McCain & Obama Capture the Historical Moment with Grace in Defeat, Magnanimity in Victory

John McCain's election capitulation speech deserves to be among the great speeches of the United States.

It should be placed in an anthology of the great world speeches for his gracious words and for his capture of this moment in history.

Both should be remembered for the historical landmarks they will become.

His and Mr. Obama's attitudes were those most becoming of a public servant - grace in defeat and magnanimity in victory.

Watching Reverend Jesse Jackson's tears at this historical juncture brought to all of us the memory of him as a young man on a motel balcony with the gunned-down Dr. Martin Luther King at his feet, bleeding and dying. It was a horrible moment in U.S. history.

And now for Rev. Jackson to be standing at the feet of President-elect Barak Obama, was a moving sight.

For while many do not agree with the Leftist positions of either man, at that moment, after the argument and debate of the past four years, after the belligerance and bickering, Mr Obama became my President!

Yes, young man - Mr. President-elect - you will have to earn my respect.

However, know this, that already in the historical significance of this moment, in the weighted bearing you already had as you walked onstage last night with your beautiful family; that in the noticeable lack of your usual swagger, you showed, to all watching, a humbled, confident bearing of a young man who needed no pretentious gait.

You will now be in all our prayers.

Gay Marriage Would Destabilize Institution of Marriage Says Canadian Attorney General

The Canadian Attorney General argued in the Halpern case:

Changing the definition of marriage to incorporate same-sex couples would
profoundly change the very essence of a fundamental societal institution. The
AGC points to no-fault divorce as an example of how changing one of the
essential features of marriage, its permanence, had the unintended result of
destabilizing the instituton with unexpectedly high divorce rates. This, it is
said, has had a destabilizing effect on the family, with adverse effects on men,
women and children. tampering with another of the core features, its opposite-sex
nature, may also have unexpected and unintended results.

(see Stewart, Canadian Journal of Family Law, Vol 21, 2004, p. 72 at http://manwomanmarriage.org/ )

Prop. 8 - Married Mother/father Child Rearing is the Optimal Child-rearing Mode

Voters and politicians can understand that the outcomes and goods that flow from a good setting for child rearing establish the mother/father mode of child rearing as the best and most favorable now known.

For further data, turn to these books:

• Amato & Booth, A Generation at Risk (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1997)
• Mayer, What Money Can't Buy (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1997)
• Poponoe, Life Without Father (New York; The Free Press. 1997)
• Blakenhorn, Fatherless America (New York: Basic Books 1995)
• Gallagher & Waite, The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better off Financially (New York: Doubleday 2000).

These favorable outcomes include academic performance and levels of attainment; physical, mental, and emotional health and development; and avoidance of crime and other forms of self- and other-destructive behavior such as drug abuse and high-risk sexual conduct, according to Monte Stewart in the Canadian Journal of Family Law (Vol. 21, 2004)

Do not be deceived about opposition to Proposition 8 in California. This is not about equality, but is about a redefinition of marriage that will have severe long-term affects on how we define this institution. Once this new definition has the sanction of law, the traditional institution will be deconstructed and significantly changed.

Go to http://www.manwomanmarriage.org/ for more information.