Abortion and Homosexuals

In a recent thread, Alex Knepper asked:

By the way, what is you fanatics’ obsession with gays and abortion? Aren’t there other religious matters that you get concerned with?

I would first of all disagree with  the premise of Alex’s statement of these as merely religious issues. A religious issue would be, “What day of the week should people worship on?” And “Is Christ really the son of God?” The issue of abortion is a human rights issue, and the issues surrounding homosexuality are cultural issues.

Fundamentally, abortion comes down to a question of the sanctity of human life and the killing of innocent children for convenience. Unborn children are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, this is a Declaration of Independence principle not a religious one.

Stopping the slaughter of the innocent is vital. If it’s not checked, our respect for human life will only degrade.

As for Homosexuality, let me be clear, I have no problem with homosexuals living their lives and doing their thing without being arrested. If they want to set up Power of Attorney documents granting each other rights like making medical decisions, that’s their right and it’s fairly easy to do without creating any other seperate institution.

When you get into the issue of gay marriage and the ultimate thrust of the gay rights movement, it presents us with a very stark choice. The goal of the gay rights movement is to ultimately make opposition to homosexual conduct or to gay marriage the equivalent of racism. Therefore, people who disagree with homosexuality or gay marriage will be treated just like racists.

Under that situation, religious conservatives who cling to their beliefs will be ghetoized and/or silenced. If they’re honest about their beliefs, people who oppose gay marriage most likely will find the doors of economic and social opportunity shut to them. There are attempts under way to push language regarding homosexuality into the Arizona Bar Association rules. We’ve seen from the Prop. 8 campaign that the radical gay movement does not even believe opponents of same sex marriage should be able to manage a theater or a restaurant based on anti-prop 8 folks efforts to hound companies for the private decision of their employees to back Proposition 8.

We saw it in the case of Matt Barber who got fired from All-State because an outside homosexual lobbying group complained about an article he wrote on his own time opposing homosexuality.

We’ve seen it in other businesses where various diversity policies have taken hold and someone has dared to speak up against homosexuality. They’re fired. They’re out of there.

In other nations, where the homosexual rights movement has advanced further, pastors have spent years on trial before courts and before Human Rights Commissions because of sermons that have touched on homosexuality.

In short, what the Gay Rights movement seeks is:

1. To make it socially unacceptable to disagree with their viewpoint. To silence opposition, and to make ministers and laypeople alike scared to say anything against them.
2. To make their political opponents unemployable unless they silence any disagreeement with the gay rights agenda.
3. To undermine the teachings of parents on marriage, family, and sexuality through what is taught at every level of education.

Simply put, either America will have religious freedom, or it will give the Gay Rights movement what it wants. It cannot do both.

There are other issues I think cultural conservatives can and should address such as skyrocketing divorce rates, and I think there are many constructive ways to do that such as the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative illustrated.

The reason abortion comes up is because it’s fundamental to the most bacic right, the right to life, and the reason homosexual issues come up so much is because the actions of the gay rights movement strike at the heart of religious liberty.