Final Battle of the Culture Wars

Already, most people are tired of the pathetic political theater in the streets and courthouses of San Francisco, and the legal tomfoolery in the courtrooms and legislature of Massachusetts. It is shaping up to be long and bruising battle and there is one state that is becoming the center of the counterattack when it comes to gay marriage. Colorado is home to the author of the Federal Marriage Amendment and a focal point of the growing movement to preserve traditional marriage.

My congressional representative is Marilyn Musgrave, a spunky, small town grandmother who seeks to amend the Constitution to reflect that marriage is by definition, tradition, and common sense, a unique relationship between a man and a woman. She is joined by Colorado Senator Wayne Allard, who is the amendments sponsor in the Senate. President Bushs endorsement of the Federal Marriage Amendment will make this a hot-button election issue and provide an opportunity for family value advocates to strike quickly on this issue to ensure public support for traditional marriage.

The editorial pages and airwaves are filled with feminists, social activists, and diversity champions who gleefully see the fulfillment of their own wars on traditional marriage with the final legitimization of homosexuality cloaked with that once honored and hallowed definition. It is the inevitable culmination of a culture that has steadily degraded and marginalized a once lofty institution. Marriage has been steadily weakened as cohabitation, illegitimacy, no-fault divorce, adultery, and serial marriages have intruded and fought for societal acceptance. The age-old concept of marriage being a sacred union between a man and a woman before God and man has been rejected as unworkable, laughable, hopelessly old fashioned and contrary to the basest of human sexual urges. Homosexual marriage is the silver bullet that will destroy the last vestiges of both legitimacy and honor that marriage has held for thousands of years going back to the very origins of Western civilization.

Marriage has never been anything other than between males and females. Now we are expected to accept the notion that marriage is whatever one wants it to be and defined by the whims of popular culture and liberal judges. For once marriage is something other that what it has always been, then it must become anything and everything. The same simplistic arguments monotonously repeated over and over by advocates of same-sex marriage can, and will, be used to justify multiple wives, bi-sexual trios, incest, group marriage, animal-human and adult-child partnerships, and whatever other twisted formations the human mind is capable of dreaming up.

American culture is the thermometer of where we are morally as a nation and a reflection of what is valued. To surrender on this issue is to surrender the culture wars in their entirety. Those who believe in traditional values and common sense morality have retreated and been defeated time and time again. While they may win the occasional battle, they are losing the war. Few national leaders have had the stomach or conviction to stand up for what is right. This past record and poor national leadership in the culture wars makes this final battle even more important. If homosexual marriage becomes the actual or de facto law of the land then, truly, nothing is sacred or inviolate.

Recently at a Stand up for Marriage rally at the Colorado state capitol, the line was drawn in the sand against those who seek to deal the final deathblow to a sacred institution. Rally organizer and local State Representative Kevin Lundberg put it this way We are deeply concerned, deeply concerned because the bedrock institution of our culture is under attack. I hope with Gods blessing we can continue to uphold the institution of marriage.

Rep. Lundberg was joined by U.S. Rep. Musgrave, the Denver Roman Catholic Archbishop, and representatives of the Family Research Council, the Rocky Mountain Family Council, and Focus on the Family as well as hundreds of local activists and concerned citizens. Sen. Allard and Colorado Governor Bill Owens both sent a letter in support of the rally. I was very pleased to see this coalition of activist groups, organizations, religious leaders and elected officials emerge from my own backyard to take on the liberal activist judges of Massachusetts, the lawbreaking self-righteous mayor of San Francisco and all those in between who have declared war on marriage as we know it. The battle lines have been very clearly drawn and each and every person is going to have to pick a side.

The backlash against the same-sex marriage is not about hate, discrimination or a denial of equal rights. Homosexuals are not forced to sit in the back of the bus or counted as three-fifths of a person. They are forcing their lifestyle, sexual activities, and agenda down the throat of those who oppose homosexuality for a host of natural, biological, religious, moral, or cultural reasons. It is the homosexual lobby and their allies who are actively attempting to steal and redefine the institution of marriage. It is they who have emerged from the closet, taken to the streets and are attempting to snatch legal, cultural, and moral legitimacy for their lifestyle.

If there was ever a time to sally forth and defeat the barbarians of the modern age it is now. Otherwise, raise the white flag and surrender, for the culture wars will have been lost.