Sex with a minor is rape, and is considered that in almost every jurisdiction. You did say the gay marriage will lead to pedophilia, which is sex with minors legally incapable of giving consent. Statutory rape is rape nonetheless if the victim cannot give consent.
What I actually have said is that opening the door legally to marriage other than a man and a woman will lead to legalizing other perversions which have previously been illegal. And once again, the 'age of consent' is variable over time, and present standards as to who is a minor is not something set in stone. The left has succeeded in loosening overall morality. There is no reason, knowing how evil their motives are, to be certain about what they will do in the future.
They have opened the floodgates because they have changed the very meaning of the vocabulary regarding marriage.
And they control the message.
I understood your earlier post as expressing a wish to see some entity setting standards involving such things as gay marriage and other such issues regardless of what the people determine is in their best interests or "desires". If you are just calling for more education to change hearts and minds, I've no problem with that at all. I've seen over the years what can happen when a government entity decides to step into the private lives of adults, and it ain't pretty! And I think already a majority of Americans show up on polling as favoring some limitations on abortion. That's a good thing.
The standard was previously there, MAC. Until very recently, after decades of propaganda, 'the people' understood that marriage was between a man and a woman. There is no reason to believe that with persuasive arguments (there are many) as to the damage removing the family as core of our culture (which the left has successfully done) has done and will continue to do, that 'hearts and minds' couldn't be changed.
The problem, of course, is that the left controls education, Hollywood, popular culture and the media, so we are, in essence voices crying in the wilderness. That is not to say that it can't ever be done, but it would be a big mistake for all of us with moral convictions to cave to the pressure collapsing our culture right now.
Good, because some would make that linkage.
Some would do that, not because they think I've actually made the connection, but because they like to make wild accusations for the sake of argument. Unfortunately, they require disclaimers to prevent such absurdity.
Absolutely nothing I disagree with. I despise Obama and the left's overall agenda. One roadblock to these moral dilemmas is the 14th Amendment. People have a constitutional right to both due process and equal protection of the laws. That we may feel differently about some issues, as conservatives we respect our institutions, and the USSC is one of those institutions. I don't always agree with everything the president does or says, nor Congress or the SCOTUS. But these are our institutions created by "We The People".
Good. There is some common ground here. Same principles, different conclusions.
I happen to side with our Founders who stated overtly that when we remove moral constraints from our culture, that our Republic will fail. Part of the genius of those who founded our country is that they understood the sin-nature of human beings and protected others against it (checks and balances, etc.). They also understood that when morality and freedom make the turn into license, the system will fall.
That's where we are right now.
Falling.