Posted on 05/06/2015 9:47:51 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
One of the pressing issues of Chesterton’s time was “birth control.” He not only objected to the idea, he objected to the very term because it meant the opposite of what it said. It meant no birth and no control. I can only imagine he would have the same objections about “gay marriage.” The idea is wrong, but so is the name. It is not gay and it is not marriage.
Chesterton was so consistently right in his pronouncements and prophecies because he understood that anything that attacked the family was bad for society. That is why he spoke out against eugenics and contraception, against divorce and “free love” (another term he disliked because of its dishonesty), but also against wage slavery and compulsory state-sponsored education and mothers hiring other people to do what mothers were designed to do themselves. It is safe to say that Chesterton stood up against every trend and fad that plagues us today because every one of those trends and fads undermines the family. Big Government tries to replace the family’s authority, and Big Business tries to replace the family’s autonomy. There is a constant commercial and cultural pressure on father, mother, and child. They are minimized and marginalized and, yes, mocked. But as Chesterton says, “This triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.”
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It's not love, and man—is it ever not free!
It's fun exploding liberal euphemisms. That's Chesterton for you: genius in his every comma.
” That’s Chesterton for you: genius in his every comma. “
Well put.
So true.
‘Gay’ people are the most miserable people I’ve ever met.
Excellent post. Thanks!
But...is it because they’re homosexual are because they’re liberal, or both?
You bet.
I love Chesterton and consider him the Catholic C.S. Lewis. Or is Lewis the Protestant Chesterton? Either way, they were both brilliant and can say more in a single quip than most authors can in an entire book.
At Christmas, when we sing "Don we now our gay apparel," does that mean we're going in drag?
When Stephen Foster wrote "'Tis summer, the darkies are gay," did he mean that in winter they were straight?
If we're we're to "all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home," how are we supposed to feel the rest of the time?
It may be too late to salvage a good English word for which there is no real alternative, but we don't have to cooperate in the hijacking.
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