Decadence Watch: Marriage Redefintion Platform Will Disadvantage Democratic Party

On this end, it is time for increased academic involvement, work and readings on the "sociology of the family," e.g. divorce, single-parent homes, poverty as a result, absence of theological catechesis, integrity issues in government and media, and another review of Edward Gibbons's The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.  It is time to add sociological studies in the inter-disciplinary inquiry to our ignorance of the Ten Commandments.  The Family Research Council believes the Democratic platform favouring sodomy, lesbianism and trans-generism will result in an electorate shift.  We wonder about the impact amongst blue collar Dems in MI, for example, or black evangelical churches, faithful Roman Catholics, Mormons and Jews.  32 of 32 states, that is, 64% of all U.S. states have passed legislative variants of the view that marriage is between one man and one woman.  North Carolina just passed their version a few months ago. Time for readings in lawlessness, moral relativism, and the other fruits of indifference, incompetence, indecision and narcissism.  The same-sex marriage is one in a larger constellation of issues that need review. We can surely add liberal theology in the mainline as an ingredient in the dynamic. Imagine if the mainliners were in resistance to "going with the flow?"  But, what do dead men and women know, unable to free themselves from themselves, unable to see, unable to hear, unable to sense, unable to feel and utterly disabled from re-ordered and re-orienting thought, affection and volition.  1000s of leaders are dead (Eph. 2.1, inter alia ad significum.)

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Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 30, 2012
CONTACT: J.P. Duffy or Darin Miller, (866) FRC-NEWS or (866) 372-6397

Marriage Redefinition Platform Will Disadvantage Democratic Party

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, it was reported that the Democratic Party plans to include a marriage redefinition plank within the party platform.

Peter Sprigg, Family Research Council's Senior Fellow for Policy Studies, released the following statement:

"News that the Democratic platform will endorse changing the definition of marriage is not a surprise, in the wake of President Obama's announcement of support for the concept. However, this will not help the party politically in November.

"Thirty-two out of 32 states where voters have weighed in on the issue have upheld marriage as the union of one man and one woman. If President Obama were to lose those 32 states, he would face an electoral debacle. In addition, while opposition to same-sex 'marriage' may have become politically incorrect in the Democratic Party at the national level, there are many Democratic members of Congress, and office-holders further down the ticket, who live in states and districts where it will be a serious disadvantage to be identified with 'the gay marriage party.'

"Gov. Romney, who has signed a pledge to support a marriage protection amendment to the U.S. Constitution, should not shy away from making a clear distinction with President Obama and the Democrats on this issue.

"We expect that the Republican Party will maintain its strong support for one-man-one-woman marriage in their platform. The current Republican platform reflects the voters in 32 states who have voted to preserve marriage. The American people have done so because of their deep appreciation for the unique and irreplaceable benefits that marriage between a man and a woman gives to children and society."

FRC staff will attend the Republican Party platform meetings in Tampa , FL on August 20-21, 2012. To arrange an on-site interview, contact the FRC press office at (866) 372-6397.