June 21, 2006
God Miffed in Chicago
Finally some good news for the Illinois Family Institute (IFI), an "organization dedicated to championing and re-affirming Biblical morals and values." They have been hard at work getting an anti-gay marriage amendment on the state's November ballot, and banning vulgar books like Freakonomics and The Awakening.
It's been rough being a religously conservative Chicagoan what with the Gay Games being held there in July and the Gay Pride parade scheduled for June 25th in downtown Chicago. The IFI complained that Chicago Mayor Richard Daley wouldn't bid for the Republic National Convention yet he "excitedly courted" the Gay Games and spent "lavishly" on the Democratic Convention in 1996. IFI was waging the war to protect the family all alone.
So finally, God (who else could it have been?), finally got involved and set the GLBT section of the library on fire. That must have made the folks at IFI feel better.
Now that The Big Guy has taken notice, I suspect that if that Gay Marriage Amendment doesn't pass, Chicagoans will be getting a faceful of water from one of those Lake Michigan tsunamis that have a way of turning up unexpectedly. You see God has been very clear about the being against Gay Marriage. Toward that end, the IFI has developed a document that summarizes the arguments against Gay Marriage:
- Homosexual marriage is not a civil rights issue
- Scripture condemns homosexual practice
- If homosexual marriage can be justified by the equal protection language of the Constitution, so can polygamy and incest
- The history of human civilization supports heterosexual marriage
- Marriage is heterosexual to support the proper rearing of children
- Legalizing homosexual marriage undermines the moral foundation of marriage
This is all part of the IFI mission to be "Christ-like" and to "speak the truth in love." The IFI believes that "since Jesus went about teaching and preaching and doing good and healing, we should do likewise. A Biblical view of compassion for our neighbor demands it of us."
And what could more more compassionate than a Constitutional ban on Gay Marriage?
Spread the love! And ban those books!
NEWS FLASH: This just in. It was NOT God that set the blaze at Chicago Public. Or, it was God disguised as a homeless woman... More here.
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