Life or Traditional Marriage: Which is the Most Critical at this Gray Moment?

In response to a Huck PAC poll about which issue his PAC should tackle first, I wrote the following response:

The right of the unborn to life is a huge issue, but there are already wonderful groups that work to lobby and educate on that front. The acceptance of gay marraige is a HUGE cultural shift that is surfacing, but is one that we can still prevent before it becomes entrenched in our society and lawbooks. I live in California, so I know we are on the verge of something huge that is really unprecedented in history, ours or anyone else's. This isn't just an evangelical Christian issue, there are very few societies historically of any religious or cultural persuasion that have had same-sex marriages on an equal status w/heterosexual ones. I am not really big on legislating every private moral issue, but for the government to officially endorse such a union is a whole 'nother issue. This isn't just about civil liberties for gay couples, this (at least in CA) is about how we teach about family/sexuality/gender in the public schools from the earliest ages on up; it is about restricting free speech regarding what we can and cannot say about this moral issue; it is about how popular culture w/reinforce these values; it is about a dramatic, socially-engineered shift in the very fabric of society. THAT is why I think we need to speak up on this critical issue before it is too late. I am not a fear-monger or conspiracy theorist, I am being realistic.

The best thing we can do for the life issue is to help prevent people from having unwanted pregnancies in the first place, and then providing viable options for when people do get pregnant and don't want to raise the child, to reduce abortions. As Huck has mentioned before, we also need to improve the chances for these children to grow up in healthy homes and have equal opportunities to live fulfilling lives and become productive citizens, rather than simply products of a flawed foster care system.

Whether it be abortion or the gay marriage issue, lets face it, laws alone won't stop people from having sex! But they can affect how we teach about family and marriage in the public schools and what type of relationship we sanction as a legitimate marraige and it isn't too late to start off on the right foot on this one!

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