Civilization and Same-Sex Marriage
Bonnie Alba
June 29, 2006
Is same-sex marriage one more step towards the disintegration of the greatness of American civilization? Dr. Russell Kirk understood that of the three bodies of principle controlling any people, “the first, and most important, is the set of moral convictions which a people hold: their ideas about the relationship between God and man, about virtue and vice, honesty and dishonesty, honor and dishonor.”
Fact: America is a Christian nation. In 1776, it is estimated that the colonies’ population was 99 percent Christian. According to the U.S. 2000 Census, we can still make that claim with an 85 percent Christian population.
Our founders recognized God’s providence in those early days. They also perused and drew from the greatest thinkers of history and law, Rome, Greece, etc., and attempted to provide this country a governing system based on “the ideas of justice, order and freedom.”
Along with acknowledgment of God, the founders’ vision was based on objective, enduring moral truths. They recognized that mankind exists under God’s Natural Laws, certain equal rights due to the divine spark existing in each individual. These rights were viewed as originating in the nature of every person---the character and personality given to all people by God, the privileges that come from the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Drawing from 17th century John Locke’s three primary natural rights -- “life, liberty, and property” -- Thomas Jefferson decided on “freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” for the Declaration of Independence.
Today our nation is threatened by the internal clash of the Judeo-Christian worldview against a godless one. This worldview is the subjective, emotional acceptance that “anything goes” and there is no God except man. No logical foundation, no basis in truth, it is contrary to the founders’ intent for freedom, liberty and equality.
For thousands of years, marriage has been considered the procreative, basic building block of civilized society. Fact: Marriage is between a man and a woman. History shows us that when the family -- man, woman, offspring -- is neglected or downgraded in a society, under any government-state, that people and nation will not long survive.
In 1835 French historian Alexis de Tocqueville observed, “There is certainly no country in the world where the tie of marriage is more respected than in America or where conjugal happiness is more highly or worthily appreciated....”
Whoa! Can’t say that about America today! Our society’s esteem for marriage and family, freedom and liberty -- read “civil rights” -- has been negated. The bedrock has been torn apart by immoral forces unthinkable to the founding fathers.
Since the late 1960s, we have experienced a measurable increase in the divorce rate, adultery, and spousal-child abuse across our nation. These changes may be laid at the feet of women (who fell for the lie of equality with men, eating the apple) and men (who also agreed to the same lie) which brought us to this point in time; not to mention the murder of 41 million potential children. Freedom, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness have progressed to a license to all three without accountability or responsibility.
Also, de Tocqueville noted, “I do not question that the great austerity (self-discipline) of manners that is observable in the United States arises, in the first instance, from religious faith....its influence over the mind of woman is supreme, and women are the protectors of morals.”
Protectors of Morals.” I know this will upset some women’s apple carts since I advocate that women abandoned their “protector of morals” role when they joined the “sex on the first date” and “living together” crowd. It’s true from a historical and moral view.
Fact: Same-sex couples cannot produce offspring naturally. Same-sex marriage doesn’t make any sense if marriage between a man and a woman, producing offspring and raising them is part of America’s bedrock.
The Gay Cult minority in this country has manipulated our society into believing that homosexual practices in any form are moral and right---otherwise we are “Intolerant.” They justify their behaviors by claims of “we were born this way,” that what they do is a “civil right.” Yes, they have a right to pursue their own happiness, but not at the expense of strangling the moral, objective truths of civilization itself.
Also observed by de Tocqueville, “The safeguard of morality is religion, and morality is the best security of law as well as the surest pledge of freedom.”
The religious safeguard of morality resides in closets while the godless now reside in the public arena and government schools.
America, where are we headed?
2006 Bonnie Alba
Sources:
The American Cause” Russell Kirk, New Intro by Gleaves Whitney, ISI Books, 2002
Democracy in America” Alexis de Tocqueville, translation by Arthur Goldhammer, Library of America, 2004, pg.336.
