What do
you love enough to fight for?
What
matters the most in this mortal life to you?
It
requires faith and courage to defend and protect marriage, family, and
religion.
The Title of Liberty
Alma 46:12
One of the threats to traditional marriage today is the homosexual movement. As detailed in the article by Kirk
and Pill, almost thirty years ago in 1987, the intent was to push the gay agenda on Americans. The blueprint developed to accomplish this was to gradually
desensitize the unnatural so that over time it seemed normal to mainstream society.
This desensitization could only be achieved by the gay agenda uniting with the media in a plot to create a perception of normalcy of gender confusion and homosexual behaviors and relationships.1
This desensitization could only be achieved by the gay agenda uniting with the media in a plot to create a perception of normalcy of gender confusion and homosexual behaviors and relationships.1
Kirk and Pill directed all gay
activists to employ the following strategies and tactics:
1.
Talk about gays and gayness as loud and as often as possible
2.
Portray gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers
3.
Give protectors a just cause
4.
Make gays look good
5.
Make victimizers look bad; Create victim sympathy
6.
Solicit funds with an unprecedented fundraising drive
7.
Preach social justice
8.
Strategically use
visual advertising and media such as the internet and social media, TV, radio,
newspapers, magazines, billboards, and flyers at bars to elevate the gay
agenda.
Oh the subtle sophistries and lies
of Satan! Look at what has happened to our society.
We have been pacified and lulled
into carnal security. 2
Just as a frog that doesn’t notice
when the temperature of the water in the pot
is gradually turned up just one degree at a time
until it reaches the boiling point,
we have become complacent to evil and false doctrine
that has flooded and is permeating our society…
is gradually turned up just one degree at a time
until it reaches the boiling point,
we have become complacent to evil and false doctrine
that has flooded and is permeating our society…
Advocating for Marriage
Traditional marriage between a man
and a woman is under attack from all angles.
Marriage has been defined as the
complementary, conjugal union between a man and a woman for millennia; since
the beginning of recorded time. “[It] is the oldest social institution in the
world… [and] the basic unit of society” 3
Throughout the entire history of the world, even up until the new millennia, when the year 2000 began, no country had ever before allowed same-sex marriage. Calling the tail of a dog, a leg, doesn’t make it a leg. 3
The social consequences of legalizing same-sex marriage are gradual and subtle over time - over decades - with their accumulating damaging affects not obvious at first, however nonetheless causing irreversible damage, comparable to the devastating effects of smoking. 3
Lynn Wardle has said, “Every child deserves to be raised by his or her mother and father…same sex marriage guarantees that all children who are born during or raised in such unions will be deprived totally of this fundamental moral right…Gay unions are absolutely incapable of procreation…the co-parenting message of marriage is weakened when marriage is defined to include relations among same sex couples that are designed for sexual pleasure and lack the ability to co-parent…The attempt to legalize same-sex marriage or give equivalent legal status and benefits to same-sex couples constitutes a very real and dangerous attack upon the institution of conjugal marriage” 3
Throughout the entire history of the world, even up until the new millennia, when the year 2000 began, no country had ever before allowed same-sex marriage. Calling the tail of a dog, a leg, doesn’t make it a leg. 3
The social consequences of legalizing same-sex marriage are gradual and subtle over time - over decades - with their accumulating damaging affects not obvious at first, however nonetheless causing irreversible damage, comparable to the devastating effects of smoking. 3
Lynn Wardle has said, “Every child deserves to be raised by his or her mother and father…same sex marriage guarantees that all children who are born during or raised in such unions will be deprived totally of this fundamental moral right…Gay unions are absolutely incapable of procreation…the co-parenting message of marriage is weakened when marriage is defined to include relations among same sex couples that are designed for sexual pleasure and lack the ability to co-parent…The attempt to legalize same-sex marriage or give equivalent legal status and benefits to same-sex couples constitutes a very real and dangerous attack upon the institution of conjugal marriage” 3
Below is a link to a letter written by a child of gay parents to US Supreme
Court Justice Anthony Kennedy:
Ryan Anderson declared, “We are
participants in one of the most significant debates our society - any society -
has ever faced…In the long run, those who defend marriage as the union of a man
and woman will prove to be prophetic.” 4
Are you willing to put in the time
and effort it takes to learn how to defend and protect the God ordained
institution of marriage?
It requires researching and
understanding the facts so you can articulate with boldness, the truths about
the unique blessings that accompany marriage. This takes understanding legal
terms and learning how to promote policy that will shore up the strong
marriages that enhance children’s lives with a mom and a dad.
I desire to become an advocate for
marriage by helping create good laws and policies and opposing bad ones. The
kind of marriage I am promoting is between a man and a woman who love each
other with a tender love, are committed to each other, and sacrifice for each
other.
Research has shown this is the ideal
setting to raise children, in a healthy, stable two parent home. As the Family
Proclamation states, “Children are entitled to birth within the bonds of
matrimony, and to be reared by a father and a mother who honor marital vows
with complete fidelity.” 5
We can bear witness of these true
and correct principles in in regular conversations with our neighbors,
coworkers, and others. However, if we are living a positive, Christlike
marriage, others will be more inclined to believe our words about the blessings
and benefits of marriage!
This past weekend, my husband and I
attended a fabulous marriage retreat that focused on apologies, forgiveness,
repairing and healing relationships. It is all good in theory, but unless we
put what we were taught into practice, it was just a nice weekend getaway. One
of the concepts I can utilize when I am annoyed or frustrated with my husband
is:
“Look for the benevolent intent behind the bad behavior.” 6
Ultimately, I want to build a
stronger, more synergistic, more Christlike marriage every single day as a
disciple learning from the Master. Therefore, I will look for the benevolent
intentions from my husband’s heart. Both of us have shortcomings and personal
weaknesses to overcome.
Truly and thankfully, marriage and
family life are the most rewarding aspects to living! This is why I want my
sweet and precious relationship of marriage to last throughout all eternity.
The doctrines that make eternal life possible help motivate me to reframe
situations, repent, forgive, and endure.
- Marshall K. Kirk & Erastes Pill, “The Overhauling of Straight America: Waging Peace, Part Two”, Guide Magazine, November 1987.
- 2 Nephi 28:21, The Book of Mormon, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Lynn D. Wardle, “The Attack on Marriage as the Union of a Man and a Woman”, 2008.
- Ryan T. Anderson, “Marriage: Where Do We Go From Here?”, National Review, May 22, 2014.
- The Family: A Proclamation to the World, The First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Jonathan Sandberg, Ph.D., professor at Brigham Young University School of Family Life.
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