Posted by
Corthell on Tuesday, December 08, 2009 8:23:15 AM
'Follow the money, weigh the gold'
''The truth is that most pastors in this country have been ineffective, absent or late to the game in responding to the ungodly, demonic and destructive agenda to destroy Judeo-Christian sexual ethics and God's design of marriage and family. My 25 years in this battle, including the first 13 in the People's Republic of Washington State, give me the basis for that stern observation.''
Following the victory for marriage in New York last week and as the New Jersey Legislature prepares to vote this week on a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, we must not lose sight of another strategy of the radical sexual-diversity agenda to destroy the family
and marriage. Even many who follow this issue closely may not be aware of some vital issues – and there are many – that lurk very visibly under the surface of the fight for the definition of marriage.
What is in a definition? How about "gay"? According to the 1828 Webster dictionary, it meant "Merry; airy; jovial; sportive; frolicksome; Fine; showy (all positive); or intoxicated (negative)."
What about the 2009 Webster-Merriam dictionary? Enter an additional – but fundamentally a replacement – definition: "of, relating to, or used by homosexuals."
The word stayed the same, but the meaning was perverted in every possible way. Is the battle for marriage only about the definition – or about the meaning? Obviously both, but we must be diligent to fight on both fronts, as California and Washington state's "Everything But Marriage" laws illustrate.
I didn't invent that term – The Seattle Times did. Maybe unwittingly they also exposed a parallel strategy to "undefine" marriage while we fight for the legal definition. Like California, the Washington legislation that survived a ballot measure attempting to overturn it has now extended over 100 statutory benefits of marriage to same-sex and other non-married "couples."
Perhaps the most encouraging film on marriage of our time -- own it for yourself: "Fireproof"
Never forget where the buck stops for our government – We the People. "We" are destroying the morality of our children, our cities, our states and our nation even while we technically preserve the definition of marriage in both of the above mentioned states. I don't mean to pick on them, particularly since the Evergreen State was where I was born and raised, and I have many friends and some family in California.