As his first public act since receiving the election results, Vice President Dick Cheney invited his lesbian daughter and her “partner” to stand with him on national television for the official Bush/Cheney acceptance speech. This symbolic act of support for lesbian partnerships by the Vice President is representative of the tremendous “perception gap” between how the average American views the Administration’s stand on homosexuality, verses their actual policy positions and moral agenda.

Despite the Kerry/Edwards and Bush/Cheney advocacy for the lawfulness of homosexuality and the right of sodomites to have the protection of law through civil unions, the American people in eight states demonstrated that the common man stands to the political right of both the Democratic and Republican candidates for President. The citizens of eight states overwhelmingly supported laws with language which appear to ban civil unions for sodomites.

In fact, a total of 11 states approved constitutional amendments codifying marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution. Voters in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon and Utah all approved anti-same-sex marriage amendments by double-digit margins.

If the Bush Administration continues to feature homosexual couples on national television (as they also did when the homosexual Ambassador to Romania and his partner were introduced to the American people), then it will be incumbent on pastors to warn Christian parents not to expose their children to these images which are not only defiling, but frankly confusing to children who perceive the President as a moral and religious hero.