It is becoming increasingly clear that a
certain, extremely vocal, portion of the public defines freedom and
equality entirely on how much “tolerance” they can extort
from the general public for their lascivious desire to promote the
unrestricted exhibition and exploitation of their’s, and
other’s, loins in and out of the public sphere. It is the classic
example of mistaking immorality for freedom, and in their belligerent
ignorance they see modesty, piety and bigotry as essentially the same.
Our failure to endorse their increasingly ludicrous demands for
approval of their “lifestyles” often leads to a display of
some of the most pathetic adolescent behavior imaginable. In fact such
behavior was unimaginable just a generation ago. When it comes to
boorish behavior, nobody, and I mean NOBODY tops the advocates for the
homosexual agenda in this country.
When most of us were children we were given a simple test to
determine our basic cognitive skills. It was a simple one that I am
sure most of you remember. It almost qualified as a toy. You had
several pegs of varying shapes and a board with holes in it that
likewise consisted of the same varying shapes. You simply had to match
the pegs to their appropriate holes. For most of us putting the square
peg in the square hole was not a monumental accomplishment. There were,
of course, many of our fellow children who could not accomplish this
feat however, and they insisted on trying to mismatch the pegs and the
holes. Although trying to put a square peg into a round hole was not
something that should stigmatize a child for life, we reasonably expect
that an attempt should be made to correct the child. Perhaps we would
even dare to “teach” the child to recognize the shapes and
to look carefully to match them. How many of you remember your teachers
telling you it was equally correct to mismatch a square peg into a
round hole as to match a round peg into a round hole? It didn’t
happen, and for good reason. It would be foolish. Well, we’ve got
there now. Not only are we being forced accept this kind of
foolishness, we are told it is a noble cause to promote such nonsense.
In fact if we don’t support it we are bigots.
The successful passage of the Proposition 8 amendment banning
homosexual marriages in California has awakened the “enfant
terrible” in a wide range of people who assure us that they are
the “enlightened” ones that know what is best for all of
us. Unable to accept that, yet again, one of the most liberal states in
the country has failed to endorse square peg to round hole marriages,
homosexuals have taken to the streets protesting and attacking people
and businesses who supported the amendment and, in their most
ill-mannered demonstrations, they have even trespassed into churches to
deliver vulgar rants against those who fail to acknowledge the nobility
of their demands. This proves once and for all that tolerance really is
a one way street. And guess which way its going…(insert obvious
AC/DC song here).
Apparently when it comes to the issue of homosexual marriage, the
issue is already decided, at least according to the advocates of this
preposterousness. The vote was just supposed to be a formality as, of
course, there was always only ONE right answer. Six thousand years of
human history be damned, these people have figured out that everyone
who came before them was mistaken and there is absolutely nothing wrong
with these mismatched unions. In fact, they tell us we are depriving
them of their RIGHT to be married. Where did this “right”
materialize from? Well, one argument stems from the Civil Rights
movement of the 1950’s-60’s.
While attempting to equate their struggle with that of the
African-American people may have seemed like a good idea, they have in
fact offended the black community. One’s sexual identity
isn’t so identifiable as one’s race. Black people, once
enslaved and declared less than human, were still being deprived of
basic human dignities such as access to education and other services as
well as fair treatment in almost every area of society. It was not
something they could have avoided or hidden, even if they had wished
to. Homosexuals have never been enslaved or declared less than human,
nor are they being being legally discriminated against for their
particular sexual preferences. Even if such things were to occur, they
have legal remedies available to them. The lack of those legal remedies
were at the heart of the Civil Rights struggle all along. The
African-American community is rightfully offended that homosexuals
would dare equate the quest for same sex marriage with their struggle
for Civil Rights. Is it any wonder that 7 out of 10 African-Americans
voted against homosexual marriage? They have every right to be
offended! It is no surprise that this backfired on on the supporters of
homosexual marriage.
Opponents of Proposition 8 like to bring up the court case of
Loving v. Virginia. This was a 1967 decision finding that marriage was
a basic human right and that there was no legitimate state interest in
banning interracial marriage. Let us also remember this is still a
square peg to square hole relationship, the colors do not alter the
fact that all the working parts fit together naturally as they were
intended by God or nature. Take your pick. Therefore the arguments for
interracial marriages CANNOT be applied to homosexual marriages because
you are still dealing with a man and a woman marriage. This is the
basic relationship that results in traditionally accepted families that
produce children. It is the tried and true foundation of every
successful society. Certainly our society has an interest in the
upbringing of children, as this process produces new citizens, and
guides them to maturity. Therefore our society can, and has, decided
that the traditional family is the proven successful model for raising
a family. The foundation of that family being a marriage between a man
and a woman. It is for that reason that we have chosen to honor these
traditional marriages with special status.
