South Carolina Equality Director Aims to Get Personal
BY EVA MOORE
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SC Equality is proving to be quite a force. I'm looking forward to stepping up and joining forces with Ms. Johnson.
CliffJuly 14th 02:03pm
Marriage reflects the natural moral and social law evidenced the world over. As the late British social anthropologist Joseph Daniel Unwin noted in his study of world civilizations, any society that devalued the nuclear family soon lost what he called "expansive energy," which might best be summarized as society's will to make things better for the next generation. In fact, no society that has loosened sexual morality outside of man-woman marriage has survived.
Analyzing studies of cultures spanning several thousands of years on several continents, Harvard sociologist Pitirim Sorokin found that virtually all political revolutions that brought about societal collapse were preceded by a sexual revolution in which marriage and family were devalued by the culture’s acceptance of homosexuality.
When marriage loses its unique status, women and children most frequently are the direct victims. Giving same-sex relationships or out-of-wedlock heterosexual couples the same special status and benefits as the marital bond would not be the expansion of a right but the destruction of a principle. . If the one-man/one-woman definition of marriage is broken, there is no logical stopping point for continuing the assault on marriage.
Defend MarriageJuly 15th 12:04am
I wish her the best in South Carolina and life.
CharlesJuly 15th 09:16am
Good luck, Ms. Johnson. We're for you!
OK, "Defend Marriage" -- what about DIVORCE??
Rhythm AgnesJuly 15th 11:35am
you know what has distroyed families. it is the fact that kids are left at daycare/babysiters/or lach key kids/ families don't act like families. for all that is holy just sit down and eat meals together. participate in each others lives. and if people would talk to there kids guess what stds would be down/ teen pregnancy would not have shot up like a bottle rocket. but no they want some one else to tell them. they can't be bothered.
so their children do as they like.
i think it is sad that the people who are all about family don't know anything about theres.
oh yeah one more thing my uncle is british and married his partner of almost 20 years back in 2006. and my parents have been together for 38 years this next week. (a man and a woman)
wowJuly 15th 02:18pm
I wish ms. johnson the best. i hope she can change the views of most south carolinians! Being a 21 year old lesbian myself and having full custody of my daughter from a lesbian relationship, whom i did not birth myself, I'm so tired of seeing ppl being judged bc of who they love and seeing the fight for marriage. Straight ppl r the ones who are ruining the meaning of marriage with the divorces they continue to have. you guys can marry and divorce 2, 3, and 4 women/men but we cant even get the chance to try it once. I dont want my daughter to grow up in a socitey where she will be looked down on bc im a lesbian or have the stereotype where she will also be lesbian bc she was raised by one. we need this change fast to grow as a state!!! im behind ms. johnson 100% and hope to be involved in any way possible!!
karaJuly 15th 03:29pm
Thanks to Eva Moore for the very good interview. Thanks to Free Times for publishing this piece. Good luck to Christine Johnson and SC Equality. From her enlightened, informative, and compassionate comments I am sure she will do well.
DennisJuly 16th 07:44pm
To Defend Marriage:
Marriage has changed plenty over history. Often times it's been purely a business arrangement, with no pretense of love. The woman has often been considered property of the man. Moreover, men have often been allowed multiple wives. Do you defend those versions of traditional marriage?