Orlando: Life, and Death, With No Moral Foundations

I recently read where homosexual TV personality Anderson Cooper “grilled” the Florida Attorney General, Pam Bondi, in the aftermath of the Orlando night club murders, challenging her record on “LGBT rights.”  As usual with public officials, Bondi fell all over herself trying to prove she wasn’t “anti-gay,” and pretty much acted like a kid who’d been caught doing something wrong and trying to lie out of it.

However, I’d like to challenge Mr. Cooper with a few questions, ones that nobody in politics, the media or the homosexual lobby seems willing to address: Exactly what “rights” are homosexual Americans entitled to because of what they choose to do sexually?  Do homosexuals, gays, lesbians, transgenders, etc., not already have the same rights that non-homosexual Americans have, simply due to their status under the Constitution as citizens?  Can they not vote, purchase property, engage in whatever profession they choose, etc.?  Is someone hunting down homosexuals and preventing them from indulging in their chosen sexual practices?

The answer to all of that, of course, is “No.”  So let’s be clear about this: Homosexuals and their fawning sycophants in the media, entertainment and politics aren’t satisfied with the same rights and freedoms guaranteed to all Americans, but demand additional rights and freedoms…based on what they do sexually.

Why should approximately 3% of the population be afforded additional considerations and “rights” because of their sexual preferences?  It is not a civil rights issue, despite the fact that the homosexual lobby has been very successful in creating that illusion, for nobody is violating the rights that homosexuals enjoy under the U.S. Constitution as citizens.

Did the Founding Fathers establish the rights and freedoms given by God, expressed by the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by the Constitution based on what we do sexually?  Of course not; those rights and freedoms are based on our status as American citizens.  There’s a reason we don’t know the sexual preferences of the Adamses, Jefferson, Madison, et al, and that’s because they left their sexual preferences to their private lives, which is as it should be.  It’s only in the past few decades that a group of people have demanded to be recognized not for their intellectual, scientific, professional or other achievements, but because of their sexual practices!  And not just recognized, of course, but celebrated as courageous, bold, etc., as if they’re some sort of modern day heroes fighting against injustice and discrimination.

There’s no disputing that the deaths of 49 human beings and the wounding of that many more is a tragedy, but it is a tragedy because they are human beings…NOT because they are/were homosexuals!

Why must the 97% of Americans who are not homosexual continually prove we’re not “homophobic” simply because we don’t believe homosexuality is normal, healthy behavior?  Why must Christians, especially, who base their disapproval of homosexuality on Biblical admonitions, be forced to abandon their religious beliefs or face legal prosecution for “hate crimes”?  As an American citizen, do I not have the right to disagree with the homosexual (or any other) lifestyle, and to express that opinion?  Free speech is only free if unpopular ideas are equally protected, but in the past decade hysteria over supposed “homophobia” has trampled all over the right to free speech of the vast majority of Americans.  The near-fascist, lockstep mentality that pervades all forms of communication and entertainment today smacks of the “newspeak” of Orwell’s 1984, and you violate those new rules only at risk of being labeled a “hater,” or worse (ask Dr. Laura).

In this country you’re largely free to live your life as you see fit; that’s between you and God.  But like the rest of the liberal, humanist, anti-God agenda, that freedom is never enough.  Those who disagree with homosexuality do so based not only on the Biblical admonitions against it but also on thousands of years of human history and experience that has shown homosexuality to be, in fact, harmful to individuals who practice it and harmful to societies where it becomes widely practiced.   But those people must be vilified and demonized to help maintain the illusion amongst homosexuals and their liberal fellow travelers that their behavior is normal and even admirable.

If you want to indulge in homosexuality, fine; I wouldn’t condone anyone forcibly preventing you from acting on your choice.  But the homosexual lobby, the media, corporate America and spineless, amoral politicians insist on forcing me and the vast majority of Americans to abandon our moral and religious principles for the sake of 3% of the population.  In what part of hell is that considered fair, reasonable or just?

For criminal behavior, I’ve long believed that you either punish the guilty or you end up punishing the innocent.  The same thing applies to homosexuality: the negative social stigma long associated with homosexuality is that “punishment,” and it has existed in every human society in history.  (I’m sorry if that hurts your feelings, but choices really do have consequences.)  The homosexual lobby and their enablers want to turn that on its head, in effect “punishing” the rest of society by forcing us abandon principles and beliefs that are the foundation of Western civilization.  In exchange, the only ‘legacy’ we get from homosexuality is increasingly decadent behavior and AIDS.  Sorry, but I’m not drinking that groupthink Kool-Aid.

Homosexuals reject society’s accepted moral and behavioral standards regarding sexual practices, just as killers reject society’s prohibition against murder.  Modern liberalism spends a lot of time and effort supporting and celebrating any such rejection of traditional values and standards of behavior.

I’m not equating homosexuality with murder, exactly, but once society’s established moral standards are discarded, what or who determines what the new norms are?  If you demand that some of those standards be discarded, on what basis do you cry “Foul!” when someone else rejects others, or goes farther down that path than you’re willing to go?  Just how much hypocrisy is the left willing to display?

Liberals may savage me for “blaming the victim,” but I’m actually blaming the majority of Americans who accept and agree with the traditional Judeo-Christian moral foundations of this nation, yet who continue to meekly acquiesce in silence while that foundation deconstructed and destroyed, simply because they don’t want to be labeled homophobic or prejudiced.  Trying to stay above the fray and claiming “I’m not into politics” is itself a choice: a choice to not defend one’s way of life that has provided your material comfort and freedom.

Ultimately, though, it wasn’t freedom, material abundance or military might – and certainly not the left’s vaunted “tolerance” – that once made this nation great.  It was the Judeo-Christian moral foundations that enabled Americans to create that liberty, abundance and power, resulting in a society strong enough to be tolerant and accepting of cultural differences, alternative lifestyles, etc.  Without those foundations, however, without those shared ideas that bond us together as a people, it’s as if our society has developed an auto-immune disorder, with various elements attacking each other based on race, political ideology, sexual orientation, etc., ultimately destroying the healthy society once strong enough to tolerate our differences.

The Orlando shooter was a radical Islamic terrorist, but radical Islamic terrorism has existed since at least Jefferson’s time; it was never a problem because we were strong enough to keep it in check.  Now, however, those murderous cretins sense our societal weakness, our lack of commitment to the moral foundations that made this nation great and provided the will to defend itself against such assaults.  You can bet Orlando won’t be the last, or even the worst, attack.

Yet self-obsessed leftist idealogues like Anderson Cooper use any such tragedy to promote the further abandonment of our Judeo-Christian moral foundations, all to make them more comfortable in their chosen lifestyle, and to bolster their presumed (but false) moral superiority.  They can’t see, or don’t care, about the health of the society that nurtures and protects them.  Like ticks and other parasites, they seem oblivious to the fact that if their ‘host animal’ dies, they, too, will likewise suffer and die.

Their choices don’t concern me as much as the choice of the majority of Americans to allow the leftist ticks to continue to suck the lifeblood out of this nation.  Dogs and animals may not be able to protect themselves against parasites, but Americans have chosen not to.  As I said, choices have consequences.

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Formerly a liberal and an atheist, Paul E. Scates served as a Marine in Vietnam and is a lifelong student of American history, politics and culture. A former contributor to national website TooGoodReports.com, he writes his staunchly independent Conservative and informed Christian commentary for his fellow ordinary, working Americans, the “we, the people” who are ultimately responsible for preserving our Constitutional liberties.

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