Quo Vadis, America?

"Natural law -- God's law -- will always trump common law," said Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and a Christian leader in her own right, "God will have the final word in this matter."

Same-sex marriage is the law of the land, as the right of gays and lesbians to marry is right there in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified in 1868. We just didn't see it.

The absurdity of the decision aside, it represents another stride forward for the revolution preached by Antonio Gramsci. Before we can capture the West, the Italian Marxist argued, we must capture the culture.

For only if we change the culture can we change how people think and believe. And then a new generation will not only come to accept but to embrace what their fathers would have resisted to the death.

First, there is the total purge of the nation's birth faith, Christianity, from America's public life and educational institutions. Second, there is the overthrow of the old moral order with the legalization, acceptance and even celebration of what the old morality taught was socially destructive and morally decadent.

Until the early 1970s, the American Psychiatric Association regarded homosexuality as a mental disorder. Until this century, homosexual actions were regarded as perverted and even criminal.

Now, homosexuality is a new constitutional right and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is marrying homosexuals in front of Stonewall Inn, the site of the famous 1969 gay riot against police harassment.

Similarly with abortion. It, too, was seen as shameful, sinful and criminal until Harry Blackmun and six other justices decided in 1973 that a right to an abortion was hiding there in the Ninth Amendment.

We are told that America has "evolved" on issues like abortion and homosexuality. But while thinking may change, beliefs may change, laws may change, and the polls have surely changed, does moral truth change?

Are the Ten Commandments and Christian tradition and Natural Law as defined by Aquinas just fine for their time, but not for ours?

If what Justice Kennedy wrote Friday represents moral truth, what can be said in defense of a Christianity that has taught for 2,000 years that homosexual acts are socially destructive and morally decadent behavior?

Three decades ago, this columnist was denounced for writing that homosexuals "have declared war on human nature. And nature is exacting an awful retribution." Hateful speech, it was said.

Yet, when I wrote that line, AIDS victims in America numbered in the hundreds. Worldwide today they number in the millions. And there is a pandemic of STDs among America's young who have joined the sexual revolution preached in the 1960s.

And if it is an enlightened thing for a society to welcome homosexual unions and elevate them to the status of marriage, why have no previous successful societies thought of so brilliant a reform?

The late Roman Empire and Weimar Germany are the two examples of indulgent attitudes toward homosexual conduct that come to mind.

"No-fault" divorce was an early social reform championed by our elites, followed by a celebration of the sexual revolution, the distribution of condoms to the poor and the young, and abortions subsidized by Planned Parenthood when things went wrong.

Anyone see a connection between these milestones of social progress and the 40 percent illegitimacy rate nationwide, or the 50 percent rate among Hispanic-Americans, or the 72 percent rate among African-Americans?

Any connection between those fatherless boys and the soaring drug use and dropout rates and the near quadrupling of those in jails and prisons over the last third of a century?

One notes a headline the other day, that, among whites in America, deaths now outnumber births. This has been true for decades in Europe, where all the native-born populations are shrinking as the Third World crosses over from the Mahgreb and Middle East.

Any connection between the legalization of abortions -- 55 million in the USA since Roe -- and the shrinkage of a population?

Certainly, in the world to come, He will. Yet, even in this world, it is hard to recall a civilization that rejected its God, repudiated the faith and morality by which it grew great, embraced what was previously regarded as decadence, and survived.

Yet, America has never been more disunited and divided -- on politics and policy, religion and morality. We no longer even agree on good and evil, right and wrong.

Are we really still "one nation under God, indivisible"?

I'm not sure about "indivisible," this morning I would be tempted to vote for another try at secession if that choice was on a ballot. But of course that won't happen, and even in my emotion-driven sour state of mind this dark and gloomy morning I have to acknowledge that it's a good thing that we can't give secession a 2nd try.

The other side tells us that we'll got over it, and a generation from now heterosexual marriage will be as out of favor as segregation was a generation after Orval Faubus blocked the steps of a school in Little Rock over a half century ago. If that's true, given my advanced age I won't be here to see it. But one critically important difference in those 2 is that God favored legal and social equality of races back then, but if He favors homosexual perversion now He must have decided that the 2-legged organisms He created have evolved one more long step forward, and that what He wrote in my King James bible is now as obsolete as Dad's '54 Buick that I was driving when Governor Faubus blocked those doors. I don't advocate turning the calendar back to the 1950's legal and cultural status of either back Americans or homosexuals, but there is one very, very big difference in the two groups. Having been born with black skin isn't a sin against God's Word or His laws of nature, but choosing a homosexual lifestyle is not an inborn trait, it's forbidden by God and is a mortal sin according to multiple passages of Holy Scripture. Furthermore, His wrath for those who choose that forbidden lifestyle was clearly shown by His destruction of Sodom's homosexual population and only righteous Lot and his family saved. I don't expect to see fire and brimstone fall on the US, although that's not impossible, but a fall from our current military and financial standing in the world isn't just possible, it's happening every day that Obama's reign of terror pushes, not leads, us farther down that path to eventual 3nd or even 4th rate ignominy.

Some days, and this is starting out to be one, I'm quite content in knowing that my days on this ball of dirt are, or soon will be, drawing to a close and an incomparably better world awaits my imminent arrival.

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