Gay Marriage and Mrs. Murphy: Increasing demands for societal approval of homosexuality

“What was all that about,” former Hillary Clinton advisor Ann Lewis predicted would be the response of future generations towards current controversies over same-sex “marriage” (SSM) at a May 28 Washington, DC, panel. Unquestioned approval of homosexuality by Lewis and her fellow panelists does not bode well for religious freedom, the topic upon which they spoke at the Newseum’s presentation of “Gay Rights and Religious Freedom: Is Common Ground Possible?”

Homosexuality is the “newest frontier of human rights” following the civil rights movement, Lewis asserted with an oft-invoked analogy largely shared by the panel. “Racial oppression and homophobia” intersections also occurred to homosexual author and activist Jay Michaelson, although he qualified that “sexual orientation is not like race” involvingthe greater horrors of slavery and segregation. Biblical invocations, for example, had served to justify both racism and condemnation of homosexuality. “We always go straight to race” in gay rights discussions, concurred homosexual scholar Jonathan Rauch, but race was an “extreme case” of injustice.Yet historic condemnation of homosexuality by numerous faiths risked “tarring religion with the brush of discrimination.”

“Moral questions, not legal questions” thus took priority in Michaelson’s demand for “equality justice,” a term he preferred to “gay rights.” After “2,500 years of oppression” Michaelson also rejected the sentiment of being “gracious in victory” advocated by some amidst current gay movement societal successes. A “finally transgender inclusive” Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) will most likely not pass in the current Congress, for example, Michaelson bemoaned in discussing a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT)movement still not fully victorious.

Synopsis:

In all of the natural world, sex is between a male and female with the possible result of procreation. It is why sex exists.

Homosexual sex is not sex because it is not between a male and female. It is similar to sex but is something else. I prefer the term “sexual perversion” but whatever you call it, it isn’t sex.

If there were no such thing as sex, there would be no such thing as marriage. And if parents did not have authority and responsibility over raising their progeny to adulthood, there would be no such thing as marriage.

And if the state had no interest in the quality of adults nurtured through childhood, the child would have no interest in marriage. It would be like being a baseball fan or fly fisherman.

And since homosexual “sex” is not sex, any coupling or joining of two or more people can be called “marriage”. And here is the final issue:

Once you dilute the meaning of a word enough, the word no longer has any meaning. What does “cold” mean? What does “safe” mean? Alone, the words have little meaning. The context gives them meaning. The same thing is happening to the word “marriage”. In some states, they’ve come up with something called a “covenent” marriage. It means, in essence, that it can’t be disolved through a “no-fault” divorce. You want out? You’re gonna have to show significant cause.

What we will now have is “Christian marriage”, “homosexual marriage”, “man-beast marriage”, “multiple partner marriage”, etc.

But what types of marriage will be allowed to adopt and raise children? And what will be the quality of the children raised by the various “married” groups?

The fall of western civilization is happening faster than I could ever have imagined. We will not survive Obama’s second term, and it’s not about Obama per-se. And by “we” I mean the civilized world, not just the US.

We are living in interesting times, and every year lately is exponentially more “interesting” than the year before.

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