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“Why Not?” Analysis

Thursday, May 9th, 2013

One of the most disturbing things surrounding the rapid advance of the homosexual political agenda is not homosexuality itself.  It is the apparent collapse of thinking.  For most people today the question “Why not?” seems to be a sufficient argument to support changing the 6,000 year old common sense definition of marriage that has been the bedrock of civilization.  For that matter, it seems a sufficient reason to support child killing, gay sex clubs in school, legalizing drugs use, pornography, and who knows what else?

I suppose that “Why not?” is enough for people who (a) do not know anything, and (b) have no interest in knowing anything.  The whole situation brings to mind a recent Walter Williams column “Is Thinking Obsolete?”.

The most shocking example of the abandonment of thinking is that found in recent court cases mandating same-sex”marriage.” In several of these, the judges involved based their ruling on their finding that the opposition had “no rational basis” for upholding the existing definition of marriage.  In other words, the judges just dismissed these arguments as irrational because they personally disagreed with the conclusion  The declaration that anyone who disagrees with you is by definition insane is itself evidence of insanity.  And these are judges who are supposedly trained to think.

All of this is by way of introducing the following article on the Jews and Homosexuality by Dennis Prager.  I found his historical perspective particularly interesting.

 http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles2/PragerHomosexuality.php).

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Conservatism and Libertarianism

Sunday, March 17th, 2013

In announcing his switch from opposing to supporting same-sex “marriage” Republican Ohio Senator Rob Portman offered what has become a common rationale.  He argued that legalizing same sex marriage was a conservative position since it maximized individual liberty and minimized the role of government. 

Besides being wrong as to its effect, Portman was wrong to call this argument conservative.  This is a libertarian argument, which is to say an ideological argument.  Ideology is the elevation of an abstract principle to the status of a super-idea from which all other positions are deduced. 

The libertarian idea of maximizing the individual and minimizing the collective society is the opposite of that held by other ideologies like communism and socialism that maximize the collective at the expense of the individual.  In both cases the ideologue is in love with a beautiful idea and clings to it even when experience indicates it is not working.  Neither is interested in the wisdom of the past.

Conservatism rejects abstract ideas as our guide in favor of tradition and authority.  It looks to an ultimately divine authority mediated to us by the tradition of our fathers.  It looks to the wisdom of the past.  Liberalism is the flip side of conservatism and is characterized by rejection of tradition and authority, and is scornful of fathers and their wisdom.

So while there can be a libertarian argument for the oxymoron of same sex marriage there cannot be a conservative one.  All of our culture’s tradition and religious authority stands opposed to it.

The Republican Party is a coalition of conservatives and libertarians owing to the large overlap of their positions on economic matters.  These groups have less agreement on the social issues, so it is an obvious place for the Democrats to drive a wedge and a difficult one for Republicans to smooth over. 

While the Democrats are a coalition of bought-and-paid-for interest groups, the Republicans must strive for an overarching coherent philosophy. After all, no one can out-pander the Democrats.   Is there such a philosophy that can be articulated and still appeal to 51% of the voters? 

Yes there is.  It is the philosophy of Conservatism.  It is the philosophy that defends the wisdom of our traditions which are based on experience and the biblical world view of our religious heritage and not on any abstract ideology.  The case to be made for this wisdom is strong.  It has shown itself superior to every fad that has come down the pike.  Let the Democrats defend the bloody nightmare history of ideology.  Let us be the faithful heirs of our fathers.

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Article

Monday, February 4th, 2013

Here are an article I wanted to bring to everyone’s attention.  It  is on the issue of fatherhood.  It may be the most succinct and comprehensive diagnoses of what ails us I have read.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/print-friendly/52852

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Women in Combat

Saturday, January 26th, 2013

On January 23rd the Military opened all combat assignments to women.  This has been a long time coming.  When I resigned from the Navy in 1978 I gave as part of my reason “the admission of women to the US Naval Academy.”  Not many people joined me.  My thinking at the time was that either the nation was not serious about the combat mission of the service academies or was serious about putting women in combat.  In either case I wanted nothing to do with it.

