Posted on 12/10/2006 2:01:49 PM PST by wagglebee
Is there a more obvious product of heterosexual behavior than the creation of children? If so then isn't it somewhat peculiar that those who shun the behavior of heterosexuality so deeply crave the product that it brings?
This week as I read the news that Mary Cheney, the 37 year old daughter of the Vice-President, was pregnant, I had many such questions running through my head.
I'm not supposed to mind you.
I'm not supposed to be allowed to think such things.
I'm not supposed to openly wonder what such conclusions might mean. Such wondering might bash the belief structure that men and women are completely interchangeable with one another. Yet I wonder them nonetheless. (Call it an ever growing desire to know the truth of the matter.)
Let's face it in America today if we bring up such obvious inconsistencies we are immediately branded and labeled a bigot. I was repeatedly labeled such this week for asking six additional questions arising from the fake act of two women supposedly "becoming parents." Argue with me all you like - the truth is Mary Cheney's baby will share DNA with Mary and the male DNA donor. Genetically he/she will share nothing with Cheney's partner Heather Poe.
So here's the next item I'm not allowed to bring up... Two women who desire children can not achieve satisfaction, because their sexual union is incapable of producing it. And this is fully true - even if all parties involved have healthy, fully functional reproductive biology.
When I mentioned this earlier in the week homosexual bloggers like Andrew Sullivan took exception with the notion and accused me of being hypocritical of the issue when it comes to infertile couples. Yet it is the critics who are being inconsistent.
If a man and wife struggle with infertility, it is because of biological breakdown. What God designed to work a certain way short circuited. He has low sperm count. She doesn't produce eggs as she should. They have trouble getting the two together. The biological dysfunction is not voluntary, they attempt sexual intercourse, time and time again but because of the faulty genetics in the machinery they are unable to complete the conception. And should medicine ever develop a cure for whatever that specific breakdown might be - there will be no problem for the couple, through natural sexual engagement to have another child.
Not so with Cheney and her partner. If they were to choose to engage in sex acts a thousand times over, their biological machinery would never produce what is needed - but for a different reason. There is no dysfunction in this case. Instead the reason the sexual engagement does not work is because the necessary parts are not even present. It is the equivalent of screwing a nut onto a bolt, by using a hammer. They just don't fit.
So after a cacophony of naughty e-mails being sent to me describing thousands of positions a male participant or a turkey baster can be used to impregnate a woman who only has had sex with women, I'm supposed to be intimidated so as to no longer ask these questions.
But they're good questions.
And doesn't the sick attempt at humor reveal what the purpose of my questions was from the very beginning?
In normal relationships the privacy and intimacy of the act of procreation is a spiritual and beautiful thing. In the sexual acts of women who sleep together that adequacy will be something they always long for and never have the satisfaction of knowing, thus undermining the fidelity of what they believe their relationship to be.
In our culture we don't think about our actions from the viewpoint of the One who created us. Rather we obsess about our rights to do what we want, how we want, and as often as we want.
But children are never about what we want. Raising them is about supplying what they need. Britney Spears does no one a service when she gets pregnant on the cheap in a marriage that doesn't last only to end up not providing a father for her children while flashing her nether region for paparazzi. Like wise how moral is it for Mary Cheney to bring a child into society who from the outcome is told that her second mommy is the equivalent of a true father?
There is a reason for homosexual activists to have kids; it is part of the great deception that no one is to question. By having children in the picture the attempt to complete the circle and to convince the world that such a family unit is normal is all important.
Since we do not live in a theocracy it is unreasonable to maintain that Americans will not all make the same choice when it comes to morality and sexual behavior. However that reality has nothing whatsoever to do with whether sexual behavior should be considered moral that extends beyond moral boundaries.
And since homosexuals insist upon desiring limitless sexual activity, not governed by provincial rules and traditions, why would they want children?
Children are the undeniable product of the superiority of heterosexual engagement. And since homosexual behavior in large terms wishes to throw off the weight of conventional sexuality, I am curious as to why they would desire to reinforce the inferiority of their sexual behavior.
And no amount of hate-mail from small minded radical activists will stifle the curiosity from which I seek to learn.
vast majority <= 100%
"I thought that homosexual behavior could be resisted--but that no one could really change their sexual orientation. I now believe that's untrue--some people can and do change. The mental health professionals should stop moving in the direction of banning therapy that has, as a goal, a change in sexual orientation. Many patients, provided with informed consent about the possibility that they will be disappointed if the therapy does not succeed, can make a rational choice to work toward developing their heterosexual potential and minimizing their unwanted homosexual attractions."
Source: Spitzer made the above comments at an annual APA meeting, May 9, 2001. The study was reported in the May 9, 2001 issues of The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today and it was also released to many local newspapers via the AP. ABC, CBS, FOX and MSNBC all reported the study.
vast majority <= 100%
Yes, and?
An interesting part of the article is that Spitzer says he would not want his own son to be homosexual, although he is for homosexual civil rights (except possibly for marriage, as he would not answer that question). He also stopped short of calling homosexuality a disorder, but he said he still feels there is something wrong with it.
You should listen. Or read this:
Those are the facts.
With friends like that...
With this article we see gay activists are more interested in the politics of homosexuality than the truth: Spitzer Study Critiqued In the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy
And one more from EdReform: Supporting docs on Spitzer.
