In the late 60’s, a wild notion blew through America churning the societal landscape drastically.  Like one of these Florida hurricanes, the Sexual Revolution left a path of destruction and misery miles wide with inestimable damage.  And now the next storm, focused on the redefinition of marriage, is threatening its share of destruction.

Back then, the first ill wind asserted that “Sex outside marriage is just the same as marriage — because we have love. . .We don’t need a piece of paper (a marriage license).”  Slogans were generated to bolster the notion: “Free love.” Translation?  “Free sex” (without commitment, particularly male commitment).  And “Make love not war,” meaning sex is better than going to Viet Nam.

As a result, secondary legal decisions were made in the public policy arena resulting in easy-out marriage (via no-fault divorce laws) and easy-out pregnancy (when abortion on demand was found in the U.S. Constitution). These decisions kept this “free love” truly free — no responsibilities.  As a result, the number of common sexually transmitted diseases increased from 3 to 30 and most of these moved to epidemic proportions, teen pregnancy skyrocketed, America witnessed 40 million abortions, single-parent child rearing became the norm, and sexually used (“loved”) women became enraged, forming a radical-feminist phalanx.  Yet America is only now fully reaping the impact of this maelstrom on the children reared in this turbulence.

But the next storm is already upon us even before the nation fully recovered from the first.  This time the assertion is “ANY KIND of sex outside of marriage is the same as marriage. . . and give us a marriage license to prove it!”

This Second Sexual Revolution has been brewing for years, reaching a Category 5 status last winter when renegade judges in Massachusetts demanded that their state’s lawmakers legislate something against their will — same-sex marriage — and when radical city officials in various parts of the nation began breaking laws by offering same-sex marriage licenses.   Make no mistake, the force behind the upheaval has been generated by those who want to change sexual norms for their own benefit again, this time targeting marriage, the foundation of society, with a full, in-your-face assault. 

If they are successful, a new and heavier path of destruction and misery will result.

Though same-sex marriage advocates make their case in civil rights language, everyone intuitively knows that no one and no one group has a civil right to redefine marriage and use the force of government to leverage obedience.

The crux of the issue, often overlooked, is that marriage is always about the next generation — it’s about children!  It is NOT simply about sex as the first Sexual Revolution left us to believe. Why would we initiate a vast, untested social experiment on the next generation of children by deliberately creating marriages that always deny a child of either a mother or a father?  Arguing about the rights and privileges of adults when it’s the children that are the priority of marriage is most profoundly selfish, reducing marriage to two questions: “How do I want to have sex?” and “How can I acquire the children I desire?”

It’s particularly interesting when the advocates of same-sex marriage, the sloganeered “diversity movement,” offer nothing but “sameness” to their children – two dads or two moms.  Real diversity is found in traditional marriage where a child has both mother and father with all of the wonderful dynamics of male and female interaction.  Because diversity within parenthood is obviously not the philosophy of same-sex marriage advocates, it clarifies that the diversity banner is more of an empty, advertising slogan directed at heterosexual adults to win “tolerance” for the gay agenda.

Yes, many families in America are headed by a single parent.  But single parents consistently desire (or would have desired) their marriages to work out and their spouses to be fully involved with their children.  Besides, a loving and compassionate society always comes to the aid of motherless or fatherless families —  it never intentionally creates them.  Same-sex marriage creates them every time.  And in so-doing, it asserts that mother-hood is no longer needed or that fatherhood is outdated.  We’ve come a long way baby. . . but not THAT far.

Unless we move to protect marriage with our fullest resolve at this moment in history, the third, unseen, but most frightening storm is yet to come:  if the first tempest pushed “Sex outside marriage is the same as marriage” and the second is now driving “Any kind of sex is the same as marriage,” what will the next storm be pushing?

If we don’t corporately set our face against this current wind, I question whether American culture will have the heart to survive the third.