Pat Buchanan on Calif. Same-Sex Law - 1 of 2

Pat Buchanan on Calif. Same-Sex Marriage Law- 1 of 2
cinops be gone Tuesday, May 27, 2008
“A Victory for Equality and Justice,” blared the headline above the editorial. “Momentous,” “historic,” “a major victory for civil rights,” “a scrupulously fair ruling based on law, precedents and common sense.”
This was the ecstatic reaction of the New York Times to the California Supreme Court’s declaration that homosexuals have a right to marry and have their unions recognized as marriages.

Now there may be hugging around the newsroom at the Times, where one senior writer said, a few years back, three-fourth of the folks who make up the front page are gay. But this is just another streetlight on America’s darkening path to perdition as a society and republic.
To declare that homosexuals can marry is patently absurd. The very definition of marriage is the union of a man and a woman, first and foremost, for the procreation of children.

To say two men who live together and engage in sex can be married renders the idea and ideal of marriage meaningless. The court may declare it, but it cannot redefine an institution that nature and nature’s God have already defined. As they say in Texas, you can put lipstick and earrings on a pig, and call her Peggy Sue, but it’s still a pig.
“What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder,” Christ taught. Through the Old Testament and into the epistles of St. Paul, homosexual sodomy is an abomination leading to personal destruction and damnation, one of the five sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance. How, then, can four judges declare to be integral to the sacrament of marriage.

Well, we don’t believe all that rot, comes the reply.
Fine, but Christianity is the cornerstone of Western Civilization. Since the fall of Rome to our time, nations have believed and acted on the belief that marriage and traditional families are the cinderblocks on which a society must be built. When these cinderblocks crumble, the society’s collapses. The truth has been born out in our own time.”(To be continued tomorrow)

Thanks to Bro Dave – Please take action:
Governor Schwarzenegger will listen to your opinion on the “hot issue” of the California Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage.
Call his office today (916-445-2841) and listen to the automated voice prompts.
You will be asked if you want to voice your opinion on a “current hot issue,” press 5.
Then it asks if you want to voice your opinion on the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, press 1.
Then it asks you if you support the ruling, press l.
If you oppose the ruling press 2. (Please press 2).
I called early this morning and got through. However, at noon the line was busy.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.