Over at OrthodoxyToday.org<\/a>, Fr. Hans Jacobse looks at why gay activists in California are now attacking places of worship:<\/p>\n So what explains the aggression of homosexual activists especially toward churches in California and elsewhere? Is it just because they lost the vote or is something else at work?<\/p>\n The homosexual lobby argued that marriage is a fundamental right denied to homosexual couples. They overlook the fact that homosexuals already have the “right” to marry. They just can’t marry a member of the same sex, just as a man can’t marry multiple women, a woman multiple men, a father to a daughter, a brother to a sister, and so forth. Nothing is “denied” to them that is not denied to everyone else.<\/p>\n “Unfair” they protested and indeed it is. But fairness to those who seek new definitions of marriage is not a concern of the moral tradition. There are compelling reasons why the convention is what it is (children need both a mother and father being one of them), and tinkering with it fosters even greater instability and suffering \u2014 as the epidemic of broken heterosexual marriages attest.<\/p>\n The fact that the prohibition against homosexual marriage is grounded in the moral tradition is not lost on the activists. That’s why they attack churches. Churches are the cultural institutions that represent that enduring tradition. (It’s not lost on the Black community either. Most Blacks resent that the language of the Civil Rights Movement was hijacked by the homosexual lobby \u2014 70% voted to uphold traditional marriage.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Read “Moral Tradition and the Assault of Gay Activists” on OrthodoxyToday.org<\/a><\/p>\n