by D. Keith Shurtleff

Created on: October 16, 2008

Please read this entire article, and do not dismiss it as homophobia or hate mongering. To do so is to misjudge the writers true position on homosexuality. The fact is that this article, like my support of Proposition 8, are loved based. It is my love for God and all his children that motivates me to stand boldly for the truth. Here are some reasons why in my view Proposition 8 should be passed.

The bottom line is that homosexual conduct is immoral, harmful, and eternally devastating to all those who engage in it. Based on that premise the following points refute all claims to the contrary and thus support the passing of proposition 8.

Civil Rights: Too many ignorantly claim that "civil marriage is a civil right". A careful investigation of that claim reveals that to compare race or sex with sexual preference is both wrongful and deceptive. There is a huge difference between supporting equal rights for women or racial minorities, and the wrongful application of that idea to immoral conduct such as homosexuality. It has never been, is not now and never will be immoral or evil, to be of a certain race. It has never been, is not now, and never will be immoral or sinful to be a woman or a man. However, it has always been, is now, and always will be, immoral and sinful to practice or endorse homosexual relationships. Homosexuality is harmful to the individuals who practice it, and the society that endorses it. This is not an issue of equal rights, but an issue of the move of society into debauchery. No one has the right to engage immoral conduct. If so, then any and all immoral conduct must be exempt from legislation, then legistaltion, and even government, beomes irrelevant. There is no form of perversion that does not have its supporters who make the same claims of civil rights about their own perversions or preferred immoral conduct, whether it be bestiality, pedophilia or even genocide.

Propensity: We hear much debate, even scientific inquiry, about whether homosexuals are "born that way," but such inquiries are irrelevant. No matter where the desires come from, acting on those propensities is not excusable, any more than the propensity to drink excuses the drunk driver, or the propensity to pedophilia excuses the predator, or the propensity to steal, the kleptomaniac. Clearly, those with a propensity to violence or killing are not excused when they act upon that immoral propensity. Every human being has a propensity to some immoral conduct or other. But what makes

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