I have a better idea. I'll fill you in later.
Posted on 06/04/2005 9:43:30 AM PDT by CHARLITE
This week, many an unsuspecting American family will travel to Walt Disney World, where they will find themselves at the epicenter of a recurring cultural earthquake. There, at America's favorite family destination, hordes of homosexuals will congregate at Pleasure Island for an annual exercise in societal entropy. "Gay Days at Disney" they call it -- though it is anything but.
"Gay" in the current vernacular is, of course, the term used by the fashionably PC to describe homosexuals. In dictionaries just a couple of decades ago, however, this same adjective meant "happy" or "a state of high spirits." A century ago, the primary definition was: "licentious, lacking moral restraints, leading a debauched or dissolute life." The Gay '90s, for example, were the final decade of what Mark Twain dubbed "The Gilded Age," an era of unmitigated opulence and unrestrained immorality among a subculture of the elite.
In light of this earliest definition, we're reminded of the inimitable words of that great American philosopher, Yogi Berra: "This is like deja vu all over again." Indeed, today's "gay" culture is equally dissolute, and its agenda is anathema to the bedrock institution of our past, present and future -- the American family.
Leading the charge in homosexual advocacy are groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, and their strategy has heretofore been an effective one. The ACLU will select cases in U.S. Circuit Court venues where the Left has installed a majority of judicial activists -- those who do the bidding of constituencies like homosexuals, in effect ignoring the Constitution and legislating by judicial fiat. It is these same judicial activists who affirm such issues as same-sex "marriage" and same-sex partner benefits.
The homosexual legal agenda notwithstanding, the question all enlightened Americans should be asking themselves in order to understand better the moral implications of this agenda is, which definition of "gay" applies to the homosexual subculture in America? In order to answer this question, one must gain some insight into the pathology of homosexual behavior.
The shifting paradigm of sexual morality is a source of much controversy in America. Homosexuals, though less than 3% of the population, are at the center of this controversy. The secular rights of consenting adults are in contest with the timeless natural order of the family and society.
To discuss the issue of homosexual normalization, we must move beyond the "pro-this/anti-that" labels and dispel a false dichotomy -- one that has infected our dialogue on the issue of homosexuality. Homosexual advocacy groups often rebut dissenters by branding them as pharisaical, intolerant and judgmental -- ad hominem accusations which serve only to preclude a consequential discussion of the issue. Of course, one's heartfelt disagreement with the social agenda of homosexual advocates has no direct correlation with one's capacity to love or have compassion for others. Nor is such dissent necessarily related to judgment, which is God's alone. Rather, it is about discerning between right and wrong and obedience to objective truth -- as opposed to conformity with a contemporary code of relativism whose tenets are "tolerance," "diversity" and "inclusion."
From a Judeo-Christian perspective, it should be noted that objective truth does not constitute law without grace. In fact, law in the absence of grace is meaningless -- little more than oppression. However, grace in the absence of law is, likewise, meaningless -- little more than licentiousness. Law and grace are, in fact, different sides of the same coin.
Understanding aberrant sexual behavior is the critical first step toward healing it. Homosexuality is sometimes a promiscuous lifestyle choice. Often, however, as understood by many medical and mental health specialists, gender-disorientation pathology is associated with childhood or adolescent sexual and/or emotional trauma and/or abuse. Additionally, homosexual modeling by an authority figure -- often an influential person with access to the victim through the family, church, school, neighborhood or media -- can result in gender-disorientation pathology.
Homosexual victims often compensate and cover their pain by manifesting some degree of narcissism -- an unmitigated expression of self-love. They compulsively indulge in aberrant sexual behavior to avoid reconciling the pain of abuse or homosexual modeling.
Additionally, while there was rampant speculation a decade ago about a "homosexual gene," that theory has been repeatedly rejected by both the scientific community and national homosexual advocacy organizations. It should be noted, however, that some children may be genetically predisposed to exhibit masculine or feminine characteristics associated with the opposite sex -- putting them at greater risk of being targeted by homosexual predators and more susceptible, psychologically, to homosexual modeling.
It is no small irony that the most outspoken advocates for the homosexual agenda are equally outspoken about environmental issues -- preservation of the natural order. Even the most humanist of these advocates must acknowledge the obvious -- that homosexuality is a clear and undeniable violation of the laws of nature.
Given insight into the pathology of gender disorientation, to abandon, under the aegis of "love, compassion and inclusion," those who struggle with homosexuality, is tantamount to abandoning a destitute soul in a gutter.
In the final analysis, there is nothing "gay" about being afflicted with gender disorientation pathology. Nor is there anything redeeming about those who would use a family theme park to advance the homosexual agenda.
(For a comprehensive response to the homosexual agenda in the church, visit http://FederalistPatriot.US/papers/03-32_paper.asp.)
Quote of the week...
"We know that obligatory homosexuals are caught up in unconscious adaptations to early childhood abuse and neglect and that, with insight into their earliest beginnings, they can change. ... But, when homosexuality takes on all the aspects of a political movement, it, too, becomes a war, the kind of war in which the first casualty is truth, and the spoils turn out to be our own children. ... In a Washington March for Gay Pride, they chanted, 'We're here. We're queer. And we're coming after your children.' What more do we need to know?" --Charles Socarides, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
On cross-examination...
