With exactly four weeks to go until four states vote on marriage (Maine, Maryland, Washington State and Minnesota), I can tell you exactly how the fight to protect marriage will be won — or lost.
Let me first describe the 5 ways this fight can be lost:
1. It will be lost if President Obama gets away with secretly encouraging governors to
redefine marriage months before he came clean with the American
public.
2. It will be lost if wealthy pro-gay marriage corporate
executives from Maine
to Washington State
buy the election by massively outspending us in every state, sometimes by a
factor of 10-1.
3. It will be lost if ex-priests and renegade priests in Washington State
and Minnesota
drown out the courageous voices of Archbishop
Nienstedt of Minneapolis/St. Paul and Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle.
4. It will be lost if we stand by and watch as the media demonizes
pro-marriage bishops and liberal
politicians announce they will “investigate” them for their
pro-marriage speech.
5. It will be lost if we allow Planned
Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups and donors to collude with
LGBT activists to provide on the ground resources for passing gay
marriage.
Now for the five ways the marriage fight can –and will– be won:
1. It will be won if we fight to elect a strongly pro-marriage
President as Mitt Romney has promised to
be and has been in his past political
career, especially in swing states that have recently voted to
protect marriage by overwhelming margins.
2. It will be won if we fight back and donate whatever we can to
protect marriage. Your gift to marriage can currently be tripled if you
donate here: www.MillionDollarMarriageMatch.com
(almost $100K raised so far!). You can also donate to the
four state campaigns directly here and make a public gift in defense of
marriage and free speech here.
3. It will be won if we do everything in our power to combat the
misinformation spread by our opponents and dissenting catholics about what the
Church truly teaches about marriage and family. All four state campaign
websites to protect marriage (ME, MD, WA and MN) have clergy and parish
resources available. Blog, tweet, email and share on Facebook the Catholic
view of marriage!
4. It will be won if we write letters to the editor and call out
anti-Catholic politicians who are attempting to marginalize and ostracize
courageous pro-marriage voices. Do your friends, family and co-workers know
where you stand on marriage? If not why hide the truth? It needs to be told and
told now, boldly! Are we taking steps to let our bishops and priests know that
we have their back when they defend marriage? The Knights of
Columbus are (and God Bless them!).
5. It will be won if you are already active at a grassroots level
on life issues and now expand that to act in defense of the family too. Pro-gay
marriage and pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood are already in lock
step as a political force. Now is the critical time for the pro-life and
pro-marriage forces to unite and serve the common cause of defending all
members of the human family through building up a strong marriage and family
culture. The election is in one month, which means we have four short weeks to
do a great deal of good.
If you live in Maryland, Maine, Washington State or Minnesota, this is
your time to shine — visit the campaign websites to protect marriage here: ME, MD, WA and MN.
If you live outside these four states this is your time to lend aid and
support from afar. Call your friends and relatives in these states and remind
them to vote (or register to vote or request an absentee).
And pray, pray hard for our dear country and for these critical fights.
AMERICAN PAPIST
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