Posted on 03/21/2022 3:09:06 PM PDT by Ennis85
A question for fellow conservatives: What exactly do we stand for?
The left’s recent wave of culture war victories seems to have not only discouraged our commentators from talking about homosexuality, but also softened their conviction that it’s a grave offense against God and nature.
Progressives know that a neighbor’s “gay marriage,” Hollywood portrayals of same-sex romance, and adoption celebrations for same-sex couples, do in fact impact conservatives and society writ large. Their activism emphasizes the social sphere because, like conservatives, they’re realistic about the impact of social signals and role models in communities.
That’s why it matters when movement figures like PragerU or TheBlaze congratulate Dave Rubin on having children with his “husband.” Or when the Daily Wire, with its reputation for defying cultural headwinds, has an editor in chief who celebrates a same-sex engagement.
To be clear, this article is not an attempt to bash Rubin or any of the other right-leaning figures whose same-sex activities have been celebrated. It’s an inquiry into what happened to a movement that has long held homosexuality is unnatural, and yet is increasingly willing to compromise its values by praising activity it would normally condemn.
And for what?
What does Jeremy Boreing, who identifies with the Christian faith, gain from congratulating Spencer Klavan on his relationship with his same-sex partner? Is it to boost his relationship with Klavan’s fiancée who works for Daily Wire, or his father who has a show on the platform? Is it to appear more tolerant? Or is Boreing trying to assure Klavan of their collegiality?
Whatever his reasons, Boreing’s warm wishes necessarily entail the public approval and promotion of sin — one that, depending on Boering’s theology, he knows will lead to eternal damnation.
In that light, Boreing’s actions seems less like love and more like cowardice.
It would be one thing if the Daily Wire hosts — many of whom I admire — stayed silent on the reluctance to challenge our culture’s gender and sexual mania. But Boreing’s outlet routinely attacks Republican “squishes” like Elise Stefanik, who pushed the GOP last year to embrace “transgenderism,” and Republicans who supported Caitlyn Jenner.
PragerU, named after famed so-con Dennis Prager, also muddied the waters when it released a video in which commentator Guy Benson stated that one could be “gay” and Christian.
As a Catholic who struggles with same-sex attraction, I’m more than willing to acknowledge that the literal meaning of Benson’s assertion is basically correct. Attractions and actions are two very different things. One can’t be controlled while another can.
And while neither of the following are permissible, sustained commitments to sin are very different from indiscretions that partially result from weakness. Public, continual sin requires a greater act of the will, and therefore deepens culpability.
Unless I’m missing something, Benson and others aren’t merely “falling” into long-term relationships only to realize they’re immoral. Based on Benson’s own life, he and PragerU appear to be suggesting that concerted homosexual unions are compatible with Christianity — a heretical claim that clearly contradicts any plain reading of the Old and New Testaments. You cannot continue in unrepentant, grave sin and credibly say you’re living a Christian life.
But again, this isn’t so much about figures like Benson as it is about PragerU and others who publicly contradict their own advocacy, betraying fellow conservatives in the process.
At a more personal level, are we willing to signal to our same-sex-attracted brothers and sisters that their struggle really isn’t worth that much? That they can find edification in sinful unions — so it’s okay to pursue those regardless of the moral implications? Because that’s the impression one gets from the congratulatory messages on Twitter.
More broadly, are we willing to discard foundational aspects of our ideology— natural law and a reverence for Judeo-Christian morality — for whatever reasons Boreing might have had in mind when he praised a same-sex engagement?
As many have noted, conservatism has essentially become liberalism traveling the speed limit. Without natural law to anchor conservatives, what exactly is stopping us from drifting into all the decadent excesses of the progressive left?
If you’re willing to propose a version of natural law or biblical morality that somehow permits homosexuality, let’s hear it. But if you merely want to keep certain parts while shirking the unpleasant ones, you’re rooting your advocacy and your movement in sand.
You don’t have to be a purist to maintain a coherent framework of belief. This isn’t, for example, a conversation about tax credits versus strict laissez faire economics — or even about going too far on immigration reform. This identity crisis cuts to the core of the way we view nature, and therefore the society where it flourishes.
I am sinner who understands the struggles of same-sex attraction all too well. But the answer to this struggle, as always, isn’t license or a friendly nudge towards perdition.
It’s love, which always includes truth.
Well, I guess there are two kinds of people in the world. People who would send their children their little boys out into the woods with queer scoutmasters and people who would never under any circumstances send their little boys out into the woods with queer scoutmasters. Count me in the second group, because there ain’t no way you should ever let little boys be around a bunch of queers. Look what happened to the boy scouts organization.
You are correct, and this is key to understanding how the left controls the language.
I excelled both in science and in theology. I refuse (except in quotation marks) to use either “gay” or “homosexual” terms when referring to such persons. There is no such thing as biologically functional human sexuality between two persons of the same binary sex (i.e., XY or XX). The very scientific concept of sexuality derives from reproduction (versus asexual reproduction).
Fifty years ago, arrogant secular scientists proclaimed that sex (i.e., the act) is all and only about spreading the genes in the pool, and that love is merely an illusory biochemical motivation to do so. They focused solely on biologically functional sex between a sexually mature male and female; anything else - including homoeroticism - was irrelevant. (I know this first-hand because I was a Biology major at the time.)
Whatever takes place between two persons of the same sex is inherently non-functional. It may derive from perverted sexual impulses, but it absolutely is not sex (i.e., authentic intercourse). Such behaviors are merely a form of eroticism. There are no homosexuals; they are homoerotics.
Conservatives have a disconcerting tendency to allow leftists to define the terms of the debate before the debate begins, and then argue within those parameters. In so doing, they yield vital debating territory to the enemy.
Similarly, when conservatives accept the word “gender” in place of sex, they are conceding valuable territory to the enemy. Gender is linguistic and variable, depending upon the language; sex is biological and binary. (Genetic aberrations are just that: aberrations.)
An example from a different subject is “suicide bomber”: A person can easily commit suicide with a bomb without endangering anyone else. Such persons are homicide/genocide bombers.
Ditto.
“famed so-con Dennis Prager.” Yup. Every person who accepts intimacy outside of traditional marriage is boring. In the 1980’s Herb Caen wrote an article for the SF Chronicle and said something like, “What’s wrong with finding a secretary laying on her back in the boss’ office?” Stupid question. There’s a million things wrong with that. Caen was a boring loser who no one cares about today. And yes, every person with same sex attraction is sick and boring.
# Why are leading conservatives congratulating Dave Rubin for commissioning babies with his ‘husband’?
Because they are only ‘conservative’ to make money.
We have become a corrupt, perverse society who views evil as normal.
Keep sliding down the slope.
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There's a statement one doesn't hear every day. God's blessings to you as well.
In me, God hath chosen the foolish and the despised.
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Ouch...
Well, yeah, He got that right. I’m definitely looked upon as being a bit foolish; and despised, there aren’t enough fingers and toes to count the number of people who have viewed me as such.
Same here 🥴😊😬
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