Liberty Minute November 15 2013

Following a recent Supreme Court decision that supposedly legitimized the novel institution called homosexual marriage, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel issued a directive extending marriage benefits to individuals identified as same-sex spouses of National Guard soldiers.

Most states still do not recognize the validity of so-called same-sex marriages. However, only six states ? Texas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and West Virginia ? have refused to implement the Pentagon directive. Officials in those states maintain that extending benefits to same-sex couples is impermissible under state laws, which apply to their respective National Guard units.

As Dr. Allan Carlson of the Howard Center points out, the United States military could be considered the single greatest source of cultural subversion in American society. It is, in his phrase, "an engine of social change," including radical alterations of conventional mores and the structure of the traditional family.

Although the National Guard is still considered a select state militia, it has been fully subsumed into the federal military, and nearly all of its funding comes from Washington.  This means that the Guard, rather than defending states against federal encroachments, could be used as a weapon against the states by radical social engineers.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.