Marriage
Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, August 1, 2014 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler
Until now, the United States has never had a president who would give foreign aid only to nations agreeing to promote homosexuality. Never in history has a U.S. secretary of state announced to her staff, “It’s okay to be gay,” but a recent secretary of state used her “stately” role to say just that. Never has there been a U.S. tax-payer-funded refugee center, specifically, for foreigners claiming variant sexual orientations, but there’s one in Chicago now.
Never have so many decisions of voters been reversed by unauthorized officials posing as law-makers! Now, almost routinely, judges abandon their duty to determine the constitutionality of laws. Instead, they assume a legislative role to drastically transform U.S. culture. Their current over-ride of voters in the redefinition of marriage portends a deathblow to cultural stability.A lone judge in Florida overturned a county ban on same-sex marriage, and one homosexual judge in California overturned the majority vote for Proposition 8 that would have upheld natural marriage there. A three-judge panel voted two-to-one to overrule the 76-percent vote to retain marriage as between a man and a woman in Oklahoma.
In Georgia in 2004, when the General Assembly passed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, same-sex marriage supporters said, “Shouldn’t I have the right to marry the person I love?” The answer is, “Well, that depends on whom you love.” The law does not discriminate. If you love someone of the opposite sex, who is old enough or has parental permission, is not already married, is not related to you, and you get a marriage license, you may marry. But, if “love” is the only requirement for marriage, then bigamy, polygamy, adultery and incest would become rights, as well.
I’ve said all that to say this. While some states have bowed to pressure and abandoned natural marriage law to pacify homosexuals (who comprise less than three-percent of the population, according to Census reports), here in Georgia, Attorney General Olens has asked the court to dismiss a federal lawsuit by Lambda Legal to overturn Georgia’s ban on same-sex marriage. If his request is denied, he has vowed to go before the 11th Circuit Court to defend Georgia’s definition of marriage.
Mr. Olens wants the court to uphold the right of Georgians to define marriage as between a man and a woman, as marriage was defined in every state in the union until 2003. Nowhere in the United States has the population voted to redefine marriage. Courts, whether a lone judge or two judges or multiple judges, have over-stepped their authority, assumed the role of law-makers and violated federal and state constitutions. Attorney General Olens wants to stop that here. He needs your prayers, and so do the judges of the 11th Circuit Court that will decide the case against Georgia’s law. For Georgia Insight I’m Sue Ella Deadwyler, your Capitol correspondent.