Over the weekend, Focus on the Family President Jim Daly made news for admitting in an interview in World Magazine that “we’ve probably lost” the fight over marriage equality and the Religious Right would “need to start calculating where we are in the culture.”
Focus on the Family then admitted to Jeremy Hooper at Good As You that this was admission was not “big news, but it’s really just another expression of what he’s been saying for years.”
But, as Jeremy noted, this admission was in fact a big deal and probably would not go over very well with the organization’s right-wing allies.
So, wouldn’t you know it, today Daly has an opinion piece up on Fox News entitled “Why the Same-Sex Marriage Experiment Will Not Work” in which he warns that gay marriage will result in the complete destruction of religious liberty:
On the basis of logic, reason, common sense and the fact that preservation of traditional marriage is in the best interest of the common good, as evidenced by any number of factors, including reams of social science data and thousands of years of history.
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[A] home with two unmarried partners has proven to be the most dangerous place for children in the U.S. Children who live with their mother and boyfriend are 11 times more likely to be sexually, physically, or emotionally abused than children living with their married biological parents.
In each example of social reengineering I’ve noted, progressives promised good things. Sadly, the exact opposite has happened. However well-meaning the motivation, reengineering what God has designed is not only unwise, but radical and dangerous, too … Here lies the last great frontier and the last gasp for those determined to re-engineer marriage. Those committed to this form of radicalism have systematically broken down the cultural barrier to same sex marriage by desensitizing people on the issue, stigmatizing those who oppose the movement and potentially criminalizing anyone who stands in opposition to them. The irony in our cultural discussion currently, is if you support traditional marriage, you are the one perceived by the cultural elite to be the radical.
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If religious liberty is lost in America, we will cease to be the nation our Founders intended us to be. Our rights will no longer be derived from God but from man, and therefore, dangerously beholden to political despots.
