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It seems like we are being sold another bill of goods from the left. The consequences of their bills haven't been good. Free love has been a disaster with 41% of babies now born to single parent households with a future of poverty and emotional starvation. Abortion has advanced to the point of late term within the last week of pregnancy on very viable babies. The institution of marriage was designed for the protection of childen. So they are nutured and reared with a parent from each sex, (the only way they could come into being) to give them the best basis for discernment in a grown up world. By opening marriage to be principally about the individuals and not the future children is in itsself a reckless experiment.
In an opinion article in the Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman announced that he has changed his mind and now supports same-sex marriage.
He wrote that on learning that one of his sons is gay he "wrestled with how to reconcile my Christian faith with my desire for Will to have the same opportunities to pursue happiness and fulfillment as his brother and sister."
He is not the only prominent Republican to come to this view in this way. Former Vice President Dick Cheney is another.
And at the Conservative Political Action Committee convention, a panel sponsored by the...
Yes, it is a reckless and irresponsible experiment, from your and my point of view. From the point of view of the left, it has been a brilliant success, for exactly the reasons that you mention. The sexual revolution and the decline of marriage have meant a progressive collapse of the "bourgeois virtues" upon which preservation of a free republic must depend.