California pastor Jim Garlow, who is active in conservative politics and was among the key leaders of the campaign to pass Proposition 8, appeared on Tony Perkins’ “Washington Watch” program yesterday to discuss his church’s upcoming Future Conference, which will include appearances by Perkins, Newt Gingrich, Mat Staver.
Garlow said that Staver, the Liberty Counsel attorney who has called formass civil disobedience and a revolution to stop gay marriage, will be “speaking on a topic that most of us didn’t want to hear about, and that’s when biblical obedience translates into civil disobedience and we become an underground resistance movement.”
He later told Perkins, who is the president of the Family Research Council, that people who use the refrain “that ship has sailed” in reference to gay marriage don’t realize that “that ship will sink” since “reason is on our side.”
Garlow claimed that people will turn against gay rights once the legalization of gay marriage produces more studies on the purported harms of same-sex parent-led households similar to the one published by Mark Regnerus, whose research has been widely discredited:
So-called homosexual marriage cannot sustain itself any better than the so-called right to kill a baby in the womb can sustain itself. After 40 years and 60 million babies were killed, people became aware, ‘this is not working, this is not a good thing.’ There will be other studies like Mark Regnerus, a well-known study out of the University of Texas in Austin, that will show the damage of when children are harmed of having a daddy and a mommy instead of trying to have two daddies and two mommies [sic]. When the studies come around, America will see this — I pray it’s not too late — but they will that see that social science is on our side, natural reason is on our side, natural law is on our side, special revelation of the scripture is on our side and intuitively people know that the human body is made for a male and a female to come together. That ship has not sailed; if it has, it will sink. We have truth on our side.
