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Posted on 03/28/2013 6:04:01 AM PDT by expat1000
Please put me on your ping list; this is a brilliant piece!
Under communism marriage and the family have to go. The only institution that is “allowed” is the state, which is all-knowing and all-powerful.
Amen.
About marriage -
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
We are rapidly losing control of the language.
>>Please put me on your ping list; this is a brilliant piece!
Will do, and I’m going to piggyback your comment with one of my own.
This is recurring theme with Daniel, that the left fights with subtlety and long range strategy to attain their goals, keeping a low profile, not publicizing their ultimate objective but building support inside their base for it while quietly chipping away at ours with the public until the time is right, and then they strike, and hard. And more often than not, win. Sun Tzu would be proud.
We, in the meantime are in Charge of the Light Brigade mode without any subtlety at all, and get cut to pieces.
An excellent essay.
He’s particularly astute when he describes the perversion of language, a very effective tactic - so effective that it claims the author himself as a victim: He uses “genders” to refer to the sexes, “gay” to mean same-sex, and “marriage” to refer to what isn’t.
Still and all, an excellent essay if one can see past - and perhaps take a lesson from - his errors.
The GLBT agenda is like termites upon society eating the structure from within. America seems amused at it— oh look at those silly, little termites carrying on such fun entertainment. Meanwhile the house is at risk of collapse by the little destructors.
>>He’s particularly astute when he describes the perversion of language, a very effective tactic - so effective that it claims the author himself as a victim: He uses “genders” to refer to the sexes, “gay” to mean same-sex, and “marriage” to refer to what isn’t.
I’ve got to disagree with your take on that. ‘Gender’ and ‘gay’ are battles that are already lost. We gain nothing by insisting on continuing on with “sex” and “homosexual” except to further isolate ourselves, and I am not talking about moderating our core beliefs but being smart on how to further them. Which touches on my thoughts in comment #3.
Ah, make that comment #7
The adversary (satan) may win a temporary battle and many people will suffer and die, (his goal) and then he will get his ass kicked for evermore.
Couldn’t we just as easily say we’ve lost the battle on marriage? Or is there still some doubt that’s precisely what the Court will rule?
The decision at hand is how to proceed. Shall we retreat, regroup, and re-establish a new line of defense? It seems to me that not only has this been a losing strategy for decades, but the ground we’d still hold is not worth defending.
I prefer a Bastogne, a Masada: Let them surround and besiege us if they like. Or let them ignore us and just pass us by. My goal is no longer to preserve a civilization with a death-wish, but to preserve what’s best of that civilization for those with the capacity to appreciate it.
That means increasingly withdrawing from the increasingly deconstructed culture. I use accurate, non-Orwell-ized language when I speak, for instance. I do this so that I and others may think clearly. (When I discuss marriage, for example, it’s in such a way that exposes counterfeits.)
Yes, I do precisely what you say will “further isolate ourselves.” So be it. Pardon my vanity, but Orwell’s Winston was looking for someone like me - and I’m looking for him.
David Greenfield so often sees clearly what’s happening. It puzzles me when he doesn’t see it happening to himself. But that’s the insidious part, and I’m probably a victim from time to time myself. :-)
Thanks for this article.
Very true! The triumph of the left is near inevitable at this point; they control every organ of gov’t, manipulate the elections as Knish alluded to, and of course control the mechanisms of propaganda. As for the progress of their gay marriage agenda, I’d commented as follows at another link:
True for the rank and file that propel the movement, but there’s a whole nother agenda behind the Leadership, the Architects of this movement and that is to destroy the Christian Church communities if at all possible. Its an anti-God movement; they want to marginalize the “Christian” community to the point that they are entirely eliminated from the “public square” to such an extent that to be branded a “Christian” would mean someone would be precluded from running for public office.
My analysis of the situation indicates that they’re well over 50% of the way to achieving their first goal, i.e. forcing legal recognition of same-sex marriage. Following that victory, they’ll use the education system to indoctrinate children with the idea that its normal and correct to investigate their sexuality with members of the same sex and at the middle and high school levels, those who aren’t practicing “bi-sexual” relationships will be automatically deemed “homophobic” which they’ll write up as a mental disease and giving rise to possible hate crimes.
Another “next” step will be to attempt to deny tax exempt status to Christian Churches that refuse to perform same-sex marriages. The only salvation for the churches ultimate existence will be that they’ll have to write in some exemption for the Mosques and Synagogues and I think that will come about by way of exempting all religious communities that perform sacremental rites only with, for and by “members” much like Obama’s exemption from Obamacare for the Amish. This would of course require “registration” of church members. We know where that ultimately ends.
Whatever.
Great article. The father of lies sets himself up against the God of the universe. We know the final winner.
Yes we know the winner but it sure is depressing watching the balance tip in the interim.
I refuse to use the word “gay”. They are homosexuals or bisexuals. And when they co-opted the rainbow, God’s symbol of promise, that did it for me! Let the court do what they feel they have to do, but for me they will never be “married”. God is not mocked and we will reap what we sow - sooner or later.
This is just a view from my little piece of the world. My Son’s small Christian high school is having their prom. None of the boys and girls are going as couples. My wife and I call it “Barbie Dress-up Night” as the girls dress up and go as a group. The girls don’t see the boys as potential mates, they see them as competition for college scholarships. The girls don’t want anything to do with these Christian young men. This isn’t a big public high school where they’re pushing feminism. I went to a large public high school and I enjoyed dating and going to the prom. The interaction between men and women in this country is broken. We can thank Hugh Heffner, Hollywood, Madison Avenue and our friends the Democrats. I guess the young ladies in my Son’s school can all come home at night and snuggle with their paychecks.
Daniel Greenfield “hits the nail on the head”, “knocks the ball outta the park”, or whatever other cliche one might want to interject here. Great piece today as usual, but even better than most due the topic most certainly.
Thanks for the post, and the ping expat1000.
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