Dennis Durband: ASU Student Takes Shot at Protect Marriage Arizona Initiative

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ASU Student Fires Blanks at Protect Marriage Arizona, Traditional Values

By Dennis Durband, Editor
October 19, 2005

Noah Lewkowitz is a graduate student in architecture. That's all you need to know about his qualifications as a columnist for the State "Leftist" Press -- the leftist student newspaper at Arizona State University. Left-leaning columnists are a dime a dozen at ASU. Conservative columnists are few and far between and are sometimes pushed out of the nest for the slightest of offenses.

Lewkowitz is one of the current resident leftists at the student newspaper, and this week he took a shot at the Protect Marriage Arizona (PMA) initiative. In doing so, he expressed utter contempt for the Judeo-Christian value system and the people who make up the backbone of America.

This is what we have come to expect in the clash of worldviews and opposing value systems, which often mark their front lines on the cookie cutter humanist/pantheist state university campuses. The anger and bigotry surged throughout his Oct. 18 column, "Anti-gay marriage bill targets heterosexuals."

The following hate-filled statement is indicative of Lewkowitz's column, in which he attacked the Center for Arizona Policy (CAP), a member of the PMA coalition:

CAP can be compared to the Ku Klux Klan in its intolerance of others. They may not lynch people or burn down churches, but they take away freedom through legislation, and that is something even more frightening.

The Center for Arizona Policy has played a direct role in the passage of 42 family-friendly bills. CAP works with legislators on good bills designed to protect children, strengthen marriage and preserve constitutional rights. CAP has worked hard to build consensus and gain passage of commonsense bills. This is called the democratic process.

In the current public debate over the preservation of marriage, CAP President Len Munsil and coalition colleagues have conducted themselves with decency, respect for the opposition and integrity. It is the other side, the leftists that Lewkowitz identifies with, who are name-calling and acting spitefully, rudely and yes, hatefully.

Lewkowitz also wrote the following attack:

The first talking point on the CAP Web site states, "Across time and culture, marriage has always been defined as the union of one man and one woman." Does this mean we should use ancient definitions for every aspect of society? If so, maybe we should revert to the ideas that the world is flat, lightning bolts are spears thrown upon us by Zeus and bloodletting is a medical cure.

By this reasoning, morality is a commodity that expires rather than a system people can live by through the annals of time. Leftists typically believe that as time passes, traditional morals erode. This reasoning also implies that the leftist morality of today will also be irrelevant in the near future. It is a foolish assumption to discount value systems that have proven to be effective over an extended period of time.

The architecture student continues:

If all CAP cares about is gay marriage, why push legislation that will affect a larger majority of straight people?

The reason is simple, it seems CAP does not believe in cohabitation among unmarried couples, perhaps as part of their ancient and outdated ideology.

The architecture student obviously has a hang-up with traditional values. Yet the antithesis of this morality, including the more recent ideology practiced by totalitarians in the Soviet Union, China and North Korea, has resulted in mass killings, famine and starvation, brutal dictatorships, gulags, killing fields and dehumanization. Humanism and earth worship have only proven that the “ancient” value systems were the best ones all along.

Traditional value systems have never encouraged cohabitation. Pro-family organizations are not in the business of telling people what they can or can't do -- that's what moralizing leftists do. Pro-family organizations do publicize the results of social science research that document certain harms to society. One of those harms is that cohabitation is statistically training for divorce.

Leftists believe gorillas turned into humans and they assign human characteristics to the earth. Yet, they regard Christianity as "ancient and outdated ideology." The God of Christianity literally walked on the earth, and evolutionists are still searching for a non-existant missing link.

More from Lewkowiz:

For their third talking point, CAP notes that 37 states in the U.S. support traditional marriage. Again, thanks for the information, but this has nothing to do with the harmful effects of the proposed legislation with respect to medical benefits, the right to see a loved one in the hospital or other rights of unmarried couples, gay or straight.

The voters in those 37 states do not agree that they approved harmful legislation. They do agree that rogue judges are a threat to the social order, the democratic process and the separation of powers. The Protect Marriage Arizona will not deny anyone's rights; this is a leftist smokescreen argument. The safest place for men, women and children is in a heterosexual marriage home. Break up that basic family unit and the social costs quickly escalate, and the taxpayer-funded public service agencies are much more heavily stretched. How long will it take for leftists to understand this? We have been presenting these points for quite some time now and they cannot – won’t is a better word -- seem to absorb the rationale.

Lewkowitz says CAP doesn't provide statistical evidence of some of its claims. If leftists would pay attention, they'd know conservatives have repeatedly presented those figures. If leftists took some initiative on their own, they could find the research. Much of it has been featured on and still appears on The Arizona Conservative.

Lewkowitz concludes:

Gay or straight, married or unmarried, Arizonans cannot let this bill pass. Young voters, such as ASU students, can help stop it. Let's show CAP we are willing to stand up against a fundamentalist Christian agenda.

If, however, we're wrong, I'll see you in hell.

I could have sworn it is the naturalistic, humanistic, pantheistic, hedonistic religion celebrated at State U. that has created a hell on earth. The fundamentalist religion of America’s public campuses has a "proud" track record -- including the culture of death, rampant STDs, date rape, binge drinking, drug abuse and crime* -- all preferable to family values and the “ancient” Judeo-Christian worldview.

* ASU ranks sixth in crime among peer institutions