A greater danger: A new attack on America

By Dan Popp

Everyone knows what happened on the date September 11, 2001. But what about 11/18/03? On that awful day America was attacked again — by a more insidious enemy. That was the date that a Massachusetts court declared that marriage, as we have always known it, violates the state constitution. Of these two assaults on our nation, the court ruling has by far the greater potential for destruction.

There are many differences, of course.

• The cowardly Al Qaeda ambush struck only at the symbols of U.S. power and values. The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts' bold attack was aimed at the actual foundation of American society: the family.
  
  
• The atrocity of two years ago occurred because a handful of men had become so unbalanced by their rage that they confused the words "martyr" and "murderer." Now, four judges have become so blinded by their own arrogance that they believe they can forge a better society than God or Man has heretofore invented. They deliberately forgot the definition of the ancient word "marriage."
  
  
• The 2001 attacks were committed by foreigners brainwashed from birth to hate this country. In 2003, we were betrayed by Americans sworn to protect and defend her.
  
  
• If, God forbid, they are successful, Islamicists would only turn back the clock of civilization to the 7th century. Those promoting the homosexual agenda want to repeal moral taboos going back to the dawn of time.
  
  

There is one similarity between 9/11 and 11/18. Just as in the days and months following that horrific Tuesday in September, we now need our leaders to stand up, declare that the good people of America are not too weak to fight evil, nor too timid to call it by its true name; then outline a battle plan to eradicate this poison from our national bloodstream.

What's so special about the family?

For millennia, the benefits of families seemed too obvious to require explanation. Sadly, professing to be wiser than our ancestors, we have become fools. The family is where children are born. The family is where children are provided for. The family is where children are socialized — "raised" — to become responsible, productive citizens. Not in "the village." Not by the government of the village. But in and by the family. Living in families not only gives children the love and discipline they need, it provides security for wives, and channels the energy of husbands for productive use.

The family is the foundation on which every other institution in our culture rests. We cannot survive without the family. Therefore, it is imperative that the family be protected, strengthened — yes, even favored over other "styles" of living. Even though the family is a private entity that is sanctified by religion, the government must, as it always has in the past, uniquely recognize and safeguard the family.

And we have not yet even touched on the spiritual aspect. A loving God (who desires to be our "Heavenly Father") was the One who instituted marriage, and blessed it. He also has pronounced His judgement on same-sex sex. The widespread acceptance of homosexual behavior is both a sin and a judgement on a culture.

For this reason (refusal to acknowledge and thank God), God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.


— Romans 1:26, 27 NASB

So this "lie-style" is proscribed not only by Nature and Tradition, but by God Himself, in both the Old and New Testaments.

What You Can and Must Do

Pat Buchanan was once excoriated for merely stating that there was such a thing as a "culture war." Now the other side in that war has dropped its A-bomb; a weapon of mass destruction more powerful than Al Qaeda could hope, in its most deluded fantasies, to possess. Yet where is the sense of purpose, of resolve, of righteous anger, that steeled clear-headed Americans after 9/11? Where?

Mr. President, Senator, Congressperson: We have just been attacked... as surely and as maliciously as we were struck in the brutal ambush of 9/11. We, the people whom you represent, require you to act — now — to safeguard us, our children, and their children from this enemy. You will either be known as one who stood courageously to preserve our republic and its most basic building-block; or one who presided over the death of what was once a great, good, and blessed nation.

We implore you to:

1. Amend the U.S. and State Constitutions to define legal marriage as being only between one man and one woman.
   
   
2. Refuse the politically-tantalizing "compromise" of so-called "Civil Unions." Any government sanction or recognition of sexual immorality weakens marriage, and therefore weakens families and the country built on them.
   
   
3. Repeal "No-Fault" divorce laws. They have already undermined marriage and made it seem similar to temporary "coupling."
   
   
4. Impeach judges who shamelessly write law from the bench; who go so far as to overturn 6,000 years of tradition and societal norms for the sake of their humanist utopianism.
   
   
5. Renew your personal allegiance to, vision of, and efforts for, a constitutional — i.e., limited — government. When Big Brother attempts to take the place of parents, the family structure is weakened, and all of us suffer. Government helps families best by allowing Moms and Dads to make the choices and take the responsibilities for their loved ones.
   
   
6. Through legislation, declare null and void all court decisions that set aside the laws of States.
   
   
7. Use your public platform to condemn sodomy, and all other forms of sex outside of marriage, as being morally wrong and harmful to those who engage in them, as well as harmful to society.
   
   

If you do not act now, our way of life will not survive. This is not speculation nor hyperbole. The "War on Poverty" has provided a tragic sampling of what happens when government policies destabilize the family. In their quest to create a better society, well-intentioned politicians chose to give money to women for having children out of wedlock. Generations grew up without fathers. And now we are all reaping the bitter harvest of increased crime, drug use, immorality, and poverty in our inner cities. An equally high-minded government policy that would effectively obliterate marriage could spread that very same disease to every block in America.

The family must be preserved at all costs — even at the cost of your political career. There are no other options except destruction.

For, behold, the wicked bend the bow,
They make ready their arrow upon the string
To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

If the foundations are destroyed,
What can the righteous do?"


— Psalm 11:2,3 NASB

© Dan Popp