The Christian conservative Family
Research Council (FRC) has criticized a ruling striking down
Florida's ban on gay marriage.
A federal judge on Thursday handed down
the fifth decision declaring Florida's ban to be unconstitutional.
(Related: Federal
judge strikes down Florida's gay marriage ban.)
FRC's Craig James and Travis Weber
discussed the ruling on the group's Washington Week radio
show.
Echoing the sentiments of fellow
anti-gay activist Ryan Anderson - “[L]imiting the size and scope of
government is impossible without stable marriages” – Weber warned
the decision could pave the way for big government tyranny.
“What's most striking to me about
these opinions … is the inability to comprehend marriage as
anything but what the state defines it to be. You know this
definition of morality and standards by which human beings order
their lives by which the state … [is the] ultimate standard in law,
authority in law, we should be aware of the danger of that. Yet
that's what we are buying into here,” Weber
said.
“People need to be alarmed,” he
added. “If we just kind of step back and take a quick history
lesson, we can look throughout history at many governments that
viewed moral authority as simply ending with the state and there is
nothing above that, there is no insight into law beyond what the
state itself said it was. Do we want that? No, all we need to do is
look at the horror which that view has wrought upon humanity.”