In 2008, Proposition 8 passed in the state of California; if enacted, it would have forbidden the licensing and recognition of same-sex marriages. A bit of background: in 2000, the State of California adopted Proposition 22 which did exactly what Prop 8 was supposed to do. Only, during February and March 2004, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom directed the licensing of same-sex marriage marriages on the basis of the state’s equal protection clause, prompted also by recent events including George W. Bush’s proposed constitutional ban and a Supreme Court of Massachusetts ruling deeming same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional and permitting them from May 2004. While only lasting a month before being overruled, this was supported by other cities such as San Jose and gained global attention. Therefore, the actions of power hungry liberals, seeking the galvanized gay vote, and the homosexual elitists of San Francisco, LA, and New York, made the passage of Prop 8 possible. From then on, state after state has fallen to a gay marriage juggernaut; often, with the winners denigrating those who oppose it as ignorant, homophobic, and or bigoted. Now, in Indiana, Governor Mike Pence signed into law the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, modeled after federal legislation of the same name. Supporters believe it will safeguard against businesses being forced to provide services they find objectionable on religious grounds; for example, the law will help prevent Christian bakers and florists from being punished for refusing to participate in a same-sex marriage ceremony. In reality, the arrogance and extreme hubris of the gay power-pushers has alienated much of the Christian community; currently, homosexuality is actually creating homophobia where it never existed; not wise - in a world which has seen a return to barbarism: the frequent murder of accused homosexuals in the Middle East; often by being thrown from buildings; the Christian Faith is the only benevolent religion under which homosexual communities have been able to thrive relatively unscathed - as proven by the enormous gay enclaves in almost all major Western cities. The gay need for acceptance, and the resulting bulldozer mentality with regards to same-sex marriage has also created alienation: a fatalism within some Christians with regards to the possibility of redemption in homosexuals; in addition, and, worse of all - the venomous rhetoric emerging from gay circles, blasting Christians for their intolerance, has also pushed the gay community into a deeper and more entrenched form of secularism; i.e. a culture containing no interest in the transcendent. Already wholly bound to the material, homosexuality is decisively becoming a life without the possibility of a Christian God. Those that have tried to keep some semblance of Jesus in their lives, often try to remake Him in the same way that the homosexual elites are seeking to remake marriage; fitting everything to our liking - regardless of the Truth; in the end, a Christ created in our own image is not Christ at all. Then, while we worship our false God, the true Church drifts further away.
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