Category: Culture

“This case is about marriage and equality. The fundamental constitutional right to marry has been taken away from the plaintiffs and tens of thousands of similarly situated Californians.”

Solicitor Ted Olson
Opening Statement On Proposition 8 Trial

“Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. Because California has no interest in discriminating against gay men and lesbians, and because Proposition 8 prevents California from fulfilling its constitutional obligation to provide marriages on an equal basis, the court concludes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.

Judge Vaughn Walker
Decision Striking Down Proposition 8

First, can we start here by observing that the California Court decision on Prop 8 teaches us, at the very least, that Natural Law theories will not get it done when living in a culture that does not presuppose Christianity? Natural law is a myth, and all the books and all the lectures given by David VanDrunen on the need to return to Natural Law will never convince courts, like the one in California that rejected Proposition 8, that Natural law teaches that marriage, is by definition, between one woman and one man.

Second, we would note the failure of Judge Walker’s statement in his first sentence in the block quote above is that he misses that the rational basis for singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license is the simple fact that it is literally not possible for two people of the same sex to get married. It is the same type of rational that is used in not giving a masseuse a license to be an electrician. We don’t give a masseuse a license to be a electrician because a masseuse does not qualify as a electrician. His problem in his second sentence is found in the reality that opposite sex couples are superior to same sex couples in terms of marriage because marriage is defined as being composed of two people of the opposite sex. One wonders if the judge would also object to the truth that opposite sex couples are superior to making babies then same sex couples? The problem with the third sentence will be picked up below.

As it pertains to Olson, Ted Olson, is, of course, quite wrong in his opening statement quoted above. The fundamental constitutional right to marry was never taken away from lesbians and homosexuals in California. What was taken away form the lesbians and homosexuals was the right to arbitrarily redefine the meaning of marriage.

Homosexuals and lesbians still retain the same legal right to marry just as straight people do. However, what has always been stripped from homosexuals and lesbians is the ability to redefine marriage as being something other than that which happens between two people of the opposite sex. Homosexuals and lesbians might find comfort in knowing that this ability to redefine marriage, that they desire, has also been stripped from those who wanted the right to marry their Sister or Mother or those who wanted to marry multiple people at the same time or those who wanted to marry 6 year old little boys or little girls, or those who wanted to marry their farm animals, or those who wanted to marry someone who didn’t want to marry them back. You see, anybody has the right to marry as long as it is marrying that they are doing. When Sam and Pete want to join, whatever it is that they are doing it is not and can not be marriage.

What we see here as all of this pertains to the “equal protection clause,” which is at the heart of this court decision in California, is that homosexuals and lesbians have always had equal protection under the law to marry as long as they were willing to conform to the objective definition of what marriage means; a definition that, at the very least, requires one person of each sex. The rules that give definitional meaning of what marriage is are rules that apply to everyone and so as everyone conforms to those rule everyone experiences equal protection before the law.

As a result of this court decision I do find myself a bit confused. Now that Sam and Pete can marry, I am wondering if Sam, as an Uncle, can marry Pete, his nephew. Do laws of consanguinity still apply in lesbian and homosexual marriages?

Look, folks, if a culture can not define the boundaries of marriage then marriage has no objective meaning. If marriage can mean anything then marriage means nothing. This observation brings us to a broader reality that is illuminated here and that is the common theme in our culture of the pursuit of erasing boundaries and/or distinctions, thus foisting a socialist sameness on everything.

In our country right now there is a move to erase the boundaries of our nation with the result that there will be no distinct American nation. Similarly, there has been for quite sometime the pursuit to erase the boundaries between men and women with the result that there will be no distinct maleness or femaleness. Again, there has been for quite some time the pursuit to erase the natural God given boundaries between people belonging to different people groups with the result that there will be no distinct ethnicities. And now there is this ruling where there is a erasure of the boundaries of marriage thus assuring that eventually there will be no distinction between marriage and non-marriage.

Peggy Noonan was one of Ronald Reagan’s speechwriters. She is also a neo-con Republican and so isn’t to be read without that realization. However, Mrs. Noonan has the advantage of almost always presenting her views in an attractive and convincing fashion. Because of this skill at her art I enjoy reading Noonan, even though sometimes her neo-con ideology drives me batty. Recently Noonan had a piece where, in a slight rabbit trail, she had a wonderful sentence that captured the mindset of American leadership.

“You can today go to any office of any great leader in America and Britain – business leader, church leader, political leader – and you will find the great topic of conversation, the great focus of attention, the object of daily obsession, is not the mission (making money, spreading faith, leading an anxious citizenry in the right direction) but how the mission is playing in the media. It’s all they talk about.”

