Gene Robinson is getting a divorce. A second one that is. The first one was, of course, a celebration of post-traditional values as he left his wife for his gay lover. The two then made history by dragging the issue of gay rights and Christian values into the media circus. From when it was actually believed you could oppose this and be a decent person, to now when the slight majority of Americans who just threw values out the window because of a lack of solid principles and intellectual foundations, we've seen a swing from one extreme to another.
Sixty years ago, if you stood up and said gays should be married, you'd be skinned. Or at least laughed off the stage. Today, if you say gay marriage ain't natural and probably shouldn't be the basis for overthrowing one of the foundations of Western Civilization, it could be the end. See my previous post for our growing love of witch hunts.
And more than any other issue, more than even race and racism, it's been gay rights and gay marriage that have been the main instruments used to turn back the clock on all this freedom and liberty stuff. Despite the fact that a relatively few percentage of gays even bother to get married, and that gays in any culture seem to make up a relatively few number of people, it was an issue many felt justified a reexamination of what rights are important, and what rights can be qualified.
Now, the poster child of Christian gaydom is divorcing his gay husband. And not just him. There is a sudden growth in those few marriages ending in divorce. Nothing unusual given the disaster that was no fault divorce (something that, itself, probably aided in redefining marriage to include any combination of carbon based lifeforms). But the point is, we were already dealing with such a tiny number of people. And now that number is seeing even its ranks compromised by those few leaving what most others in that demographic don't even want.
And for that, we've come to a point where a growing number of people think that freedom of speech, religion and conscience just have to go where other freedoms (like sex) are concerned. Gay has served its purpose. It was the weapon with which the post modern Left bludgeoned what were once believed to be the most important freedoms mankind had ever obtained. Well done. I enjoy a well played card. And no card more demonstrated the judicious use of the joker card than the obvious use of gay sex to undo centuries of struggle for basic human rights.
"But the point is, we were already dealing with such a tiny number of people."
ReplyDeleteRight! And, heterosexuals have completely mucked it all up already. So why are we making ourselves targets for being called hateful bigots? Why not let the gays do their thing and keep quiet?
It's not our business. It's between them and God.
It's a fight that we lost. We need to let it go.
Sadly it doesn't stop there. Already a growing trend in progressive circles has risen: it's time to rethink the whole 'freedom of speech and religion are absolutes'. Gay marriage has been key in advancing that of course. But it doesn't stop there. Because those who convinced us a person opposed to gay marriage should be fired as a bigot are not going to stop there, either at firing, or at gay marriage being the only issue at hand. Not unless there really isn't anything to learn from human history. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that it was ever about what two or more people do in their bedrooms, especially since that strangely private function has time and again been played out in the public forum, even to the point that now we're all being asked to pay for it. And of course, again, redefine the concepts of liberty and freedom to accommodate.
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