I bristle slightly (ok, I bristle a lot) when conversations about fighting the #RespectForMarriageAct revolve around #religiousliberty issues. Why? Because what both our foes and our allies hear from religious Americans is, “If gay marriage passes, it will be bad for *me.*”
To which the world responds, “So the prob w gay marriage is, you might have to...bake a cake?? Deal with it, bigot.”
No one's interested in fighting SS marriage (or the myriad other ways the Left is redefining family) if it’s just about minimizing discomfort of religious adults.
But that's how all these conversations come across. Not exactly the approach that will fortify wobbly-kneed Senators or citizens to stand against a cultural onslaught.
Instead, we must forcefully highlight the child-harms of marriage redefinition.
We need to give Senators (and all citizens) someone to fight FOR. That someone is not the cake-baker or the florist. That someone is children. We need to make the direct connection (which is easy) between redefining marriage and motherless/fatherless kids. washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer…
The focus can't be on the rights of religious adults (which is clearly under attack). That tactic lost us #Obergefell. It will lose us the (laughably-named) #RespectForMarriageAct act as well. We have to fight smart, b/c they're not stopping at marriage. washex.am/3QSu1Q6
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The Conservative, Pro-Life Case Against Surrogacy 🧵
First, surrogacy critique must stem from defending the child. Bioethics and feminist opposition is strong, but can fall flat when all parties — the egg seller, surrogate, and commissioning parents — all love and consent to the arrangement.
A conservative position rejects surrogacy based on the self-evident, natural rights of the child:
• Right to life
• Right to their mother and father
• Right to be born free and not bought and sold.
The child never consent to the intentional loss of his or her mother.
But here’s what they skip: his parents spent 16 years in a bitter custody battle, his mom abducted him to Norway, and he changed his name to escape it all.
Broken homes are the common thread in mass shooters. 🧵