Conservative commentator John Calvin
“Cal” Thomas has argued that legalizing gay marriage will lead to
marriages between adults and children.
The syndicated columnist made his
claims during an appearance on the Christian televangelist network
Daystar.
Marriage equality, Thomas said,
undermines “all of human history.”
“Look at Mesopotamia. Look at the
Roman Empire, which collapsed from within through moral impurity
before they were conquered from without. And that's my great fear.
I don't fear the Russians or the fundamentalist Muslims as much as I
fear ourselves,” Thomas
answered when asked, “What can be done about the federal judges
that override the majority of voters on marriage?”
“We are committing moral suicide in
this country: 55 million dead babies through abortion and counting;
we're mainstreaming same-sex marriage, the polygamists are right
behind.”
“You have the people who believe in
adult-child marriage, they already do this in certain Muslim
countries, these people want the rights as an adult to marry a
child,” Thomas added. “So all I'm asking, and what I do in
debates is say, if the line has shifted now and we accept same-sex
marriage, where would you then draw the line and on what basis? It's
all about the polls, feelings and the culture at the time, it's not
about established truth and real history.” (The video is embedded
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