The 8th Commandment of the Republican Party

The Republican Party is considering a “purity test” – a list of 10 Commandments policy positions a candidate in the 2010 midterms must uphold, lest he risk being cutoff from RNC funding. The eighth item on the list reads as follows:

(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;

The Regressive Party seems to love using the Constitution as a defense for their ideology. Yet somehow, freedom of religion doesn’t exist in their perceived version of that founding document. Joseph Farah, publisher of World Net Daily, shows his support for the Defense of Marriage Act with this homophobic diatribe:

Homosexual behavior has been successfully marketed as a “rights” issue.

For instance, if you dare to oppose homosexual marriage, even though the vast majority of Americans do and have demonstrated in referendum after referendum, those in the public eye run the risk of vilification and ostracism for articulating such positions.

On Friday, more than 150 Christian leaders, most of them conservative evangelicals and traditionalist Roman Catholics, issued a joint declaration reaffirming their opposition to homosexual marriage on the basis of protecting religious freedom.

While I agree that government’s granting of special “rights” based on aberrant sexual behavior is a religious freedom issue, it’s not the main reason for concern by Christians and Jews.

The Bible clearly identifies homosexual behavior, as opposed to homosexual thoughts or predilections, as sin.

The issue Christians and Jews should be focused upon is whether it can ever be acceptable for the government to condone sin – or, worse yet, encourage it by making it a “right.”

I don’t believe government can do that without dire consequences.

And Farah isn’t just some crazy cook that the Regressive Party would like to distance themselves from.