ho-marriage: moral, self-governance hemorrhagePosted: 2014-10-26 10-26-14 Rightrite Reflections By federal court judicial review stalemate regarding our traditional marriage referendum, the judicial oligarchy has again betrayed the demonstrated will of the people to the delight and financial feeding frenzy of the Democrat party leadership. It would seem that capital-D-Democrat vs small-d democracy are actually antonyms. Generic democracy (and its less direct republican implementation) entails the will of the people being reflected in law. Referendums are direct democratic specifications.
The cultural degradation of marriage that has culminated in this tyranny began with the Anglican blessing of contraception within marriage in 1930 (heavily influencing Protestant Christians) which logically had to eventually result in demand for today’s parody of the apostolic Christian (Catholic and Orthodox) morality– which morality included abstinence outside marriage, acceptance of children or natural family planning methods (based on abstinence in fertile parts of cycle), lifelong permanence without remarriage if separated, and revulsion toward abortion and it went without saying was heterosexual as definitional.
The elitists know full well that they can’t get legislation to institutionalize homosexual marriage, but here it goes beyond arrogance–for the court to take a democratically defining marriage law to the contrary and use it to accomplish the exact opposite purpose, so that not only is homosexual marriage permitted, but those who refuse to accept it are to become susceptible to civil and criminal litigation. It should be noted that this is beyond even what the courts did in effectively nullifying the abortion statutes of the 50 states with its 1973 decisions. Abortion is still voluntary (so far, although with Obamacare, everyone must help fund it)–acceptance of homosexuality as a valid activity will not be voluntary.
There are significant acts of courage that have occurred in the resistance to the litigational pressure to accept the institutionalization of actions considered by apostolic teaching to be innately unacceptable.
Courage is not a genetic quality. It stems from a coherent knowledge that a principle is correct and in truth worth defending at all costs. Many individual Christians are frustrated and rightfully feeling helpless. However, this can be a teaching moment if we are willing to get the stick out of the collective eye of Christianity. In fact not just Christianity concerned with detachment of law from the Commandments, but anyone concerned by the growing detachment of law to the will of we-the-people due to judicial review and decades of secular sex indoctrination to dull any indignation.
Christians (and this includes dissident Catholics) need to return to the understanding of sexuality which was so lucidly reiterated in the 1968 papal encyclical Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life). This moral tradition which due to the inertia of 14 centuries, lasted 4 centuries after the reformation, but due to the contraceptive culture of the late 20th century is now in full blown persecution. The old Christian norm has now been enhanced with highly scientific and successful methods of natural family planning. While hoards of individual Catholics place confidence in “safety in numbers” and don’t believe their church’s own sexual moral teaching, and some Protestants have recognized the problem with contraception, it has been the individualized, self-contradictory nature of moral-theologically-challenged Protestant Christianity that has to be held to account for the confused culture.
The diamond in the rough of overwhelming popular instinct that rejects homosexual marriage needs to be shaped into an effective defense not just by legal battles and ignorable laws, but restoring the apostolic Christian definition of marriage in their own lives. Only then will the will of the people achieve the political respect it deserves. And then perhaps Democrats can become democratic, not just in name only.
http://rightrite.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/ho-marriage-moral-self-governance-hemorrhage/
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