By Cherilyn Bacon EagarOn Aug 13, 2017 Comments Off on Candidate Chris Herrod pledges to join Reps. Love and Bishop as co-sponsor Pro-Life Heartbeat Bill in Congress
This is a clip from the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles Radio LIVE that aired Thursday, August 10, 2017 with Faith2Action.org’s Janet Porter, a champion of this measure. Janet tells the story of what happened with Congressman Jason Chaffetz and why Chris Herrod is a GAIN in Congress.
Chris Herrod – Candidate for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District – is the only candidate pledged to join Utah’s Mia Love and Rob Bishop and 260 others to co-sponsor the Pro-Life Heartbeat Bill! He’s the REAL DEAL. WATCH NOW … and SHARE with 10 others in the 3rd district!!!
Vote by mail for Chris Herrod through Monday August 14, 2017 or on Election Day Tuesday, August 15, 2017 – 7 AM to 8 PM. Find your location here:https://vote.utah.gov/vote/menu/index
This is a clip from the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles Radio LIVE that aired Thursday, August 10, 2017 with Faith2Action.org’s Janet Porter, a champion of this measure. Janet tells the story of what happened with Congressman Jason Chaffetz and why Chris Herrod is a GAIN in Congress. Chris Herrod – Candidate for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District […]
By Cherilyn Bacon EagarOn Aug 19, 2015 Comments Off on Why Every State Governor Should Defund Planned Parenthood
The Susan B. Anthony List and its research arm, the Charlotte Lozier Institute have provided three documents shedding light on why defunding Planned Parenthood should be a no-brainer for state governors. We urge them all to consider this data and to follow the handful of states, including Utah, that are taking action to do so. We wish to thank David Prentice, MD for providing this information to us. These links were sent to every member of the Utah State Legislature today with a message urging them to take legislative action. I encourage you to share them with your state legislators as well.
Please forward to you state legislators and ask them to pass legislation to defund Planned Parenthood.
Sign the petition for Utah legislators to defund Planned Parenthood.
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The Susan B. Anthony List and its research arm, the Charlotte Lozier Institute have provided three documents shedding light on why defunding Planned Parenthood should be a no-brainer for state governors. We urge them all to consider this data and to follow the handful of states, including Utah, that are taking action to do so. […]
By Cherilyn Bacon EagarOn Aug 19, 2015 Comments Off on Aborted Babies Likely Kept Alive
It gets worse. A medical researcher has disclosed the horrid probability that some of the aborted babies harvested for body parts were kept alive until the hearts were cut out. Read this report.
Planned Parenthood Barters Intact Fetuses
Join us Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at the Utah State Capitol Rotunda.
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It gets worse. A medical researcher has disclosed the horrid probability that some of the aborted babies harvested for body parts were kept alive until the hearts were cut out. Read this report. Planned Parenthood Barters Intact Fetuses Join us Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at the Utah State Capitol Rotunda. Show your support for Utah’s […]
By Cherilyn Bacon EagarOn Jul 30, 2015 Comments Off on Another Undercover Video Exposing Planned Parenthood – CA Court Bans Video Distribution
The truth is being exposed about Planned Parenthood’s lucrative and illegal baby body part harvesting business. They are using “research” as a marketing message, but they are really violating the law. Please watch this undercover video released July 28, 2015 and forward it to as many people as you can before it disappears. On July 29, 2015, an L.A. Court issued a restraining order against the Center for Medical Progress which bans any future videos. CMP announced it has ten videos confirming this beyond-horrific practice, as if the abortion itself were not enough. This is PURE EVIL!
ACTION
1. Pray for the people at the Center for Medical Progress who put themselves on the line to expose this evil.
2. Pray for our elected leaders to have the courage to take action quickly.
3. Contact your federal delegation in your state today and tell them to investigate, prosecute and stop Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding.