The cultural gatekeepers in America have gone from a preoccupation with their calling to a preoccupation with marketers and marketing. The object no longer is being faithful to what one was called to do but rather the object has become “what kind of press can we get or are we getting for whatever fecal matter we are shoveling today.” If the mission (no matter how skewed that mission is from what it should be) is getting good press and is selling well then the conclusion is that all is well with the organization. All of life has become a literal stage, and when one is on the stage one is not concerned with anything but how the performance is being received by the audience. The media has become the audience for the cultural gatekeepers and the message and calling of the cultural gatekeepers is being changed by the medium — and that quite apart from any realization that the medium has its own agenda.

As this pertains to the Church, most Churches are more concerned with image than theology and branding over truth. The goal is to present a slick product and not to give the whole counsel of God. Spokesmen like John the Baptist, who wore camel hair and ate locusts and honey, or the Apostle Paul who was short and possibly hump-backed with bad eyes need not apply for Pastor positions. Truth that is jagged and angular is replaced in the sanctuary with movie clips and praise and drama teams. It’s all a show aimed at getting rave reviews so that when the next show starts the place will be packed again.

“Welcome to the Grand illusion
Come on in and see what’s happening
Pay the price, get your tickets for the show
Someday soon we’ll stop to ponder
what on Earth’s this spell we’re under
We watched the show and still we wonder
who the hell we are.”

“The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower. He shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you will be the tail. So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.” ~ Deuteronomy 28

This warning of God to Israel speaks of the consequences to God’s people for disobedience to the covenant. America is not God’s covenant people as Israel was and yet all nations who flout God’s ways are subject to God’s judgments against that nation which rebels against God. One sign that God is entering into judgment against a people is the reality that the indigenous people are vomited out of the land much like the land vomited the Canaanites out of the land when God entered into judgment against a people who were not His people. The pursuit of comprehensive immigration reform (aka — Amnesty plus for Illegal immigrants) for 12-20 million illegal immigrants is a sign that God has sent a strong delusion upon our elite for the purposes of continuing to judge America.

The result of amnesty for 12-20 million illegal immigrants will be the erasure of our unique identity as a nation-state. This move takes us from citizenship as Americans to citizens of the continent of North America. Just as with the victory of the North over the South in the war of Northern Aggression deleted the notion of unique identity by regionalism or by state in favor of identity according to attachment to the Nation State so amnesty for illegal immigrants will delete the unique identity of Americans according to the nation in favor of identity according to our hemisphere. This is all part of the new world order of globalism that all people’s are being herded into.

Also, keep in mind that if amnesty (comprehensive immigration reform) goes through this means additional pressure on the social order through the certain collapse of the social safety net. There is simply no way that our social services infrastructure can accommodate the additional millions and millions of people who will come to America after amnesty is given to the 12-20 million illegal immigrants that are already here. (Remember we tried this “one time amnesty” shot once before in 1986 and 25 years later we now have another 12-20 million we for whom we are going to render up another “one time amnesty” program. If the last “one time amnesty” program ended up with 12-20 million more illegal immigrants how many more illegal immigrants will this version of the one time amnesty program yield?)

It is probably to late to stop this illegal immigration amnesty program though there are times I think that if the elite really push this it will be their Waterloo. I sometimes think that this is the issue over which the bullets could start flying.

A few random thoughts on illegal immigration.

1.)A biblical approach to immigration would be to allow untrammeled immigration AND to have provision by which unbelieving immigrants could not change a godly social order. This is what you find in the Old Testament. However, one can not say they are advocating for a Biblical basis of immigration by insisting on untrammeled immigration without the mechanisms in place to create and maintain a godly social order. To insist on the first half (untrammeled immigration) without insisting on the second half (godly social order) is like advocating for Biblical sex without a bride.

Without a bride Biblical sex is not biblical and without a godly social order advocating untrammeled immigration is not biblical. You can’t appeal to half a solution and insist that you are being true to the whole solution that Scripture warrants.

You have to have a godly social order being maintained before you can argue that untrammeled immigration is biblical. If there is not godly social order in place and being maintained then whatever you are arguing for when you argue for untrammeled immigration you are not arguing for a Biblical position.

2.) If you stop the welfare state and if you enforce the demand side of the problem by bring heavy fines against those who hire illegals then you won’t need to ask for papers. Illegal Immigration will largely take care of itself. This is important to keep in mind when people continue to insist that one certainly can’t be in favor of rounding up 15 million illegal immigrants. We won’t have to round up illegal immigrants if there is no incentive for them to stay.

