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Technorati“If sexual orientation or sexual attractions were the basis upon which we were allowed to marry then pedophiles would have to be allowed to marry six-, seven-, eight-year-olds. The man from Massachusetts who petitioned to marry his horse after [same-sex] ‘marriage’ was instituted in Massachusetts - he’d have to be allowed to do so,” responded the former lesbian of 19 years.
“Mothers and sons, sisters and brothers, any combination would have to be allowed,” she continued. “We have to understand the big picture.”
Adding to Schneider’s response, McPherson said, “If you’re talkin’ about just ‘love’ then anything goes and then you throw out all rules.”
“Then dominoes start happening,” he continued, noting how Satan understands how to break down the family and break down the culture.
“It’s way bigger than just these two people ‘loving’ each other. If ‘love’ is only the criteria, then anything goes,” he said.
Another question placed before the panel was regarding the difference between having two mothers or two fathers versus having one mother and one father.
“What’s the difference? They’ve got loving parents. Isn’t that okay?” the question stated.
While panelist Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason recalled panelist Schneider’s earlier note of studies on parenting that say children do best psychologically, emotionally, socially, and even physically when they’re raised by the parents that conceived them in the context of marriage, he pointed to a need that most people know to exist through simple observation.
“I’m not a sociologist. I’m not a psychologist. I’m just a human being. But you don’t need to be wearing a white coat to know that kids need a mom and a dad,” he said.
And while he praised single parents for their efforts, Koukl said children who grow up without a mother or without a father often know in their heart that something is missing.
“I know what it’s like when single parents have to raise kids,” said the apologist, whose wife was the single parent of a 16-year-old when they married.
“And many people in this audience and those listening have been raised in circumstances – where they haven’t had a mother or father maybe through death, maybe through a divorce. And they know the loss that they feel,” he continued.
“Now people in that circumstance often do a sensational job, like my wife did, to make the best of a difficult circumstance. And my hat is off to all single parents,” Koukl stated. “But why would we want to engineer that on purpose and make it the law of the land that we can deprive a child of a mother or a father?
“This doesn’t make any sense. They deserve better,” he concluded.
Wednesday’s event was one of three planned simulcast events in support of Proposition 8. Others include a broadcast presentation for pastors and Christian leaders that took place last Thursday, Sept. 25, and a future broadcast presentation to churches Sunday, Oct. 19.
Churches that participated in the simulcast Wednesday had signed up with the Mountain View, Calif.-based Church Communication Network, which broadcast the event via satellite and provides programming in an array of ministry areas.
Other live and video guests Wednesday included Ron Luce of Teen Mania; skate pros Brian Sumner and Christian Hosoi; and Kyle Loza, pro freestyle motocross rider and X Games gold medalist. The youth-oriented evening also featured music by rock groups the Katinas and Stellar Kart.
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