The Dying American Family

The
Dying American Family

By Hans
Zeiger, OSOT Team Member

Jun 27, 2003

The American family is dying a terrible death while in a coma on pain-killers.
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that sodomy is a right.
The way things are going, it looks like the family is sleeping through
this one and just might wake up when homosexual marriage is legalized,
when the Boy Scouts are destroyed, when our churches are filled with
homosexual pastors and priests, and when there’s two condoms in
every pocket and a porn shop on every corner.

Justice Scalia was correct when he said that the Supreme Court has taken
sides in the culture war. June 26, 2003 was the day that moral relativism
invaded the family home with the full force of judicial law.

The Court eked out yet another fourteenth amendment privacy argument
to legitimize the collapse of morality. Does the fourteenth amendment
to the constitution protect a right to murder in private, to steal in
private, or to break the speed limit when the state patrol isn’t
looking? It is truly disgusting that the majority opinion applied sentimental
words about our sacred constitution to describe its decision: “persons
in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for
greater freedom.”

In this generation, the radical Left is about to put the shackles of
moral slavery around both the constitution and the American family.

I don’t mean to be pessimistic – though this is a departure from
my usually bright optimism – I mean to say that time is running
out to bring traditional family values back to Main Street USA. In a
time of sissified ultra-tolerance, Americans who care about our future
must counter-attack aggressively. Because the radical Left just cranked
the homosexual agenda up to double speed through the intersection of
truth and injustice, and the American family hasn’t even plugged
in the stoplight yet.
Minutes after the decision was handed down, the ACLU launched a new
project called “Get Busy, Get Equal.” The new “Get Busy,
Get Equal” web site is introduced with, “The Supreme Court
just struck down Texas’ law against sexual intimacy between gay
people. It’s a huge victory. By saying our relationships can’t
be treated as criminal, the decision makes it far easier to get full
equality. We can’t let this opportunity pass. Push now – for
civil rights, recognition of same-sex couples, and safe schools.”

Next week, Lambda Legal Foundation will announce “aggressive plans
for turning this landmark ruling into a reality in . . . peoples’
everyday lives.”

This is an opportunity that the radical Left will not let go of unless
the mainstream family pries open the sticky fist of moral relativism.
According to Lewis Whittington in the homosexual magazine The Advocate,
“the culture war is not over.”

The homosexual movement claims they wanted to stop the invasion of their
bedrooms by waging this latest fight in the Supreme Court. Starting
today, the radical Left is working overtime to invade our homes, our
schools, our churches, our Boy Scout troops, our businesses, and our
minds. We can’t let them.

We can’t let them because it is impossible for society to be sustainable
while actively celebrating a behavior that was once punishable on the
same level as rape and incest in this country. It is impossible for
a culture to be edifying to young people and old people alike while
inventing new rights out of crimes against nature and decency.

Sodomy is not a right. If rights come from God, sodomy is a heinous
moral wrong.

How did we get to this point? Americans are tolerant and accepting people.
We like to mind our own business and let other people mind theirs. But
this is not a time for tolerance and acceptance. Our enemy is more than
a casual opponent in a recreational athletic competition. This is a
struggle between good and evil in which evil is now spreading to the
hearts, minds, and souls of young people in this generation.

It’s a shame that we’ve let the Left take America this far,
but now that we’re on the defensive, the least we can do is fight
back.

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Hans Zeiger, 18, is an Eagle Scout and president of the Scout Honor
Coalition. He is a Seattle Times columnist and chairman of Washington
Young Americans for Freedom. He can be contacted at [email protected].