3.) The idea that Leviathan will shackle American citizens if we stop illegal immigration is easily countered by the reality that if we extend amnesty to 15 million Hispanics we will guarantee Leviathan will never be brought to heel as the overwhelming percentage of these votes will be cast to permanently establish the welfare State and to fix upon us the cultural Marxist vision.

Again … enforcement can be easily settled by turning off the cash incentives. Also, we should legislate against the whole notion of anchor Babies.

4.)

Question asked,

Gentlemen, do Ex. 22:21 and 23:9 have anything to say about this situation?

Bret responds,

Scripture can not be successfully appealed to, to support illegal immigration UNLESS Scripture is also appealed to in the means it required to protect a God ordained social order. The stranger was to be treated w/ kindness BUT he was not allowed, by the mass of his numbers, to establish a social order that was contrary to God’s law Word.

So, when we have a social order that will not allow the immigrant to destroy what very little remains of a social order that still has a trace of memory of Christianity then I will be all for untrammeled immigration.

Also, keep in mind that being kind to the stranger does not mean endorsing the welfare state.

People, have to keep in mind that what is behind the call for amnesty for illegal immigrants is the desire to completely demolish the residue of Christian influence and Christian structures and Christian social order. To support this is to support the death of institutional and culture wide Christianity in support of Leviathan — a religion where the state is God in which the citizenry lives and moves and has their being.

5.) I know America is not Israel. That reality makes flat appeals to the Scriptures to be as flat as they are. This is why I insist you can’t just read the requirement for kindness to the stranger as support for the erasure of borders. We also have to think about kindness to those who are living here. It is entirely possible that a certain kindness to illegal immigrants could mean a definite hard-hardheartedness towards the citizen and the native born.

Since America is not Israel then we should not point to passages in Exodus to inform us of our position on illegal immigration and amnesty since our domestic situation is completely and utterly contrary to Israels. As such, we have to know the times and understand the ideological currents that are pushing certain immigration advocacy.

And I’m telling you, that the ideological current that is pushing amnesty for 15 million illegal immigrants is one that desires to use the votes of those new citizens to completely overthrow any remnant whatsoever of America’s founding ideology and theology.

6.) Also, this matter of amnesty for 15-20 million illegal immigrants brings us to the subject of balkanization. A case can be easily made that with comprehensive immigration reform, as it is now packaged, the result will be to turn this nation into what the former Yugoslavia was after WW II. America is increasingly turning into a nation of nations, and a culture of cultures as these are both produced by various faith systems. The only way conflicting cultures, faiths, and visions of nationhood can be tamed is by a governmental apparatus that can use the heavy hand of the nation state to police the competing interests. In such a balkanized arrangement the State becomes the mediator, policeman, judge, and executioner in order to determine the limits of the competing cultures, faiths and visions of nationhood that exist in the balkanized nation-state.

ADD — A largely imaginary disease by which both the pharmaceutical industry and the psycho-therapy industry have become rich. It’s goal is to emasculate men from the tenderest of ages thus making them compliant slaves of the state for the rest of their lives incapable of either critical thinking skills or the courage to fight back.

ADD’s diagnosis is increased by a factor of 10 by its connection to an increase in more state money for the Schools in relation to the number of ADD students they have. ADD diagnosis is further aided by how Ritalin becomes such a handy mother’s helper to coral the sons at home.

Thank you Jesus that they didn’t diagnose ADD back in 1965 or else I’d still be on Ritalin.

Political correctness speech is a Machiavellian command and control device born of cultural Marxist presuppositions. Its purpose is the imposition of cultural Marxist uniformity in thought, speech and behavior. It seeks to alter all the previously Christian influenced rules — both formal and informal — that govern relations among peoples and institutions. It desires to change behavior, language, and even a person’s thoughts, and to a significant extent it has already accomplished its goals in the West. Keep in mind that whoever controls the language controls thought.

Political correctness often comes in the form of psychologized speech. It is psychologized because it often comes selling itself as “more sensitive, caring, and humane.” Indeed, one of the main carriers of the political correctness virus is the mental health industry. Psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, and others who have (sometimes unwittingly) bought into the cultural Marxist political correct speech standards and so pass it on to their numberless clients.

Because political correctness seeks to constrain thought, speech, and behavior there is now a need more than ever to be precise, blunt and even sometimes crass in our language. When a people have been lulled to sleep by a witches words of enchantment the only thing that might wake them up are angular, razor sharp and barbed words used like a sledge hammer with the hopes that such angular, razor sharp and barbed words will come crashing through the ideological haze of those infected by political correctness in order to awaken them from their linguistically induced coma.