4. Forward this message to everyone you know, post on social networks.
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The truth is being exposed about Planned Parenthood’s lucrative and illegal baby body part harvesting business. They are using “research” as a marketing message, but they are really violating the law. Please watch this undercover video released July 28, 2015 and forward it to as many people as you can before it disappears. On July […]
By Cherilyn Bacon EagarOn Jul 23, 2015 Comments Off on Pro-Abortion Media Censors Second Video Exposing Planned Parenthood’s Baby Parts Farm Industry
According to a news report from Pro-Life Life News, the pro-abortion media are showing their bias and censoring a second hideous video of an interview with another Planned Parenthood doctor proving that its practice of selling aborted baby body parts is not just an isolated event. In fact, the pro-Life group the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) has announced that it has 10 additional videos it will release. Here’s one of the news casts – an example of marginal reporting, relfecting its bias:
Now, here’s the second undercover video – real footage. It is sickening, to say the least. These people should be serving time for breaking the law.
Who are the censors? You guessed it: ABC, NBC, PBS and MSNBC.
“ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News teamed with the top Spanish-language networks to completely ignore the heinous video. Likewise, Tuesday evening’s PBS NewsHour showed no interest in the undercover video, which featured Planned Parenthood Medical Directors’ Council President Dr. Mary Gatter openly debating the price of parts from such babies and suggesting there’s a “less crunchy technique” to conducting abortions that would produce better ‘specimens.'”
Many years ago the pro-abort media stylesheet directed reporters to label Pro-Life advocates as “anti-abortion.” That directive still stands today. If this does not alarm you, I don’t know what will. MSNBC’s Alex Wagner interviewed Dr. Anne Davis, who compared getting an abortion and ‘giving away body parts’ to donating blood!
ACTION
If this concerns you, your immediate response is needed.
2. Stop funding abortion and Planned Parenthood. If your cell phone service is with Verizon, AT&T or T-Mobile, you are supporting the worst of the cell phone companies who are donating directly to Planned Parenthood. We urge you to change your service to Eos Mobile today. It will not only send a message to those companies, but it will limit their ability to continue funding. (A complete listing can be found here.)
Contact the most egregious abortion funders – the cell phone industry’s top Planned Parenthood donors:
Verizon
Lowell McAdam
CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors
1095 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036
212-395-1000 or fax 1-212-517-1897
AT&T
Randall L. Stephenson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
208 S. Akard St.
Dallas, TX 75202
(210) 821-4105
T-Mobile US, Inc.
John J. Legere, CEO
12920 SE 38th St
Bellevue, WA 98006
(425) 378-4000
Fax Number: (425) 378-4040
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According to a news report from Pro-Life Life News, the pro-abortion media are showing their bias and censoring a second hideous video of an interview with another Planned Parenthood doctor proving that its practice of selling aborted baby body parts is not just an isolated event. In fact, the pro-Life group the Center for Medical […]
By Cherilyn Bacon EagarOn Jul 15, 2015 Comments Off on Planned Parenthood Caught Selling Body Parts from Abortions on Undercover Video
Yesterday Lifesite News sent an alarming news report containing an undercover video of Planned Parenthood negotiating the sale of baby body parts obtained from abortions. They are sold to scientists for medical research. This practice is unlawful. It’s time to ask our elected officials to stop taxpayer support for Planned Parenthood.
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Yesterday Lifesite News sent an alarming news report containing an undercover video of Planned Parenthood negotiating the sale of baby body parts obtained from abortions. They are sold to scientists for medical research. This practice is unlawful. It’s time to ask our elected officials to stop taxpayer support for Planned Parenthood. Here’s the video: Contact […]
By Cherilyn Bacon EagarOn Mar 22, 2015 Comments Off on Personal Loss and the Preservation of Family, Faith, Freedom
It’s the end of another Sunday, that day of rest for those of us that honor the Sabbath on this day. As the evening draws around, I wanted to share some personal thoughts. We are engaged in the cause of preserving our children’s future, rooted in the family – the foundation of that free society – and fundamentally religious liberty.
It was such sobering and tragic news to learn of the fire that killed seven children in an Orthodox Jewish Sabbath fire on Saturday, March 21, 2015. As a mother of five myself, I cannot fathom the overwhelming grief the surviving father must feel, now watching his wife and only remaining child – a 14 year old daughter – suffer in critical condition in the hospital from extensive burns.
First, the irony. Orthodox Jewish religious tradition does not permit flames for cooking on the Sabbath. Meanwhile, ISIS violence – as evidenced in videos of beheading and burning “infidels” alive in the Middle East, continued threats of terrorist attacks in the region – puts the cause of freedom into perspective in light of this faithful family’s loss.
