Former GOP Spokesman, Haley Barbour Advisor, Wants to 'Marry' His Boyfriend
By Gina Miller
RenewAmerica.com
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Last Thursday, the Washington Post carried an
opinion piece by James Richardson, whose brief bio
says that he's a former spokesman and adviser for
the Republican National Committee and Governors
Haley Barbour and Jon Huntsman. His column, "I'm
a senior GOP spokesman, and I'm gay. Let me get
married," attempts to make the case that
there is simply no reason under the sun that he
should not be able to "marry" a man.
The collapse of moral clarity in the United States
is plainly shown in the withering sensibilities of
the American people. Far too many today, especially
of the younger generations that have been steeped in
moral relativism in left-minded, government-run
public schools, can no longer discern truth from
error. More and more people, young and old, are
being taken in by the moral equivalency arguments
for counterfeit marriage. They are being asked,
"Where's the harm in allowing two men to 'marry'?"
and no good reason to oppose it enters their minds.
The Bible warns us that in these last days, there
will come a time when men will no longer accept the
truth. As written in 2 Timothy 4:3-4:
For the time will come when they will not endure
sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they
heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth,
and shall be turned unto fables.
While this may be a reference to apostasy within the
church, the nation reflects the health – or lack of
it – of the church, and our nation is quite sick.
This is evident in the gruesome success of the
tyrannical homosexual movement that is leaving in
its wake a scorched earth of obliterated freedoms,
degenerate minds and cultural rot.
So, in comes James Richardson making his case, such
as it is, for faux marriage. After reporting on the
federal government's supposed number of homosexual
couples in his home state of Georgia (over 21,000)
and the guesstimation that maybe half of them would
"marry" if given the chance, he writes:
I'm one-half of one of those aggrieved couples –
denied, for more than five years, the social
stability and legal protections of marriage. And, as
a former spokesman for the Republican National
Committee and adviser to prominent party figures,
I'm also a professional political operative who's
helped install in government those who perpetuate
marriage bias in America.
"Marriage bias"? As I have said many times, marriage
is one thing only, the union of a man and a woman.
That's all it has ever been and all it will ever be,
no matter how many lawless federal judges illegally
write bad law from the bench in overturning the will
of the people of the sovereign states who have voted
to codify the meaning of marriage in their state
constitutions. There is no such thing as "marriage
bias," unless you consider accepting the definition
of marriage to be "biased" for truth. There can
never be a marriage union between two men or two
women, no matter what our insane society declares or
how many devilish laws mandate an abominable parody
of marriage.
Richardson goes on to admit that while working
inside the GOP he was basically an agent for the
liberal sexual anarchy movement. He states:
Throughout my career I've publicly
advocated for the freedom
to marry, urging
the party for which I work to allow gay
men and women to wed even as I never openly
disclosed my personal stake. I've preached the
small-government virtues of equal marriage, echoing
a conservative
case that had been made many times before
by thinkers more eloquent and far brighter than
myself. Never once did I write that I am gay.
No longer will many people accept the fact that,
although there are plenty ofpractical
reasons to oppose it, the entire
foundation of the same-sex "marriage" argument is
dead-wrong. It is based on a grotesquely immoral,
unnatural and unhealthy behavior – pure sin, whether
anyone on God's earth believes it or not.
So, Richardson's arguments are empty from the start.
There is no "conservative case" for homosexuality or
counterfeit marriage. By its very definition,
conservatism seeks to conserve our nation's
heritage and moral framework, which includes
marriage and family. There is already "freedom to
marry" for every person, providing it is marriage in
which you choose to engage. A man wanting to "marry"
another man is nothing but a twisted farce, never a
marriage.
Further, we have here an example of what many of us
have warned: the infiltration of the conservative
movement and the Republican Party by leftist
operatives. Richardson may or may not view himself
as a leftist infiltrator, but that's what he is.
Like it or not, the Republican Party platform does
not endorse liberal social causes, like homosexual
"marriage," although that position has been eroded
lately with all the leftists who have wormed their
way into the ranks of advisory and consultancy
positions, and even political office, within the
GOP. More and more, we see the Republican Party
establishment choose to compromise on the so-called
"social issues," but that is not the conservative
position.
Richardson continues arguing his case for
counterfeit marriage:
It's not always easy to love Georgia, or love in
it. Our state constitution explicitly forbids
same-sex unions, and the local economy remains
defiantly sluggish. Yet in spite of its blemishes,
my would-be groom and I are deeply committed to our
community, one whose values of faith and family we
share.
Is he seriously trying to make a connection between
Georgia's prohibition of bogus marriage and its
sluggish economy? Yes, he is. He later attempts to
argue that legalizing counterfeit marriage would be
a great economic boost for Georgia, based on the
claims of a UCLA "white paper" that imagines
legalizing fake marriage in Georgia would result in
around a thousand jobs and $5.5 million in sales tax
revenue.
As for his assertion that he and his boyfriend are
"deeply committed to" the "values of faith and
family" of his community, I ask what "values of
faith and family" would a sterile, homosexual
pairing fall under? Certainly no faith that is based
on the Bible could remotely be argued to support
such "values," and we know that two men could never
create a family. His efforts in the column to paint
himself and his boyfriend as just a boring, Norman
Rockwell spin-off may sell to the dull of moral,
common sense, but not to those who know the
unchangeable truth about homosexuality.
The subtlety of his "aww shucks, my boyfriend and I
are just like everyone else" pitch is part of the
sinister propaganda of the radical homosexual Left.
He's not just like everyone else, wanting to be left
alone to mind his own business. He's an outspoken
homosexual activist, and his bogus, "aww shucks"
angle hides the truth about the danger to our
freedoms and our society that the imposition of
same-sex "marriage" represents. One of the biggest
dangers is to our freedom, because the state would
force, under penalty of law, the acceptance and the
accommodation of counterfeit marriage on all who
know it's wrong. It would also force the
indoctrination of school kids with the lies of the
homosexual movement, telling them that it's normal
and good, when it's anything but. These things are
already happening, although not on a uniformly
national scale.
Richardson finishes his piece with the common
refrain of the homosexual "marriage" movement that
all they want is the same right to marry as everyone
else. That's a lie. They already have that same
right, and there is no such thing as same-sex
marriage, but that's not what this is about. This is
about the normalization of homosexuality and the
crushing of Christianity and the freedoms of
Christians and others opposed to the mainstreaming
of this perverse behavior. The fictional "rights"
based on homosexual deviance and the genuine,
God-given, First Amendment-protected rights of the
vast majority of Americans cannot coexist. In
this war for the soul of our nation, one must give
way to the other. This is a war by the degenerate
Left against truth, reason, and morality.
Ultimately, they are at war against God, and while
they may seem to be victorious here in the short
term, in
the end it is God Who is the Victor.