In the aftermath of the successful win for Proposition 8, California
Attorney General Jerry Brown said he would fight to uphold the
initiative, even though he personally voted against it. This, of
course, was before the adolescent tantrums of Proposition 8 opponents
went into high gear in an attempt to extort their will, over that of
California’s voters, through intimidation. We have all seen the
pictures of protesters attacking churches, demonstrating outside the
homes, and even attempting to destroy the businesses of those known to
have supported Proposition 8. They seem to have taken particular
interest in both Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church as well as the
Mormon Church. Protest is a healthy thing for the democratic process,
but this has long since crossed the line into violent intimidation.
Trespassing onto the property, and into the services, of these churches
is unacceptable behavior reminiscent of Nazi brown-shirts. The
Nazi’s laid a fine blueprint for a minority group wishing to
impose it’s will on others.
To be sure, the churches have handled these situations with
remarkable grace and tolerance given the fact that these attacks
represent a textbook example of intolerance on the part of homosexuals.
In their eyes, there was only one right way to view this issue, and the
voters of California failed to get it right. They therefore see it as
their right to extract a certain amount of revenge against Christians
for opposing them. As always, opponents of homosexual marriage are
portrayed as bigots that are totally undeserving of respect. Their
point of view is constantly and falsely being equated with racism. The
media, as always, seems willingly pliable to promote wishes of the
homosexual agenda.
The tantrums of the advocates for homosexual marriage may not be
particularly effective against Christians and other adults, but they
have apparently worked on the California Attorney General. After
initially insisting he would enforce the will of the people, he has
apparently had a change of heart:
“Proposition 8 must be invalidated because the amendment
process cannot be used to extinguish fundamental constitutional rights
without compelling justification. The courts have previously said the
right of a person to marry is protected as one of those inalienable
rights. The question at the center of the gay marriage cases is whether
rights secured under the state Constitution’s safeguard of
liberty as an ‘inalienable’ right may intentionally be
withdrawn from a class of persons by an initiative amendment.”
“Although voters are allowed to amend other parts of the
Constitution by majority vote, to use the ballot box to take away an
“inalienable” right would establish a “tyranny of the
majority,” which the Constitution was designed, in part, to
prevent, he wrote. “For we are talking, necessarily, about rights
of individuals or groups against the larger community, and against the
majority, even an overwhelming majority, of the society as a
whole.” - California Attorney General Jerry Brown
Of course, opponents of Proposition 8 are elated at the Attorney
General’s chameleon-like ability to adapt to the environment of
hostility that they have created, and have taken to calling the
Attorney General “a leader of courage and conviction.”
In truth he is neither courageous nor a man of conviction. He is a man
betraying his duty to his office. It is the Attorney General’s
job to uphold the law, not to advocate for its change. Now he is
attempting to use his office and the courts, yet again, to make
homosexual marriages legal.
Does a man have an “inalienable right” to marry another
man? Of course not, for if he did it would have long since been
customary for such unions to be accepted. There is no
“right” to marry. It is licensed by the state. Rights are
not, nor do they need to be licensed! And here is the interesting
fly in the ointment: homosexuals haven’t been banned from getting
married. Any homosexual person can marry somebody of the opposite sex.
They often do. What they are demanding are special rights to marry
within the same sex. This is not in any way an acceptable definition of
an “inalienable right.” If the Attorney General were truly
worried about tyranny, he would recognize it as coming from a minority
group forcibly imposing its unnatural perversions onto the rest of us.
We are repeatedly told we have absolutely no right to reject this
perverse behavior. It is us and our world-view that they are demanding
be changed. This is the tyranny of political correctness. So who is the
real tyrant here?
In 1973, The American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed
homosexuality as a mental disorder from the APA’s Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-II). This decision was a
significant victory for homosexual activists and they have continued to
claim that the APA based their decision on new scientific discoveries
that proved that homosexual behavior is normal and should be affirmed
in our culture. This is a fine example of scientific and academic
arrogance. For all of human history homosexual behavior has been
considered “deviant” and abnormal but now these fine
fellows have decided that not only is it normal, but that we must
embrace and endorse this behavior based entirely on their
“scholarly” recommendation? Give me a break. So everyone
else throughout history, every culture, creed, religion and science was
in error and these “enlightened” fellows have
“discovered” the real truth? Sorry, but no sale.
If we were to accept that people are born homosexual and that they
are powerless to resist their sexual urges we would set history
BACKWARDS a thousand years. Yes, I said BACKWARDS. Endorsing this line
of thought is not progressive at all. We like to think that we can be
anything we want to be. We believe in neither “birthrights”
or penalizing someone because of who or what condition they were born
into. We judge people by what they are, not what they came from. Yet
the homosexual agenda claims the homosexual is born that way and can be
nothing else. They likewise perceive sexual preference as their
all-encompassing identity and as such it essentially becomes a
self-imposed penalty. That’s as intolerable as it is un-American.
