All my life I have worked with parents, educators and pastors doing their best to teach children to respect the law, government and authority. We have aimed to make them constructive citizens and to keep them from the streets or prison. Such work is very rewarding. As the Hassidic saying goes: “If you save a child you have saved the whole world.”

With the passage of the bill to legalize gay marriage in the State of New York this changed overnight. Now children are being taught that the most important laws (God’s laws) are irrelevant and can be disregarded. This undermines the basic fabric of our society and threatens to destroy everything.  Without clear moral standards, our country will head to a complete collapse that will invite chaos and anarchy like never before. As Dostoyevsky says, “Without God, everything is permissible.” 

As dire as this might sound, it is not too late to do something. We should have a national debate about the moral standards and American values on which our country was founded.  Gay marriage is not an issue of civil rights; it’s an issue of right and wrong. I believe that most people, in their consciences, know that gay marriage is wrong because it is against God's order of natural creation and the family, as clearly written about in the Bible.

Ironically, gay rights activists who claim to speak for tolerance and compassion are now becoming very intolerant of anyone who opposes their lifestyle. This fear-mongering is silencing thousands of people.  We must respect one another, but if you do not support gay marriage, please do not become silent or apathetic now. Remember that our country was founded on freedom of speech and religion. Will these freedoms still be practiced when our children become adults?

 

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Thank-you for this article! It is absolutely shocking how our elected goverment officials have been willing to throw out and trample on our, and maybe their (if they have any) moral values, legalizing same sex marriage to fill their political coffers. Not too long ago a gay couple brought a 4m old baby to our office for the routine healthcheck. They had adopted the baby. In my ignorance I asked: " Dad and uncle?" "No, we are mom and dad" I could hardly keep my tears back, as I checked the beautifull baby boy and quietly prayed to God for thr baby. This whole experience is with me and I pray for God's intervention. Are we heading for a Sodom and Gomorah in this country? In what kind of world are our children and grandchildren going to grow up?

Jim and Emmi
Scotia, NY

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Gay marriage should not be allow any where. even in the animal kingdom the male dog does not have sex with another male dog. I strongly oppose it. let all who love God fight this with prayer and action.God help us.

theophilus asima
ghana

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I struggle with this issue. There was a time when it was easier for me, before our daughter told us she is lesbian. And before she fell in love and became engaged to another young woman who is actually very good to her and to us. Our daughter has stabilized and become much more responsible in this relationship and they consider themselves married although it is illegal where they live. They filed for domestic partnership in their city so that they can visit each other if they are hospitalized, which came in handy when our daughter had to take her partner to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. This is all completely beyond my control. It is easy for people to talk about accepting the person and not the deeds, but in reality our daughter's life partner has become part of our lives and were it not so, the rift in our family would be huge. I know their struggles and heartbreak over not being accepted as they are - as God made them. For I do believe they are as God made them - it is not purely choice. I will never be able to understand it as it is totally outside my experience, but I trust our Lord to somehow work all this out for the good.

Tamara

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Thank you for speaking your mind.  Too many of us, myself included, keep silent when it comes to important issues such as this issue or abortion.

It is easier to not rock the boat, but we will have to pay for it(especially future generations).

You can still love people without compromising God's Word by agreeing with them (when you know in your heart it is against God's will).

Greg
British Columbia
Canada