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When we said civil unions, domestic partnerships and reciprocal benefits were a stepping stone toward gay marriage, the homosexual leadership, including elected officials said, “No, we only want equal benefits – we want equality.”

A majority of the Washington State Legislators believed them, supported them and gave in to them. The Governor and her allies rejoiced with hands in the air.

That very day, Senator Ed Murray, and other homosexual leaders said, “Oh no, this is not the prize – we won’t be happy until we have gay marriage.”

Indeed, domestic partnerships were not just about equality – it was a stepping stone.

We have been calling gay marriage, among other things, “a slippery-slope.” Homosexual advocates have been calling us bigots and alarmists. We have been saying that gay marriage is a break from traditional, biblical principles – principles that have served our society well. In fact, that model has served the human race well for more than 5,000 years.

We have also been saying, in the strongest terms, that gay marriage will lead to polygamy and polyamory – the union of three or more persons in a sexual partnership. Their real intentions are becoming clear.

I strongly recommend that you take a moment and read the balance of this blog and read the links we provide. There is compelling evidence as to "What is Beyond Gay Marriage?"

In 2003, Stanley Kurtz, writing for The Weekly Standard said, “After gay marriage, what will become of marriage itself?” He asked if gay marriage would undermine family life. (Read article).

The media then, as now, was labeling resistance to gay marriage as homophobia. The media and the gay activists were treating the push for gay marriage as merely an advance for civil rights.

Andrew Sullivan, considered to be an intelligent advocate for gay marriage, told the 1996 Congressional Hearings on the Defense of Marriage Act that he thought the idea of the slippery-slope was fear-mongering and likened it to the idea that inter-racial marriages would lead to birth defects.

Defenders of traditional marriage have continued to sound the alarm and the advocates have continued to slander them.

Scholars like Hadley Arkes and Robert P. George said, “By rejecting the grounding foundation of marriage – the unique psychosomatic unity possible only between one man and one woman in conjugal sex – the state would lose the principled basis for refusing to recognize polygamous (one man to multiple women) or even polyamorous (multiple men to multiple women, i.e. group) marriages.” (Read article).

When these men wrote this, they were called slippery-slope reasoners, scare-mongers and bigots. It was said they were slandering the good names and intentions of same-sex marriage activists.

Actually their words were prophetic.

Ryan T. Anderson wrote a piece for The Weekly Standard last summer that confirms and explains the true implication of a departure from the conjugal conception of marriage between one man and one woman. (Read story).

Gay rights leaders have now explicitly endorsed relationships consisting of multiple (more than two) sexual partners.

Their statement, "Beyond Gay Marriage," was first released as a full-page ad in The New York Times in 2006. (Please read this).

Anderson says, “The language is breath-taking. It talks about queer couples (plural) who jointly create a child. And intentionally raise the child in two (queer) households. He points out that there is, of course, no reference to the child’s interests or welfare under these new arrangements – only to the fulfillment of adult desires by ‘suitable arrangements.’”

This plan would result in the abolition of marriage as we know it.

The goal of those who wrote, "Beyond Gay Marriage" is not merely the freedom to live as they want. It is to force you, your family, and the state to both recognize and endorse their many and perverted choices.

And before the homosexual activists try to marginalize this document as just a few extreme activists who are out of the mainstream gay culture, take a look at who has endorsed and signed the “Beyond Gay Marriage” statement.

They are not fringe people. The more than 300 people who have signed and endorsed it include; Gloria Steinem, NYU sociologist Judith Stacey, Columbia University anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli, Georgetown law professors Robin West and Chai Feloblum, Rev. Cecil Charles Prescod of Love Makes a Family, Inc., Yale law professor Kenji Yoshino, Princeton religion professor Cornel West, and the list goes on.

Keep in mind, some of these people, and others who share their views, are teaching our children.
The response to “Beyond Gay Marriage” is a book called, “Marriage and the Public Good: Ten Principles.” It is also often referred to as the “Princeton Principles.” It is written by some of our finest scholars. I highly recommend it. Click here to read book.

There is no middle ground on marriage. Anderson says, “It is imperative that every candidate for elected office declare if he supports the vision of the family life set forth in ‘Beyond Gay Marriage’ – polygamous and polyamorous “marriages” and the creation of children raised by multiple queer households – or the model defended in ‘The Princeton Principles’ – one man and one woman coming together exclusively and permanently as husband and wife to come father and mother to any children their mutual love may bring. This is the question at the heart of the modern marriage debate.”

My question to you is simply, “What do you intend to do about it?”

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Gary Randall
President
Faith & Freedom

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