Posted on 05/27/2004 10:11:26 PM PDT by kattracks
I disagree that society's march toward sanctioning homosexual marriage represents enlightened thinking. I also strongly reject the notion that our movement in this direction is no big deal.
The homosexual lobby casually dismisses that heterosexual marriage has been established for thousands of years, saying human beings have evolved from the bigoted thinking of the past, just like with slavery.
No offense, but the comparisons to slavery and the civil rights movement are off base, cynical and exploitive. There is no legitimate comparison between denying people basic civil rights because of their skin color and the refusal to redefine the institution of marriage to include unions between people of the same sex. But by couching the argument in terms of civil rights, homosexual activists have put traditionalists on the defensive.
Apart from eradicating slavery, have we really "evolved" morally? How can we possibly be improving ourselves morally when we have moved into the nihilistic postmodern age, characterized by its outright rejection of absolute moral standards?
Who are we trying to fool? Instead of becoming more moral, we are just redefining terms and standards to accommodate our addiction to licentiousness and our shameful repudiation of personal responsibility and accountability. If we don't like to live within certain standards we instinctively know are beneficial, healthy and morally sound, fine, we'll just change the standards.
What surprises me is not the cultural pressure to abandon traditional values, but the lame resistance of traditionalists. Apathy is one thing, but rolling over without a fight is quite another.
Part of this is attributable to complacency: Everything is "no big deal" -- let's just live and let live. But also involved is a willful ignorance of the inevitable implications of losing the culture war.
More significant than either complacency or ignorance, though, is our acute moral negligence, which is probably born of our cowardice. That is, we are often unwilling to stand up for what we know is right (moral negligence) because we don't have the courage to withstand the ridicule of the politically correct thought police.
How many times have we all declined to state our true opinion on a moral issue not out of a noble desire to be inoffensive or gracious, but because we didn't want to take the heat or wanted to avoid being stigmatized as a homophobe or narrow-minded bigot?
I'm not advocating gratuitous stridency, but shouldn't we have the courage to be honest about our moral beliefs even when they are quite unpopular among the most vocal in our upside-down culture?
Some on the right consider social conservatives an annoying single-issue breed and argue that the redefinition of marriage is nothing to fret over. They pooh pooh the slippery slope argument that if we completely legitimize same-sex marriage it will just be a matter of time before we sanction polygamy, bestiality, incest or pedophilia. Not to worry, they say. We always draw the line somewhere.
Oh? Upon what basis will we draw such lines anymore? With postmodern relativists having prevailed in the struggle to remove absolute moral standards as a foundation for our laws, how will we logically limit further transgressions? What's to transgress?
After all, if the hallowed concept of constitutional privacy is the justification for gay marriage, why shouldn't it be the basis for these other behaviors? I realize that pedophilia and some cases of incest might be different in that one of the parties to the relationship doesn't have the capacity to consent.
That's true, but that can be rationalized away just as easily. Some already glorify the practice of pedophilia. You see, it's not a matter of a slippery slope we fear. It's pure, unadulterated moral freefall.
But speaking of slippery slopes, let's not fall into the slippery slope of non-thinking to the point that we treat social issues as just one cog in the wheel of political conservatism. Our approach to these moral issues -- our worldview -- is foundational to all other issues.
So those who think that the erosion of traditional marriage is just one little setback in the overall societal struggle are sorely underestimating its substantive significance as well as the rationale upon which it has occurred. Gay marriage is a blow to traditional morality no matter how you cut it. But the wholesale abandonment of moral standards leading us to legitimize it is even more troublesome.
Let's treat everyone with civility and respect, but could we please treat ourselves with a little, too? Or will we continue to devalue ourselves as moral beings?©2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
"Let's treat everyone with civility and respect, but could we please treat ourselves with a little, too? Or will we continue to devalue ourselves as moral beings?"
I couldn't agree more. Yet another good post, cataracts. :)
and while homo advocates insist that same sex marriage has nothing to do with polygamy, polygamy has been around for thousands of years, too. Far more accepted in this world the same-sex marriage.
Homosexual Agenda Ping - too tired to read this tonight but I'll probably agree with most of it anyway -
Someone freepmailed me tonight, expressing a feeling of discouragement about the rampant moral degeneracy everywhere. If you don't mind, I'll post my reply here:
I don't doubt that God is in control, and that He also gives every soul free will to use in His service, or abuse selfishly in opposition to His will. The moral climate in this country (and many others) is such that behavior worse than animals is accepted as normal and natural. Acts such as abortion, homosexuality, what to speak of theft and lying being considered cool - have to have reactions. As we sow, we reap. Or one can call it the law of karma - every single thing we ever do or say, or even think, is being recorded and taken note of, and the perfect justice of God will result.
