There are two key Propositions on the November ballot which will further define the type of people we Californians are and wish our children to be. They will also be instrumental in determining whether the “Providential Hand of God” that the Founding Fathers spoke of will continue to “shed His grace” on us. Will the verses of “America The Beautiful” and the “Star Spangled Banner” stay in place or will they have to be watered down?
The key life style issues are Propositions 4 and 8. Will we follow the culture of life and the wisdom accompanying it which has been a part of Judeo-Christian life for thousands of years? Or will we follow the humanistic two dimensional recent thinking that thinks it knows best?
A Yes for Proposition 4 would give parents the right to be told when their underage daughters plan to abort a child. We are at a crossroads where voters must choose whether parents have rights or whether state legislators in Sacramento decide ahead of time what”s best for their child. If a parent has to be called before a school gives a child an aspirin, shouldn”t that same parent also be called prior to an abortion?
If just one minor child”s crisis pregnancy results in the child in the womb being born, isn”t our whole society blessed? Is there a living God who supports this culture of life? Yes. Voters can agree by voting Yes for Proposition 4.
And similarly, human beings didn”t invent marriage; God did, from the beginning of creation. The same God that heard George Washington”s prayers for a miracle at Valley Forge, the same God that”s on our currency, the same God who is respectfully invoked as every United States Supreme Court hearing begins, specifically defines marriage in two key places in the Bible: Matthew chapter 19, verses 3-6 and Mark chapter 10, verses 6-9. In both Scriptures Jesus quotes the book of Genesis as defining marriage as between one man and one woman. Jesus says” a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” Then He says: “what God has joined together, let not man separate.” For me, that”s a definitive reason to vote Yes on Proposition 8. Additionally, to have four people in black robes in San Francisco overturn the prior vote of 61 % of Californians is judicial activism at its worst. Voters can agree by voting Yes for Proposition 8.
Absent from the media is any discussion of those thousands of men and women who have come out of the gay lifestyle. Many then went through traditional marriages and now have children.
All such transformations confirm that there is no “gay gene”; thus it can”t be a “civil right”; change from that lifestyle is possible. Our public policy should encourage that freedom to pursue a lifestyle specifically pleasing to God where sex, like fire in a fireplace, is a part of a marriage between one man and on woman.
A Yes vote on these key two lifestyle issues will begin to reverse the tide and begin, step by step, to return our culture to the values which prompted the Creator ? mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence ? to extend His hand of Providence on the United States, from Valley Forge onward. It”s time for Him to “shed His grace” on all of us.
Jeff Daly
Hidden Valley Lake
