Some years ago, a priest friend of mine suggested that the
legalization of same-sex marriage might be even more morally
harmful to our nation than the scourge of abortion. How, I
wondered at the time, could anything be more harmful than taking
the lives of our innocent children. And then I realized that most
people are not in favor of abortion but, as Rush Limbaugh often
points out, they pity those around them who might be in need of
that awful procedure. But the advent of the push for homosexual
marriage goes much deeper; it represents a war on truth.
As we all know, liberals are crafty in their deceit; even
tampering with the English language to further their aims. If
they find that their ideas are not sitting well with average
Americans, they simply change the labels. Think that abortion
sounds too harsh? Let’s call it a women’s reproductive health
issue. Have real scientists proved that the Earth is cooling and
not warming? Let’s then use the term climate change to terrify
the populace. Does the word homosexual imply too much of its true
meaning? Demonize those that use it by calling them homophobes.
These and other tactics of the left point toward this inescapable
conclusion: it is not equality, or human rights or any other
pleasant-sounding euphemisms that are behind much of their
agenda. It is a deliberate attack on truth. It is their intention
to strip the notion of objective truth from our national ethos.
And when there is thought to be no real and permanent truth, when
everyone has their own truths which are based on prevailing
cultural norms or whims, who then will wield the power to make
and enforce our laws? You guessed it.
But how to go about it? Where does the objective truth — which
for thousands of years has condemned homosexual behavior and
infanticide as harmful to society — still reside? It is in the
shrinking abode of religion, as practiced around the world by
people of faith. This then is the principal goal of the left; to
separate the people from God by declaring that religion must be
cordoned off from public life, that its tenets have no place in
politics or anywhere else outside the church door.
Yes, it is God himself who is in the crosshairs of liberals
around the world and it’s not difficult to see why. If even the
teachings of Natural Law can be made to seem obsolete, then the
world will be wide open to any group with the power and machinery
to make their truth law. That is why all modern totalitarian
governments have made religion — “the opiate of the people” —
their first target. And this plan is well underway in the United
States.
As if we needed further proof, along comes the New York
Times with a
piece entitled, “More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops,”
by religion writer, Laurie Goodstein. It is mostly a touch-feely
account of what wonderful folks atheists are, how they organize
picnics and volunteer at soup kitchens while positing that their
cause is somehow noble, “like environmentalism or muscular
dystrophy.”
Yes, they’re just a harmless bunch of Americans who are troubled
by their belief that they are viewed as “social pariahs.” But the
money line hits you like a slap in the face: “They liken their
strategy to that of the gay-rights movement, which lifted off
when closeted members of a scorned minority decided to go
public.…The most important thing is coming out of the closet.”
The piece goes on to point out that these atheists are —
surprise, surprise — “fed by outrage over the Bush
administration’s embrace of the religious right,” and that they
are “pooling resources to lobby in Washington for separation of
church and state.” And so it would seem that they, like their
homosexual brethren, are not merely content to shed their
pariahdom, but to change the very fabric of our moral
underpinning and rule of law.
We’re often told that it is improper and even unfair for the
majority of Americans to impose their views on others in the form
of law, as if that’s not how the supreme law of our land was
written. Those who love the Constitution realize that while it
protects the rights of minorities, religious and otherwise, the
very nature of the processes to amend it not only infer, but
mandate majority rule.
Make no mistake about it; our nation is in deep trouble if we
continue to allow tiny minorities to dictate our way of life.
Atheism, abortion, and homosexuality are all negatives, they have
no affirmation of life in them. Which is to say that they lack
the animating power of God, a power that has blessed this country
for over two hundred years.