As I reflect on this sustained course of madness, I realize the fact is that we are simply following the inexorable logic of our decision to walk away from God.

God created mankind as man and woman for a reason.  That reason was to reflect God’s own nature in creation.

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”  Genesis 1:27

God is triune.  The three persons of the Trinity are so united in love that they are just as much one as they are three, and we can truly say there is only one God.  This is imaged in marriage where man and woman become “one flesh” producing yet more life.

In his rebellion against God each man (and each woman) seeks to be his own self-sufficient god.  The fact that men and women are complimentary parts of a whole and need each other is a problem for their self-centeredness.  One way of dealing with this has been for men to oppress women and regard them as lower than human, maybe somewhere between men and animals.  This is common in paganism.  Another more modern way is feminism, which ironically agrees with paganism that true womanhood is inferior and focuses on making women just like men.  The “women in combat” gambit is just the latest example of this need for symbolic sameness.  Perhaps the ultimate way is homosexuality where even the most obvious and irreducible complimentary biological functions of men and women is denied.

In addition to the married state being the image of the Godhead, it is also an image of the relationship between Christ and His Church.  This is described in Ephesians 5:22-33.  We note in particular Ephesians 5:25,

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it”

It is Christ who gives his life for the Church, not the other way around.  All Christian societies have always assumed that men have the duty to protect their women and if necessary give their lives for them.  The men on the Titanic, and before them the men on the Birkenhead, became famous for the saying “women and children first,” willingly giving their lives to save even unrelated women, and reflecting this noble and godly ethic.

When a society turns its back on God it progressively becomes more debased, contemptible, and worthless, as God gives it up to dishonorable conduct and final destruction.  Is a nation where the men think nothing of sending their women to do their fighting worth fighting for?

There is a storm of judgment coming.  Yet even now there exists in America a sizeable number who morn for the ruin of our moral and spiritual state.  It is not yet a time for despair and resignation.  It remains a time for courage and steadfastness.  Here is my verse for today:

“When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone, but the righteous stand firm forever.”  Proverbs 10:25


 

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Some Remarkable Developments

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

The past 24 hours have seen some remarkable developments.

First Senator Lugar, a “moderate” Republican, lost to a Tea Party hard liner by something like 20 points.

Second, North Carolina passed a state constitutional amendment outlawing both gay marriage and civil unions by 61 to 39%.

Third, the Colorado legislature adjourned without passing a civil union bill after a raucous session involving extreme filibustering by the Republicans.

Fourth, President Obama finally came out and endorsed gay marriage.

Wasn’t this election supposed to be all about the economy?  Weren’t social issues supposed to be off the table?  Has the November election been transformed into a plebiscite on gay marriage?  What’s happening?

Here are some thoughts:

Civil Unions are off the Table

The fact that both Colorado and North Carolina rejected civil unions means that civil unions as a possible compromise everyone could live with are off the table.  Now it’s gay marriage or nothing.  Civil unions were always just a stepping stone anyway.  In fact the courts which have mandated gay marriage have cited the existence of civil union laws as proof that withholding the honorable name “marriage” had no basis other than impermissible animus.  Some compromise. Additionally, the recent dust up over the HHS mandate that Church related entities would have to pay for abortion pills has made people realize that the real goal of the abortion and gay rights movements is to silence the Church and force her into the smallest space possible.  In fact he whole gay rights/gay marriage agenda can be interpreted as just a ploy to attack the Church.

The Republican Base is Energized

The results in Indiana, Colorado, and North Carolina, are all manifestations of an energized Republican base.  Meanwhile, the Democratic base is in the doldrums.  Even the President’s support of gay marriage is being criticized for coming the day after the North Carolina vote.

The Black Church is in a Tough Spot

Even with black unemployment going up much worse than for the country as a whole, support for Obama has been unwavering.  But blacks are more anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage than whites by a good measure.  They already have to deal with the tension between their Christian faith and Democratic positions on these social issues.  They usually point to Democratic social spending as Christ-like concern for the poor and oppressed as justification.  But gay marriage is different.  Signing off on gay marriage may be too much for many members of the black clergy.  They especially chafe at this being sold as “just like civil rights for blacks.”  Obama’s nominal opposition to gay marriage had given them a fig leaf, but now that’s gone.  Some may even be realizing that their loyalty has been taken for granted by the Democratic Party which is only interested in catering to rich white homosexuals. Blacks will not vote Republican, but they may just sit this one out.

