The Rules of Engagement - 4 - Dr. James C. Dobson

The Rules of Engagement – 4 – Dr. James C. Dobson
cinops be gone Saturday, July 12, 2008

As I recall during World War II the Allied powers were fighting the Axis powers and we won. We were a strong traditional and patriotic America.

Today, we have another real war going on in America. It’s a war that the Culture of Death has against traditional America. All Americans and Christian organizations should be well informed allies in this struggle. But they are not. Some are blind to our enemies, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the corrupt news media. For example, if we had the same kind of news media reporting in World War II like we have today on Iraq; we would have lost World War II to Hitler. Now let us turn to one of our major allies in the war for traditional America.

Family News from Focus on the Family Dr. James Dobson – June 2008

Marriage is not simply a Judeo-Christian concept, although it finds its origin in the Garden of Eden. The Creator said to Adam and Eve, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh” (Genesis 2:24, niv).
That is the way it has always been. But now four members of the California Supreme Court have come to a different conclusion. They intend to jettison the divine plan and, in so doing, have opened the door to polygamy, group marriage and who knows what else. In his daily update following the shocking ruling, Gary Bauer, president of American Values, highlighted several telling and provocative quotes related to the case. In the first one, he noted that, to their credit, three justices vigorously opposed the same-sex ruling. Writing for the majority, Justice Marvin Baxter stated prophetically:

“The majority … simply does not have the right to erase, then recast the age-old definition of marriage, as virtually all societies have understood it, in order to satisfy it own contemporary notions of equality and justice. The California

Constitution says nothing about the rights of same-sex couples to marry. On the contrary, as the majority concedes, our original Constitution, effective from the moment of statehood, evidenced an assumption that marriage was between partners of the opposite sex.”

How did the ACLU perceive victory? Exactly as you would expect. They are ecstatic. Challenges to state marriage amendments and the federal Defense of Marriage Act are coming. Here are portions of a message sent to supporters of the ACLU following the California decision.

“We won the marriage case in California. No need for hyperbole here; this is big. … And as New York Times recently pointed out, the California Supreme Court is the most influential state high court in America…. Marriage in California will transform the discussion of marriage nationwide…. The fact that California is marrying same-sex couples will put considerable pressure on the rest of the country to recognize those marriages. Even more important, the rest of the country recognizes that California is America’s cultural trendsetter, that cultural change in California is usually a preview of what is to come in the rest of the United States…. This was a prize of inestimable value.”

Now let’s close with Coral Ridge Ministries – 10 Truths about Christians and Politics.
… The majority of American founders were Christians who took their civic duties seriously. Their efforts laid the foundation of the freest and most prosperous nation in history…. P. 9
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