Anyway, I stumbled upon this item about a crazy fire-and-brimstone speech he gave yesterday at a Republican gathering in Michigan.
I wish a Republican or an anti-gay-marriage person could explain this to me: These folks claim that marriage has always been "one man and one woman" -- it's been that way for thousands of years, in all human civilizations -- Right? But then they try to take this position from Keyes' speech, where he says: "Marriage is the institution that separates America from the majority of civilizations." But... hey... wait. Huh?
He goes on, saying same-sex marriage is only about pleasure, hedonism, self gratification...
Then he takes on abortion, and in Pat Robertson/Jerry Falwell style, blames the 9/11 attacks on abortion:
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When (Justice Harry) Blackmun wrote that taking life could be treated as a private affair, we withdrew the public's respect for that life in the womb,\" he said. \"We allowed us to treat it as a choice, as a convenience.\"
So, it should not have come as a surprise that God's wrath would come down on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, he said.
\"He was telling us something on Sept. 11,\" he said. \"When the terrorists struck, he was saying it is wrong to do violence to innocent human life. ... We stand caught in the tangled consequences of our own sin.\"
All I can say is, I hope he is a speaker at the Republican National Convention this year. wink
So, it should not have come as a surprise that God's wrath would come down on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, he said.
\"He was telling us something on Sept. 11,\" he said. \"When the terrorists struck, he was saying it is wrong to do violence to innocent human life. ... We stand caught in the tangled consequences of our own sin.\"
