Posted on 03/16/2020 6:12:45 PM PDT by Ennis85
It was a bright, cold day in Oxford and everywhere I looked, rainbow flags flapped and fluttered in the sharp wind.
They flew from the ancient colleges along the High Street. They flew from the Town Hall.
And what they said to me was ‘Your side has lost. There is nothing you can do about it.’
As I write this, I know that an apprentice Thought Police officer will certainly copy and store my words, to use them against me at some point in the future.
The mere act of suggesting that there is anything oppressive about these banners will ensure that I am convicted of ‘homophobia’. Those who condemn me will not be even slightly interested in what I actually think.
It is startling to recall walking down the same street more than 50 years ago, when nobody had ever thought of rainbow flags and this was still a free country.
At that time, just as I am now, I was strongly in favour of maximum tolerance towards homosexuals, and thought it ludicrous and wicked that only a few years before, they were being arrested and prosecuted for actions that were wholly private.
But in the years that followed, a strange thing happened.
Tolerance, which still seems to me to be the best way of coping with our many differences, was no longer enough. In fact, it became positively bad. Nothing short of total acceptance of the new thinking would do.
A huge change in sexual morality of all kinds was cleverly presented as mainly being the liberation of homosexuals from persecution.
In truth, it had many other aspects, to do with abortion, stable marriage, fatherless families and other changes which mostly affected defenceless children.
But conservatives who had doubts about any of it could be – and were
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The State is writing our prayerbooks and our theology.
It’s what “dissenters” left England for in 1620 (and thereafter) — the right to belief differently than the state mandated.
>> Nothing short of total acceptance of the new thinking would do.
Incorrect. Nothing short of total *celebration* of the new thinking will do.
That’s where we’re at.
Thanks for the article. The author has a very clear and orderly presentation style.
Good writing is very hard to find these days.
Brits, enjoy your Muslims and heaven help you if you’re caught criticizing Islam online.
But you can always lecture us Yanks about our “lax gun laws” with no interference from the thought police.
Glad I’m on this side of the pond with my guns, my right of self defense, and my right to free speech.
And if I want bangers & beans with breakfast, it doesn’t require a plane ride. Neither does fish & chips. Both are easy to prepare, & scrumptious.
And just so you’ll know, I am a huge fan of Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson, the bravest woman and the bravest man in the U.K.
Actually, the most manifest form of what is broadly termed "homophobia" is that which is manifested by people and whole corporations and institutions, that of fear of offending the homosexual movement and thus being called "homophobia."
The use of which is a psychological tactic which is designed to intimidate those who oppose homosexuality and silence them, and coerce them into supporting the homosexual lifestyle and its agenda.
All according to script.
For the strategy from Hell which has been practiced for decades is as is basically set forth in the book, After the Ball, which is widely regarded as the handbook for the gay agenda, in which two homosexual Harvard-trained graduates, [55] Marshall Kirk (1957–2005), a researcher in neuropsychiatry, and Hunter Madsen (pen name Erastes Pill), who was schooled in social marketing, advocated avoiding portraying gays as aggressive challengers, but as victims instead, while making all those who opposed them to be evil persecutors. As a means of the latter, they used jamming, in which Christians, traditionalists, or anyone else who opposes the gay agenda are publicly smeared. Their strategy was based on the premise that, "In any campaign to win over the public, Gays must be portrayed as victims in need of protection so that straights will be inclined by reflex to adopt the role of protector. The purpose of victim imagery is to make straight people feel very uncomfortable."[56][57]
"Jamming" homo-hatred (disagreement with homosexual behaviors) was to be done by linking it to Nazi horror, advised Kirk and Madsen. Associate all who oppose homosexuality with images of Klansmen demanding that gays be slaughtered, hysterical backwoods preachers, menacing punks, and a tour of Nazi concentration camps where homosexuals were tortured and gassed. Thus, "propagandistic advertisement can depict homophobic and homohating bigots as crude loudmouths..."[58] " It can show them being criticized, hated, shunned. It can depict gays experiencing horrific suffering as the direct result of homohatred-suffering of which even most bigots would be ashamed to be the cause. It can, in short, link homohating bigotry with all sorts of attributes the bigot would be ashamed to possess, and with social consequences he would find unpleasant and scary... our effect is achieved without reference to facts, logic, or proof."[59]https://www.conservapedia.com/Homosexual_Agenda#Strategies_and_psychological_tactics
If a “Church” is a participant in a 501c3 government filing, they have already been part of the erasure of the line between Church and State. Actually, they are as much heretics as when a King of England formed a Church. They are more afraid of losing that status, than of being Judged by the very Creator they say they serve.
“We read to know we are not alone.”—C.S. Lewis
Thanks for posting, it moved me.
Excellent post and reply. I am mining it for usage on places that rarely see anything as thoughtful. Thanks.
You know, for being so vocal about “keep government out of our bedrooms”, the homo lobby sure is eager to force everyone to be ringside in their bedrooms at the force of government decree.
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Terrifying piece on homofascism. Must read.
And yet this is only a manifestation of the invisible rebellion, in which we know the winner, but man must know Him to be on His side.
We serve the same Master.
The “soil” where we strive to plant is a bit rocky. Maybe the current “plague” will soften it up. The planting is getting close to finished. We await the harvest.
Thanks and glory be to God.
The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever. Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah. (Psalms 9:16-20)
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know? (Psalms 94:8-10)
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