The Religion & Society Report

About the author: The Religion & Society Report is a monthly periodical of the Rockford Institute, an educational organization that promotes Judeo-Christian and traditional family values.

A Hawaiian judge's decision that it is unconstitutional to deny gays and lesbians the right to marry contradicts the laws of God and nature. Throughout recorded history, marriage has been the union of a man and a woman. No society recognizes marriage between two members of the same sex. Despite the judge's order, the union of two men or two women will never make a genuine marriage.

At the end of the nineteenth century, the United States, bent on manifest destiny, seized a small Pacific Ocean island kingdom populated by Polynesians. Until the Japanese attack that brought the United States into World War II, the island territory...