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America's leaders are making history -- but not in a good way. Rejecting biblical values that long strengthened the nation, some are now pursuing a treacherous path earlier leaders warned of long ago.
On May 9, 2012, President Barack Obama made history. In a television interview, he became the first sitting U.S. president to announce his support for marriage between homosexual couples.
I wish I could say that Americans were shocked to hear the news. Regrettably, few seemed surprised at all.
Many thought it was only a matter of time before President Obama revealed his true views. After all, when running for a seat in the Illinois legislature in 1996, he had openly supported gay marriage, stating that he favored legalizing homosexual marriages and would fight efforts to prohibit them.
His public positions took a different turn when he campaigned for higher office. When running for the U.S. Senate in 2004, he took a more mainstream position, stating, "My religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman."
Running for nationwide office as he sought the White House in 2008, he similarly said: "I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman . . . For me as a Christian, it is a sacred union."
Yet those words soon rang hollow. In 2011 he declared his view that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman and had passed both houses of Congress with overwhelming majorities, was unconstitutional and ordered the U.S. Justice Department to stop defending it in court.
That same year he pressed the U.S. armed forces to stop enforcing restrictions on homosexuals serving openly in the military-a practice dating back more than 200 years to George Washington's Continental Army.
Still later in 2011 he directed the U.S. State Department to use American foreign aid programs and agencies to support homosexual organizations in other countries, to coerce foreign governments into accepting and promoting gay rights, and to encourage homosexuals in other nations to seek asylum in the United States.
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