[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by Antipas

Get real. Politicians don't destroy families. People destroy families. Affairs destroy families. Spousal abuse destroys families. Child abuse and molestation destroys families. More marriages are folding right now due to financial problems and being washed out of everything they ever worked for than affairs. They can't stay above water and they begin accusing each other.

If you want to protect the family...stop trusting that the Government is the savior of the family. Pray real prayers for families. Open a shelter for homeless and displaced families. Start a family counseling and crisis center in your church. If you know a family on your block who is sinking in debt and their at each other's throats, help them with groceries and let them know if they need ANYTHING to ask and you'll TRY to help. If you know a family suffering from an affair speak frankly and sensibly and try to bring reconciliation. If you want to save the family...PREACH AND LIVE THE GOSPEL. McCain can't save the family! And marriage is an institution ordained and created by God himself...the Democrats CAN'T destroy it. It's all right wing scare tactics and propaganda! So what, I have gay neighbors who claim to be "married"....does that make me love my wife and children less???? Does that make me suddenly want to go out and get gay married? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Dude....frankly....what that gay couple does in the privacy of their own home is their business. And I'm no pervert who obsesses over it and tries to control them. I want to show them the love of Christ and pray that they be saved. I'm a friend. If they have a house warming party, I go with a dynamite gift. My wife chit chats with them when out in the yard. They open up on occasion and say, "I know you're Pentecostal, but you're different. I used to go to church. I wish more Christians were like you." And yes, if one gets sick, I'd be the first to be willing to go to the hospital with my gay neighbor to pray for his partner. Would I tell my church???? NOPE. Because they would transfer their hatred to me and I refuse to put up with it.

The point is...the only hope for the family, even gay families, is the Gospel.

As I read your post, I could not help but to think of that old song by Carman, "We Need Christ In America Again."