What's the current perception of gay activists about Christian marriage? I sat down with one. He said, "You guys haven't done so well with marriage. Why are you upset about us having a try?" We've got to look at our own house, make sure that our marriages are healthy, that we're being a good witness to the world. Then we can continue to work on defending marriage as best as we can.
Truth is, we suck. We love to claim the moral high ground as an excuse to tell other people how they can live their lives, but we don't really have a moral high ground to claim. Still, we have a pathological need to tell people what to do. So given that, we need to really do something drastic. Maybe if we ban divorce and keep a whole ton of oppressed people in marriages they hate, we'll be able to have enough of a statistical edge to legitimately claim that people we don't like shouldn't be able to get married.
Some European governments, noting the costs of having children, are providing large child subsidies, in essence paying couples to have children. . . . But on the back end you have to tax families to pay for that. This then creates the need for both parents to have salaries.
Yeah, see, we believe in that whole Demographic Winter concept. And the truth of the matter is, government subsidies allow all those icky brown people and Muslims to take advantage of them to have their own babies, and we really can't have that. So, no government subsidies. Not to mention, the taxes, the taxes! Doesn't matter if we help fund children or not if a husband doesn't have enough take-home pay to support his family; and I say HIS family we can't have any two-income families. Women shouldn't be working; they should be sitting at home! Or standing. Or lying down and thinking of England, as they saying goes. Ahem. Anyway, at least there's one thing a husband will know he'll never have to get for his wife: a watch. You know why? Because there's a clock on the stove, and she doesn't belong anywhere else but where she can see it.
Where are we? We've got to look at what God is doing in all of this. . . . Have we done such a poor job with marriage, is He so upset with our mishandling of it in the Christian community, along with our lust of the flesh as a nation, that He is handing us over to this polygamy and same-sex situation in order to, perhaps, drive the Christian community, the remnant, into saying, "OK, there's no no-fault divorce in our church"?
That God guy. He gets to me sometimes because he's such a stark raving masochist. Here He is, taking such a strong stand against things He obviously abhors like this...same-sex situation. Or polygamy, which is clearly rampant. It's a side note, really, but haven't you seen all of these compounds springing up everywhere? No? You haven't? It's just me? I could have sworn! That dream seemed so real. Whatever. My point is, God has this habit of filling creation with things he obviously abhors just because he knows that we abhor them worse and is trying to punish us for not eliminating fast enough the very things that he's putting back on earth just to punish us. That makes sense, right? Because clearly, once our church has eliminated no-fault divorce regardless of what's legal in an actual courtroom, gay marriage will have no choice to disappear. Why? Not sure. Because I said so? That usually works on my wife and kids, so I figured I'd try it here.
The ultrasound initiative is designed to help crisis pregnancy centers. . . . That started in 2006 or 2007. We've placed about 515 ultrasound machines. The great news about this is that technology is on our side. Ultrasound has allowed us to look at the development of the human being?and the culture is beginning to say, "Wait a minute, abortion feels immoral." We don't need to pound anybody over the head with it. Let's ride science and technology and allow people to come to that conclusion.
When is technology good? When we can use it to help browbeat a scared, possibly abused teenager who's obviously not ready to have a child into having a child as opposed to taking advantage of the availability of a safe, legal and private medical procedure. When is technology evil, vile and sinful? When it proves that Adam and Eve might not have used Stegosaurus tail spikes as doorposts and frolicked in the fields with vegetarian Velociraptors.
Can't we just print more money? Seriously, do you recommend some non-financial ways for governments to help marriage? Make divorce more difficult. Have mandatory waiting periods. Have 90-day mandatory counseling for people so it's not just "we don't like each other any more." There are different things to do that do not involve taxing other families to pay for them.
Did I mention that I want to ban divorce? I'm just checking, because that's been my answer to just about every single question and I wanted to make sure that you heard it, in case you didn't hear it the previous three or four times. What we really need to fix this country is one-income households, with a ban on no-fault divorce. Because if I can't trap a woman in the kitchen, I should at least be able to trap her in a marriage from which she has no economic or social opportunity to escape. For the children, of course.
Any thoughts on President Obama? I may not agree with any of his policies. I do appreciate that he's married to his first wife and raising his two children. We need more men like that.
He may be a radical socialist Muslim, or whatever they call that religion. But he hasn't been divorced! Seriously. That's, like, the most important thing in the world right now. But between him and Gingrich, I'd still probably take Gingrich. Because of his moral values, you know.
All kidding aside: the interview is very instructive precisely because it provides a strong insight into what the foci of the Christianist movement will be once the debate over marriage equality is over: they will concede that ground and seek to replicate the 1950s. They may be losing the war on LGBT rights, and they know it; but they feel that they still feel they can win the war on women.
Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/u9DlmwFAL0o/-Focus-on-the-family,-translated
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