"The assumption I am now challenging is this: that every desire for change in sexual orientation is always the result of societal pressure and never the product of a rational, self-directed goal. This new orthodoxy claims that it is impossible for an individual who was predominantly homosexual for many years to change his sexual orientation -- not only in his sexual behavior, but also in his attraction and fantasies -- and to enjoy heterosexuality. Many professionals go so far as to hold that it is unethical for a mental-health professional, if requested, to attempt such psychotherapy. ... Science progresses by asking interesting questions, not by avoiding questions whose answers might not be helpful in achieving a political agenda." --Robert Spitzer, professor of psychiatry, Columbia University
Mark Alexander is Executive Editor and Publisher of The Federalist Patriot, a Townhall.com member group.
Homosexuals DO have the right to marry members of the opposite sex.
The BS is that homosexuals try and put forth the notion that the law has something to do with love. Love has NEVER been part of the marriage equation under the law.
Homosexuality equates sexual recreation with love. They seek to convert the society rewarded institution of marriage into a mere living aragnegment of recreational sex.
Homosexuality is a learned behavior. All psychology went for the BF Skinner model of human behavior as being learned EXCEPT when it came to this political issue.
How about this analogy: I can use a wrench as a hammer to drive a nail, but no matter what I do it is still a wrench being used contrary to design.
A soulfully smitten fascination with truth and honest living and fear of both, is a more likely scenario. Some describe this phenomenon as the driving force of human nature for life. Then again, some are so scared they try to imitate the reality- no matter what...
Intelligence cannot be measured scientifically. Test until your hearts content, but do not be a biological determinist and fall for the fallacy of believing that you can quantify or assign a single entity to the abstraction of intelligence. Once you do this... then you naturally fall into the second fallacy of ranking.
American Psychologists of the past took these hard "objective" number values and have used them to form ever more complex arguements of worthiness to rank race, class, sex, or to even find those that them deem inferior or even deserve their status.
I believe that intelligence is acquired. Whatever one generation learns it can pass to the next by teaching, writings, traditions, rituals, etc.
Homosexuality could be genetic...if so...it could be cured. Would the homosexuals want that...or are they content with their behavior even though they are not following their biological form and function?
It was accepted by all people or just the elites of the country? I'm not sure of any instance where whole populations were doing this...maybe Sodom and Gomorrah.
We all know what happened to that place.
The Roman Empire is the best example.
A civilization always collapses from the top. Egypt is another prime example.
The final fall of the Chinese Empire is another...
Chinese sodomites? Really?
"by Charles Wickman (Cheney in '08!)""
Hmmmm, perhaps you have Cheney in '08 because he has a lesbian daughter. Could that be too far a stretch? When you have Cheney in 08 knowing he isn't running. Odd.
Eunuchs and non-gelded "butterflys" (rough translation) were an integral part an Emperor's Court, and this accepted sodomy extended to all lower officiary. These types were also well tolerated in common society, prior to the fall of Emperor China.
Of course it will be denied, lol...
They are wearing a mask, much like the actors in ancient Greek drama...
Exactly. They are trying to put us in a Skinner Box, aren't they?
I have many friends and acquaintances who are gay, and I respect them all as people. By and large, the gays I know contribute to society and are not interested in a political agenda--they are not "in your face" queers.
But what you propose, gay "marriage" is impossible.
The fact is that sexual activity is ordained toward childbearing and raising children in a familial environment. That's why the genders were engineered the way they are.
You've attempted to "make points" by pointing out this society's failures and anomalies, and then saying "well, if Bobby and Sue can fornicate/get divorced/prevent conception, then gays can marry..." Wrong. A false premise argument--producing a false conclusion.
It is irrelevant that the Enron management was composed of a bunch of crooks when considering accounting entries at, say, ExxonMobil. Right action, founded on right understanding of moral law, is what IS relevant.
Your relative's situation is difficult for you--and likely even more so for him. But that doesn't mean that his difficulty should militate erasure of the natural law, nor accord him the benefits rightly-ordered societies have conferred on married couples.
Google it. Pollute your own machine.
Iron Jack indeed! sounds like a very macho name
Awwwwww, you're making me blush.
Time to quit hiding behind the lie that homosexuals are just couples whose love dare not speak its name. Homosexuality centers around promiscuity, not commitment, and it is no more about "family" than abortion is.
It's nothing more than another dialectical issue the left is using to fracture our culture.
I'm not sure that I agree; however, I guess it could be argued that the pursuit of homosexual practices is a lifestyle choice.
Some psychiatrists suggest that "aversion therapy" has had some short term success...but the data is not fully in and the rate of recidivisim appears to be substantial.
Others argue that homosexuals could repress their behavior if so inclined...but this would probably lead to either physical or mental illness, or in the acting out in other anti-social directions.
In all things biological, sex is the most powerful driving force known and as far as I am aware, can't be successfully sublimated over the long term.
I have a better idea. I'll fill you in later.
By default, because of "Gay" Pride (???) week, which is this week, June is "Gay" month. That is why Disney World is sponsoring their sodomite extravaganza this week. In my blue-state area, one must avoid going downtown next weekend to keep away from the "Pride" (????) parade and other "gay" hooplah.
A much better, and healthier choice for June would be to make it Serbian-American Heritage Month, because of Vidovdan! The "liberal" elitists of course will never go along with that, but the people can begin celebrating it anyway!
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