I often hear people ask, "How did our country get in such a mess?" It's really not that hard to explain. America's collapse is attributable to the collapse of the home in America. There are only three divinely ordained institutions in our world, the government, the church, and the oldest of the three, the home. As goes the home, so goes the government and the church, for it is the home alone that can produce the next generation of good citizens and good Christians. As the bedrock institution of the three divinely ordained institutions, as well as the God ordained bedrock of all orderly human society, the importance of the home cannot be overemphasized or exaggerated.
Every civilization in the history of the world has been built upon the home. If the home flourished, the civilization flourished. If the home decayed, the civilization decayed. And whenever the home collapsed, the collapse of the civilization quickly ensued.
For decades now the home has been under assault in America. It is as though our nation is suicidally determined to slit the wrists of its core institution. It all began in the sixties with the Sexual Revolution, which reduced sex to something causal, and no-fault divorce laws, which reduced marriage to something trivial. It continued with the Women's Liberation Movement, which decapitated America's homes.
The feminist firebrands of the sixties and seventies were ignited by the biblical teaching that the husband is the head of the home (Ephesians 5:21-33). Dismissing God’s divine design for the home as antiquated, not to mention denouncing it as discriminatory, radical feminists launched an all-out assault on the God-ordained role of men in the home. In addition to their attack on the role of men in the home, feminists, with no less venom and vehemence, launched an all-out assault on motherhood, especially on stay-at-home moms. Believing housekeeping to be demeaning, childrearing undeserving of full-time attention, and a career outside the home a woman's only path to ultimate significance, radical feminists challenged America's women to take off their domestic aprons and to take on the business world's glass ceiling.
Contrary to the poet, William Ross Wallace, who said, "The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world," the fib of Women's Lib convinced many women that rocking the cradle only hindered their career and cramped their style.
The decapitating of America's homes—cutting off men as the head of households—has been accomplished in no small part by our government's aiding and abetting of the feminist movement. In the minds of many emancipated women, men in the home have been rendered superfluous by today's welfare system. Now that groceries can be provided by Food Stamps and shelter by public housing, women and children no longer need men to provide for them. Likewise, women and children no longer need the protection of a loving husband and father now that they have caring social workers to solve their problems and safeguard them from peril.
This reducing of the value of men in the home to expendability goes a long way in explaining why the majority of Americans now see marriage as an obsolete institution and why the majority of American homes are no longer occupied by a traditional family—a husband, a wife, and their biological children. Thanks to the teaming up of the nanny state with the feminist movement, a plethora of problems has been spawned in these United States. For instance, the chief cause of crime and substance abuse in America, especially in America's inner cities, is not racism, as is customarily claimed, but absentee fathers.
Whereas almost half of the babies born in our country today are born out of wedlock, birth statistics in our inner cities are even more frightening. In our inner cities, eighty percent of African American babies are born to unwed mothers and into single-parent homes without a male breadwinner or a father's supervision. This is a formula for social disaster, as is being incontrovertibly proven today in beleaguered cities and towns across the fruited plain. Make no mistake about it; the breakdown of American society is directly attributable to the breakdown of the American home.
In addition to the above, America's current financial crisis is largely attributable to the breakdown of the home as well. Our nation's rising flood of fatherless homes is swelling welfare rolls and entitlement programs to the point of bankrupting both our federal and state governments.
Draining our government coffers and decimating our civilization, this perfect storm whipped up by Flower Children, no-fault divorce laws, feminists, and the welfare state needed nothing more than one more huff and puff to blow our house down. Well, the final straw needed to break the back of the home in America was provided by the legalization of same-sex marriage, which provided the final nail in the coffin of traditional marriage, the God-ordained bedrock of all orderly human society.
Having redefined marriage to legitimize homosexuality and having enshrined same-sex marriage in our law, so that the definition of marriage can be expanded to include sexual perversion, we’ve opened Pandora’s Box and sealed our country’s fate. Here, human history serves us as an unimpeachable witness. Although history records periods within which homosexuality flourished in particular civilizations; such as, Sodom and Gomorrah, ancient Greece, and the Roman Empire, history also attests to the fact that none of these civilizations survived. Furthermore, in each instance, the fall of the civilization came on the heels of flourishing homosexuality.
Having tossed the pebble of same-sex marriage into the pond, the ripples in our society will never stop. Marriage will be perpetually subject to redefinition in order to accommodate all sexual preferences and perversions. Having set a legal precedent, our courts are now obligated by stare decisis to allow two marriages for bisexuals, multiple marriages for polygamists, and even the marrying of consenting minors to adult pedophiles. In the end, all sexual relationships will be deemed marriageable and any dissent will be denounced as discriminatory.
Having stretched the legal definition of marriage to encompass same-sex marriage, we have now subjected ourselves to the inevitable redefining of marriage to the lowest common denominator. Marriage will be defined down by our courts until it is all-inclusive, nondescript, offensive to no one and agreeable to everyone. In other words, marriage in today's America has been reduced to meaninglessness and our society to madness!