The Republic of the United States of America and its Political Institutions” Alexis de Tocqueville, Garden City, NY: A.S. Barnes&Co., Vol.I,p.44.
Fact: America is a Christian nation. In 1776, it is estimated that the colonies’ population was 99 percent Christian. According to the U.S. 2000 Census, we can still make that claim with an 85 percent Christian population.
Our founders recognized God’s providence in those early days. They also perused and drew from the greatest thinkers of history and law, Rome, Greece, etc., and attempted to provide this country a governing system based on “the ideas of justice, order and freedom.”
Along with acknowledgment of God, the founders’ vision was based on objective, enduring moral truths. They recognized that mankind exists under God’s Natural Laws, certain equal rights due to the divine spark existing in each individual. These rights were viewed as originating in the nature of every person---the character and personality given to all people by God, the privileges that come from the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Drawing from 17th century John Locke’s three primary natural rights -- “life, liberty, and property” -- Thomas Jefferson decided on “freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” for the Declaration of Independence.
Today our nation is threatened by the internal clash of the Judeo-Christian worldview against a godless one. This worldview is the subjective, emotional acceptance that “anything goes” and there is no God except man. No logical foundation, no basis in truth, it is contrary to the founders’ intent for freedom, liberty and equality.
For thousands of years, marriage has been considered the procreative, basic building block of civilized society. Fact: Marriage is between a man and a woman. History shows us that when the family -- man, woman, offspring -- is neglected or downgraded in a society, under any government-state, that people and nation will not long survive.
In 1835 French historian Alexis de Tocqueville observed, “There is certainly no country in the world where the tie of marriage is more respected than in America or where conjugal happiness is more highly or worthily appreciated....”
Whoa! Can’t say that about America today! Our society’s esteem for marriage and family, freedom and liberty -- read “civil rights” -- has been negated. The bedrock has been torn apart by immoral forces unthinkable to the founding fathers.
Since the late 1960s, we have experienced a measurable increase in the divorce rate, adultery, and spousal-child abuse across our nation. These changes may be laid at the feet of women (who fell for the lie of equality with men, eating the apple) and men (who also agreed to the same lie) which brought us to this point in time; not to mention the murder of 41 million potential children. Freedom, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness have progressed to a license to all three without accountability or responsibility.
Also, de Tocqueville noted, “I do not question that the great austerity (self-discipline) of manners that is observable in the United States arises, in the first instance, from religious faith....its influence over the mind of woman is supreme, and women are the protectors of morals.”
Protectors of Morals.” I know this will upset some women’s apple carts since I advocate that women abandoned their “protector of morals” role when they joined the “sex on the first date” and “living together” crowd. It’s true from a historical and moral view.
Fact: Same-sex couples cannot produce offspring naturally. Same-sex marriage doesn’t make any sense if marriage between a man and a woman, producing offspring and raising them is part of America’s bedrock.
The Gay Cult minority in this country has manipulated our society into believing that homosexual practices in any form are moral and right---otherwise we are “Intolerant.” They justify their behaviors by claims of “we were born this way,” that what they do is a “civil right.” Yes, they have a right to pursue their own happiness, but not at the expense of strangling the moral, objective truths of civilization itself.
Also observed by de Tocqueville, “The safeguard of morality is religion, and morality is the best security of law as well as the surest pledge of freedom.”
The religious safeguard of morality resides in closets while the godless now reside in the public arena and government schools.
America, where are we headed?
2006 Bonnie Alba
Sources:
The American Cause” Russell Kirk, New Intro by Gleaves Whitney, ISI Books, 2002
Democracy in America” Alexis de Tocqueville, translation by Arthur Goldhammer, Library of America, 2004, pg.336.
The Republic of the United States of America and its Political Institutions” Alexis de Tocqueville, Garden City, NY: A.S. Barnes&Co., Vol.I,p.44.
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