Emerging strategy seeks compromise of marriage and religious freedom for sake of the “gay” agenda

As is the case in the battle for the sanctity of life and as President Obama acknowledged at Notre Dame, foundational principles are not subject to compromise unless they are forsaken:

I do not suggest that the debate surrounding abortion can or should go away. Because no matter how much we may want to fudge it — indeed, while we know that the views of most Americans on the subject are complex and even contradictory — the fact is that at some level, the views of the two camps are irreconcilable. Each side will continue to make its case to the public with passion and conviction.

Another writer put it even more succinctly over 2,000 years ago: “What communion hath light with darkness?”

Nevertheless, a movement is afoot among some that pushes a compromise of marriage and religious liberty, which are constitutionally guaranteed and inalienable rights. The compromise seeks to appease the “gay” agenda which fosters harmful conduct, distorts well established principles of equal protection, threatens religious liberty, undermines marriage, and has no deeply rooted foundation in the fabric of American society. No doubt, some believe such compromise will serve their short term political interests. Pay close attention to maneuvers in the North Eastern states and the political leadership in Washington D.C.

Dan Gilgoff elaborates on the new trend in his U.S. News and World Report article titled: Conservative Activists Argue Gay Marriage Threatens Religious Liberty. Gilgoff writes:

“Many religious conservatives would like to put gays back in the closet, and many gays and lesbians would like to put conservative churches in the closet,” says University of Michigan Law School Prof. Douglas Laycock, who coedited the recent anthology Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts. “There’s not a lot of willingness on either side to let the other just live its life.” . . .

As long as we have a constitutional protection for religious liberty, we have arguments for religious believers in states that have legalized same-sex marriage,” says Jim Campbell, litigation counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, which represents same-sex-marriage opponents in Iowa and other states . . .

The legal battles between religious conservatives and married gay couples are so new that it’s hard to tell who will win in which states. But some legal scholars are encouraging the two sides to sit down and hash out laws that grant gay couples real rights but carve out significant exemptions for religious groups and socially conservative business owners. “

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