The fight to stop False Marriage is far from over at this point.
Yes, there was a procedural vote, but then there will be a floor vote.
A number of amendments have been added to this bill, as well, and we need to urge a larger floor fight for more amendments until this legislation can be bogged down entirely.
The US Senate will take a vote on the DIS-Respect for Marriage Act on November 28th, 2022–after the Thanksgiving Break.
What happened earlier?
There was a procedural vote to advance the bill in the US Senate a few days ago, but we need to marshall our reasons to target these US Senators after the Thanksgiving BreakShelley Moore Capito (R-WV)Susan Collins (R-ME):
(202) 224-2523 Joni Ernst (R-IA):
(202) 224-3254Cynthia Lummis (R-WY):
202) 224-3424Mitt Romney (R-UT):
(202) 224-5251Dan Sullivan (R-AK):
(202) 224-3004Thom Tillis (R-NC):
(202) 224-6342Todd Young (R-IN):
202-224-5623These US Senators The legislation will fail if they do not muster 60 votes. These US Senators are facing Re-election at some point, and we need to make their lives miserable for voting against their constituents once already. You can find their contact information on the blogpost that I shared earlier this year. http://aschaper1.blogspot.com/2022/07/call-us-senate-and-tell-them-to-reject.html
For decades, we have witnessed the slow but steady encroachment of the LGBT Agenda and its militant activists demanding special privileges. The normalization of homosexuality has become all too pervasive in our culture, and with it transgenderism. Now this perverse agenda is targeting children on an open, daily basis.
Sodom and Gomorrah has gone from the bedroom, to the boardroom, to the public square. It’s no longer about two consenting adults in private. It’s about forcing adults to consent to this agenda in public.
It has gotten so bad, that even now Republicans, the so-called pro-family party, has begun caving to the destruction of marriage and the normalization of homosexuality and transgenderism.
How did this happen? How did it get this bad, and why has the mainstream pro-family movement failed to stop all this perversion?
Most people are not aware of this, but there were two Republican Congressmen who admitted that they were homosexual shortly after Republicans took back the House of Representatives, the first time in forty years. Instead of removing them from the caucus, Newt Gingrich let them stay, and he refused to take a stand on the issue.
From there, the Republican party continued its narrow attachment to individual liberty, without any foundation in national identity or moral security. Conservatism became a watered-down fusionism of limited government and individual liberty as the two core values. However, liberty and limited government alone cannot conservative a culture, and those principles cannot protect the family or the children.
And from here, we can point out why the mainstream pro-family movement has failed over the last thirty years to stop this false marriage, false gender identity agenda. The pro-family movement never wanted to call out the inherent debauchery and destruction associated with homosexuality and transgenderism. They never wanted to take a firm stance for truth, for fear of sounding bigoted or homophobic.
They fell back on two weak arguments to defend marriage: tradition and religious freedom.
These are the weakest arguments. Religious liberty or religious adherence in the past was used to justify all kinds of unbiblical principles and stances. Tradition alone can never serve as an argument, either, since it was tradition to enslave certain groups of people. Technological innovation naturally undermines certain traditions as well.
And yet, this past week, I have seen eblast after eblast from mainstream pro-family groups decrying the “Respect for Marriage Act” forcing its way through the United States Senate. They are talking about the potential harms to religious liberty, and how this legislation will open the door to polygamy.
Those arguments may have some truth, but they are not substantive or substantial. The mainstream pro-family movement has failed because they have refused to advance the following arguments and attack the proponents of false marriage and false identities notwithstanding:
1. Homosexuality and transgenderism are mental illness, not benign forms of identity. These behaviors result from abuse, neglect, confusion, and/or molestation. Normalizing these behaviors only enables these harms all the more.
2. No one is born homosexual or born in the wrong body. There is nothing loving or compassionate about enabling confusion.
3. Marriage is not just about the two adults, but about the children. Children need their mother and father, their natural parents, in a natural marriage. Anything else deprives children of their basic needs and harms them for the long-term, according to numerous health and wellness metrics.
4. What consenting adults do in private has public consequences. Hiding behind the argument of “Live and Let Live,” or “Let’s just protect everyone’s liberty” has created this power-based stalemate, in which the more virulent actors with more money and more sympathy from the public will in. Hence, homosexual and transgender activists have been stomping on the pro-family competition for a long time.
5. No one has had the courage to call out the malevolence of this whole agenda, poisoning kids and putting pressure on adults to abandon their natural rights and their constitutional liberties. This is not a chess game, but a street fight, and to this day the LGBT forces are shoving the chessboard up the pro-family movement’s ass.
It’s time to stand for truth, it’s time for a total offense in this culture war—and only MassResistance has the rhetoric, the record, and the results to get this done.
My name is Arthur Schaper, the Organization Director for MassResistance, the international pro-family group that makes the difference. For nearly thirty years, our organization has been taking on one of the most essential and controversial fights in the culture war on the Right: the fight against the LGBT agenda and the lies of the anti-family, anti-natural law Left.
Yet for the last five years, it has become increasingly clear that most so-called conservative “stars” and non-profits not only want to avoid this fight, but they have all but caved in and give this destructive LGBT madness one victory after another.
It was bad enough seeing CPAC descend to inviting drag queens and cross-dressers as featured guests at at their fake conference. It’s no better when otherwise “conservative” news outlets give confused men like Bruce Jenner in drag a platform to pretend to be a conservative.
But now you and your team have congratulated out-homosexual Dave Rubin and his fake “husband” regarding their upcoming plans to become fathers via surrogacy?!
This is unconscionable. How man tenets of conservatism does this violate?
