–John McCain on the definition of marriage: “The family represents the foundation of Western Civilization and civil society and John McCain believes the institution of marriage is a union between one man and one woman. It is only this definition that sufficiently recognizes the vital and unique role played by mothers and fathers in the raising of children, and the role of the family in shaping, stabilizing, and strengthening communities and our nation.” (JohnMcCain.com)
— Barack Obama on the definition of marriage: “I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian … it is also a sacred union.” (Saddleback presidential forum, Aug. 16, 2008)
— McCain on the California Supreme Court’s May ruling legalizing “gay marriage”: “I believe they were wrong, and I strongly support preserving the unique status of marriage between man and woman” (Saddleback presidential forum, Aug. 16, 2008)
— Obama on the California Supreme Court’s May ruling legalizing “gay marriage”: “Barack Obama has always believed that same-sex couples should enjoy equal rights under the law, and he will continue to fight for civil unions as President. He respects the decision of the California Supreme Court.” (statement May 15, 2008)
— McCain on the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, which gives states the option of not recognizing another state’s “gay marriage” licenses and prevents the federal government from recognizing “gay marriage”: “I supported the Defense of Marriage Act adopted by Congress and signed into law by President Clinton in 1996. (Senate floor speech, July 2004)
— Obama on the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, “I support the complete repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Federal law should not discriminate in any way against gay and lesbian couples, which is precisely what DOMA does” (letter to the homosexual community, Feb. 2008, available at BarackObama.com). “I’m very interested in … making sure that federal benefits are available to same-sex couples who have a civil union. I think as more states sign civil union bills into law the federal government should be helping to usher in a time when there’s full equality in terms of what that means for federal benefits…. I for a very long time have been interested in repeal of DOMA…. [M]y commitment is to try to make sure that we are moving in the direction of full equality, and I think the federal government historically has led on civil rights — I’d like to see us lead here too.” (interview with the Advocate, April 10, 2008)
McCain on gay adoption: “I think that we’ve proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no I don’t believe in gay adoption.” (interview, The New York Times, July 13, 2008)
— Obama on gay adoption: “As your President, I will use the bully pulpit to urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws…. I will never compromise on my commitment to equal rights for all LGBT [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender] Americans…. I believe that we can achieve the goal of full equality for the millions of LGBT people in this country. To do that, we need leadership that can appeal to the best parts of the human spirit. Join with me, and I will provide that leadership. Together, we will achieve real equality for all Americans, gay and straight alike.” (letter to homosexual community, Feb. 2008, available at BarackObama.com)
God on homosexuality: “For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.“(Romans 1:26-27)
Marriage is the building block of society, and Obama’s pro-homosexual agenda will destroy this foundation of society, promote a government expansion beyond anything our founders could have ever imagined in their darkest nightmare when the consequences of destruction become evident. Listen to the past, learn for the present, and protect the future:
Thomas Jefferson indicated that in his home state of Virginia, “dismemberment” of the offensive organ was the penalty for sodomy. ((Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (Philadelphia: Matthew Carey, 1794), p. 211)) In fact, Jefferson himself authored a bill penalizing sodomy by castration. ((Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew A. Lipscomb, editor (Washington, D. C.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904), Vol. I, pp. 226-227, from Jefferson’s “For Proportioning Crimes and Punishments.”))
John David Michaelis, author of an 1814 four-volume legal work, outlined why homosexuality must be more strenuously addressed and much less tolerated than virtually any other moral vice in society:
“If we reflect on the dreadful consequences of sodomy to a state, and on the extent to which this abominable vice may be secretly carried on and spread, we cannot, on the principles of sound policy, consider the punishment as too severe. For if it once begins to prevail, not only will boys be easily corrupted by adults, but also by other boys; nor will it ever cease; more especially as it must thus soon lose all its shamefulness and infamy and become fashionable and the national taste; and then . . . national weakness, for which all remedies are ineffectual, most inevitably follow; not perhaps in the very first generation, but certainly in the course of the third or fourth. . . . To these evils may be added yet another, viz. that the constitutions of those men who submit to this degradation are, if not always, yet very often, totally destroyed, though in a different way from what is the result of whoredom.
Whoever, therefore, wishes to ruin a nation, has only to get this vice introduced; for it is extremely difficult to extirpate it where it has once taken root because it can be propagated with much more secrecy . . . and when we perceive that it has once got a footing in any country, however powerful and flourishing, we may venture as politicians to predict that the foundation of its future decline is laid and that after some hundred years it will no longer be the same . . . powerful country it is at present.” ((Sir John David Michaelis, Commentaries on the Laws of Moses, Alexander Smith, translator (London: F. C. and J. Rivington, 1814), Vol. IV, pp. 115-117, Wallbuilders))”
