THREAT TO SOCIETY

Concerned Women for America - July 23, 2003 http://www.cultureandfamily.org/articledisplay.asp?id=4320&department=CFI&ca tegoryid=cfreport
In Their Own Words: Homosexual Activists Redefine Marriage And Family
Statements show why ‘gay marriage’ threatens the real thing
By Robert Knight Culture & Family Institute
Special Report

“Civil unions,” “domestic partners,” or so-called “gay marriage” all pose a threat to marriage and family because they create a counterfeit moral standard that is imposed on all.

Governments that validate homosexuality through counterfeit marriage are setting up a system in which people of faith will be persecuted for not agreeing to a lie. Indeed, while discussing Canada’s legalization of so-called “gay marriage,” Prime Minister Jean Chretien declared that “religion is the problem.”

Even religious exemptions cannot protect citizens from oppressive governments at all levels when a lie becomes embedded in the law. Everyone is forced to declare it. It’s no longer a matter of tolerating someone else’ s peculiar idea. If you don’t believe it, ask the Boy Scouts, or any businessman or office holder who has experienced the tender mercies of the homosexual lobby.

Homosexual activists have long understood the radical power of achieving official recognition for homosexual relationships as “marriage.” Here is a sample:

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“A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry not as a way of adhering to society's moral codes but rather to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution."
— Michelangelo Signorile, "Bridal Wave," OUT magazine, December/January 1994, p. 161.

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"[E]nlarging the concept to embrace same-sex couples would necessarily transform it into something new....Extending the right to marry to gay people - that is, abolishing the traditional gender requirements of marriage - can be one of the means, perhaps the principal one, through which the institution divests itself of the sexist trappings of the past."
—Tom Stoddard, quoted in Roberta Achtenberg, et al, "Approaching 2000: Meeting the Challenges to San Francisco's Families," The Final Report of the Mayor's Task Force on Family Policy, City and County of San Francisco, June 13, 1990, p.1.

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"It is also a chance to wholly transform the definition of family in American culture. It is the final tool with which to dismantle all sodomy statutes, get education about homosexuality and AIDS into public schools, and, in short, usher in a sea change in how society views and treats us."
— Michelangelo Signorile, "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do," OUT magazine, May 1996, p. 30.

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“Being queer is more than setting up house, sleeping with a person of the same gender, and seeking state approval for doing so. … Being queer means pushing the parameters of sex, sexuality, and family, and in the process, transforming the very fabric of society. … As a lesbian, I am fundamentally different from non-lesbian women. …In arguing for the right to legal marriage, lesbians and gay men would be forced to claim that we are just like heterosexual couples, have the same goals and purposes, and vow to structure our lives similarly. … We must keep our eyes on the goals of providing true alternatives to marriage and of radically reordering society’ s view of reality.”

— Paula Ettelbrick, “Since When Is Marriage a Path to Liberation?”, in William Rubenstein, ed., Lesbians, Gay Men and the Law (New York: The New Press, 1993), pp. 401-405.