With a Whimper

It has been a week since Obama came out as openly in favor of gay marriage.  Everyone keeps saying that the economy is still the main topic of interest for this election cycle.  For me having gay marriage on the table is much more significant than the economy.  Here's why.

Given two candidates, both of which are saying they want the economy to improve, how do you decide which one to support?  It's possible you tell the guy who has already been working on the economy for four years that he has had his chance, and you bring in someone new to take a crack at it.  However, even if you don't like the current state of the economy you might just support the incumbent, based on an affinity for his race or the way he so readily supports the socialist lifestyle you're longing to live.

But what if those two candidates come squarely down on two different sides of a moral issue.  Can a Bible-loving American Christian honestly support the candidate who is promoting gay marriage?  In my mind that fact ought to clearly trump any other connection a voter may feel for Obama.  I am already visualizing election night, as returns come in from across the south in favor of Romney.  A clear message to Obama, and all the other outspoken supporters of gay marriage, letting them know that the choice they've made is wrong and this great country is not going to stand for it no matter how progressive they try to make it sound.

Jesse Jackson recently got in line behind Obama, announcing that the fight for gay marriage is akin to the fight against slavery.  He's so wrong I can hardly stand it.  Choosing to engage in a certain behavior does not qualify someone to receive special civil rights!  As soon as we make that leap we open the door to nonsense like they now have in the Netherlands, where pedophiles have banded together to form a political party and fight for their rights.  Their right to be pedophiles?!?  That is nobody's right!  And yet, once the homosexual agenda manages to break this ground it's only a matter of time before we follow the Dutch down their ridiculous path.

What's left to do, but wait for the foundations of society to slowly crumble beneath our feet.  Fortunately, I still hold out hope that the tide has not turned quite yet.  As long as the voice of the people unites in support of morality I can continue to hold out hope for this great country.  If, to my great disappointment, the tables are turned in November, and Obama emerges victorious, then his win will signal a major loss for all of us.  As Mosiah, a prophet in the Book of Mormon, put it:

[If] the time comes that the voice of the people doth choose iniquity, then is the time that the judgments of God will come upon you; yea, then is the time he will visit you with great destruction even as he has hitherto visited this land. (Book of Mormon | Mosiah 29:27)

I really hope we're not to that point yet.  I think we'll have a definitive answer, come November.