THE BEAST WITH SEVEN HEADS

 Twenty-five years ago, when I was still working on an Apple 2c with a dot matrix printer, I wrote a long essay attempting to explain to pro-life, pro-family Christians the nature of the battle we were facing. Since all I had was a hard copy, a friend scanned the essay for me. The battle continues. In 1990 I focused on gender. In 1995, I saw that homosexuality would be the new battle ground and recently I have watched the battle switch to the promotion of ‘transgender’ rights. Still, it is good to go back and look at where I began. The following is an introduction to my paper

Recently I was asked to give a seminar that would train women to speak up against the various ideologies which are attacking our society, our faith and the lives of unborn children. No matter what part of the battle we have been engaged in, the arguments against the truth fall into certain predictable patterns and behind these patterns are ideological assumptions which directly challenge the sovereignty of God. In order to defend the truth we must first understand the roots of the opposition to that truth. I hope the following observations will be helpful to all those involved in the same battle.

Loving Obama

Today’s scripture calls us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. How difficult that is. There is no question that President Obama is the enemy of the unborn, the enemy of marriage, the enemy of the Church. He and his minions can barely open their mouths without uttering lies, and yet our Lord calls us to love him and to pray for him. I wish I could say that I succeeded in this task, but the fact is I continually fail. Nevertheless, I must keep trying, beginning again every day.

            This doesn’t mean that we must cease opposing his policies and pointing out the lies and distortions. Jesus in his confrontations with the Pharisees and scribes never gave in to relativism. Never said, “Well you have you opinion and I have mine.” It certainly would have been easier for him and later for his Church to just go along, but he didn’t and we can’t. Jesus is the truth and those who belong to him must defend the truth about life, about marriage, and about the human person.

            When we are tempted to anger, when we want to hate those who hate us, those who are persecuting our faith and promoting anti-life policies, we must look to the cross and there we see Jesus, his back raw from the lash, nails piercing his hands and feet, gasping for breath enough to say “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”

The Boy Scouts Legitimate Concerns

  Those pushing for the acceptance of openly gay leaders and scouts into the Boy Scouts argue that concern about an increase in sex abuse is unwarranted, because gays are less likely to be pedophiles. The problem with this reasoning is that the concern is not about pedophiles, defined as men whose sexual interest is confined to pre-pubescent children, but the sexual abuse of adolescent boys. The two studies frequently referenced to support the claim at gays don’t molest children are not relevant to the question.      

Boy Scouts for Boys

          To discriminate means to distinguish between. Sometimes it is unjust to discriminate and sometimes, because the things in question are different, it is not only prudent, but just to distinguish between them. Men and women are different, and while we should oppose unjust discrimination, there are times when we can recognize those differences and accommodate them in our laws and practices.

          Single sex groups, like the Boy Scouts, are different from mixed sex groups.

Toxic Education

Everyone wants the best education possible for our nation’s children. Unfortunately, the educational establishment as been taken over by forces hostile to the truth. Parents cannot trust the schools; they must be constantly on guard and always remember that they are the primary educators of their children. Given the proliferation of heretical ideologies at all levels of education, but particular in the universities, parents need to increase their vigilance .

True Compassion

The Church, by which I mean hierarchy, clergy, religious, and laity, must step up and face the challenge posed by the militant gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and queer activists — the GLBTQ coalition. It is simply not enough to defend marriage; we have to explain to the people in the pews, to our children, and to world why the Church does not – cannot – accept sexual relations between two persons of the same sex. We must do so with love and compassion, but without sacrificing the truth.

Incense on the Altar

Today the discussion of almost any issue is distorted by the great lie of Relativism. Relativists claim that there is no truth, just opinions. This is logically impossible, since by definition truth is a statement which corresponds to reality. To say there is no truth is to say there is no reality. Not only that, the statement “there is no truth” cannot be true if there is no truth. Of course, the Relativists don’t really believe that all opinions are equal. They think they are right and those who disagree with them are wrong, and not only wrong, but mean-spirited, bigoted, hateful, discriminating, unscientific and stupid.