Posted on 3/2/2019, 6:21:12 AM by robowombat
Accepting homosexuality led to accepting transgenderism and will likely lead to accepting pedophilia
March 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is commonly credited with defining the philosophical structure called dialectic. While I make no claim to be a serious student of Hegel or of philosophy in general, I think I understand the basics of dialectic reasoning enough to refer to its effect on our culture.
In simple terms, the system suggests that cultures evolve through a pattern like this: Thesis (a new idea) --> antithesis (opposition to new idea) --> synthesis (compromise). (No doubt some will call this an oversimplification of the process. But I believe it accurately depicts cultural evolution.)
In our nation’s history we can see examples of this dialectic process bringing about positive change. The abolition of slavery quickly comes to mind.
But not all new ideas are worth pursuing. Probably the best example of a failed dialectic process is Communism. Karl Marx and Frederic Engels’ thesis was first met with fierce opposition. Eventually, however, antithesis gave way to a synthesis and Communism was born and then spread throughout much of the world. And wherever it went it brought misery.
Dialectic in sexual practices
We have seen and are seeing that process of cultural evolution in our nation’s sexual practices.
First the dialectical process transformed our nation’s views on marriage and divorce. While the statistics on marriage and divorce are not as easily defined as some think, there is no doubt that, throughout the 20th century, particularly the latter half, marriage rates declined and divorce rates increased. Yet numerous studies have shown that children fare best in a family led by one father and one mother.
Next, the dialectical process transformed the nation’s views on homosexual practices. Prior to the publishing in the late 1940s of Alfred Kinsey’s biased and highly flawed studies on Americans’ sexual beliefs and practices, most Americans viewed homosexual practices as aberrant and abhorrent. But in the decades directly following Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, acceptance of homosexual practices gradually increased. And now those who are willing to speak of the dangers of homosexual practices find ourselves in an ostracized minority.
The latest sexual taboo to be challenged is transgenderism. I know this one well, because my father chose to be a “woman.” When my dad pursued his strange lifestyle, he was among a tiny minority, and most considered him to be an anomaly. Now, transgenderism is gaining the widespread acceptance homosexuality reached over the last few decades.
But it is no longer enough for men to wear dresses and adorn themselves with makeup, or for women to wear men’s clothes and pursue practices historically exclusive to men. Nor is it sufficient to have bodies hormonally and surgically altered.
Now we learn that the latest dialectic turn is a push for “transgender women” (that is, men whose bodies were surgically altered) to be given wombs from recently deceased women so that these men attempting to be women can give birth.
What could be further from the natural creation?
Evolving downward
Cultural revolutions generally move along in stages (the dialectic). Each of the boundaries crossed in the “sexual revolution” made the next step more tenable.
In this fallen world, the dialectic process tends to more commonly evolve downward rather than upward. We’re more likely to gravitate toward decadent practices than to noble changes such as the abolition of slavery. For example, many predict that the next sexual taboo to be normalized will be pedophilia. And we can only imagine the depths such regressions will reach from there.
Those of us who understand the differences between cultural progress and the normalization of dangerous aberrations need to educate our neighbors before it’s too late. We must understand this phenomenon sufficiently to explain it to others. Then we must be willing to weather criticisms, invectives, and even punishment as we warn, educate, and defend against the normalization of dangerous deviancies.
Denise Shick is the Founder and Executive director of Help 4 Families Ministry. She is the author of My Daddy’s Secret, When Hope Seems Lost, Understanding Gender Confusion-A Faith Based Perspective, and When Daddy Leaves to be a Girl.
