Tuesday, May 15, 2012

This article is SPOT on! It is not about the adults and their sex lives! Its about the KIDS and FREEDOM!

blog.speakupmovement.org/university/uncategorized/...riage

Yet it’s not"just” kids who are hurt when we change the definition of marriage. Ironically enough (considering my initial libertarian impulses), same-sex marriage is leading to a campaign of repression and censorship against religious individuals and institutions. Same-sex marriage is resulting in less liberty, not more. The trend first emerged when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts attempted to force Catholic Charities to match adopted children with same-sex couples. Catholic Charities had to decide between its religious convictions and compliance with state mandates. It chose to follow Catholic teachings and stopped providing adoption services. Since that time, we’ve seen college students punished for refusing to support same-sex parenting, graduate students thrown out of counseling programs for refusing to affirm homosexual sex, denials of tax exemptions for church land when the church refuses to host same-sex ceremonies, photographers punished for refusing to photograph same-sex commitment ceremonies, and social work licenses threatened merely because the social worker publicly supported a state marriage amendment.

And this litany doesn’t even begin to recount the avalanche of constitutional litigation surrounding the"sexual orientation” issue. After all, if the Christian Legal Society loses CLS v. Martinez (argued last month before the Supreme Court), then Christian campus ministries in American public universities may be required to open voting membership and even leadership to individuals who engage in homosexual activity. Such a ruling would have massive ramifications off-campus as well, potentially placing at risk the tax exemptions of every biblically orthodox church in America.

For a movement that says its about"love,” this campaign of repression (which has even included widespread threats of violence and personal retribution against marriage amendment supporters) often seems quite hateful and bigoted in its own right.
https://chumly.com/n/135f4f4

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