Illinois Approves Gay Marriage By False Parallel Of Race

Job 12:25 ~ They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

Rep. Mary Flowers (D) 

"I really did not appreciate race being injected into this conversation. When I was discriminated against, it was not because of who I love, but because of the color of my skin.”...“Homosexuality has nothing to do with race,” ~ Rep. Mary Flowers (D) Chicago

The Illinois Legislature, making news for all the wrong reasons, decided in a 61-54 vote late Tuesday night to affirm gay marriage in spite of strong and vocal support against the measure by both Republican, Democrat and politically Independent citizens of the state. 

In what was building as a fight since a late last year's rejection of the measure, in what has become known as "President Obama's State", House Speaker Mike Madigan (D) along with other supporters were able to convince legislators to approve the measure by means of what he deemed as the "art of persuasion"  That "persuasion" included doing what gay marriage advocacy adherents do best, create a totally FALSE argument to promote their agenda and shame into submission all those who disagree. 

Such tactics were clearly seen as more and more representatives were convinced to relate the struggle for homosexual marriage to the struggle for civil rights. To highlight the utter confusion as it pertains to this issue, in my own back yard, Representative, Jehan Gordon-Booth (D) in The Peoria Journal Star News Opinion article entitled "Equality Under The Law Is The American Way" stated:

Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth (D)

"My thinking on this matter has been deeply influenced by the heroes of the civil rights movement. Congressman John Lewis of Georgia is the former chairman of the Student nonviolent Coordinating Committee. a Freedom Rider who had his skull fractured on the march across Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge, and a man of strong faith who graduated from the American Baptist Theological Seminary. He supports marriage equality."..."Obama wrestled very publicly with his views on the issue, ultimately realizing that his Christian faith is fully compatible with his endorsement of equal marriage rights." ~ Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth (D)11/5/2013 Peoria Journal Star

To which I simply say, what does any of that have to do with the price of tea in China? This sort of sentiment is not uncommon among politicians and Mrs. Gordon-Booth is certainly not the progenitor of such thinking, but it must be noted that there has never been a more inept, invalid and totally false correlation and relationship to facts and the struggle for human rights than the correlation of the fight for sexual preference to the fight of basic human dignity.

Utter Presidential Liberality & Confusion

First, President Barack Obama espouses ultra liberal Christian views and values. He doesn't believe in the inspiration or infallibility of the scriptures and believes some scriptures are valid while others are not based on his own guidance. Therefore to base one's decision on how he has come to reconcile "faith" with homosexuality is very shaky ground upon which to build  especially considering such a very important issue.

In addition, being Black or an apparent minority and struggling for equality based on skin color which cannot change, and struggling for human dignity because of racism, has NOTHING to do with being gay and struggling to have gay marriage. Gay marriage is based on how one feels about whom they "love" and the FACT is that loves change as do people. 

Overcomers Network and other such organizations are filled with testimonies of people who have stopped finding fulfillment in same sex relationships and turned to fulfill their God given sexuality in the order and under the moral circumstance and freedom that God has ordained. If nothing else, these multiple testimonies from countless thousands all around the country who have left homosexuality in the dust as both a lifestyle and way to "love", PROVES that being gay is not something that is fatalistically determined or tantamount to skin color in the least bit. In other words "Lady Ga-Ga", it doesn't matter if you were born that way...YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN!(John 3:3) 

Sexual "Equality"? An Insult To All Those Who Fought For Racial Dignity?

Calling the struggle for same sex affection a struggle for "equality" is an insult to the civil rights movement and ALL people of color, gay and straight. The struggle for gay marital acceptance in all actuality cannot be considered a struggle or fight for equality UNLESS one is willing to accept the polygamous, polyamorous, bigamous and a whole host of other type of illegal and socially condemned marital and relationship arrangements are also suffering from "inequality"  and should be allowed based on civil doctrines imposed for homosexual marriage. In essence, if one fights for gay marriage one must also acknowledge that the aforementioned sexual arrangements are only a matter of "equality" and "equal access" under the law, as opposed to an issue of social or moral standing. The plight and denial of the polyandry and even the pedophilia therefore deserve to be exalted and placed within the law as both acceptable, and as President Obama has stated regarding homosexuality, "admirable". What is the reason that they should be denied their brand of "equality"?

It can't possibly be consensus and public acceptance, because the consensus and public sentiment yet disfavors homosexual marriage. There is no compelling study or research to the contrary especially when in every venue that has had the opportunity to vote on the issue overwhelmingly denies the institution and implementation of homosexual marriage. 