The solution? The more we beg for His mercy, pray for His mercy for ourselves and others, and every day try harder to act for His service, the more each of us can effect others for good.
Even one soul surrendered to God in love can work wonders.
I don't despair at all, although I am daily sickened and shocked by the incredible horrors I read about on FR. Thankful I don't have a TV, I couldn't stand to see it in color and propagandized before my eyes. I am 100% convinced that although difficulties will surely come, those who are sincere in heart will wake up to the truth of God's existence and try to change. Those who openly and willfully rebel against Him, the sooner they reap their rewards the better.
I don't know if you're on my pinglist or not, but if you sign up for it there IS a lot of good news - many people are indeed waking up to the fact that as a country we are teetering on a precipice, and the time to stand up for virture, principles and God is NOW.
May God bless and keep you and yours,
little jeremiah
It's only a slippery slope if one realizes we are at the bottom of it.
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How many times have we all declined to state our true opinion on a moral issue not out of a noble desire to be inoffensive or gracious, but because we didn't want to take the heat or wanted to avoid being stigmatized as a homophobe or narrow-minded bigot?
"I would rather walk a mile barefoot on broken glass than endure a confrontation with homosexual zealots. However, that less painful path cannot be responsibly taken. What choice is there but to stand in opposition to homosexual activists with their in-your face arrogance, their malicious attacks on religion, family values and moral standards, and, in essence, their demand that American society be turned upside down and inside out to accommodate their sexual disorientations?
It is unconscionable that homosexual invectives and threats have effectively shut down most attempts to expose bogus research or address the cultural implications of the homosexual agenda. It should be, but apparently is not, a matter of serious concern, even shame, that so many of our politicians, our journalists and commentators, our scientists, our government schools teachers, our university professors and our clergy have either been seduced to advance the homosexual agenda, intimidated into passive assent, or cowed into silence.
It is one of the great ironies of modern-day America that it is liberals who are not only enabling but spearheading a vicious version of McCarthyism at its worse. Rarely in the history of our republic has there been such a successful effort to keep lies alive, suppress the truth, censor speech, and engage in blatant character assassination."
-- Linda Bowles, Defending Dr. Laura and America, May 31, 2000, TownHall.com
"Turning our backs on the culture and retreating into conservative or religious enclaves is what got us into this mess to begin with. Let's contact our local schools, find out what's going on, and join with other concerned citizens to make some changes this next school year."
-- Linda P. Harvey, Homosexual Agenda Escalates in Public Schools, July 15, 2001, NewsWithViews.com
"The homosexual movement has a history of trying to claw its way into places its agenda doesn’t belong, not for the betterment of mankind, but simply to legitimize and normalize perverse behavior. This is apparent in the all-too-common need of homosexuals to declare their sexuality rather than simply do the job they sign on to do.
This is extremely detrimental - first, it creates conflict with others as most believe homosexuality to be wrong, and it shows that the full efforts of the employed homosexual are not going towards performing the task at hand but largely to declaring their lifestyle. When it comes to serious concerns such as the Church, schools, and the Boy Scouts that involve our children, we can’t take the risk of giving them this power to destroy the values we as parents try to instill, nor can we put our country’s welfare at stake by turning these pivotal foundational institutions and our military into homosexual social experiments.
The homosexual movement is marked by two major tendencies: the tendency to continually infiltrate all good aspects of society; and once they have achieved that, the tendency to destroy this good. Public education, the Boy Scouts, the military, and now the Catholic Church have been targeted, and all have been hurt by the effects of homosexuality. The media and the Church must break its silence towards this enemy. If they do not, the people themselves must rise up and expose it..."
-- Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Homosexual Priests: A Time for Truth, The Washington Dispatch, May 6, 2002
Gay marriage is a blow to traditional morality no matter how you cut it.
That's been their plan since the beginning:
An excerpt from: In Their Own Words: The Homosexual Agenda:
"Homosexual activist Michelangelo Signorile, who writes periodically for The New York Times, summarizes the agenda in OUT magazine:
...,to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry not as a way of adhering to society's moral codes, but rather to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution... The most subversive action lesbian and gay men can undertake --and one that would perhaps benefit all of society--is to transform the notion of family entirely." "Its the final tool with which to dismantle all sodomy statues, get education about homosexuality and AIDS into the public schools and in short to usher in a sea change in how society views and treats us."
And that's the bottom line, isn't it? It's all about us, us, us.
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