Second, nothing is as precious as the life of a child, preservation of family and the bond they create through religious faith. These children have lost their physical lives and the parents and remaining child will be emotionally scarred, but they have not lost their souls – not a single one of those seven children. They were “pure” in the eyes of G-d as their father Gabriel Sassoon said. Their faith will sustain this family. I have utmost respect for my Orthodox Jewish friends and their religious traditions. My prayers are with this family and a community in mourning.
That is a lesson for all of us.
We are surrounded by so much suffering, but our collective faith, whether Jew or Christian, tells us there is still a G-d and that He is in charge, that there is more beyond this life, and that we will have eternal peace if we are true to our faith. Our Divine Maker knows all, and there is a purpose to everything under heaven.
I thought it would be appropriate to quote from the translated Jewish bible Kohelet Chapter 3, sentiments shared by Christian and Jew alike:
Everything has an appointed season, and there is a time for every matter under the heaven.
No matter the sorrow, tragedy or the loss we may face, let us never, ever lose our faith.
I witnessed a miniscule slice of the Sassoon’s tragedy in my own family. My mother lost her oldest son in an Air Force F-100 jet crash, his body also badly burned. After a month-long search, his aircraft was found and his body recovered. I was only about six years old, but for years I watched my faithful mother carry on with her life and do so much good for so many. She was my role model and so involved in the early days of protecting Life and family. On occasion in her solitude, I caught her weeping over that loss of her son. Nothing is quite as difficult as the loss of a child.
The news of the Sassoon family’s loss became a metaphor. I reflected on the losses experienced by those of us who have been fighting for the preservation of the family, marriage, a child’s need for both a mother and a father, and religious liberty. The past two years have been stunningly swift in burning down these noble institutions under new, activist judge interpretations of the law.
Who would have imagined that Utah would be the first in a string of state-by-state cloned legal challenges? Those of us who have sacrificed so much over the years are now in mourning these losses. But we also know that God is in charge and that we will never give in. We will be here tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, because it is not just the earthly physical lives of our children being harmed, but their eternal souls are under attack.
I received two notes this week from friends in this fight that brought me to tears.
One was a forward on a comment a former campaign worker mentioned of me – that I was feared by both men and women. I was grateful that he was defending my “principled” approach, and that he was concerned that it may have been a reason for my loss when I ran for U.S. Senate in 2010. No doubt there were many reasons, but I have no regrets that I spoke the truth and if I was “feared,” so be it. As Jesus said in Matthew 13:9, “Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.” Sometimes the truth is hard to hear and too many are hard of hearing.
Another comment was a heartfelt letter from a young woman who has joined the ranks of grassroots activists more recently and who has observed the onslaught of discouraging events that are destroying the civil rights of children in protecting their need to have both a mother and a father in a committed marriage relationship.
She wrote:
I’ve been pondering: It’s easy to make personal sacrifices to serve in our county and state when one knows one can make a difference for good. And if you know your team is winning, it’s even easier to want to join the team!
But what if one can’t make a difference for good because the majority supports the opposite? And what if your team keeps losing? What, then, IS the point of serving and sacrificing precious time with family? What’s the point of being sleep deprived with worry and concern and extra meetings and studying and research, and all the extra stress and responsibility, and feeling your health deteriorate, and seeing all the muck of dishonesty and hypocrisy up close in your face — even thrown IN your face??! Why, then, would I or anyone want to serve in my community, state, and/or country?
I’ve concluded (and must keep remembering) that men and women who truly know and love God, family, and this country won’t give up.
They physically can’t sit down and watch from the sidelines while others tear down God, family, and our country.
They have to be true to the inner voice inside them that insistently says, “YOU are on the right side! And you CAN make a difference!” even when we’re outnumbered, outmaneuvered, out-of-money, out-of-resources, out-of-time, out-of-every-last-drop-of-energy.
True Americans are true to correct principles even if they are not popular and the majority ignore them, mock them or twist them to their advantage.
True Americans are true to God first, and to serving Him, and to doing it His way simply because they know He’s always right, and that somehow it all works out in the end!
Our county, state, and nation need more true Americans like you to step up to the plate.
Thank you for stepping up to the plate over all these years and for being great examples to me.
Carry on! I’m following you!
