by Steve Jordahl, CitizenLink: President Barack Obama spoke Saturday at the annual fundraiser for the gay-activist Human Rights Campaign (HRC). The president told the crowd he supports the gay activist agenda. "When you look back on these years," he said, "you will see a time in which we as a nation finally recognized relationships between two men or two women as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman."Obama promised that he would end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the Clinton-era policy that allows gay men and women to serve in the armed forces as long as they don't reveal their sexual orientation.
Robert Knight, senior writer for Coral Ridge Ministries, said the president is simply trying to please a powerful and vocal constituency. "Homosexual activists learned long ago that if they scream loudly and often, they get more of what they want," he said. "So even if they get 95 percent of something, they say, 'What have you done for us lately'?"
The president also promised to pass hate-crimes legislation and repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act. He said those who uphold marriage between one man and one woman, "hold fast to outworn arguments and old attitudes."
"That would be the Bible," said Knight. "All people who think it's normal and natural for marriage to be between a man and a woman, the president of the United States is saying that's old and outworn."
----------------
Tony Perkins, FRC Comment: "Media reports on the speech focused on the President's pledge, "I will end Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Obama declared, "We cannot afford to cut from our ranks people with the critical skills we need" -- while failing to recognize that allowing homosexuality in the ranks is what would devastate recruiting and reenlistment rates. The roughly two percent of the population that is homosexual will never replace the ten percent of current military personnel who have said they would not re-enlist if homosexuals are allowed in the military.
One thing was clear from Obama's speech -- his goal (like that of homosexual activists) is not simply equal legal rights. It is, rather, to overturn millennia of moral teaching that has acknowledged the harms of homosexual conduct and the unique benefits of marriage between a man and a woman. He dismissed those values as "outworn arguments and old attitudes," while decrying the grassroots campaigns to defend marriage as "divisive and deceptive efforts to feed people's lingering fears for political and ideological gain."
Tags: Barack Obama, DOMA, gay activist, Hate Crimes Act To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
0 comments:
Post a Comment