The homeownership rate in American has fallen to 66.9%, which is the lowest since 1999. I realize that times are tough and there are some people who can no longer afford a home simply because they have lost their job and are unable to find a new one. But there is a large segment of the population that had no business owning a house in the first place. There are people who need to be and remain renters. The only reason they owned a home in the first place is because the government forced mortgage companies to lend to people that couldn’t get a cup of water at a “We’ll tote ...

This entry is part 6 of 9 in the series Gay "Marriage" Is Wrong. Period.(HT Stand to Reason) Here’s an article from the L.A. Times, reprinted with one small tweak: Reporting from San Francisco and Los Angeles — The federal judge who overturned Proposition 8 Wednesday said the ballot initiative that banned polygamy was based on moral disapproval of polygamous marriage and ordered the state to stop enforcing the ban. U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker, in a 136-page ruling, said California “has no interest in differentiating between two-person and multiple-person unions.&#...

This entry is part 5 of 9 in the series Gay "Marriage" Is Wrong. Period. (HT Reformation 21) While the judicial overturning of the gay marriage ban in California was hardly unexpected, it has raised a number of points of interest for discussion. Perhaps the most significant comment I have heard over the last few days was on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program where one of the pundits observed that there was a generational divide in the issue: for the under 35s, gay marriage is not even an issue. Christians may well throw up hands in horror at this, though I would say that this generati...

This entry is part 4 of 9 in the series Gay "Marriage" Is Wrong. Period.(HT Albert Mohler) The importance of the decision handed down yesterday by U. S. District Judge Vaughn  R. Walker in California’s Proposition 8 trial will be difficult to exaggerate. Proponents of same-sex marriage immediately declared a major victory — and for good reason. The editorial board of The New York Timesdeclared the verdict “an instant landmark in American legal history,” and so it is, even if later reversed upon appeal. Judge Walker’s decision is sweeping and comprehensive, basically affirming every...

This entry is part 3 of 9 in the series Gay "Marriage" Is Wrong. Period.(HT Stand to Reason) Federal Judge Vaughn R. Walker wrote in his decision on the California proposition defining marriage as one man and one woman: Plaintiffs challenge Proposition 8 under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment,” the judge wrote. “Each challenge is independently meritorious, as Proposition 8 both unconstitutionally burdens the exercise of the fundamental right to marry and creates an irrational classification on the basis of sexual orientation. Regarding the s...