A day after conceding that gay marriage
is inevitable, Focus on the Family CEO and President Jim Daly railed
against the institution.
Daly, who took over leadership of the
group after founder James Dobson stepped aside, told
World Magazine this week that opponents of gay marriage have
“probably lost.”
When asked how things stand on the
issue, Daly replied: “We're losing on that one, especially among
the 20- and 30-somethings: 65 to 70 percent of them favor same-sex
marriage. I don't know if that's going to change with a little more
age – demographers would say probably not. We've probably lost on
that one.”
But in an op-ed titled Why
the Same-Sex Marriage Experiment Will Not Work published by Fox
News on Tuesday, Daly rails against the institution, warning that
it will destroy religious liberty.
Heterosexual marriage, Daly writes, is
“in the best interest of the common good.”
“However well-meaning the motivation,
reengineering what God has designed is not only unwise, but radical
and dangerous, too,” Daly says. “Here lies the last great
frontier and the last gasp for those determined to re-engineer
marriage. Those committed to this form of radicalism have
systematically broken down the cultural barrier to same sex marriage
by desensitizing people on the issue, stigmatizing those who oppose
the movement and potentially criminalizing anyone who stands in
opposition to them. The irony in our cultural discussion currently,
is if you support traditional marriage, you are the one perceived by
the cultural elite to be the radical.”
“If religious liberty is lost in
America, we will cease to be the nation our Founders intended us to
be. Our rights will no longer be derived from God but from man, and
therefore, dangerously beholden to political despots,” he adds.