Will promises made be promises kept?
Al Mohler has posted an article commenting on President Obama’s speech at the Human Rights Campaign annual dinner. For those who do not know the euphemistically named Human Rights Campaign exists to promote “lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender civil rights.” The President’s promises to the group were breathtaking in scope and would, if realized reshape American culture.
Mohler writes:
The President’s promises were sweeping. Nevertheless, the most remarkable section of his address included a truly unprecedented promise. The President told the group that his expectation is that when they look back over the years of his administration, they would “see a time in which we put a stop to discrimination against gays and lesbians.”
Then he spoke these words:
You will see a time in which we as a nation finally recognize relationships between two men or two women as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman.
Those words represent a moral revolution that goes far beyond what any other President has ever promised or articulated. In the span of a single sentence, President Obama put his administration publicly on the line to press, not only for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, but for the recognition that same-sex relationships are “just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman.”
It is virtually impossible to imagine a promise more breathtaking in its revolutionary character than this — to normalize same-sex relationships to the extent that they are recognized as being as admirable as heterosexual marriage.
The attendees at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual dinner heard the President of the United States make that breathtaking pledge. Was the rest of America listening?
Read the entire article HERE.