Obama’s Shrinking Base

Obama apparently decided to write off the independent voters and appeal to the Democratic base a while ago with his class warfare strategy.  Now he has been forced to choose between blacks and gays.  He seems to have calculated that gay money is variable but that the black vote is solid.  Time will tell.  But it sure looks like Obama is playing harder and harder to a smaller and smaller base.  Meanwhile it does not look like the economy is going to help him at all.

Barak Obama ran as a center-left uniter but has governed as a left-left divider.  In our system that is a formula for a backlash.  It’s beginning to look like Rush Limbaugh’s prediction of a Republican landslide in November may come to pass.

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Proposition 8 Ruling

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

On Tuesday February 7, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Judge Walker’s mysterious discovery of the right to same sex marriage in the U.S. Constitution.  Some people who have read the Constitution wonder about this since marriage is nowhere discussed there any more than privacy, abortion, sodomy or the right of local governments to take private property to deliver it to other private parties.  Such people may have missed the news that we no longer have a written Constitution, but rather a “living” one, which is to say an imaginary one that exists only in the minds of a committee of nine lawyers called the Supreme Court.  This situation has been going on for decades because the U.S. Constitution is dead in the hearts of an overwhelming majority of Americans.  When asked about the Constitutionality of Obamacare, Nancy Pelosi replied “Are you kidding?  Are you kidding?”  This is a reasonable response from her point of view since no one has cared about the Constitution for a very long time.  That is what also makes the question of Obama;s eligibility seem farcical.  Why do you care about the Constitution now?  Must be racism since you haven’t cared about it forever.

This same sex marriage ruling comes at the same time as a large number of other brazen assaults on the Christian community which is finally showing some signs of realizing their peril, albeit possibly too late.  Secretary Sebelius has issued orders for Catholic institutions to participate in what they consider to be mortal sin.  General Boykinis not allowed to speak at a West Point prayer breakfast because the U.S. arm of the Muslim Brotherhood calls him names.  The federal courts uphold New York’s policy of not renting school space to churches while renting them to everyone else.  The Supreme Court refuses to take up the case.  It all reminds me of a Tee Shirt I saw a pro-abortion demonstrator wearing at an Operation Rescue event in 1989: “Christians Are Asswipes.”

This morning’s OC Register covered the Ninth Circuit Ruling with a picture of a typical pastor looking shocked, but still unsure of his position.  “I don’t want to see people discriminated against, but this goes against Biblical morality.”  No Scat Sherlock.  Here we have Christian leadership on display.  “I never took a stand against abortion, gay civil unions, gay sex clubs in schools or any of those violations of God’s Law, but now I want to take a half-hearted stand against this one.”  Is it any wonder we are losing?

Still, one must hope.  Faith, hope, and Charity are, after all, what always remain. Perhaps the devil’s disciples are going too far too fast.  Perhaps a few segments of the sleeping Church will wake up.

If nothing else, this is good timing for me.  I just bought my first ad for EMPIRE on the Christian Examiner online edition.  It should go up in a few days.  Maybe some frustrated Christians will buy a copy and start thinking about these things before they are thinking about them in a gulag somewhere.

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Thoughts for the New Year

Saturday, December 31st, 2011

First, here is an interesting link to the story of how Santa Claus saved Christmas, actually an account of the real St. Nicholas at the Council of Nicaea.  The links on that page are also interesting.

The big issue immediately ahead of us is who will win the Republican nomination and run against President Obama.  I think the common view of it being Romney versus the many anti-Romney candidates is pretty accurate.  The majority of Republican voters want a strong, consistent conservative who will fight Obama and the Democrats hard and effectively, and they don’t think that’s Romney.   The whole field of Gingrich, Bachmann, Santorum, Perry, Cain and others seems flawed, and none have been able to emerge as the conservative champion.  Romney stays at 25% and is running a disciplined, well financed campaign.  I supported Romney against McCain in 2008, but now I am deeply troubled by him.  The reason for this is his support for the homosexual political agenda.

