Here’s a serious question for you: How can you tell that our nation may have become just about too sick to be healed? The simple answer would be, “just look at California.” However, lately I am seeing many troubling signs throughout our nation that suggest that we may be well along the road to losing all vital signs that indicate moral and spiritual health in America. We’re firmly on the precipice of a complete and devastating moral collapse.

Perhaps the most overlooked danger of the legal redefinition of marriage is the threat to conscience and religious liberty. If gay marriage becomes the law of the land, school systems will be required to teach that it is equal in value and substance to traditional marriage.

If the sole purpose of marriage were to publicly recognize, institutionalize or solemnize sexual attraction and/or emotional affiliation, the government would have no business being involved with marriage at all. If society is going to regain a proper understanding of marriage, citizens must be disabused of the notion that the government’s involvement in marriage has anything to do with sanctioning love.

The natural family consists of man, woman and the children they produce. The family is not a political or sociological construct but a natural structure defined and imbued with natural law. Family is an institution first endowed by God, then written on the heart of man and demonstrated worldwide.

What lies in the balance is the definition of what marriage truly is. Those fueling the gay marriage movement seem to want more than to simply acquire the same benefits as heterosexual couples. In pressing their cause, they also seem willing to risk destroying the institution altogether.

Defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman is not something invented by the Christian Right. Even the most primitive and pagan cultures have considered sexual relations between two men or two women incomparable to the institution of marriage.