The LDS church members, who’s organized efforts in California in part helped to uphold the institution of marriage, are under unfair attack.  The liberal media in California and elsewhere are practically holding the gay and lesbian protester’s signs and inventing the chants.  I haven’t seen a single news article from any major media source supporting the views of proposition 8 supporters.  It’s as though Prop 8 passed without a majority vote!  We can, as our nation’s conservative voices, help to point out the virtues that passing such a measure fortifies us with.

I love my country and its amazing potential and freedoms.  This is why I am so concerned that Americans have progressively lost their moral underpinnings.  A decade ago the President of the United States committed fornication in the oval office and the nation watched him get away with it…though our President since then has been an upstanding man with moral convictions, his unpopularity has arguably made immorality something trendy—like a teen rebelling against his “unpopular” parents.  Americans sense of right and wrong has gone haywire due in large part to the liberal thinking that everything is relative.  In reality, THERE ARE ABSOLUTES!  Tolerance has come to mean an acceptance of everything of everyone.  This is not what is intended by the original meaning of “tolerant”.  Jesus loved the sinner even while decrying the sin, as evidenced in the case of the woman taken in adultery: treating her kindly, but exhorting her to “sin no more.”  Upstanding religious people with moral compasses have been labeled intolerant and bigoted for upholding the ageless institution of marriage between a man and a woman.

Most gay activists see this as a conflict over civil rights and equate this with the struggle for racial equality.  There can be no such comparison because homosexual unions cannot ever be sociologically, physiologically or spiritually equal with heterosexual unions;  whereas a black man can be equal in every relevant way with a white man.  Along with this faulty analogy comes the completely erroneous comparison between those that support traditional marriage and racist groups.

 Additionally, by actively seeking to remove religion from our public forums, liberals such as the ACLU are actually seeking to IMPOSE a state-sponsored religion more accurately termed “irreligion”.  While claiming to protect rights, they are actually suppressing the right of a people to lawfully vote according to the dictates of their conscience.  Are we to abandon a belief about what is best for our country because we learned it from the Bible (or any other religious scripture)?  Just think about where we would be if they had their way and the suppression succeeded.  The very people who believe in moral absolutes would have no influence on public policy.  Our country was founded upon religious principles…all men (includes women) are created equal…In God we trust…  On that note, I might appeal to a divinely sourced scripture, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!...Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!”  (Isaiah 5:20 & 23)

I don’t believe I am being a “religious zealot” by appealing to forever-relevant principles of moral uprightness that are also logically taught by legitimate religions.  Those religions of this nation and conservatives as a whole are under attack by unprincipled, suppressive regimes and they need your help now.  With all that we are now encountering as a nation, it is critical that we not remain passive in our support for true principles of ethics and morality.  Take a stand in whatever way you find most effective, whether that be writing your congressmen, blogging, or chatting with a neighbor.