Posted on 12/02/2016 9:06:44 PM PST by DWW1990
We were warned. Because the left is not going to remain silent on the moral issues—and because most liberals are devoted to a “theology of self” (or a “philosophical dumpster fire” as described by David French)—Christians, especially Christian celebrities, are going to remain targets of the homosexual agenda. It doesn’t matter whether you are tied to the wedding industry. It doesn’t matter if you’re famous. It doesn’t matter whether you are a small business owner, a large corporation, or a state government. In spite of the meme they like to perpetuate, the left simply will not tolerate dissent when it comes to liberal orthodoxy on homosexuality (and yes, the transgender agenda is wed to—bad pun!—the homosexual agenda).
In addition to lust, in the battle over all things homosexual, the left is driven by vengeance. BuzzFeed’s recent malicious hit-piece aimed at HGTV stars Chip and Joanna Gaines is merely the latest effort in this despicable practice.
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But the secular progressive Left won’t hear any of this. With their trademark combination of arrogance and stunning ignorance, they’ll tear down your faith and replace it with a philosophical dumpster fire, a belief system that’s four parts emotional and physical impulse, two parts junk psychology, and one part corrupted intellect. It’s about desire and ambition only partially modulated and limited by consent. Do what you want with your body and your life, so long as you’re not harming anyone else and have the consent of your partners.
Or the better question: if I believe something that is legal and generally socially accepted and tolerated, is immoral for me and my children, how far will you go to punish me?
Under socialism, the nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
The better question: On any matter, how does the left determine what is moral?
Yes, French is good.
A better question: If something is legal and generally socially accepted and tolerated, does that make it moral?
Can a society legislate morality?
Can a society criminalize private individual revulsion to sodomy?
They sure like the moral high ground when it comes to giving money to the poor. $19 trillion dollars worth, at least.
The better question is how can a society NOT legislate morality. A wise man once said that “every law contains a ‘should’ or ‘should not.’”. That’s the definition of morality. And it’s present in every law, regulation’ and ordinance we pass.
The issue then becomes WHOSE morality gets encoded? Is it the majority’s or that of a small but very vocal minority?
I think you need to dig deeper than “ law” to define morality
In ancient times the law could order families to offer their firstborn to the fires of moloch - for the common good of course
Virtually every law is an attempt at “legislating morality.”
Excellent answer! (Saw this after I replied to Silver Leaf.)
That's the problem of the Left. They've forsaken any higher moral authority and promoted themselves as the authors and arbiters AND enforcers. But their laws reflect not a morality but only their opinions, their distorted utopian views.
When you're Joe Stalin, you have the power to force those views on your subjects, on pain of death. When you're the American (international) communist Left, you have to resort to more subtle means: lies, propaganda, judicial activism, nullification, protests, even violence. But you can impose your (a)moral code on people via those means.
Look at the homo/wedding cake imbroglio for an example. The Christians hold to a higher, transcendent morality. The queers insist that their home-brewed deviant lifestyle trumps that. And the courts have agreed (judicial activism). The same goes for queer marriage (judicial activism) and abortion (judicial activism).
The law codifies what the law writers want as norms of social behavior.
Obedience to the law is at the discretion of the population on whom is imposed. Their obedience may stem from agreement that the mandated social behavior is “ moral” which is, despite any law, an innate and individual belief.
Or Their obedience may stem from fear of legal prosecution or other coercion, which is what the left is using to enforce its laws on sexual, familial , faith practice, life decisions and other social norms it has decided must apply to all.
Unlimited abortion. Elimination of gender and criminalization of resistance. No right to privacy or even modesty in public facilities. Legal euthanasia. No right to parental involvement in the education and medical interventions involving reproduction and sexuality of their minor children. Government imposed preferences to favored groups. No right to public expression of certain religious beliefs but protection and even government subsidization of other religious beliefs as selected by the left.
Law does not codify morality much less define it. It codifies acceptable vs unacceptable behaviors as defined by a ruling power among a population and gives power to that ruling group ( majority or minority, representative or tyrannical ) to impose those behaviors coercively if necessary.
Law is not morality. Hitlers law, Stalins law, Mao’s law, Fidel’s law, venezuela’s law, iranian ayatollah law, North Korean law - among other examples = social controls without morality that was/ is innately universal among individual beliefs
With any luck a virtuous people are ruled by a virtuous representative accountable replaceable government which uses a collective morality derived from individualism in its legal behavior codification.
But if we are not lucky the the law can be any damn thing a majority or tyrannical minority tries to impose on us by mass indoctrination or by coercion or some combination. Which is where we have slipped today in America.
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