'Same-sex unions' called 'destructive'

'We are convinced natural family, marriage, and birth and rearing of children are linked'
Posted: November 27, 2011 8:16 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh © 2011 WND

More than 80 non-governmental organizations and experts have endorsed a statement that describes alternatives to a husband-and-wife family, "particularly … same-sex unions" as "socially destructive."

"We are convinced that the natural family, marriage, and birth and rearing of children are inseparably linked to each other. Artificial separation of the birth and rearing of children from the natural family, family life, and marriage violates the genuine rights of the child and leads to the destruction of any society."

The powerful statement in support of the traditional family comes from more than 80 NGOs and experts who assembled in St. Petersburg, Russia, recently for a series of public hearings to address concerns about a draft recommendation offered by the Council of Europe on children's and parental rights.

According to officials with the Home School Legal Defense Association, who monitor such statements on the important issue of the definition of family, the result of the meeting was to raise a concern about the "destructive tendencies" of the document "which purported to create policy on the rights and legal status of children and parental responsibilities.

"This is just another example of non-governmental organizations [Council of Europe] attempting to increase the power of the state over individual citizens and families and to advance a radical agenda," the American-based organization said. "HSLDA applauds the work of these pro-family groups and agrees with their concerns. This demonstrates why it is critically important to pass a parental rights amendment to the United States Constitution and to be vigilant in the defense of our own freedoms." FULL STORY

The WAR to Destroy America IS Against Families

AFRA EDITORIALS By Leonard Henderson

November 19, 2011
The WAR to Destroy America IS Against Families

CHURCH AND FAMILY, YOU'RE BLOWING IT

By Lee Duigon
August 18, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

....Parents of America, these are your children who are having all these out-of-wedlock babies. What did you teach them while they were growing up? Or did you teach them pretty much nothing at all, and leave all the teaching to the teachers’ unions at the public schools? And what the schools didn’t teach them, TV and the movies did.

Churches of America, this has happened on your watch. What were you watching—Gong Show re-runs? What have you taught your congregations? Or were you so busy entertaining them, that you just never got around to God’s Word?

What about the preacher who would rather have a stake pounded through his heart, than stand in the pulpit and tell the people, “God hates sin”? Oh, but the elders wouldn’t like it! Counting that collection money every Sunday, and counting the fannies in the pews, there might be some embarrassment if the figures show a decline.

Better play it safe. Tell amusing stories, avoid telling the people anything they might not want to hear, throw in a dance or two, and some Christian rock ‘n’ roll while you’re at it. Grow the church. Measure the preacher’s effectiveness by the money in the baskets every week.

What are we to make of the work of tens of thousands of churches in a country where Christian morality is melting faster than butter on a skillet?

In our modern world, only the family and the church stand between the individual and the all-devouring messianic state. Would-be rulers of the world have been gunning for the family and the church since the French Revolution. Today parents and preachers are putting the gun to their own heads and pulling the trigger. What Stalin and Mao couldn’t do by force, parents and preachers now do themselves. FULL STORY