Gingrich: 'Traditional Marriage' Will Return, Europe Will Go Religious
By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country
I'm profiling Newt Gingrich and was struck by two predictions he recently made to me on the religion/politics front: that "traditional marriage" will return in states that have already legalized gay marriage, and that mostly secular Western Europe will soon see a major religious revival.
Here's what Gingrich said:
I happen to favor traditional marriage and suspect in the long run we'll go back to traditional marriage. I don't believe we're going to follow Europe down the road of a secularized, nonreligious society. If anything, I suspect that in the next 30 years Europe will become dramatically more religious because what it will find is that a secular society is stunningly sterile and has no natural base on which to organize civilization.
Both predictions run counter to conventional wisdom, but many Republican allies call Gingrich a futurist because of his prescience on big issues. What do you make of his crystal ball reading?
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Republicans - the party of lies and hatreds
How many wives has Gingrich had - 3 so far. This is all crap from the party where lies become truth, and truth becomes lies. Who knows - prob the next wife for Gingrich will be a guy. He is just like Rush Limbaugh, 3 wives up and 3 wives down. Maybe he has a B/F who will out him, like happened his christian pals such as Minister Ted Haggard, who ranted against gays, and then satisfied his urges with a - get this - male prostiture. And then Haggard was "christian cured of his homosexuality". Result - he moved from a 30 year old male prostitute to a 18 or 20 year old, or both - the situation is somewhat unclear - male. Oh, BTW, add republicans Foley, Craig, the 2006 head of the young republicans who went into a sleaping man's room and had oral sex until the victim woke up and called the police.
The whole republican party leadership is nothing but a bag of liars. They do just the opposite of what they preach, while blinding religious people to their real goals - turning America into a big Mexico, where tens of millions of the middle class have to leave their nation to find work at dirt cheap wages, to support their families.
These pigs will not go to the slaughterhouse, unfortunately. But they will go to God's re-education camp for their lies and mass thievery All in the Name of God.
As for Europe, religion is dead there. Only about 15% of people attend church regularly. And many of them are widows looking for a new husband. The Catholic church is recognized as the church that gave the world the hatred of the Jews, Jesus own people. A hatred that Hitler - a Catholic - leveraged to gain total control of Germany and give us WWII. Now headed by a man who learned about power and control because he was born in 1928 in Nazi germany.
And without the Church, in many ways a medieval monstrosity whose hate is now focused on gays, virtually every major nation in Western Europe recognizes gay relationships legally. Only exceptions are Greece and Italy, and Ireland will happen this year.
And to add to the list of nations who recognize the humanity of God's creation which includes gay people, we have Canada, Israel, Rep. of South Africa, New Zealand, Australia*, Nexico*, Chech republick, Hungary, Canada, Brazil*, Uraguay, Columbia, Arrgentina*. Nepal, and Japan".
* - partial rights and / or rights only in some states.
Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy!
Traditional marriage? What unmitigated rubbish. Not a sane person alive would agree to anything like ‘traditional marriage” especially this despicable blowhard hypocrite who
pressed his first wife to sign divorce papers while she was still in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. Disgusting!
Traditional marriage is for better or for worse, till death do us part. Jackie, his first wife. said, "He walked out in the spring of 1980.... By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said, "Daddy is downstairs. Could he come up?" When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from my surgery."
The hospital visit wasn't the end of it, either. Jackie had to take Newt to court to get him to contribute for bills, as utilities were about to be cut off. He also graciously said "She isn't young enough or pretty enough to be the President's wife." But his second marriage hasn't been that smooth either. Newt and Marianne have been separated - "frankly", she told the Washington Post in June 1989, "it's been on and off for some time."
So much for family values Traditional marriage. Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy!
Western Europe has negative population growth
http://www.overpopulation.org/older.html
Take the traditional family out and replace with a secular society in it for the short haul and you end up like most Western European, post communist European countries and China........Seems like the only populations growing are the Middle Eastern populations, most likely because they still observe the traditional family strutcure and refuse to secularize their society.
NG is right on with his predictions.
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