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Sunday, November 16, 2008
Matt Barber :: Townhall.com Columnist
Counterfeit Marriage and its Counterfeit Movement
by Matt Barber
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With a unified voice amplified several million-fold through the ballot box megaphone, African-Americans have spoken on the issues of marriage, family and human sexuality. Whether young or old, male or female, Democrat or Republican, blacks are justifiably fed up with the deceptive antics of the self-described and craftily contrived "gay rights movement."

For decades now, well-organized, well-funded and highly influential "gay" political pressure groups have, with impertinence, hijacked the language of the authentic civil rights movement. In what amounts to a sort of soft racism, self-styled "queers" have disingenuously and ignobly hitched their lil' lavender wagons to a movement which, by contrast, is built upon the genuine and noble precepts of racial equality and humanitarian justice.

An illegitimate offspring of the '60s sexual revolution, the newfangled "gay rights" cult is today's postmodern, sex-centric cause célèbre. Its core tenets include, among other things, mandated moral relativism, social androgyny and forced acceptance of a pleasure-based, though demonstrably destructive, lifestyle. Apart from practitioners of "the sin that dare not speak its name," its devotees are in large part institutional fringe elitists confined to blue-state America who almost universally suffer the insufferable pangs of white guilt.

Like an addict jonesing for a hit, they long for that rush of self-righteous affirmation associated with belonging to something perceived as larger than themselves. Central to the movement's success is the ability to draft adherents who are easily manipulated through superficial slogans, appeals to emotion via anecdotal parades of horribles, and a mindless propensity to conform to nonconformity.

By drawing artificial parallels between the systematic persecution experienced by blacks over centuries past to the inherent aversion most have toward biologically unnatural, traditionally immoral and objectively perverse sexual behaviors, the homosexual lobby trivializes and diminishes the African-American struggle for civil rights. It's dishonest and offensive for people who choose to define their identity based upon aberrant sexual proclivities to compare sexual temptation and volitional sexual conduct to immutable and innocuous biological traits such as skin color.

"Don't compare your sin to my skin," goes the African-American mantra. Or, as influential black pastor Ken Hutcherson notes, "It has been said loudly and proudly that gay marriage is a civil rights issue. If that's the case, then gays would be the new African-Americans. I'm here to tell you now, and hopefully for the last time, that the gay community is not the new African-American community."

Understandably, blacks want all this nonsense to stop. Exit polls indicate that in the Democratic stronghold of "left coast" California, African-Americans – 96 percent of whom voted for Barack Obama – also voted to pass California's marriage protection amendment (Prop 8) by an overwhelming 70 to 30 percent. As luck would have it, the unprecedented turnout of black voters for Obama very likely tipped the scale and restored the enduring definition of natural marriage to the Golden State. This has made "gay" activists mouth-foaming furious.

But black support for legitimate marriage and natural sexuality has placed liberal elites in a real tight spot. They can either attack the African-American community with the same vitriol and empty, ad hominem rhetoric they've hurled at evangelical whites and other traditionalists over the years, or they can ignore them entirely.

In the aftermath of Prop 8's passage, they've chosen option A. Although one might find it incongruous to tag blacks – a community intimately familiar with genuine discrimination and bigotry – with the "gay" lobby's favorite monikers of "bigot," "hater" and "homophobe" – homosexual activists are doing just that.

But they've slunk to the gutter deeper still. There have also been widespread reports of homosexuals hurling the N-word and other despicable racial epithets at blacks throughout California and elsewhere.

Even more troubling – something the mainstream media refuse to cover – are the many threats of violence against Christians and other supporters of Prop 8 popping up on numerous homosexual websites and elsewhere. Some homosexuals have even called for churches to be burned to the ground. In California, some of those churches have already been vandalized. Continued...

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J. Matt Barber is Director of Cultural Affairs with Liberty Counsel and also serves as Associate Dean with Liberty University School of Law.
 
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Not Extraordinary Rights....
But EQUAL Rights dreadnaught!

The law is not designed around your religious beliefs and must treat everyone equally.

As I said, before you know it this divisive discrimination call Prop 8 will be like a bad taste in the mouth and will go down in the history books as a VERY oppressive attempt at gaining a foothold for a government run as a theocracy! It won’t work, it will be reversed and there will come a day when the US Supreme Court will strike down any remaining laws against Marriage Equality!

It will be interesting to have another discussion with you when CA once again recognizes once and for all true Marriage Equality and an even more interesting discussion when the US Supreme Court weighs in during what I predict will be the next 4-7 years from now!


Drama Queen
"I respect your religious beliefs but you don't respect OUR RIGHTS!"

You have the same rights I have. Period / These do NOT include marriage to a same-sex specimen; therefore you aren't married. It would require an EXTRAORDINARY right to push that fraud off. You GET no extraordinary right. Just as I do, you have the right to marry a woman. Otherwise, live in your PRETEND MARRIAGE as you've been doing. Nobody cares.

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