There can be no marriage beyond the union of one man and one woman. There can be no family beyond the union of a man and a woman with the children whom they have reared and raised. There can be no civilization without family, without natural marriage, without a foundational regard for this natural law.
Furthermore, children need their biological parents: the mother and the father. Surrogacy, and so-called same-sex “families” are inherently abusive, depriving children of their parents. Numerous studies and metrics have affirmed that children’s psychological, emotional, and even physical well-being depend on their being raised by their biological parents.
When two homosexuals get (in blunt actuality, steal) children from their natural parents via surrogacy, it is nothing more than child-trafficking. This is disgusting, demeaning, and it should be criminalized in the United States.
The necessary bases of natural marriage, sex, and family are a fundamental revelation which the Judeo-Christian heritage provided to the West — and the world! The biggest reason why the West is in decline today–besides its growing abandonment of Spiritual, Biblical revelation as the fundamental value force for all good–is the decline and destruction of the natural family.
Let’s be frank:
“Build the Wall”
“America First”
“Make America Great Again”
All of these phrases, mottos, and mantras mean nothing if we do not:
Make Male and Female Great Again
Make Marriage Great Again
Make Mom and Dad Great Again
I must remind you that the Byzantine Empire had the thickest walls in modern history, and yet that empire fell to outside forces in A.D. 1453, in part because of the spiritual malaise which had overtaken the civilization from the inside. A key reason for that moral and cultural rot was the decline of natural relations between men and women, and the destruction of the family. The same doubly holds true for the Roman Empire and the several city states of Ancient Greece. Just read The Histories by ancient Greco-Roman eye-witness Polybius.
Defense and promotion of natural marriage and natural family is essential to conservatism, or what is there to conserve in the first place?
I am beyond disappointed, Dennis Prager and PragerU.
And yes, sure, I am aware that you have received complaints from other well-known commentators across the country about that tweet, and that your team was thinking about taking down that tweet at some point. And yet here we are, and nothing has been done. In fact, it’s too late. The news about this public statement has gone so far abroad already.
PragerU, you are not even “controlled opposition,” as some of your critics contend.
You are part of the cultural problem afflicting this country now.
This program purports itself to help homosexuals adopt and “Raise” children.
This is rank child abuse, depriving children of their natural mother and father, all while placating and pleasing selfish adults putting their desires ahead of the needs of children.
Why are we allowing confused adults to confuse children?
The targeted grooming has gone from bad to worse, and Facebook enables this disgusting madness.
Dear Arthur,Great news! Because of your prayers, hard work, and your support, God has given us a victory in the U.S. Senate. If you’ve been keeping up with our action alerts, you know that the so-called Respect for Marriage Act is a Democrat priority. The bill would provide federal protection to same-sex marriage, undermining the ability of any state to ever challenge the 2015 Obergefell decision, which forced gay marriage on the states.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) had planned to put the Respect for Marriage Act on the Senate calendar for a vote this past September. Instead, after hearing from you, he lost the razor thin vote he needed to pass the bill.
We have been working hard to encourage Republicans to stick together to defend marriage. The Democrats need 10 Republicans to join them to avoid a filibuster on the bill. Because of your emails and calls, the tide changed. We won! Praise God!
However, as you know, this issue is not going away.
The sponsors of the Respect for Marriage Act have let it be known that they are going to force a vote on the bill in late November or early December – AFTER the November Congressional elections. Some Republicans – Susan Collins of Maine, for instance – are building a narrative that Republicans are going to vote for this bill, but just don’t want to do it before the midterm elections. “It takes a lot of the political sting out of it,” confessed Ohio Republican Senator Rob Portman.
Part of the delay is because of disagreements over religious liberty protections. On one side, Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and others are working on language that is little more than window dressing for their conservative base. On the other, Senator Mike Lee (also of Utah) is reportedly working on an amendment that would provide specific protections for Christian schools and nonprofit organizations.
As we reported in August, the Respect for Marriage Act could be used to eliminate the nonprofit status of Christian K-12 schools, universities, and nonprofits (even AFA). This is a very dangerous bill and is a sign of the trials ahead.
That’s why we are going to keep monitoring this situation – and we are going to keep asking you to tell your U.S. senators to stand against the Respect for Marriage Act. No amendment is going to make this bill better. The entire bill is based on a lie – the false premise that two people of the same sex can actually marry one another. Marriage is meant to be a lifelong union between one man and one woman. Same-sex marriage is not marriage, and we will never, ever support any legislation seeking to codify this lie.
The most recent Republican Party Platform states:Foremost among those institutions is the American family. It is the foundation of civil society, and the cornerstone of the family is natural marriage, the union of one man and one woman. Its daily lessons — cooperation, patience, mutual respect, responsibility, self-reliance — are fundamental to the order and progress of our Republic.Same-sex marriage is not settled law. It will never be settled law. Same-sex marriage is deeply offensive to God and is absolutely contrary to the principles of ordered liberty upon which our country was founded. That’s why AFA is committed to defending one-man, one-woman marriage, no matter the odds.
God is bigger than the U.S. Senate. And God, just as He always does, in His own way and in His own timing, came through for us. So, let’s give Him all the glory and the praise, even as we keep fighting and watching.
We’re going to keep the pressure up, reminding Republicans of the party platform and of the truth about marriage. Stay tuned for our next action alert on this. We need Republican senators to go on record about where they stand on this bill.
And let us all continue to “approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need” (Heb. 4:16). With your prayers and support, we are committed to winning this battle.Sincerely,Tim Wildmon, President American Family AssociationP.S. If our mission resonates with you, please consider supporting our work financially with a tax-deductible donation. The easiest way to do that is through online giving. It is easy to use, and most of all, it is secure.
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