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...plus, it just ain’t right!

[a fool in paradise]

The sex positive agenda (as espoused by Reich, Kinsey, and socialist feminists) seeks to end all moral judgments over ALL sexual pairings regardless of sex, age, relation, marital status, number, or species of partner(s).

Believers consider abstinence “unhealthy” as it is a suppression of sexual desire. They believe orgasms are a birthright to be enjoyed at every age.

The homosexual agenda is just the battering ram to unleash the floodgates. Decades of cultural assault are paying off for them. They have institutionalized their amoral value system in our schools, hospitals, government, and entertainment.

Positive.org has a “just say yes” campaign.

According to the Sex Positive entry on Wikipedia, they even have language calling religious institutions “sex negative”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-positive_movement

Question the authority of those who seek to usher in such “change” with public funds and without public debate.

SIECUS is an offshoot from Planned Parenthood. What they consider to be “education” is indoctrination and re-education to junk the values and morals of the pupils’ parents.

[abclily]

Barnyard animals have better manners than homosexual humans. Barnyard animals have the good sense to mate with the opposite sex.

[Fiji Hill]

One of my pet peeves about today’s world is that on forms such as job applications, library card applications, etc., the term “gender,” heretofore confined to linguistics and the study of languages, has replaced the term “sex.” The spread of “gender theory” among our academic, cultural and political elite is probably the reason.

[Jumper]

The actual problem will not arise until the majority no longer has morality. At present, those who are immoral can exist in a relatively safe environment because they are not the majority. However, when most people are no longer held in check by morality, then the immoral majority will cease to tolerate one another, and laws will no longer constrain people. Imagine a world where everyone was acting in only their own self interest instead of today when people are restrained by faith based tenants of civility towards society. Imagine that everyone is taking and charity no longer exists.

To put this in a clearer prospective, understand a world where children are unrestrained by becoming responsible adults and that they seek only gratification of oneself; that individuals are immature to the point that they demand society give them everything they want; imagine a United States where everyone is a democrat demanding that they be given everything and that there is no one else to take from in order to supply their demands. This is the crisis the Pope refers although he does not yet understand that the world is fast becoming one in which all men are takers, not makers, and God's restraints upon mankind no longer serve to temper his Passion.

[Jumper]

The actual problem will not arise until the majority no longer has morality. At present, those who are immorale can exist in a relatively safe environment because they are not the majority. However, when most people are no longer held in check by morality, then the immoral majority will cease to tolerate one another, and laws will no longer constrain people. Imagine a world where everyone was acting in only their own self interest instead of today when people are restrained by faith based tenants of civility towards society. Imagine that everyone is taking and charity no longer exists.

To put this in a clearer prospective, understand a world where children are unrestrained by becoming responsible adults and that they seek only gratification of oneself; that individuals are immature to the point that they demand society give them everything they want; imagine a United States where everyone is a democrat demanding that they be given everything and that there is no one else to take from in order to supply their demands. This is the crisis the Pope refers although he does not yet understand that the world is fast becoming one in which all men are takers, not makers, and God's restraints upon mankind no longer serve to temper his Passion.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"Crediting the Chief Rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim, for the research, Pope Benedict XVI said..."

I would like to read what Bernheim has or say. I know Benedict XVI is big on both Biblical Law and Natural Law.I wonder if Rabbi Bernheim centers in on the Genesis account of Creation, or if he (also) reflects on Natural Law as such.

I think B16 is absolutely right--- that this is much, much bigger than most people realize.

[firebrand]

This concept applies to more than just gender. It means to be content with what the Lord has given us. Much deeper than just wanting to be a different sex.

[lightman]

Very strong echoes of the Nativity Sermon of +Leo the Great:

Christian, remember your dignity, and now that you share in God’s own nature, do not return by sin to your former base condition. Bear in mind who is your head and of whose body you are a member. Do not forget that you have been rescued from the power of darkness and brought into the light of God’s kingdom.

Also note the the strong parallels between +Leo's homily and the Paschal Homily of +John Chrysostom.

[ZULU]

Couldn’t agree with him more. He hit it dead on.

[HiTech RedNeck]

According to “the ‘gender’ philosophy,” explained the Pope, “sex is no longer a given element of nature, that man has to accept and personally make sense of: it is a social role that we choose for ourselves, while in the past it was chosen for us by society.”

Well, God (or if you prefer to put it that way, nature) furnished the fundamentals, and society filled in details. Greeks and Englishmen may differ as to whether a skirt is a proper thing for a man to wear but both identify styles of garb as characteristically male. The pope is getting warm, but he could be hotter.