Posted on 03/07/2005 9:26:44 AM PST by conservativecorner
Heterophobia hit another low with recent attacks on James Dobson. Locally, anyone who might share his understanding of moral absolutes was skillfully demonized as endangering national security and being party to biblically motivated genocide, witch-burning, kidnapping, rape, slavery and murder. Apparently that kind of character assassination coupled with disgraceful, if not libelous, falsification of the facts represents liberalism's treasured standard for intellectual debate, forward-looking dialogue, openness to other worldviews and compassionate agape (unconditional) love.
What was Dobson's crime? He had the fortitude to express grave concern about a video and accompanying lesson plans scheduled for distribution to 61,000 public and private schools for use on March 11 during the proposed We Are Family Day. His alarm centered on the lesson plans because they shanghaied wholesome, widely trusted children's characters. The purpose was to present a pro-homosexual social and moral agenda within tax-funded public and parent supported private institutions with little or no parental notice or consent.
Dobson's concerns and the concerns of a vast majority of religious Americans are based in three areas.
First, children of any age belong to their parents and parents are responsible to God, not to society or educators, for the formation of their children's hearts and minds. Parents may be willing to grant temporary control of children to others during a school day, but they never relinquish sovereignty over them. Without parents' express permission, implementing the We Are Family lesson plans would be a direct usurpation of parents' legal, moral and spiritual authority and thereby a violation of God's familial mandate.
Secondly, there is no socially redeeming value in the homosexual lifestyle, no genetic pre-disposition and no moral consensus concerning it that justifies social engineering of elementary age children. According to the Centers for Disease Control, homosexual men are far more likely to contract AIDS and among them other sexually transmitted diseases are rampant. Sixty percent of new syphilis cases originate within the 2.8 percent of our population that practices homosexuality. It's no wonder, considering that Bell and Weinberg found 43 percent of white male homosexuals had sex with 500 or more partners and 28 percent reached 1,000 or more partners. Several studies (Archives of General Psychiatry) have confirmed significantly higher rates of anxiety disorder, major depression, conduct disorder and suicide. Every attempt to find a genetic determinant or a pre-disposition toward homosexuality has failed. The research of Kinsey, Hooker, Levay, Hamer and Bailey/Pillard has been soundly discredited because of prejudiced sampling, deeply flawed techniques and agenda-driven analysis.
The third area involves the constant efforts to promote heterophobia and sexual license as unconditional love. Every good parent understands the ability to unconditionally love while rejecting wrong or self-destructive behavior. Sometimes refusing to accept detrimental or immoral behavior is the most difficult but most meaningful type of love. It means sacrificially doing what is best for the object of one's love in order to demonstrate God's expectations. Genuine hope and fulfillment become reality when love exposes self-destructiveness or moral transgression and offers deliverance. Yet, evangelicals are derided for trying, through the Heavenly Father, to do exactly that.
Unless one embraces liberalism's skepticism toward the existing biblical text and accepts their deep mistrust of the historical accuracy of that text, Jesus is not silent on the social/moral crusades represented by the We Are Family Foundation. He created sexuality in Genesis. He defined sexual purity and condemned impurity in Leviticus, Deuteronomy, 1 Kings and Amos. Despite some theologians' bogus claims that the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was inhospitality, Matthew records Jesus' unquestioningly using the understanding of His day concerning the sexual sin of those cities and referencing them in a monologue of judgment. Even more, the Bible continues to speak very clearly in Romans, 1 Corinthians, 1 Timothy, 2 Peter and Jude.
But the SpongeBob SquarePants episode exposes a much larger problem than a forced-feeding of homosexual propaganda to school children on March 11. Two of the structures that molded who we are as a nation, freedom of speech and freedom of religion, are now being eroded at the hands of intolerant liberal ideology and political correctness run amuck. Our nation cannot survive as an incubator for self-centered secularist or pseudo-Christian social sub-continents. American heritage and culture, founded in spirituality and the free expression of truth, needs to be reclaimed and treasured in all its melting pot splendor.
Robert H. Ashby is a resident of Holland. He can be reached at rhajla@sbcglobal.net.
> parents are responsible to God, not to society or educators, for the formation of their children's hearts and minds
Ummm... so... if parents raise their little darlings to be psycho killers, society has nothing to say to the parents?
There's a classic bit of word-twisting for you. Thanks for the example. =]
The liberal way is to lie to achieve their goals.
Of course they do. But isn't raising your child to be a "psycho killer" going against God's word. If you fulfill your obligation to the Lord, your societal responsibilities are secondary and take care of themselves.
Ok, so let's have it your way. Let's assume that we stick to the moral absolutes....We tell Jimmy that his mom's are hell bound because they are lesbians.
We'll tell Johnny his mother is hellbound cause his mother just wanted to be happy and divorce is father.
We'll tell Sammy his father is hellbound because in his sales presentation when asked whether his product was the lowest priced for similar utility he while never answering the question directly, led the buyer to believe that it was so Sammy's father could reach his monthly sales goal.
We'll tell Sue that her parents are hellbound because her mom and dad didn't tithe even though they have problems just putting food on the table.
We'll tell Henry that his parents are hellbound because in their business they are not statistically meeting the net weight on the package of milk they produce for the school milk program, but it's only a gram or two. But then again, it's theft.
Let's tell everyone in class who doesn't go to our church that they are hellbound because they don't meet the biblical criteria our church has found in scripture to be saved.
Those are all absolutes. Let's go for it.
The sodomites and their pals vilified Dr. Laura, too. I hope the parents in whose classrooms this propaganda is scheduled to be aired and discussed make a very large noise!!
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> parents are responsible to God, not to society or educators, for the formation of their children's hearts and minds
Ummm... so... if parents raise their little darlings to be psycho killers, society has nothing to say to the parents?
If the children grow up into psycho killers THEY(children) are responsible to society.
I enjoy listening to James Dobson. He makes a lot of common sense like Dr. Laura that seems to be missing in our world today.
No, I am not a teacher. But if we are going to make absolutes, then let's make absolutes.
BTTT!
By the way, we didn't make the absolute that homosexual acts are an abomination, God did.
Umm... you might try learning how to read.
Parents who "are responsible to God, not to society or educators, for the formation of their children's hearts and minds" don't raise their children to be psycho killers.
Unless you would like to go on record as saying belief in God is the equivalent of being a psychokiller.
And where did you learn this? I am glad you are not a teacher.
Legally, no. Can you name one case where a parent has been prosecuted for the actions of a adult child?
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