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"Love is Love."
The above sentence is a common slogan in 2024. You'll find it in web sites, posters, bus advertisements, magazines, television commercials, billboards and bumper stickers. What is it referring to? That depends on who you ask. Liberals say it refers to people being able to love whomever they want. Conservatives say it refers to an agenda designed to undermine God's design for men and women. Two quite different perspectives, just like so many other polarized positions in our culture. Let's briefly look at both. The conservative position uses the Hebrew and Greek scriptures concerning Jesus of Nazareth and the God of Abraham as its metric. Although the entire Judaeo-Christian Bible is a large and complex work spanning thousands of years of human history, the subject in question is easy to distill. That distillation being this: God designed men and women to join together as one flesh for life and create more people. Any concept proposed that deviates from this simple instruction is worthy of scrutiny for the sake of determining its legitimacy. There are 66 books in the entire Bible, containing a total of 1,189 chapters. The above admonition from God to mankind regarding being fruitful and multiplying is literally in the very first chapter. A great deal of information follows that first chapter of course, but the original concept of men and women joining each other in lifelong marriage and having children was set in stone before any other laws were passed down to mankind. Now let's take a closer look at the liberal version of "Love is love." At first glance, it seems to reflect the attitude of most citizens of Western culture, circa 1960's to the late 1980's. Most people in the English-speaking countries during that period were long past any desire to tease or harass individuals who preferred non-heterosexual sexual activities. But thanks to homosexual activism which arguably commenced in earnest thanks to Marshall Kirk and Erastus Pill in their seminal (and in retrospect, prophetic) 1987 published work entitled "The Overhauling of Straight America," the then-current state of tolerance just wasn't good enough anymore. The 1990's ushered in all sorts of propaganda campaigns in the form of commercials, ads, television show plots and characters, movie plots and characters, merchandise, seminars and overall increased visibility designed to create the illusion that being homosexual was as normative as eating a hamburger or watching a football game. However, even putting aside all those factors, one has only to take a close look at the wording of the sentence in question to fully grasp what it represents. Is the sentence "Being in love is being in love?" No. Is the sentence "Loving your neighbor is loving your neighbor?" No. Is the sentence "Brotherly love is brotherly love?" No. Is the sentence "Friendship is friendship?" No. The specific reason why the sentence is worded in such a particular way, is because love is being equated with sex. A more honest and accurate translation of the sentence would be: "Sex is sex." Better yet, to really reduce it to its purest meaning: "All sex is acceptable." There was a time in our own Western culture when men placing their genitals inside another man's orifices was shocking and repulsive to most human beings, as well as a woman placing her hands and mouth on another woman's genitalia and breasts, and any heterosexual having sex with anyone other than his or her spouse was a scandal. That time is long gone, because as the Overton Window keeps moving, we have currently arrived at a point where some legislators, and speakers appearing at TED talks, are actually arguing that pedophilia is just one more flavor on the Love is Love spectrum. Activists manipulate language in an effort to alter public consciousness, and the way they have tried to legitimize pedophilia is to create a new representation: "Minor Attracted Person" or "MAP." As expected from those who push the cultural envelope due to principle instead of practicality, language is more rapidly changing now than at any other time in our culture because the best way to nudge the population toward embracing something is by softening the perception of it. Thus literally butchering a living child in a womb is referred to as 'Elective Termination,' 'Women's Health Care,' and that tried-and-true favorite, 'Abortion,' reducing the violent and murderous act to nothing more than another medical procedure championed by inviolable bodily autonomy. When someone puts a "Love is Love" bumper sticker on his or her car, what is truly being expressed is this: I don't care what my own Designer and Creator of the Entire Universe wants, I will do my own thing sexually and anyone who disagrees is a hateful, cruel, selfish bigot who can shove their repressive nonsense up their own anal canal. The preceding sentiment, thought and expressed by untold millions, has been noted and stored for future reference. |