In stating his opposition to a proposed
gay marriage bill in Illinois, David Rodgers, an apostle at the
Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Chicago, compared gay parents to
“five-year-olds who think they can drive cars.”
Rodgers made his remarks while speaking
to a Fox 32 reporter before boarding a bus carrying opponents of the
measure to a rally in Springfield.
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“Our nation is not built on the
strength of its army or its finances, but what goes on in our living
rooms, and family always has been and will always be the foundation
and bedrock of society,” Rodgers
said. “And so we're gonna stand for what God ordained: It's
one woman, one man. Every child needs a mom and a dad.”
When the reporter asked what's wrong
with gay couples raising children, Rodgers answered: “Well, we have
5-year-olds who think they can drive cars. But the reality is there
is a certain way that things are structured. … There's a male lion,
there's a female lion. There's a rooster, and there's a chicken.
And biology tells us what was ordained.” (The video is embedded on
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