Today’s broadcast of “Family Talk With Dr. James Dobson” featured an all-star Religious Right line-up of leaders in the fight against marriage equality, including Bishop Harry Jackson, Dr. Jim Garlow, Dr. Ken Hutcherson, Gary Bauer & Tony Perkins.
This was actually just part one of a two part series that will conclude tomorrow and I have edited down the program to its key soundbites.
As you would expect, each one was greatly alarmed by push for marriage equality and vowed to dedicate their lives to doing everything they can to fighting it, with Jackson, who has walking pneumonia warning, warning that that it is the nation that has walking pneumonia that will turn fatal if left untreated, while Garlow asserted that secularists hate democracy as Bauer attacked the elites for promoting the bizarre idea of men marrying men and Perkins warned that children will be “indoctrinated into the ways of homosexuality”:
Jackson: I think the nation has walking pneumonia and if we don’t stop it, this thing could become fatal.
Garlow: Well, for one, we’re not going to give up; we’re going to press forward. It is true that it seems the secularists do really hate democracy, they don’t like it when the people speak out so they try to get a judge or judges to try to take away the consent of the governed.
It’s shocking to me that anybody would be attacked for standing up the family or standing for marriage or that a child needs a mommy and a daddy. Who would think that we’d be in such a condition that somebody would be attacked for that? But we just do not believe that somehow the power of the enemy is going to breakthrough and totally destroy the definition of the family. We’re going to stand firm. The social science is on our side, overwhelmingly so, the practical implications are on our side, and the Biblical data is on our side.
Bauer: And what are the liberal elites of our country doing, whether it’s the media elites or even the president or our judicial elites, etc., the people in Hollywood? Instead of devoting their energy to trying to stop this destruction of the American family and do something to make sure our children have mothers and fathers, they’re all spending their time promoting instead men marrying men and women marrying women, which will guarantee that more children will have either not fathers or mothers. It is just a bizarre concept.
Perkins: As soon as same-sex marriage is rolled-out, the curriculum is changed to aggressively promote homosexuality on par with heterosexuality. There is complete intolerance in those pushing this agenda in our schools. And so this goes back to the question “how will this affect my marriage”? It will affect your family because your children will be taught that this is normal and it will be aggressively taught to them and they’ll be indoctrinated into the ways of homosexuality.