Carry On
It’s true. I am not engaged in this fight for Liberty because it’s fun or because I’m in a popularity contest for most likeable activist. It’s not even what I had envisioned my life to be when I started out as a new bride, then a young mother raising five children.
I had always thought if I lived a good life and if I did the right things, or asked for forgiveness when I really messed up, the Lord would bless me and I’d spend my retiring years in contentment, playing with grandchildren on some Golden Pond somewhere in New Hampshire.
It’s been a different path. Not that the Lord hasn’t blessed me, but it has been a path full of bumps and stumbling blocks. At times it looked as though I was on a dead end or even that I was falling off a cliff.
Today I’m either loved or hated for the views I express publicly.
The criticism comes sometimes even from friends and family, or those who only hear – or are influenced by – the news sound bites, opinions that almost always come from sources that either do not understand the issues, who cannot dig deeply enough into the crux of the point, or who actually believe the counterfeit arguments from a progressive media. It is sometimes daunting.
We all love to be on the winning team. No one likes being a loser. It’s a universal pursuit of happiness to succeed in an environment that supports success.
I come from a strong musical theatre background and have sung professionally for most of my adult life from Off-Broadway to National Tours to Regional Theatre and local community theatre.
One of the songs I sang from the 1970s was written by the masters of the Broadway showstoppers of the day – Kander and Ebb – called Maybe This Time. “Everybody loves a winner,” the song goes.
When it comes to conservative policy in 2015, it appears we are losing, and as the lyrics continue: “so nobody loved me.”
How many times have I sat in the bleachers of a football game when the team I’m supporting is getting slaughtered? It’s easy to criticize and to sideline quarterback. When one of my sons was out on that field in high school as a wide receiver, I understood more completely that real young men are out there playing an inner game of football. The coaches are “building character,” we say, by teaching them not to give up – even in the face of defeat – and how to turn the game around.
My own mother taught me to “take lemons and make lemonade.” At my first piano recital, I knew that song backwards and forwards, but as I sat at the piano bench my knees were knocking and my fingers shaking. I began, and not far into the song, I played a wrong chord. Five wrong tries later, I heard a desperate voice from the back of the audience, my mother, in a loud whisper: “Just go on.” And I did.
(I became a singer instead.)
But those three words “Just go on,” have made all the difference in my life.
How Shall We “Carry On?”
Although Utah’s marriage law was only one issue, it is the example for all issues. We the People have allowed a single individual -a federal judge to unilaterally, without a hearing, strike down Utah’s constitutional law protecting marriage between a man and a woman in the false name of “civil rights.”
Why? Because we have elected a majority of people who lack principle and who are of a weak character.
But whose “civil rights?”
In Australia, a socialist nation only a few steps farther down the road to serfdom from the United States, abortion is a civil right, too. Through its Medicare program, it’s “free.”
I’ll put it bluntly: Australia has walked away from God’s law and has rewritten murder as a civil right. When Roe v. Wade’s decision became the law of the land, we had lost. We had to make a decision. Do we pack up and go home and allow evil to win?
No. Never.
The media would have you believe I and others who share the same view on principled governance are simply “extremists.” Even some of our “Republican” leaders in Utah call us “extremist” because we believe this nation has walked away from God and its once biblically-based jurisprudence. We hear so much about “partisanship” and the need for “bipartisanship.”
What are they talking about? How do you compromise between good and evil? Compromise comes with the details of how to get something done, not the principles themselves. When we ask for bi-partisan compromise and the issue is a moral issue, we are asking for those that believe the most to acquiesce to those who believe the least. We then become secular humanist in policy. It is the tug of war between God and Caesar. If you chart the direction this has been heading for decades, it will show a sharp loss of personal liberty and a huge gain in big government control. Caesar is winning that war.
The loss of principled leadership brings a loss of liberty. This is what compromising with evil does.
Now we have a strongly Republican Congress that is also blurry-eyed when it comes to principled leadership. In short, we elected them to set this nation’s heart and soul right so that fiscal stability will follow (throughout history, it always does), and nothing is happening. In fact, promises to stop the immorality of the redistribution of wealth in areas not enumerated to the federal government by forcing ObamaCare and Medicaid expansion (which uses taxpayer funds to support abortion), is a prime example. Congress had the power of a check and balance on the US Supreme Court’s decision, but it went silent.