Good night, all.
BTTT
Thanks for the links. :)
Here is the source I used.
http://www.covenantnetwork.org/resources&statements/reparative.htm#t123
Thanks for the links, and good night as well.
(Those who thirst for the truth will see the truth. Others won't. It's always been that way, and always will.)
"And I go back to a premise others have made...someone who spends day after day post after post on a sexual topic has issues in that area."
With all due respect, you're full of ignorance, ill manners, vanity and your comments aren't worth the molecules they're written in.
Why me? You made the assertion.
Found this - how bizarre...
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/grossman/20031216.html
Here is the quote that you took exception to:
The similarities between the *purists* here and the *purist* Islamists are striking. Neither has any use for personal choice and I really think that they don't understand it. I don't think that someone can comprehend something that is beyond their current capability - if you know what I mean :-)
Now that is my opinion. It is not your place to tell me whether or not I can have that opinion. You are free to criticize it or disagree with it but not to tell me that I cant hold it. Because I clearly do hold that as my opinion. Please note that I used the word *similarities* - not the word *equate* which you seem to think I said. And please remember that you have agreed there are indeed similarities.
Here is my view: We have something exquisitely wonderful in this country. There has been nothing like it in the all the history that we are aware of. Our country was founded on the brilliant idea of self-government. The Founders believed that too much government was dangerous. As Thomas Jefferson put it:
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
In other words there is a natural tendency for individuals to lose liberty and government to gain in power. As I said in the previous post, government is force. Government is like poison like the poison that an anesthetist gives to enable a healing surgery to occur. A little of the poison is necessary but too much and you will die. Limited government is necessary but too much and liberty will yield to tyranny. It is the nature of government of *power over* to try to grow and become absolute.
That's the first thing. The second thing is what we talked about previously: that is, that you cannot equate "force of law" with laws *being forced upon us.*
Now, that is your opinion, not mine. My view is that anything that government does is *forced* upon us because government, by definition, is *force*. Whether it is taxes, or speeding limits (which on freeways are far too low, imo), or regulations on business or the banning of trans fats in NYC, or no-knock laws that allowed the police in Atlanta to shoot and kill an 88 year old woman, or the absolutely out of control anti-smoking measures. I agree that we MUST have government but the government that governs least governs best. I think it is vitally important to work to restrict government especially at the federal level. Let me give two more quotes from Thomas Jefferson:
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
With respect to our state and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole. To the state governments are reserved all legislation administration, in affairs which concern their own citizens only; and to the federal government is given whatever concerns foreigners and citizens of other states; these functions alone being made federal. The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government - neither having control over the other, but within its own department.
So I am advocating for less government, for individual liberty and an almost sacred respect for individual rights and self determination, free will or free choice. What that means in this context is that I think those who want to restrict the rights of folks like Mary Cheney are promoting tyranny. Just as I think that the Talebans treatment of women is obviously tyrannical. Those who think they are somehow *entitled* to *force* others to live by their beliefs are tyrant wannabes, imo. The Taleban have succeeded in gaining the power over all those around them. Just as Iran has a tyrannical theocracy. Free will, free choice are not allowed. Those who speak of individual freedom and self-determination are jailed, beaten, tortured and possibly killed.
The similarities that I see between fundamentalist Christians and fundamentalist Muslims concern me. Reading the posts on this thread (and others) is pretty upsetting to me and thats not just the vileness and perversion. People are advocating taking away the individual rights of folks that they dont approve of. Thats pretty scary to me. Hopefully, you are wise enough to see that if government were given the power to decide who could and could not have children or who could adopt children Christians would be just as at risk as homosexuals. Government is not just. Nor is government accountable. Government is force. Government likes to have more power.
I think we are much better off having the greatest amount of power in the individual even if that means that we know individual humans will err and some will not handle their freedom responsibly. We have a legal system to deal with those who misuse their freedom. But we are, in the long run, much better off working toward having the least amount of government as is possible and the highest level of freedom possible even if that means that people are free to *sin* (by your definition). Even if that means people are free to fornicate, to divorce, to commit adultery, to engage in homosexual acts, to have children outside of wedlock, to drink too much, to smoke cigarettes, to eat things that arent good for them. In other words I think we are much better off having a society that is not structured around religious or secular rules or as has been said so well * a nanny state* but is structured around individual freedom and individual rights and individual responsibility.
Previously and presently in our history, including a time when major religion played a much more dominating role in our culture than it does now, there were and are many laws that reflect the moral judgments you rail against. Laws against adultery, incest, bestiality, pedophilia, homosexuality and so on.
At that time government was not big and those laws were at the state level which is where those kind of things should be decided. But I would argue there was tyranny. The lack of individual rights and the respect for those rights was tyranical. And the kinds of things that happened to those who broke those laws were pretty tyrannical.
At one time, one of the most immoral moral judgments known to man---slavery---was imposed through our law.
Yet tyranny did not occur.
It was the ultimate tyranny for the slave. Just as there was tyranny for women. Women were denied their basic human rights as were the slaves.
Those who do not understand the importance of individual freedom, self-determination, free will, free choice and individual rights should not be writing laws, imo. They are a danger to others, imo. Self-government is pretty self-explanatory :-)
smile - thanks for that.
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