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Not surprising<\/a>. \u00a0Like most countries approving gay marriage, the factors in place to allow it to happen are killing the culture anyway. \u00a0It\u2019s not that gay marriage destroys civilization. \u00a0It\u2019s that the attitudes and values needed to allow gay marriage go far in destroying a civilization. \u00a0So Ireland, having jettisoned its Christian moorings, has watched its birth rate plummet along with most other Western cultures<\/a> (including the US). \u00a0That\u2019s because kids are perhaps a great commodity to manipulate and manufacture based on our whims and fancies, but they should have nothing to do with sex and marriage. \u00a0Which is the moral viewpoint needed to accept gay marriage. \u00a0And it is also needed for a culture to abort itself out of existence.<\/p>\n

So once again, a culture hellbent on suicide takes the next forward step toward hastening that outcome. \u00a0Well done. \u00a0Well done indeed.<\/p>\n

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.<\/i> \u00a0 Isaiah 5:20<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Not surprising. \u00a0Like most countries approving gay marriage, the factors in place to allow it to happen are killing the culture anyway. \u00a0It\u2019s not that gay marriage destroys civilization. \u00a0It\u2019s that the attitudes and values needed to allow gay marriage go far in destroying a civilization. \u00a0So Ireland, having jettisoned its Christian moorings, has watched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nIreland supports gay marriage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Not surprising. Like most countries approving gay marriage, the factors in place to allow it to happen are killing the culture anyway. 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