An Illinois-based pro-family organization says with the obvious "disconnect" between courts and the public on the issue of marriage, the timing could not be worse for legalizing homosexual unions.
Larry Jacobs is vice president of the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society in Rockford, Illinois. Jacobs says threats to family stability -- such as divorce, promiscuity, and working parents -- have never been more serious than they are now. "This is not the time to be venturing into misguided social experiments with marriage," he says.
The Howard Center official says the wide gap between popular opinion and that of the "elite" portends that something has to give. "Usually it foreshadows a political revolution -- like the takeover of the House of Representatives in 1994," he says. "Those who oppose the natural family are on the wrong side of history and thus are in danger of being swept away by the coming tide."
Jacobs notes that even in "bastions of liberalism" like California and Hawaii, measures defending traditional marriage -- when put to a popular vote -- have passed by landslide majorities. In hopes of salvaging at least one victory last fall, homosexual activists poured substantial resources into the Oregon amendment vote. That marriage protection amendment passed 56 percent to 44 percent.
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Culture and Family Institute (http://www.cultureandfamily.org)
Concerned Women for America (http://www.cwfa.org)
Campaign for Children and Families (http://www.savecalifornia.com)
Traditional Values Coalition (http://www.traditionalvalues.org)
Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society (http://www.profam.org)
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