I’m not a baby boomer, but I’m old enough to remember a bit of the sexual revolution of the sixties/seventies.
Here’s something I’ve noticed.
You would have a group of people. Some would be into free love/premarital sex, some believing in waiting until marriage. They would debate back and forth. They would all make their own decisions and act accordingly. They would still REMAIN FRIENDS. The free love types would sometimes tease the ones who waited, but it was good natured. I saw this with my own eyes.
A girl in our group got pregnant in college (unmarried), and her best friend and frequent babysitter was a girl who waited to have sex until she was married. This was not weird.
Nowadays, agreeing to the moral validity of gay sexual activity has become a litmus test in many circles to be considered as a friend. It’s also a litmus test to make you an acceptable target for exclusion and hate, if you don’t agree with it.
Where’s the debate? Where’s the tolerance for opposing viewpoints? I would even accept some good-natured teasing.
Just an observation.
It’s a long story, but to start:
- The opposition to so-called gay “marriage” has been pathetic and widely misunderstood. Unfortunately, it’s been many non-Catholic Christians who’ve been running around the last 10 years saying that homosexual actions are not acceptable because the Bible says so, end of discussion!
I mean, that won’t even work on premarital sex or contraception. Then there’s the whole debacle about how being GLBTQ is a one way ticket to hell and homosexuality is always a choice.
It’s impossible to have a conversation with folks on either side of that because of their agenda and ignorance and natural law.
Between natural law and secular arguments, which Adam Kolasinski outlined in a 2004 editorial "
The Secular Case Against Gay Marriage", these arguments, at the forefront, counter every single claim against traditional marriage or that straight and gay marriage can be the same.
People just felt that there were no good counterarguments, when they were staring all of us right in the face!
- The Catholic Church was not out in front of this. I remember my Mom saying that while the culture was decaying all around them, they were making “Jesus Loves Me” posters in CCD, instead of learning the finer points of countering the counterculture. If we were on guard and more watchful, we could have sheparded more GLBTQ persons BEFORE the gay “marriage” movement got momentum.
As a younger person, I first thought this came out of nowhere, But the reality is it has been around for years, and I think polling on the issue goes back even to the 70s.
- So-called gay “marriage” is not borne out of civil rights. The comparison is understandably insulting to many American minorities, especially Blacks. The fact is during civil rights movements, people were in many cases (black, white, man and woman) were risking prison sentences and even their lives. The only reason there are so many gay “marriage” activists is because it’s now safe to come out and be one.
Today, being for so-called gay “marriage” makes one “like, the coolest like person evah!”
You’re much more at risk if you oppose it, and there’s no telling far that’s going to go. Some Christians are literally preparing for martyrdom over this.
Being for so-called gay “marriage” today is a very safe, easy, comfortable existence, but in typical progressive fashion, the activists are going to play the oppressed minority victim. What is scary is that it won’t change once they become the majority. They’ll still portray themselves as oppressed and sad in need of government help, even if every single state makes it and refusing them services illegal. There’s too many people who think if they are just given everything they ask for, they’ll hush up and go their merry way.
But as we can see with bakers and florists, that just ain’t so.
Trouble is that homosexual relationships are not stable. The numbers and stats on that do not lie. And of course, those research that come under fire because it’s a major dent in their agenda, and I think they know it. It’ll be interesting to see how long they can keep suppressing the truth and making excuses for it.
As I said, this isn’t about equality or civil rights, its about entitlements, looking and feeling good in front of people who are different and look for hidden personal gain. They think in many cases they’ve found a way to beat the system, that they can have all the worldly accolades and adoration and be on par with Mother Teresa.
So-called gay “marriage” has come out of the entitlement mentality, and mainly for political purposes and for those looking to make selfish gains, who predictably market themselves as fighting for a righteous cause. (Keeping moral relativism in mind, ISIS is doing the same thing…)
Just ask any gay rights advocate why Muslim bakeries who refuse service to gay “weddings” are left alone. Ishii posted that on the News Forums and it was almost entirely ignored. A true rights movement wouldn’t stand for it, especially if equality were such a virtue, there would be no exceptions, but as it is stands, they know they can’t afford to alienate the power base of various politicians in the West.
So what we need to do is see the situation for what it is and get back to the basics of natural law.
That means bucking the mentality that is about equality, that marriage for all is a Constitutional right, that there are no secular, state interest or natural law arguments against so-called gay “marriage” and that we have to keep pounding “because the Old Testament says so”.
It also means going against family members and friends who take the easy road out and support it.
