In a recent column on Big Hollywood by John Romano argued the following:

 

"I gave a speech in Las Vegas last weekend.  My main points focused around gay marriage and abortion.  I put forth that Republicans need to avoid both issues like the plague.  Democrats consistently use them to paint urban Republicans into a corner of intolerance and “hate.”  Security, taxes, and avoiding Socialism are where we need to fight.  Don’t change your opinions, just focus on what is before the country today, I said.  I’d rather live in a country that was free and permitted both abortion and gay marriage than a Cap and Trade, government health care, Obama Motors, union controlled, weak military, nightmare of Socialism and Chicago patronage any day.  That’s just me.  I don’t have an in at City Hall.  I have to work for what I get."

 

The following is my response.

 

Your assertion that Republicans should avoid social conservative issues - abortion and gay marriage - "like the plague" is dead wrong, both politically and morally. 

Politically, public opinion now favors the social conservative position on these issues. More than 50% of Americans favor the pro-life position and over 80% favor protecting traditional marriage. Just because the main stream media and the Democrats attempt to use these positions against Republican candidates is no reason to go silent on the issue. Instead, Republican candidates should be taught how to respond to these media interrogations by presenting not only the moral argument for these positions but the conservative and constitutional argument as well.

In addition, the social conservative position on abortion and gay marriage is just the bridge we need to reach out to African Americans and Hispanics. African Americans provided the votes to pass Prop 8 in California and they consistently disagree with their party and Mr. Obama on the issue. Hispanics are overwhelmingly Catholic and pro-life. Here are two issues that will gain us traction with traditional Democratic voting blocs. Why would we want to go silent on the very issues that may win us the minority votes everyone claims to want?

Morally, it is reprehensible to ignore the murder of unborn children for political expediency. Social conservatives have consistently pushed the GOP to victory since Nixon and we have received little in return. Abortion is still legal and gay marriage is now on the liberal wish list. How long will conservatives stay apart of the GOP when it fails to honor their wishes? Where will they go you might ask? They may just drop out all together rather than support or simply turn a blind eye to evil. After all, what is a higher utility bill compared to the life of a child? 

I also think you commit a grave error when you separate the economic and security issues from social conservative issues. A government that can kill the unwanted and redefine the oldest tradition known to man is a government that has no problem with cap and trade or socialism. What is taking over a car company compared to redefining social institutions and determining who lives and who dies?

 

"Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls." 
- Jeremiah 6:16

 

In the past couple of weeks, two separate postings on Big Hollywood (http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/) have urged the Republican Party and conservatives to embrace and support gay marriage.  The following is my response in full to those posts.

Three institutions are mentioned in the Bible as the foundations of civilization: marriage (family), government, and the church. All three have been under assault by the liberals. Since the Age of Reason, man has moved further away from the revelation of God contained in Scripture toward reliance upon his own reasoning. As a result, we have ended up with nilism and existentialism. According to the one, we can know nothing about ourselves. According to the second, we become our own god and determine what is right and wrong for ourselves and no one can tell us different. As a result the twentieth century has been the bloodiest in human history and we are now in the slime we call a post-modern culture.

Marriage - the union of a man and a woman - is the oldest of all human institutions. It predates government and religion. According to Judeo-Christian tradition, marriage was the first institution created by God and the only one instituted before the fall of man. It has served man well throughout the centuries and is considered by many to be the bedrock of society. To overturn such a venerated institution on the whim of a few who disagree with it - while at the same time wanting to be a part of it - is the height of lunacy. Even if a majority wanted to overturn the institution, the testimony of history itself would argue against it.

In government, the liberals have gradually moved United States away from the founding principles of limited government and recognition of a moral standard. In its place they wish to erect a government of absolute power - a new divine right of rulers - without moral standards. The Bible gives two images for government. A government that recognizes moral standards and submits to the dictates of God is like a tree in which the birds of the air and the beasts of the field find refuge. A government that does not recognize God or any outside restraints upon its power is like a beast. It has power but no morality and all it can do is kill and destroy. Which government do you think Mr. Obama and his liberal supporters will try to erect?

The church has been under assault by the liberals since Darwin and has slowly given away most of its Biblical principles in order to get along in a society that increasingly denies any limitations on its conduct. After all, as existentialist, we are our own gods and make our own rules. Only the fundamentalists have held out and they are now the major subject of ridicule in modern society.

How is the conservative surrender of one of the three institutions given by God to man a wise decision? We have already surrendered so much and the world is not better off. Marriage may not be the pristine institution God created it to be but completely abandoning it will not save it or the society that depends upon it. Instead, we should try to redeem these institutions by putting them under the headship of Christ once more.

Liberals and the advocates of same-sex marriage will not stop at the legalization of gay marriage. They will continue to push until state imposed tolerance of diversity meets with no criticism. Churches will be forced to comply or they will be considered bigoted. The Bible will have to be changed because it is homophobic. Nothing will be allowed to stand in the way of the god men who determine their own truth and whose quest for happiness must be fulfilled even if it means the destruction of other men.