Defending Marriage With Ryan Anderson, Part 2

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Here's John Rushton, president of the North Carolina family policy Council, thank you for your family, this week you will hear the second part of a powerful presentation of fundamental importance of marriage. We began last week featuring noted scholar and writer Ron Anderson gave a speech at the North Carolina family policy Council major speaker series dinner in April 2014 Ron is the William E Solomon fellow at the Heritage foundation in Washington DC and he is the editor of the journal public discourse. Ron is one of the most articulate and winsome defenders of traditional marriage in our nation today to Ron continues his discussion about the consequences of redefining marriage and encourages traditional marriage supporters to stay engaged in the battle for marriage. We hope you enjoy it now to Ryan Anderson.

What are the consequences redefining marriage. The first is that you will eliminate this ideal. You eliminate the teaching function of the law child deserves a mother and father. The second is that there will be a stopping point that redefining marriage is. It is, it will dissolve the institution of marriage into simple contract law that consenting adults of whatever size or shape should be able to form marriages.

Whatever size or shape just dissolves the marriage institution has to do with religious liberty is the one that we are actually experiencing first.

This is the one we already have victims of but I mentioned it last because he's first to ranching the more important from a health and marriage perspective that you care about the future of marriage those first two consequences. I mentioned I really where we should be focusing this is the one that we are experiencing now and I'll mention the universal mentioned a lawsuit that was filed using seizures or saying that it violates their free exercise of religion to define marriage, the man and woman in the add-in and there is a North Carolina statute that says you can officiate at a wedding, unless there's a marriage license and she misread that standard is to be officiating at a state recognized marriage actually have the marriage license you can't say, by the power vested in me by the state of North Carolina. I now declare you husband and wife couple hasn't presented you with license you fill out more accounting and paperwork regulation, but it said nothing about whether or not the clergy could say, by the power vested in me by the United Church of Christ North Carolina marriage amendment is very clear.

The first sentence says marriage shall be defined as one says nothing in this should prohibit private contractor being formed or enforced by law and other types of unions are free to be formed to their free to be under contract law, and churches will be free to recognize so the state of North Carolina two people of the same sex and women each other and love each other they can go to progressive church wedding ceremony they can work for business and receive benefits. If the church chooses to, and if the business chooses to stay with the redefinition of marriage is government redefining marriage and then tell every citizen that they have to treat a same-sex couple is it's a marital relationship, tell every religious community that it has to treat a same-sex relationship is marriage, maybe not sign the four walls of the chapel itself, but we know how they've been treating Hobby lobby and how they mentoring the Little sisters of the poor having been treating Notre Dame College when it comes those groups don't have religious liberty under the Obama care mandate today and exempted houses of worship have been exempted religious charities, religious universities or businesses that are run by religious individuals is a question of religious liberty is will the state redefining marriage.

In the course the people in this room, treating a same-sex relationship as infants and marriage even when doing so would violate your religious beliefs in the most well-known case of this is the case of a lien photography only as an evangelical Christian who lives in New Mexico. She runs photography company called a lien photography and you sick. She was asked by a same-sex couple wedding photographer.

She politely declined, saying I believe marriage is a man or woman of the couple was able to find another photographer in town to do their wedding photos. The other refractory chart less than what we normally charges. It's not as if conservative Christians have monopoly on the wedding business suit her anyway. And the New Mexico commission on human rights sided with the couple and against Elaine in 2008 and the order was $7000 in fines.

They said she'd violated the human rights of sex couple.

She is all in the New Mexico state Supreme Court and they agreed with the lower and one of the concurring opinions.

The judge wrote that the price of citizenship is in a lien has to take these photos that I thought he was going to set the price of citizenship same-sex couples to go to a different photographer that in the American system of live and let live. You don't force someone else to violate their conscience.

You don't force someone else to be your writing that part of free contracts, free market, free association and the free exercise of religion is that we can each lead our lives in accordance with our believes the same-sex couple is free to live in the love they want to, but the evangelical should be free to run her photography business.

How she wants to and the government said no.

We've also seen that Christian adoption agencies in Massachusetts and Illinois and in Washington DC have been forced out the adoption and foster care space because they wanted to find homes with married moms and dads for the children in their care, but the government said that's discriminating your discriminating against the same-sex couple, and unless you treat the married same-sex couple equal footing as you married father. We will give you an adoption agency license and it's illegal to run an adoption agency without an adoption license, so these organizations are forced out of space. This is nothing to help orphans. This is nothing to help children ingest scores points for political correctness measure to punish those who hold a different belief and the reason I mentioned earlier, Hobby lobby and Notre Dame and Wheaton.

