Misplaced priorities?
Speaking to a meeting of Hasidic Jewish leaders on Sunday, New York GOP gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino said, "I don't want [children] to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid or successful option" to heterosexuality.
Religious organizations and people frequently lead opposition to gay rights in the United States.
In the August ruling which overturned California's Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage, a witness asserted, "Religion is the chief obstacle for gay and lesbian political progress."
Why does religion play such a central role in debates about homosexuality?
What I abhor about these debates is the way people use homosexuality as a way to hate fellow human beings. I think all sexuality in any form is a personal issue when it is between two consenting adults. I have not understood how and why we accept someone who is immoral so long as he is a heterosexual and despise someone who is honorable, honest but a homosexual.
Carl Paladino claims that he does not want children to feel that homosexuality is normal but has shown no concern about the violence and near pornography that children are constantly exposed to in video games, films and television programs. We do not mind if children learn to hate before they learn to love. It is a double tragedy when political aspirants make irresponsible statements simply to get elected to high offices. I wonder if they ever think about the consequences of their behavior and statements on young people who look up to celebrities as role models?
I sometimes feel that aspiring politicians need lessons in morality before they start campaigning because the lies they utter glibly and the irresponsible statements they make against other human beings give people the impression that it is right to use any means possible to attain one's goals. Ancient wisdom, however, says that means and ends have the same relationship as a seed and a tree. Just as you cannot expect to reap a healthy tree if you sow a rotten seed, we cannot expect to reach laudable goals if we use immoral and unjust means.
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October 15, 2010; 5:43 PM ET
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Posted by: GoldenEagles | October 30, 2010 6:19 PM
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Homosexuality - An Electrode of Atheism - Part 2 of 2
When fathers and mothers send their sons and daughters into the military services, it will no longer be a character building exercise. Rather, they will be sending their children into a systematic mind numbing machine designed to smash and blast their relationship with the Deity.
Deeper truths support this general thesis, and point to the logic contained therein as follows.
Consider first the origin of the homoerotic urge. The homoerotic urge originates in the black heart of a demonic presence, which broadcasts that urge into the vulnerable astral body of the victim. When the victim feels the urge, and acts on it, the individual is then hooked. That means the demon has established an inroad of control, and can tug on that control point at will. It is a powerful control point, as the demon now has entry into the central nervous system through the victims feeling world. The soul is now a slave to the demon and can be manipulated, through the control point established into the feeling world, to sabotage the work of the Forces of Light within all departments of our national life.
When considering the subject area of demonic influences, it is worth remembering that this is the origin of all Atheistic impulses in human beings as well.
When it comes to homosexuals specifically, we must further recognize that the controlling demon, when it injects the homoerotic urge into the astral body of the victim, that it will inject at the same time the poison of God-Hatred --- sort of like what you experience when you are bitten by a mosquito --- and most people truly wonder what is the purpose of leaving behind that big bump and nagging itch, if the only thing the mosquito wanted was your blood.
This poison of God-Hatred that the demon injects into the astral body (feeling world) of the victim begins to disintegrate and unravel the fabric of the divine soul, to the extent that the trapped individual comes to find that he or she cannot feel a single positive feeling, or think a single positive thought about God. Not one.
When the consciousness of the soul is turned in this manner towards alienation, this is how souls are not simply lost, but destroyed.
In the midst of the agonizing death-throes of these enslaved souls, even in the midst of their last gasp, as it were, they are being used, controlled, and manipulated by the forces of darkness to spread the poison of God-Mockery through the entire population and world. And they are enlisting the power of the U.S. Government towards this goal.
Posted by: GoldenEagles | October 30, 2010 6:02 PM
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Homosexuality - An Electrode of Atheism - Part 1 of 2
Actually, when all is said and done, we see that homosexuality is an electrode of Atheism planted in the midst of the people by the forces of darkness as a means to make a mockery of religious belief. And even to begin the process of making a legal case against it. This is in essence what is going on here.
The only basis for arguing against homosexuality comes from the Teachings of God’s Messengers, the Old Testament Prophets for example, and the New Testament Apostles. (Similar teachings are found in the writings of the founders of all other religious traditions, from Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and so forth.)
When you raise these religion-based arguments, the homosexuals not only laugh in your face, making a mockery of the jewels inside the treasure chest of religious tradition, but we see that they are in the business of making their CHORUS of MOCKERY larger and larger and larger through the force of law. In every case where they have succeeded in getting non-discrimination laws passed for example, they have added the very force of government to this chorus of God-Mockery.
Yes, they have enlisted the powerful voice of government in their quest to shout down religious truth. While homosexuality has always been an electrode of Atheism in whatever culture it has been planted, it is becoming more and more a State-Sponsored Establishment of Atheism in America.
This is indeed one of the most sinister objectives the homosexuals have in their hearts in trying to get themselves recognized within the military services. The very second that homosexuals are allowed to serve openly, the entire military command structure is then commanded by law to join this chorus of God-mockery to shout down those who insist on raising the time-honored, and thoroughly golden reasons, Biblically based, for not having homosexuals in any office of responsibility or trust, in the military, or anywhere.
You can count on this, that at the very moment open homosexuality gets the good-housekeeping stamp of approval by the U.S. Supreme Court, or the U.S. Congress, that military chaplains will be immediately forbidden, by the power of government, from preaching the sins of homosexuality to their military congregations. Yes, the very chaplain corp will be forcefully enlisted in this chorus of God-Mockery.
Posted by: GoldenEagles | October 30, 2010 5:57 PM
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Posted by: GoldenEagles | October 30, 2010 5:56 PM
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"Just as you cannot expect to reap a healthy tree if you sow a rotten seed, we cannot expect to reach laudable goals if we use immoral and unjust means."
Well, when you're speaking of contemporary politics - and journalism and entertainment - then the kind of judgment you're talking about is quaint. Our politicians are merely out to attain and retain power. They will do or say anything to get it. Our newspapers want readers, clicks and ad dollars; look no further than the "On Faith" section of the post and its horrendous Tony Perkins piece - blaming gays for anti-gay violence - as a modest example that even the staid old press sees no problem publishing pornography to draw an audience.
Thoughtless blind ambition. Everywhere.
Posted by: t_parker16 | October 17, 2010 9:04 AM
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Mr. Gandhi says, "I think all sexuality in any form is a personal issue when it is between two consenting adults."
The problem here, Mr. Gandhi, is that homosexuals don't want their behavior to be private. They want everyone to know about it. That's what homosexual pride parades are all about. That's what the move to have open homosexuality in the U.S. Military is all about. And once we know about it, they want to use the power of government to tape our mouths shut before we can voice any morality based objections.
An intact moral conscience, and the freedom to express it, is the only thing that stands between civilization and chaos.