I have said for more than 30 years that members of the gay and lesbian movement didn’t really want to marry in the traditional sense. Why would they choose to burden themselves with financial constraints and troublesome legalities, such as alimony and divorce courts? That was never the objective. What motivated many within the homosexual community was a plan to gain a foothold within the institution of the family in order to destroy it. Then, all of the benefits of traditional marriage would be granted without the entanglements that have accompanied it historically. That is what I have believed from the earliest days of the movement.                          ~DR. JAMES DOBSON I believe that this issue is much larger than one group of people trying to destroy God's institution of marriage, although, I agree with Dr. Dobson's main point. Know this: Marriage is not a government institution, it never has been nor will it ever be. Marriage is defined in the Bible (1Corinthians 7) and is mentioned numerous times and never does it define marriage as man with a man or a woman with a woman. But, this is not my point. In America if someone wants to say that they are married to a tree or a stump or a brick or a man to a man or a woman to a woman they have the freedom and liberty to say such a ridiculous thing.  They can believe such a thing to a pathological degree if they choose and are so deceived.   Almighty God has given them the right to choose to believe whatever they want to believe. The government is defined and is limited by the Constitution. The Declaration of Independence is more descriptive about the reason for the instituting the government in the first place. Many if not most Americans don't seem to realize that the sole purpose of the government is to protect the God given rights of we the people from those who would enslave or kill us. The deterioration of our unalienable God given rights began in 1913 a little over a hundred years ago. The sixteenth and seventeenth Amendments were unlawfully ratified, and the Federal Reserve Act was passed. Now everything that we do seems to be connected to tax. The Internal Revenue Service is nothing more than a collection agency for the Federal Reserve Bank, however, they are feared by everyone including preachers of the Gospel, Medical Doctors, Lawyers, truck drivers, Congressmen, Military men and women and almost everyone who generates income for themselves. The lie has been around for so long that it is counted to be fact. The complete elimination of the IRS and a few other governmental agencies and it wouldn't make one iota of difference if a few people wanted to be married to a tree. There will always be a few IGMOs around, and they deserve our help and our love, but there is little we can do if they choose believe in something that is contradictory to truth. Now it has become politically incorrect to suggest that there is a truth. I'm not suggesting that anyone should believe anything that is untrue nor would I try to prevent anyone from believing anything they choose to believe. However, in the minds of many it is Christianity that has become the problem. Something to think about. That's all. I encourage you to think about it.