Little sisters of the poor is just to see how this current administration understands. They've actually argued in court that once you step out into the marketplace. You don't have First Amendment rights is not First Amendment free exercise of religion rights yesterday of the pastor inside the four walls of his chapel.

He has protections for the Little sisters of the poor group of Nuns take care of the elderly. They have to abide by the HHS Obama care mandate Hobby lobby and arts and craft store run by the Green family evangelical family. They have to abide by the HHS what is HHS mandate due to the in the case of them for their Catholic their immense contraception and there against abortion.

The Green family there evangelical there just against abortion, and for the drugs that the Obama administration mandates FDA legal that says they can cause an abortion Hobby lobby says we don't want to be forced to pay for bills that can kill in the government it says sorry you don't have read his rights you have to abide by the law, you will face fines.

That's how the government occurred initiation of these understands religious liberty and mass wins in the future for those who continue to believe the truth about marriage if the left gets their way. Laws will be used to coerce citizens their charitable institutions and their businesses into facilitating and celebrating same-sex unions as marriages, or may fines or be forced out of this 41 years ago people hold the pro-lifers that they were on the wrong side of history. They told pro-lifers that all the young people were in favor of abortion and in the only pro-lifers that only left a generation from now will be the elderly in nursing homes in the future help and time we saw prominent public officials evolved on the question of abortion pro-lifers.

People like Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, who were all pro-life evolved and became pro-choice. We saw the opinion shifted to nearly 2 to 167% pro-choice. Only 33% pro-life. The reason I mention 41 years ago was it dance right after the Roby week decision. So the court strikes down life laws abortion laws in all 50 states and the long hot something it taught that abortion was a constitutional right is not really right. There's nothing in the actual Constitution that protects a right to choose to kill but that's what a new generation of young people was hearing from the court opinion shifted. It's like politicians evolved really easy for pro-lifers 41 years ago to Salem were on the wrong side of history, we might as well give up when the announced today. My generation is more pro-life than my parents generation easy for my generation to be precisely because of the hard work that my parents generation that there were people 40 years ago formed the pro-life organization National right to life. Americans like Susan B. Anthony list.

One of the cosponsors for tonight's dinner students for life of America, one of the campus pro-life groups. The silent no more campaign feminists for life. There were pro-life academics who wrote the books of the law review article about right constitutional walling in the scientific articles about why the unborn child is not a cell is a human being moral philosophy arguments for why the unborn child has a right to life and you have politicians who eventually found the courage you have someone like Pres. Ronald Reagan, the only sitting president to writable titled abortion the conscience of the nation. President ratings only.

To call America to its founding principle of there being a natural right to life. He has enemies installed as Atty. Gen. then helps make sure laws are doing what they can to protect the unborn to make sure we get good pro-life justices of the Supreme Court, Henry Hyde Hyde amendment that prohibits federal funding from paying for portion. These are all sorts of activities that took place in the 70s, the 80s and the 90s that now makes it easy for me to be a pro-lifer and these are the sorts of activities that we now have to do on the marriage and it can't just be law and policy. It has also the culture. So one thing that I think we took to wrestle with this.

What is the alternative to TV shows and glamorize the redefinition of marriage or the glamorize teenage sexual activity.

General that something that you were still wrestling with is what is the response to Hollywood. Hollywood is done so much to undermine the values of the people in this room stand for is your response has the church engaged that has Hollywood and culture engaged but also has the wall policy because the law will teach the truth or a line in the question of what the law will do what the cultural do with the church will do is ultimately something that will depend on what we will do the only thing we have direct control over.

We don't have control over what the governor will do with the court will do with the present. We see so many people here tonight so many people lending their support for the North Carolina family policy Council and doing what each of us can do in our own locations. We each have a role to play and I thank you for playing YouTube and look at what point Gibran & April 2014 speech on the fundamental nature and importance of marriage which was presented at the North Carolina family policy Council major speaker series dinner in Raleigh. You can view a video blindfold on the North Carolina family policy Council website MC family.org again that address to see family.d thanks so much was family policy matters is information and analysis, future North Carolina family policy Council discussion on policy issues affecting the family.

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