At a time when the threat of legalized gay marriage looms as the next great step on destroying our country’s moral foundations, Romney’s history and shifting positions on this give us little reason to hope he will actively oppose it.  He has also said on a number of occasions that he supports the idea of gay rights.  What this means is unclear, but it certainly means he won’t spend any political capital opposing the homosexual political agenda.

The extreme danger posed to our society by the homosexual political agenda is not understood by many people.  A group that does seem to get it is the Rabbinical Alliance of America which has issued an excellent statement opposing the homosexual agenda and another calling for the Mormon Church to sanction Romney for promoting this agenda.  (It’s a sad day when the fate of Christianity in America depends on Orthodox Jews and Mormons fighting for decency.)   Here is a link to my previous postings on this subject.

The smart money is betting Romney will win the nomination.  Others think no one will have enough delegates and the nominee will be chosen in the Convention.  We need to support whoever seems to have the best chance of getting enough delegates to prevent Romney from having it locked up before then.  If Romney is the nominee careful consideration may even have to be given to supporting Obama in order to prevent the Republican Party from joining the Democratic Party as a mindless tool of the enemies of God’s moral law.

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Our Next Stop on the Road to Hell

Sunday, August 21st, 2011

           The reason it’s called “the bottomless pit” is because it has no bottom.  Once you start down the road of discarding God’s Law and doing what seems good in your own eyes, it seems there is no stopping the process until you are destroyed.  America collectively has clearly chosen to cast the Law of God behind its back and head into the pit.

            First there was fornication, an embrace of “free sex” and an abandonment of the restriction of sex to marriage.  Then there was abortion to make our fornicating more convenient.  When abortion faced only the mildest and most tepid opposition from the Church in America, we moved on to legalize sodomy.  With sodomy established as a new virtue, we have pushed to have same sex relationships receive the same honorable name as actual marriage, forcing all Americans to pay homage to this particular sin and legally punishing those who demure.  And just to show the thanks of a grateful nation, we pushed acceptance of this behavior on an unwilling military, singing “God Bless America” every step of the way.

            So what’s next, as we wipe the residue of our latest unclean meal from our mouths?  Well sex with children of course.  Oh I’m sorry.  Did I say sex with children?  I meant to say lowering the age of consent so sexual freedom can be extended to more Americans.

            The push began in earnest in the past few weeks, beginning as always with a UN call to extend the right to choose to have sex with adults to all children and continuing with a symposium in Baltimore this month to pressure the American Psychiatric Association to redefine pedophilia as OK the same way they did homosexuality. Meanwhile, three men convicted of sexually abusing and murdering three Cub Scouts in Arkansas were let go in a bizarre legal maneuver championed by the usual sympathetic celebrities.  (Arkansas is also where the infamous Dirkhising homosexual pedophile murder took place.  The media buried that story deeper than the poor boy’s body.)  The point here in case you missed it is that our elites are far more sympathetic to pedophilia than you think.

            All of this should be understood in the context of several events in Europe, where we often get a preview of things to come here.  In 2000, England enacted laws lowering the age of consent for homosexual acts from 18 to 16.  The whole argument was in terms of the rights of the minor to have sex with whomever he wanted, disguising the fact that this was to benefit older male predators.  In 2006 a new political party, NVD, was started in Holland for the sole purpose of legalizing sex between adults and children.

            Of course the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) has been operating in America for years.  They used to march as part of every Gay Pride Day Parade and participate in Gay Olympics until the homosexual lobby figured out it was bad publicity.  Look for them to be brought back into the fold once the lobby secures its priorities of marriage and tougher hate crimes laws.

            And of course we must not forget the gay sex clubs operated and sanctioned in many of our public schools as hook-up sites for confused children and predatory adults.  The clubs are sponsored and protected by elected school boards with never a peep of protest from area churches.