The inability of a Republican Congress to enforce the law on illegal immigration and to curtail the side effects of crime, drug cartels and the weakening of workforce wages defies its party platform. To delay passage of a law to further restrict abortion, another party platform, is unconscionable.
This has not come at the hands of Democrats alone, but by the added support of Republicans.
This is not just problematic, it’s evidence that the Republican Party is merely a party of empty platitudes with candidates that are required to go through a Karl Rove sieve that has no intention of being that party of principle it once was.
Now talk show host Glenn Beck has announced he’s leaving the Republican Party. As one who was for a short time on the top levels of a third party, I ask, just where will he go? Our laws are crafted and guarded by the two parties that control the system.
My experience in a third party is that human nature will prevail unless the leadership of that party is principled. The quest for power and unrighteous dominion over man’s free will is not necessarily overcome by establishing a third party. Third parties on a national scale spend the majority of time simply getting ballot access, which wears volunteers down and impedes the ability to organize the candidate’s campaign.
What do we do then?
1. We do what we can to influence good wherever we are. We do so because it is right, because it is God’s will, not man’s law, that governs our actions. Our laws may turn against God’s law, and they have, but we still have the freedom to speak out, to act up, and to advocate for liberty. Freedom isn’t free.
2. To our opponents I say: Your liberty to do as you please, regardless of any moral standard, will continue to burn this nation’s house down and there will be a heavy price to pay to build it back up.
3. To the many leaders many stalwart leaders in the battle for the heart and soul of this nation who are feeling a deep loss and who are in mourning, I use my friend’s words: “Carry on.” The American founders consecrated all they had for liberty – their lives, fortunes and sacred honor. They knew that religious liberty was so fundamental that they enshrined it as an unalienable right First and then ensured its protection in the Second Amendment – the right to bear arms.
May our prayers continue to be for the American people to wake up, for our hearts to turn back to God, for liberty to prevail. We will not give up, even if we are temporarily “losing” and do not experience the immediate reward. Because, as syndicated columnist Cal Thomas said many years ago, “I’ve read the Book, and in the end WE win!”
Here’s Jackie Evancho singing The Lord’s Prayer. It is my prayer that this performance by a 12 year old that has a gift from God will inspire you, and that it will keep this eternal perspective in view as we continue in this Good fight. Win or lose, we will stay the course.
It’s the end of another Sunday, that day of rest for those of us that honor the Sabbath on this day. As the evening draws around, I wanted to share some personal thoughts. We are engaged in the cause of preserving our children’s future, rooted in the family – the foundation of that free society […]
Rumor has it that the Pope is weakening the Catholic church’s stance on homosexuality and gay marriage. The latest indicator is yesterday’s announcement that long-time stalwart and pro-Marriage, pro-Life warrior Cardinal Raymond Burke was removed from the highest court of the Vatican and demoted to a mere ceremonial role.
This is a sad and most troubling day, given the history of gay priests and pedophilia that has plagued the Catholic Church for so long.
We pray for all churches today that they will remain true to the principles of the Gospel and that they will not buckle under pressure from those that seek to persecute and destroy religion with death by a thousand stabs, one at a time.
Rumor has it that the Pope is weakening the Catholic church’s stance on homosexuality and gay marriage. The latest indicator is yesterday’s announcement that long-time stalwart and pro-Marriage, pro-Life warrior Cardinal Raymond Burke was removed from the highest court of the Vatican and demoted to a mere ceremonial role. This is a sad and most […]
By Cherilyn Bacon EagarOn Sep 7, 2014 Comments Off on Why Aren’t More Mormons Standing Up For Marriage?
I routinely give presentations and communicate by email to business and religious leaders of many faiths across the nation. This article by my friend Wendy Asay, “Why Aren’t More Mormons Standing Up for Marriage” was of great interest because the Mormons are probably best known for their strong families and their advocacy for Marriage. Certainly it has been publicly acknowledged by those who were involved that the Mormons’ support of California’s Prop 8 made a difference in winning that statewide referendum.