You are what you make of yourself. You are not born locked into a
homosexual lifestyle. I reject that. If you cannot choose, you cannot
be free. Be very careful what you claim you want. It is the helpless
that are the first victims of an abuse of power, and how often have
homosexuals been persecuted for just that perceived helplessness? If
someone wishes to live as, and be, a homosexual, by all means let them.
But let them do it as a free citizen making a free choice. That
choice is their right and neither I nor anyone else should dispute it.
However if someone insists that they have no choice, and homosexuality
was forced upon them by genetics or some other pseudo-scientific
mythology, then they are just pathetic fools. I have no respect for
that. Whining and making excuses deserves, and gets, nothing.
Which brings me around to the brouhaha following the
president-elect’s invitation to Pastor Rick Warren to give the
invocation at his inauguration ceremony. Homosexuals are in a rage over
this in spite of the fact that President-Elect Obama has stated
repeatedly that he does not support gay marriage. He holds exactly the
same position on the issue that Rick Warren holds. John Cloud, an
openly homosexual writer for Time Magazine even went as far as to call
the future President a…you guessed it…bigot.
“Gays and lesbians are angry that Barack Obama has honored
Warren, but they shouldn’t be surprised. Obama has proved himself
repeatedly to be a very tolerant, very rational-sounding sort of
bigot.” - John Cloud
What was Rick Warren’s great crime, other than obviously
opposing homosexual marriage? He infuriated homosexual rights activists
with a comment made in a TV interview. He compared two
homosexuals getting married to a brother marrying a sister or an adult
marrying a child. Warren even went as far as to say “Certain body parts are meant to fit together.” Kinda
makes you think about square pegs belonging in square holes
doesn’t it? He rightfully pointed out that once you accept one of
these taboo relationships as a “marriage” you are conceding
that “alternative” definitions of marriage are acceptable.
Once you make that concession you will be on that infamous slippery
slope that will lead to further concessions for polygamy, polyandry, or
even incest. After all, what logical argument can you hold against
those practices that would not apply to homosexuality? It is
advantageous for society to encourage the restraint of sexual activity
and keep it within boundaries that prevent us from destroying one
another. Failure to encourage such restraint will result in a society
that tolerates everything. We have a name for such a society.
It’s called the Animal Kingdom, a place where the strong are
predators that consume the weak and no creature has any rights except
those enforced by tooth and claw. The quality of a society is not
determined by what it tolerates but by what it does NOT tolerate.
Remember that!
Lets make one thing nice and sparkling clear for our homosexual
friends. Rick Warren, and all of us who consider ourselves Christians
do not have to spend any time writhing in thought over this issue. For
us it is pretty simple:
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Leviticus 18:22
If we truly are Christians, then we do not have the authority to
tolerate, accept or condone homosexual behavior or homosexual marriage.
We belong to the Kingdom of God. We have humbled ourself before him and
accept his wisdom and his way. Our approval is NOT our property to
give. Lashing out at Christians will not gain homosexuals favor with
us. They should never expect us to endorse the homosexual lifestyle as
an “equal” to the traditional family. It isn’t going
to happen, not even by force!
It is one thing to tolerate the private choices made by free
individuals. No one is out to suppress the behavior of consenting
adults in the privacy of their own lives and no one should. Homosexuals
argue that their “unions” are loving and committed
relationships. Whoop de doo da day. I’m happy for them. This
misses the point entirely. Marriage is a manifestation of not only the
acceptance of the traditional family ideal, but also our desire to
encourage it and create the conditions that will make it flourish. This
is done for the betterment of the society as a whole, not because we
are impressed with the fact that a couple loves each other. Society
doesn’t care about that. Endorsing and encouraging homosexual
marriages will benefit no one but homosexuals.
There are many reasons to oppose homosexual marriages. The square
peg will never belong in the round hole. There is no new found wisdom
or understanding about it. Homosexuals who insist on continuing to try
to ram these “square peg to round hole” unions down our
throats are acting out of pure SELFISHNESS, and nothing more.
Championing homosexual marriage is not a noble pursuit and no-one needs
flatter themselves into thinking they are more
“enlightened” than the rest of us just because they are
willing to tolerate or accept it.
Like it or not, the Bible does have the best warning for those who
insist that homosexual marriage is just another choice of equal value
to traditional marriage:
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that
put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for
sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own
eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Woe unto them that are mighty to
drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify
the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous
from him!
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth
the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom
shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of
hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.” - Isaiah 5:20-24
No my arrogant friends, if you support the folly of homosexual
marriage you are not wise, educated, enlightened or tolerant. You are
just the latest in the long history of mankind to foolishly “call
evil good and good evil.” We have seen your kind before, and you
keep coming to the same result. No matter how hard you try, you cannot
make putting a square peg in a round hole a “good” thing.
There is no nobility in foolishness and there is no such thing as a
noble fool…just a fool.