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To: JMJ333
The dispute over the homosexual agenda -- the fight about a redefinition of our understanding of human sexuality -- is also, more fundamentally, about whether we are going to continue to be a people capable of making principled moral judgments at all.

Well said. Actually, the problem goes even deeper than you wanted to suggest.

One of the hallmarks of humanity is the fact that we are moral agents. In Christianity we say humans are made 'in the image of G-d.' When we cease to be able to make moral judgements, whether about homosexuality or fornication or even stealing from the taxpayer to pay for unConstitutional programs, we deny our humanity. We become nothing more than intelligent beasts. C.S. Lewis argued this very cogently in his book, The Abolition of Man. He didn't make it based on Judeo-Christian morality, but on the common morality that all great religions shared before the abolition began.

When he found that Liberals and Publik Skool graduates couldn't follow The Abolition of Man due to lack of coherent thinking skills, he fictionalized the same concept in the book, That Hideous Strength. People on this thread might want to read one or the other.

Shalom.

302 posted on 01/14/2002 9:04:48 AM PST by ArGee
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To: ArGee
Your recent posts on this thread (which I just got dragged back into) are really good. I agree 100% with you that all pre-marital/extra-marital sex is extremely bad for society. As a family law attorney, I have often said that 90% of societal problems could be solved if people just kept their pants zipped up until they were married, and then unzipped only for their spouse. Poverty levels and government spending would plunge if the out-of-wedlock birthrate were reduced even to 20% in this country (instead of over 30%, latest stats I saw).
304 posted on 01/14/2002 9:36:09 AM PST by GreatOne
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