I routinely give presentations and communicate by email to business and religious leaders of many faiths across the nation. This article by my friend Wendy Asay, “Why Aren’t More Mormons Standing Up for Marriage” was of great interest because the Mormons are probably best known for their strong families and their advocacy for Marriage. Certainly […]
By Cherilyn Bacon EagarOn Jan 24, 2013 Comments Off on Celebrating Life – The Human Face of Abortion
Recently we mourned the 40th Anniversary of the devastating Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade that has claimed over 55 million innocent lives in the United States. I urge you to take a few minutes to hear from the survivors and exceptions of abortion as they bravely step forward to tell their stories. Here they are: Read More
Recently we mourned the 40th Anniversary of the devastating Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade that has claimed over 55 million innocent lives in the United States. I urge you to take a few minutes to hear from the survivors and exceptions of abortion as they bravely step forward to tell their stories. Here they […]
I oppose the federal over-reach of the federal government to require that every school allow people of the opposite sex into a public bathroom, locker room or shower room. The enumerated powers of the U.S. Constitution are limited.
I call on my state and local elected officials to use the surplus and savings to fund our schools with our own revenues and natural resources that Washington has no business stealing in the first place.
It’s time to take back our lands and allow the counties and the people to decide best how to use them. I ask our governor, attorney general and legislature to protect this fragile balance of power.
I call on my state and local elected officials to define gender as “sex” in the code and local ordinances, and only as the scientifically-based definition of "male" and "female" which are the biological chromosomes "XX" and "XY" - the DNA with which we are born. In the rare instance of the XXY chromosome, we acknowledge medically-sound remedies readily available for those individuals.
I also urge constitutionally-based County Sheriffs willing to defend our constitutional rights to protect their citizens from federal over-reach and to ensure safety for all.
The Patriots of the Malheur Refuge occupation 2016 and of the Bundy Standoff 2014 are political prisoners at the hands of criminal politicians on a witch hunt against Americans who stand on Constitutional principles. They are being held and tortured in jail without bail, and the majority of their Constitutional rights are being violated.
We urge our elected officials and citizens everywhere to contact the jails and to demand that their Constitutional rights be upheld and that the criminals in the federal Court system and the federal government be investigated. We demand the humane treatment and pre-trial release of these innocent Americans so that they can prepare their legal defenses and receive due process, a speedy trial and prove their innocence.
We ask Senator Mike Lee, Congressman Chris Stewart and Attorney General Sean Reyes to act immediately to demand the release of Ryan Bundy and David Bundy, their constituents. Specifically:
1. Respond immediately to Ryan Bundy's letter, which was hand-delivered to you over the weekend of April 23, 2016.
2. Issue a public statement advocating for the pre-trial releases of ALL these patriot political prisoners, and in support of humane treatment of Ryan Bundy and the other political prisoners also incarcerated.
3. Show outward support the Constitutional core issue in question, namely, Article I, Section 8, Clause 17, for which the ranchers stood at the Bundy Ranch in 2014 and again at the Oregon Refuge in 2016.
4. Use your title and access to the media to defend the Constitutional rights of the political prisoners, including Amendments 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
5. Investigate the criminal activities of the FBi, the Department of Homeland Security, Senator Harry Reid, his son Rory, President Obama and The Clinton Foundation in association with these land grabs.
We urge you to sign this pledge today and join with many national and local leaders of differing religious backgrounds who are uniting in defense of natural Marriage.
We Pledge in Solidarity to Defend Marriage and the Family and Society Founded Upon Them
We stand together in defense of marriage and the family and society founded upon them. While we come from a variety of communities and hold differing faith perspectives, we are united in our common affirmation of marriage.
On the matter of marriage, we stand in solidarity. We affirm that marriage and family have been inscribed by the Divine Architect into the order of Creation. Marriage is ontologically between one man and one woman, ordered toward the union of the spouses, open to children and formative of family. Family is the first vital cell of society, the first government, and the first mediating institution of our social order. The future of a free and healthy society passes through
marriage and the family.
Marriage as existing solely between one man and one woman precedes civil government. Though affirmed, fulfilled, and elevated by faith, the truth that marriage can exist only between one man and one woman is not based on religion or revelation alone, but on the Natural Law, written on the human heart and discernible through the exercise of reason. It is part of the natural created order. The Natural Law is what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., referred to as a higher law or
a just law in his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Marriage is the preeminent and the most fundamental of all human social institutions. Civil institutions do not create marriage nor can they manufacture a right to marry for those who are incapable of marriage. Society begins with marriage and the family.
