Christian Rout in the Culture War

Posted on December 20th, 2010 by Patrick J. Buchanan



A Democratic Congress, discharged by the voters on Nov. 2, has as one of its last official acts, imposed its San Francisco values on the armed forces of the United States.

“Don’t ask, don’t tell” is to be repealed. Open homosexuals are to be welcomed with open arms in all branches of the armed services.

Let us hope this works out better for the Marine Corps than it did for the Catholic Church.

Remarkable. The least respected of American institutions, Congress, with an approval rating of 13 percent, is imposing its cultural and moral values on the most respected of American institutions, the U.S. military.

Why are we undertaking this social experiment with the finest military on earth? Does justice demand it? Was there a national clamor for it?

No. It is being imposed from above by people, few of whom have ever served or seen combat, but all of whom are aware of the power of the homosexual rights lobby. This is a political payoff, at the expense of our military, to a militant minority inside the Democratic Party that is demanding this as the price of that special interest’s financial and political support.

Among the soldiers most opposed to bringing open homosexuals into the ranks are combat veterans, who warn that this will create grave problems of unit cohesion and morale.

One Marine commandant after another asked Congress to consider the issue from a single standpoint:

Will the admission of gay men into barracks at Pendleton and Parris Island enhance the fighting effectiveness of the Corps?
Common sense suggests that the opposite is the almost certain result.

Can anyone believe that mixing small-town and rural 18-, 19- and 20-year-old Christian kids, aspiring Marines, in with men sexually attracted to them is not going to cause hellish problems?

The Marines have been sacrificed by the Democratic Party and Barack Obama to the homosexual lobby, with the collusion of no fewer than eight Republican senators.

This is a victory in the culture war for the new morality of the social revolution of the 1960s and a defeat for traditional Judeo-Christian values. For only in secularist ideology is it an article of faith that all sexual relations are morally equal and that to declare homosexual acts immoral is bigotry.

But while this new morality may be orthodoxy among our elites in the academy, media, culture and the arts, Middle America has never signed on and still regards homosexuality as an aberrant lifestyle, both socially and spiritually ruinous.

To these folks, homosexuality is associated with a high incidence of disease, HIV/AIDS, early death, cultural decadence and civilizational decline. And no sensitivity training at Camp Lejeune is going to change that.

Behind these traditionalist beliefs lie the primary sources of moral authority for traditionalist America: the Old and New Testaments, Christian doctrine, natural law. Thomas Jefferson believed homosexuality should be treated with the same severity as rape.

And 31 consecutive defeats for same-sex marriage in state referenda testifies that Middle America sees the new morality as the artificial invention of pseudo-intellectuals to put a high gloss on a low lifestyle.

Not until recent decades have many in America or the West argued that homosexuality is natural and normal. As late as 1973, the American Psychiatric Association listed homosexuality as a mental disorder.

Today, anyone who agrees with that original APA assessment is himself or herself said to be afflicted with a mental disorder: homophobia.

The world has turned upside down. What was criminal vice in the 1950s — homosexuality and abortion — is not only constitutionally protected, but a mark of social progress.

Yet, just as busing for racial balance led to violence, white flight and the ruin of urban schools, this social experiment is not going to be without consequences. And it is the military that will endure those consequences.

Yet, again, if we believe our armed forces to be the best in the world, why are we doing this, against the advice of countless senior officers and NCOs? What is the motivation other than the payoff of a campaign debt?

What happens now to Evangelical Christian and conservative Catholic chaplains who preach that homosexuality is a sinful and shameful practice? Will they be severed from the service as homophobes?

That cannot be far behind when the Family Research Council, a respected organization of religious and social conservatives that has fought the homosexual agenda from same-sex marriage to gay adoptions, has now been declared by the Southern Poverty Law Center to be a “hate group.”

The advance of what was once a radical agenda has accelerated.

In 2004, John Kerry may have lost Ohio and the presidency because same-sex marriage was on the ballot in almost a dozen states, bringing out committed social conservatives to the polls. Six years later, the gay rights agenda is imposed by Congress and Obama on the 82nd and 101st.

Let the reader decide if the direction America is headed in is toward those “sunny uplands,” or straight downhill.

The Preamble Secures Liberty, Doesn't Provide It

Prior to Woodrow Wilson the aggregate average of Federal Government spending as a percent of GDP was less than 3% - shocking. That would have totaled about 550 billion dollars these days, the Defense Department spends that. So the question remains: How did they survive back then, we should have been invaded and steamrolled by China, Japan, France, Italy, Australia, and the list continues? We can only arrive at one conclusion after taking the Founders Red Pill™ - we don't need this Government.

We need Government to do just a few things and to do those few things well, all the rest of our Liberties should lie in the hands of our Statesmen. The Preamble clearly says 'to secure the blessings of Liberty



to ourselves and our posterity, not to PROVIDE. This is the struggle of man in this Country, and for a very short time we did a fantastic job of securing our Liberties with the help of the Amendment process to address certain things when they change. Then the geniuses inspired by the french and the Germans in the early 20's got a hold of the Government and sent us downhill at a pace that requires more safety precautions than NASCAR. But folks, keep the faith in knowing that this battle is not over. We didn't get to this pathetic State of Leviathan over the weekend by listening to a couple of Commies out there, it was a slow process that is near it's precipice. A new leaf is soon to turn on December 31st, is this the year we begin to take the opposition?

I pay my taxes and you live off me

I just received my property tax bill and the value of my property went up by 12,000????????
We did nothing, did not improve did not add, did not do anything but live here??? I work my a$$ of and you sit on yours, I pay my taxes and you live off me, I buy food for my family you put your hand out for food stamps, I pay my property taxes and you live in subsidized housing for $25.00 a month, I raised my children to earn their own way and you keep having them so the welfare system can give you a bigger check, I pay my electric bill and pay an extra tax on it so you can have free power. I get drug tested to work and you should have to for welfare. I pay health insurance and then pay what the insurance won't, you go in and use your free medical to get drugs for sale, you get kicked off welfare for fraud so you claim to hear voices to get Social Security.....where will it end...it wont as long as the government keeps giving hand outs to the dead beats and supporting the baby factory housing. Times are tough and I am sick of paying for you! It should be required that in order to get welfare you either work for pay or work doing community service...nobody rides for free!!!!!!!!!!