits Polygamy, Group Marriage Next

Media Release 15 March 2013

A former Dutch MP who was behind the first same-sex marriage legislation in the world, and brought to NZ by supporters of the same-sex marriage bill to make a submission to the Select Committee, has admitted that group marriages of three or more people is the next step.

In a video interview with a French online gay magazine, Boris Dittrich, a former Dutch MP and gay activist now working for Human Rights Watch, said the redefinition of marriage has led to discussions of allowing group marriages of three or more persons.

But that’s the beginning of something completely new.” 

He acknowledged that this next step “will take a lot of years.”

Netherlands was the first country in the world to allow same-sex marriage, in 2001. He said that in the countries where it has been created, legislators pushing for gay “marriage” started the process by promising that “civil partnerships” were as far as it would go, and that marriage would remain untouched – the exact same promises made in NZ in 2004.

We thought it might be psychologically better to first introduce registered partnerships,” and that once “people got used to the idea that two men or two women went to the municipality, had their relationship recognised by the law. And people called it a ‘gay marriage’…. So then the next step of marriage equality, and really being equal, was a logical step.” 

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Who Needs Marriage? TIME Asked the Question — Do You Have an Answer?

Who needs marriage? Albert Mohler.

Dr. Albert Mohler:

Who needs marriage? I do. You do. We all do — and for reasons far more fundamental than can be explained “in purely practical terms.”

Article here.

See also this book (Amazon link) “What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense”:

What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense

Dawkins: rape as wrong as having six fingers

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Gotta love this, and of course Dawkins’ honesty about where the materialistic worldview naturally leads.  And if rape is not wrong, but just a personal preference, then why is anything else wrong?

From here.

It gets worse. In a radio interview with Justin Brierley, after his debate with John Lennox in London a few years ago, the following exchange took place between Dawkins and Brierley (starting at 4:57):

Brierley: “But if we had evolved into a society in which rape was considered fine, would that mean that rape is fine?”

Dawkins responded, “I don’t want to answer that question…it’s enough for me to say that we live in a society where it’s not considered fine. We live in a society where selfishness, where failure to pay your debts, failure to reciprocate favors is regarded askance. Ah, that is the society in which we live. I’m very glad…that’s a value judgment, I’m very glad that I live in such a society.”

Brierley: “It is …. But when you make a value judgment don’t you immediately step yourself outside of this evolutionary process and say … the reason this is good is because it’s good, and you don’t have any way to stand on that statement.”

Dawkins: “But my value judgment itself could come from my evolutionary past.”

Brierley: “So, therefore it’s just as random as any product of evolution.”

Dawkins: “Well, you could say that…uh, but it doesn’t in any case…nothing about it makes it more probable that there is anything supernatural.”

Brierley: “OK, but ultimately, your belief that rape is wrong is as arbitrary as the fact that we’ve evolved five fingers rather than six.”

Dawkins: “You could say that, yes.”

(Emphasis from source.)

Can you please explain to me…

Can you please explain to me…

If marriage can be redefined to encompass two men or two women, then surely it can also encompass three men or three women.

If it is discrimination to stop two women getting married, then surely it is also discrimination to disallow a man from marrying his daughter or his son.

And from here.

Louisa Wall’s bill cannot become law as it contains a host of serious breaches of the Bill of Rights Act 1990. For example, under its revised Schedule 2 (with all gender differences removed from the Principal Act), it will exclude many ‘loving’ couples from getting legally married, and yet the bill provides no justification for such discriminatory prohibitions. A 19-year-old homosexual male, after divorcing his same-sex ‘married’ partner, will be unable to legally marry his ex-partner’s father. (No children can come from such a ‘union’ so why the prohibition?). Under Louisa Wall’s proposed legislation, there is no rational or biological reason why two biological brothers (or sisters) who love each other should not get married if they declare their love for one another. And yet her bill prevents them from marrying. Why? (Prohibited marriages under Schedule 2 of the Principal Act are based on the issue of consanguinity of the potential offspring. However, gay couples are sterile. So why the prohibitions?).

Why California’s Three-Parent Law Was Inevitable

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A California bill allowing children to have three legal parents will not help children, but instead will unnecessarily complicate their lives. The supposed need for California’s SB 1476 flowed directly from the drive to normalize same sex parenting and recognize same sex unions.

State-church separation in New Zealand

Yes, persecution is coming, and yes the state would appear to be meddling in the church (synagogue, temple, mosque) again.

From this legal opinion document supplied by Bob McCoskrie:

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So if words mean anything at all, this will mean that non-compromising/non-bow-the-knee-to-the-state churches will be in the sights of the state if they don’t bow the knee to the demands of a rabid ~1% of the population and their state meddling backers.

Number of sex partners linked to drug dependency

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The more sex partners young women have, the more likely they are to become dependent on drugs and alcohol, says a new study.

University of Otago researchers found young people in general were at greater odds of developing alcoholism and cannabis dependency the more sex partners they had – with the odds even greater for young women.

The study tracked the health and behaviour of more than 1000 people from birth in Dunedin in 1972-73.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister disgraces New Zealand

Here.

Disgusting

The ALIVE! Conference — On Feb 9th Streaming Globally…

Exploring the Best Evidence for Christ’s Resurrection and the Historical Reliability of the New Testament.

Sponsored by the C. S. Lewis Society and Trinity College.

Featuring talks by renowned scholars on the resurrection and NT historicity, Dr. Gary Habermas and Dr. Daniel Wallace.  Trinity Research Professor Tom Woodward will present “C. S. Lewis and Christ’s Victory” and live music will be provided by Michael Card.

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ALIVE!—held in Clearwater, Florida at the Countryside Christian Center—has both a February 8th Friday night session (concert with Michael Card and a short talk by Dr. Habermas) and a Saturday, February 9th session, running from 10 am Eastern to 4 pm Eastern, with a lunch break at noon.

The Saturday session’s live streaming, continuously from 10 to 4 (with Christian music and interviews during lunch), will be provided in English through WTBN radio station in Tampa, and WLCC will carry the conference in Spanish with simultaneous translation.

There are two ways this audio streaming outside of Tampa Bay can be accessed.

(1) For English streaming, log on to WTBN’s  bayword.com website and click on the “Listen Live” icon. 

(2) Both English and Spanish streaming will flow through the “iheartradio” system, using WTBN for English and WLCC for Spanish.

Each language stream can be caught globally, at no charge, through internet-connectable cell phones, by simply downloading the free “iheart” ap, then putting in the station call letters (WTBN for English; WLCC for Spanish) into iheart’s link-up screen.  You will be listening to the conference within a few seconds, anywhere on planet earth!

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