            This continued decline of America is not inevitable.  It is a choice.  It is a choice made day by day by millions of Americans as they “micro-vote” the country one way or another.  Far more damaging than the homosexual and pedophile activists who push their agenda is the passivity of the Church that withdraws from the political sphere and only wants the world to like them.  The passivity of Christian parents and grandparents to these assaults on their children and grandchildren will resound to their shame forever.  Want to avoid this eternal blot on your name?  As a first step I recommend going to your pastor and asking him what he is going to do about it.  If you are too afraid to do that why would you expect courage from him?


 

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Fired for Your Faith

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

ISTANBUL, May 18 (CDN) — A pastor in Kirkuk, Iraq told Compass that sources close to a Christian reportedly kidnapped, tortured and murdered by al Qaeda over the weekend said the kidnappers had pressured his employer to fire him because he was a Christian. The employer had refused to fire him.

Meanwhile in America, (land of the free), Americans citizens are being fired because they are Christians.  I mentioned Peter Vidmar in an earlier post.  On May 6th, two-time gold medalist Peter Vidmar was forced to resign as head of the 2012 Olympic Team by the gay mafia because he donated money to the Proposition 8 campaign which banned gay marriage in California.  Now a second individual, Frank Turek, has been fired by Cisco for having written a book opposing gay marriage.  Both cases are similar to that of Matt Barber who was fired from his Allstate job for writing an internet column opposing gay marriage.

In both America and Iraq such discriminatory firing is illegal, and in both America and Iraq it doesn’t make any difference, because those charged with enforcing the law have no interest in doing so.

In America, corporate executives and bureaucrats who are overwhelmingly left/liberal on social issues, can just violate the law and fire outspoken Christians for opposing gay marriage or abortion or saying prayers to Jesus or whatever with impunity.  The wronged employee must fund a multi-year court fight before unsympathetic judges to get any justice.  If they win a settlement, it is paid by the stockholders or taxpayers and the executives who violated the law will suffer no adverse consequences.

Everyone knows this, and Christians have to know that if they speak out on things like this, even  off work, they may be punished by their employers.  They also know better than to go crying to their pastors who have already taken a vow of silence on abortion and the homosexual political agenda.  Do you think any of the men mentioned above got one public word of support from the pastors of their churches?

What about you?  Are you afraid to speak out because you don’t want to lose your job?  On the one hand you should be, because the threat is real.  On the other hand, if you don’t speak out now, what will you do when they require you to make a public statement of support for abortion or gay marriage or whatever is next?

“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.” Matthew 10:16


 

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Letter to the OC Register

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

This is a letter I submitted to the Orange County Register today:

On Sunday David Whiting penned one of the Register’s trademark front page editorials  pushing the  oxymoron of “same sex” marriage.  As near as I could follow, he was trying to make two points.  

His first point seems to be that changing the law to call homosexual relationships “marriage” somehow increases the sum total of “freedom” for everyone.  Of course this is not true.  This is a zero sum game.  When law is made to conform to morality “A,” those holding morality “B” lose.  Legalizing same sex  marriage means that people objecting to this transgression will be compelled to treat it as legitimate.  For a time, churches may be able to preach biblical morality behind closed doors, but businesses and their employees will be compelled to act as if they approve it in public.

His second point is that polling indicates increasing acceptance of this pernicious idea, and that this trend renders the legal establishment of “same sex marriage” inevitable.   Such talking points are merely designed to dispirit opponents.  One could as easily cite the perfect record of outlawing same sex marriage whenever the people are allowed to vote on it.

One reason I had difficulty following Mr. Whiting’s reasoning was his dismissal of concerns that schools will teach our children same sex marriage on the one hand, followed by his praise of public schools hosting gay sex clubs for students on the other.  (We all know that the schools are in the tank for homosexual and leftist indoctrination.  This is not news.)

Libertarians and Statists make strange bedfellows in their mutual support of the homosexual political agenda.  Statists see the intact functioning natural family as a barrier to expanding the role of their god, the State.   Libertarians focus on the freedom of their god, the Individual, to define his own morality.  Socialists think the State is god while Libertarians think the Individual is god.  Both are enemies of the true God in heaven.  Libertarians are thus surprisingly willing to enlist the power of government to punish people who uphold moral standards. 

  When it comes to opposing God’s Law, Statists and Libertarians are on the same page.

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