We pledge to stand together to defend marriage for what it is, a bond between one man and one woman, intended for life, and open to the gift of children. The institutions of civil government should defend marriage and not seek to undermine it. Government has long regulated marriage for the true common good. Examples, such as the age of consent, demonstrate such a proper regulation to ensure the free and voluntary basis of the marriage bond. Redefining the very institution of marriage is improper and outside the authority of the State. No civil institution, including the United States Supreme Court or any court, has
authority to redefine marriage.
As citizens united together, we will not stand by while the destruction of the institution of marriage unfolds in this nation we love. The effort to redefine marriage threatens the essential foundation of the family. Experience and history have shown us that if the government redefines marriage to grant a legal equivalency to same-sex couples, that same government will then enforce such an action with the police power of the State. This will bring about an inevitable collision with religious freedom and conscience rights. The precedent established will leave no room for any limitation on what can constitute such a redefined notion of marriage or human sexuality. We cannot and will not allow this to occur on our watch. Religious freedom is the first freedom in the American experiment for good reason.
Conferring a moral and legal equivalency to any relationship other than marriage between a man and a woman, by legislative or judicial fiat, sends the message that children do not need a mother and a father. As a policy matter, such unions convey the message that moms and dads are completely irrelevant to the well-being of children. Such a policy statement is unconscionable and destructive. Authorizing the legal equivalency of marriage to same-sex couples undermines the fundamental rights of children and threatens their security, stability, and future.
Neither the United States Supreme Court nor any court has authority to redefine marriage and thereby weaken both the family and society. Unlike the Legislative Branch that has the power of the purse and the Executive Branch which has the figurative power of the sword, the Judicial Branch has neither. It must depend upon the Executive Branch for the enforcement of its decisions.
As the Supreme Court acknowledged in the 1992 decision of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, its power rests solely upon the legitimacy of its decisions in the eyes of the people. If the decisions of the Court are not based on the Constitution and reason, and especially if they are contrary to the natural created order, then the people will lose confidence in the Court as an objective arbiter of the law. If the people lose respect for the Court, the Court’s authority will be diminished.
The Supreme Court was wrong when it denied Dred Scott his rights and said, “blacks are inferior human beings.” And the Court was wrong when Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in Buck v. Bell, “three generations of imbeciles are enough,” thus upholding Virginia’s eugenics law that permitted forced sterilization. Shamefully, that decision was cited during the Nuremburg trials to support the Nazi eugenic holocaust.
In these earlier cases, the definition of “human” was at issue. Now the definition of “marriage” is at issue. The Constitution does not grant a right to redefine marriage — which is nonsensical since marriage intrinsically involves a man and a woman. Nor does the Constitution prohibit states from affirming the natural created order of male and female joined together in marriage.
We will view any decision by the Supreme Court or any court the same way history views the Dred Scott and Buck v. Bell decisions. Our highest respect for the rule of law requires that we not respect an unjust law that directly conflicts with higher law. A decision purporting to redefine marriage flies in the face of the Constitution and is contrary to the natural created order. As people of faith we pledge obedience to our Creator when the State directly conflicts with higher law. We respectfully warn the Supreme Court not to cross this line.
We stand united together in defense of marriage. Make no mistake about our resolve. While there are many things we can endure, redefining marriage is so fundamental to the natural order and the common good that this is the line we must draw and one we cannot and will not cross.
Whereas, marriage has been the bedrock of society for thousands of years and traditionally and correctly defined by human civilization as the union between one man and one woman;
Whereas, marriage prevents fatherless children;
Whereas, children have a legitimate interest in the stability of the homes into which they are born and cannot possibly defend those interests on their own;
Whereas, radical liberal activists have been waging a legal and political war on this traditional view of marriage in an attempt to force the government to redefine this sacred institution;
Whereas, the news media and various political pundits and lawyers have wrongly declared that the American people support redefining marriage and that anyone who supports traditional marriage is “on the wrong side of history.”
Therefore, I, the undersigned, do hereby declare my unconditional support for traditional marriage and urge all of our nation’s elected leaders and judges to protect this most sacred institution. When we stand with children, we will always be on the right side of history. Marriage is the union of one man and one woman. PERIOD!
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