Are Gay marriage advocates willing to stand behind and for other forms of sexual "diversity"? (since now, actions and personal preferences have been exalted to the status of culture) Or will these so called "equal rights" supporters cower in hypocrisy and therefore reveal the true aim of their proposed desire for homosexual marriage? That aim goes well beyond tax treatment of benefits to survivors. The aim is nothing less than the normalization and acceptance of homosexuality and the gay lifestyle. Politicians may be tricked in favor of their name, legacy and popularity and a boat load of tax money, but WE shall not be tricked, deceived, or bamboozled by these that are empty clouds whose only purpose is to block the sun from shining the light of truth upon a very pertinent moral situation.  

Set The Record Straight     

Let me be clear so when this is repeated and pasted so that it is NOT repasted with misrepresentations of facts....There is no homosexual or other citizen, that deserves to be discriminated against in housing, access to medical care, employment or any of those things that it takes for individuals to live and pursue happiness. No one is becoming a "house police" regulating who goes in and who comes out of their homes or regulating lawful activities of one's own home and environment. The right to live in dignity is an inalienable right which every man is born into and entitled to. This ministry will fight for the dignity of every man and women gay or straight. HOWEVER, there is a vast difference between that and the extension and redefinition of something so fundamental to societal values such as marriage, based on feelings and preferences at the end of the day, and baseline fundamental and unchangeable and undeniable facts such as race. Those arguments are incompatible.

Being denied housing because one is gay is WRONG. 

Being denied medical care because one is gay is WRONG.

Being denied the right to redefine a fundamental institution such as marriage and redefining the family is RIGHT every day!

Utilitarian Morality

As stated, we can already recognize that marriage simply based on "love", feeling, emotion or capacity is NOT a standard whereby a marital arrangement can be or should be justified or supported. One can 'love" many things and many different ways but the right of marriage to what one loves rests on a completely different basis. In addition, the argument of moral harm as we will note below, can not be a standard of what is right either. 

Pt. 1: The argument that, "others lose nothing if gays have a right to marry" is a utilitarian moral construct which is proven to be froth with problems, and a false moral construct in deciphering this issue. Utilitarian morality would hold that the "end" justifies the "means", that there is a "greater good" that is accomplished even if lies and immorality are the methods used to accomplish such. In other words if there is a good or a pleasurable outcome, or if the "more" good is done than bad, then that particular path is an acceptable path to follow. President Obama embraces this moral construct and value. His views on homosexuality, along with many homosexual advocates are identical. This is the prevailing moral seduction among them in the political arena as well.   

Is something only wrong because it harms someone or something? Or is something right or wrong in and of itself? 

Pt. 2: Similarly, utilitarianism, along with the argument of moral harm, suggests that something is only wrong when one is caught. Look at this practically however, are we to dare suggest that as long as one does not get caught, they are not really wrong, because one is only "hurt" when one is caught??? Look at it this way...a man commits adultery and does not, for whatever circumstance get caught. He continues to live as he does, gets out of the relationship and it is never found out. Are his actions somehow absolved from wrong because he was not caught in his sin? In this circumstance, based on utilitarian view of moral harm, he would be exempt from wrong. In fact, under this construct, to bring it up would be doing the most harm and would therefore be wrong. One says, there has been no hurt without being caught right? But we should ask, since there is no "harm" is the action by virtue of that somehow right?

COMMON SENSE says that adultery is WRONG. Caught or not. It is an immoral act even if no one is harmed. Some things are wrong even if no one is hurt as a result of the actions. Utilitarianism morality, such as President Obama's and many politicians who are conveniently pandering for votes and popularity, is both intellectually unfulfilling, confusing, and contradictory to the truth and real life situations.  

This is no way to assess a moral standard, but over and over, this is exactly the method used and the thought process of those, especially politicians, considering the extension of gay marriage. 

Many things that do not harm are yet indeed wrong. So what is the basis for the establishment of truth and what society should embrace? 

The Building Block Of The Community 

Aside from a strong biblical direction and support, the basis for marriage is the procreation of strong families and units whereby children can be reared responsibly, and the community can further be benefited by the development of children into responsible and contributory adulthood. Society itself is built upon in tact families and citizens with the ability to procreate within society. That model, with a relationship between a man and a woman, has a PROVEN record of success. Marriage as defined by the legal cohabitation of a man and woman is what society is built upon economically, socially and even legally. To ignore this FACT is  not only denial of the facts but a blind leap into abject IGNORANCE! 

