{"id":3111,"date":"2023-05-28T21:11:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T21:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2023-05-28T22:03:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T22:03:08","slug":"what-can-lurk-in-a-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3111","title":{"rendered":"What Can Lurk in a Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/what-can-lurk-in-a-budget\/<\/a><\/p>\n

2023 | Week of May 29 | Radio Transcript #1518<\/h3>\n

It\u2019s amazing what can lurk in a bill that\u2019s over eighteen hundred pages long. \u00a0In February, Governor Tony Evers released his proposed budget in the form of Assembly Bill forty-three. Beyond unprecedented spending increases, the bill shows Evers\u2019 dedication to attacking God\u2019s plan for humanity as expressed in our biological sex and marriage and family.<\/p>\n

For starters, Evers included a provision that would ensconce same-sex marriage in state statute. Liberals are still not convinced that the US Supreme Court won\u2019t eventually overturn Obergefell<\/em>, the decision the high court made in June 2015 that forced legalized same-sex marriage on the entire country and essentially overrode the expressed will of the people in states like Wisconsin where in 2006, we passed with a 60-40 vote, a statewide resolution that amended our state constitution, clearly declaring that in our state the only legal marriage is that between one man and one woman.<\/p>\n

If the high court were to indeed overturn Obergefell <\/em>and rightly return the issue of marriage to the states, then current laws regarding marriage in the various states would be enforced. I\u2019m quite sure the liberals believe that once Janet Protasiewicz is seated on the court in early August, and they have the 4-3 liberal majority they have wanted for years, that probably sooner rather than later, the Marriage Amendment in our constitution will be ruled unconstitutional based on Obergefell<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Assuming that happens, then those bent on completely deconstructing and thereby destroying God\u2019s plan for marriage, want to be sure there is a law in place that clearly makes same-sex marriage legal. That\u2019s why this was put in Governor Evers\u2019 budget plan originally\u2014so the liberals are prepared to once again get what they want.<\/p>\n

In addition, in the Governor\u2019s proposed budget, he wanted to blatantly ensure that adoption by a same-sex couple\u2014married or otherwise\u2014was legal. Right now, we don\u2019t have a state statute that specifically says that. It happens, but there\u2019s no statutory authority for it. But, if this were to become law, we would have very clearly the state intentionally sanctioning motherless or fatherless homes\u2014something that compassionate, caring, concerned societies should never do because they should understand, want, and sanction only what is best for children,\u00a0 which is to be raised in the homes of their married biological mother and biological father.<\/p>\n

But the governor doesn\u2019t stop there. He also proposes denying reality and biology by replacing throughout state law basically any word that is gender-identifying. For instance, he would replace \u201cfather\u201d and \u201cmother\u201d with terms such as \u201cparent,\u201d or \u201cbirth parent,\u201c or\u00a0 \u201cparent who gave birth to the child,\u201d replacing \u201cmale\u201d and \u201cman\u201d with \u201cperson,\u201d \u201chusband\u201d and \u201cwife\u201d with \u201cspouse,\u201d \u201cwoman\u201d and \u201cmother,\u201d in discussions about invitro fertilization, with \u201cperson inseminated.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the governor wasn\u2019t finished. He uses the budget to try to change the definition of \u201cnatural parent,\u201d which according to our current law refers to a biological parent of a child. Evers proposes we redefine \u201cnatural parent\u201d to mean \u201ca parent of a child who is not an adoptive parent, whether or not the parent is biologically related to the child.\u201d This means that if a woman in a same-sex marriage were to give birth, her female spouse, even though she has not adopted the child, would be considered that child\u2019s natural parent. That\u2019s patently wrong.<\/p>\n

Words have meaning, and when those meanings are deliberately changed to accomplish a particular ideological and political agenda, we are set on a dangerous and destructive course.<\/p>\n

All these changes directly attack God\u2019s creative order, the fact that God created, according to Genesis, male and female period\u2026and then pronounced that creation as being very good. He also in the opening chapters of Genesis gives us the foundational institution of marriage, designed for His glory and for the good of the humans He so beautifully created. \u00a0Essentially, Governor Evers\u2019 attacks are against God Himself\u2014and that never works out well.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the Republican legislature has removed these portions of the budget. However, this attempt to sneak radical, even destructive legislation into the budget is a powerful reminder that elections have very real consequences.<\/p>\n

This is Julaine Appling for Wisconsin Family Council reminding you the prophet Hosea said, \u201cMy people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Anna Morken, primary researcher & co-author. Anna is a Summer 2023 intern for Wisconsin Family Council.)<\/p>\n

Learn more at WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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