One feminist lib had the following comment on it:
This is the sort of raving that gives men like Rush Limbaugh ammunition in their rhetorical war of feminism. In this book, Shulamith Firestone argues that women are doomed to oppression by men as a result of female biology and that only the cybernetic mutilation of the human race can free them from the tyranny imposed on them by Nature, and more specifically their own nature. That this is nihilism should be self-evident to any thinking woman or man. How, exaclty, are women going to free themselves if they use technology to obliterate the very characteristics that make them women? What “self” will be left in Firestone's dystopia when the cybernetic-sexual revolution has taken place? The only possible answer would have to be based on the kind of discredited Cartesian mind-body dualism that so much better feminist thought has assailed. The kind of self-hatred that this book embodies is staggering. It might make an interesting psychopathological study, but it is not a program for sane political action. Hopefully one day a brand of feminism will arise that is dedicated to helping women be *women* without fear of external domination. Perhaps then this kind of insanity will be laughed at; for now, it seems more worthy of fear.
The comment was posted in 2003. It seems spot on today.
and on your 69th birthday no less. Bless your heart.
For example, many predict that the next sexual taboo to be normalized will be pedophilia. And we can only imagine the depths such regressions will reach from there.
Elimination of the age of consent would seem the next step.
No.
There is a huge difference between accepting adults who mutually prefer their own gender as a partner and accepting adults molesting children. No.
There are many “documentaries” on amazon prime that are sympathetic to child molester.
they don’t learn. They will go a step too far even by today’s standards and the country will move right.
People here are in panic mode as if we DIDNT win in 2016 and Trump ISNT appointing a whole lot of conservative judges.
This will affect transgenders in the military and other things.
This SC, esp. if RBG dies, will say that the military is not a social experiment.
You’ll see.
If the scriptures are correct America is going to be damned by God, anyway.
So it would seem to me that would also be a reasonable age of consent for sexual relations with whomever they would like. Of course children even younger than that can make the choice to socially identify as the opposite sex - so perhaps they should also be allowed to make important decisions by themselves on who they can have sex with.
Hmm - it might even be considered part of their transsexual learning experience. How can a girl of 6 that wants to be a boy, really know what she will be missing out on if she never has sex?
All of that is really goofy I suppose - but I bet there is some liberal ethicist that would agree with me. Just like those that think a parent should be able to see what their baby will be like and living with their possible birth defects for awhile and then killing them. Up to 28 days old according to “ethicist” Peter Singer.
I tend to think of mine as “still alive” days. You’ll never have another birth day again.
Within the lifetime of some of us, people argued there is a huge difference between tolerating marriage to someone of another race and tolerating same-sex marriage.
And yet, here we are.
I am not shocked or surprised. It is a matter of degree more than kind. Chesterton and Lewis would both have seen this as a natural (logical) progression of the unnatural.
Once you admit one unnatural act as acceptable, any line you then draw is arbitrary, based on subjective, not objective, criteria.
Sexuality is inherently defined by biological reproduction. Two persons of the same sex cannot naturally reproduce. It is thus not homosexuality; it is homoeroticism: the narcissistic fetishization of another person of the same sex.
Likewise, heterosexual pedophilia is unnatural: A sexually immature person of the opposite sex cannot reproduce, and inherently cannot be prepared for such a relationship.
Even for those who do not acknowledge God, Nature should be their guide, but for far too many, it no longer is.
Yes, what’s left out of the column is that the corruption of Christian morals, of defining deviancy down, did not well up from the people. All of these horrid things and much more were imposed on an unwilling society by a despotic Scotus.
RBG rot in hell.
I don’t like to double guess God, and he has the final say on where everyone ends up, but....
Unless she is REALLY full of repentance and FAST, she’s in a lot of freaking trouble.
Nope. Systematic bullying from the ctrl-left, backed by government force imposing unconstitutional and excessive fines, led to enforced silence on homosexuality, followed by enforced silence on the transgenderism that disgusts the vast majority of normal people. That silence, if we continue allowing their violence and bullying to intimidate us, will likely lead to enforced silence even on the pedophilia that so many globalists dream of in their future.
We are facing pure evil. Will we be the first generation to surrender in mass to those who hate God?
Do you think all this talk of Civil War is over Trump?
I've said for years "What the left doesn't seem to understand is that Donald Trump is THEIR last chance for a peaceful end to their war against traditional America."
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