Could Homosexual Marriage Itself Be An Act Of Discrimination?

Unfortunately homosexual marriage denies and removes from the child the ability to have a true mother which is a female and a true father which is a male. Under this rubric, replacements and impostors are sent in to assume the role. No one knows the effect of this sort of pretense and denial of all the pertinent character influences upon a child's life and psychology. A woman, no matter how "butch" she may be, cannot replace the physical capacity, character and characteristics of a man. A man, no matter how effeminate he may be, cannot replace the inflections, feelings and physiological makeup of a woman. They have been given to society for a reason and playing the role of a cross-gender personality may be entertaining to some, but could have some sincere and dire circumstances in the future. 

A child needs to see a "man" not just in physical body, but a man in actions and deeds. He or she also needs to see a "woman" in the same light. Children need to be exposed to true and real characteristics that both male and female individuals posses in order to gain a healthy psychological balance.

Genesis 1:27 ~ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Do we need voices of men in our family who believe themselves to be females? Then how are the true and real women represented? How about the other way...do we need voices of women who believe themselves to be men to be the only voice in the family? Then what of the real men? Where are their voices? This becomes a complex question. Those who endorse gay marital acceptance by means of "civil rights"could be promoting a discriminatory and anti-civil right position, imposing the denial of a "real" man or "real" woman upon the child replacing the inflection, tone and intellect of a genetically real man or woman with one who can only be identified as a man or woman by their feelings, reflections and inclinations. Has anyone ever stopped to think for a minute that there may be something lost by not having a real chemical or biological makeup, no matter how much hormone replacement therapy they go through? Are we to assume, that the only difference between men and women are genitalia? To think so would be the most unscientific and unreasonable claim that could ever be made.   

Both men and women exist on this earth. We need BOTH authentic male and female voices to make our community and families work as they should. There are simply are NO SUBSTITUTES for the REAL thing!

Homosexuality Itself, Still Medically Problematic  

The effect of homosexuality upon them that embrace the lifestyle is still yet full of issues both emotionally, physically and medically. For example, all reputable modern studies suggest that Lesbians yet are the leading group among recipients of psychotropic drugs. As I stated in my article "HIV/AIDS & Health Care Reform, What Do We Really Know?", homosexual men (or MSM according to the CDC in the United States) are yet the leading category of individuals contracting AIDS/HIV annually.  Current studies have also concluded that mental and emotional problems are not made any better by gender reassignment. In fact one current study says that gender reassignment surgery should be warned against as it offers no better psychological, physical or emotional condition for the recipient.

None of what I have said broaches on any biblical construct of why homosexual marriage should be disallowed. Every Christian FAITHFULLY observing the biblical message should already know the biblical prohibitions against such perversion. There remains to be NO SCRIPTURAL support for the institution of homosexual marital unions. There is no endorsement for the state or even secular institutions to reassign marriage or approve it based upon the feelings of love or affection for anything or anyone. 

Conclusion

Illinois Representative Greg Harris, who cosponsored the bill said:

"At the end of the day, this bill is about the vision that the founders of our country had and wrote into our Constitution, where they said America is a journey. … And we'll continue to walk down that road to make America a better place, to make ourselves a 'more perfect union,' to ensure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,"

What "blessings" can there possibly be? Who is to provide these "blessings" and on what basis are they to be provided? This is not liberty, it is irresponsibility run amuck.

Greg, I can't walk down the road of BONDAGE and loving sin with you and neither will the millions of fellow believers in truth and morality whether they are bible believers or not. we know that the "sky is not falling". The sun will shine tomorrow. This is not an alarm and we are not in the least bit panicked. The problem is however that it seems that many of these politicians have forgotten that this is not just a fight from the church against homosexual marriage. There are many secular institutions and organizations that realize the damage on this redefinition of the family to accommodate one group of people who feel that their feelings of love should be normalized. They now line up at the door and await your response to them.

I wholesale and wholeheartedly REJECT the Illinois state legislature's imposition in a matter which they have no right to impose! They, along with 14 other legislative bodies have done damage the half of which has not been told yet. 
One thing is for certain, whether one believes in God or not, we will not be able to escape HIS judgment. Not believing in God does not change facts or truth. One can escape political ruin by adapting to the winds of political change, but one cannot and will not escape the hand of God. 

Wait for the next wind to blow. What will you do then. we will see. 

Hosea 8:7 ~  For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

Blessed!