The End gets a little more Nigh

Focus on the Family founder and serial spanner James Dobson pronounced in 2004 that:

Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage... It (gay marriage) will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.

Well the bad news for James is that a New Jersey Court ruling has brought the end of the world just a little bit closer. The ruling requires that the benefits and protections of marriage also be granted to same-sex couples. Mr Dobson is not pleased:

Nothing less than the future of the American family hangs in the balance if we allow one-man, one-woman marriage to be redefined out of existence. And make no mistake -- that is precisely the outcome the New Jersey Supreme Court is aiming for with this decision.

Yes James, because as Ed Brayton points out, it's not as if the members of the court have families of their own, so this great purge of the American family won't affect them in any way. How exactly gays acquiring what the lunar right refers to as "special rights" (i.e. the same rights as everyone else) results in the destruction of families is yet to be explained. You just get vague rhetoric. I've mentioned John Howard's pathetic evasion of giving the specific details on how A leads to B in the past.

There's a good round-up of the "sky is falling" reactions from the religious right at Dispatches here, here, here and here.