JUST SAY ANYTHING, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT
Part of the intellectually despicable nature of the campaign for "gay marriage" is its mere looseness. They make statements that a child would find absurd, and expect them to mean something. That is, of course, the inevitable and immediate result of the underlying doctrine - stated by the US Supreme Court in the notorious Texas vs.Griswold sentence and restated in yesterday's infamous "marriage equality" one - that "freedom" means freedom to define one's identity. That is nonsense in itself, and it is the open door to utter intellectual collapse. If you can define yourself as you wish, there is no limit to what you can say or wish or think, and demand respect for. But it is also nothing to do with freedom properly so called; it is the restatement, in terms of identity, of the ancient tyrant's motto, SIC UOLO, SIC IUBEO - That's what I want, and that's what I order. What I want to be, I am, whether or not I was made such.
God can speak such words, human beings cannot. Nothing can be so only because you want it so. It is, for one thing, another manifestation of the ancient nature of sin - to want to be like God by sheer desire: you, said the snake, shall be like God. Is there a more God-like claim than to be able to alter the nature of reality by fiat? That is what you are claiming when you are claiming to be able to change your identity. And as it is an act of assumed God-like state, so it is an act of tyranny. It cannot stand so long as there is the little child in the crowd to cry that the Emperor has no clothes. So the child must be beaten, tortured, hunted, until it is made to state in public that the Emperor was never more imperially well dressed. That is the reason why the rainbow monsters assault and persecute pathetic little florists and bakers; the mere fact of saying that in their own individual view "gay marriage" is not marriage is an outrage against the claim that I am like God and can make myself to be what I wish. In order to be what I wish, everyone around me must see what I see. Just as the subjects to the most hideous tyranny in history had to assert, each and every one of them, that they were living in the society of metaphysical freedom and in the paradise of workers: people must see what they are told to see, or else the outrage against the delusion is too great.
As I said, intellectual looseness is part of the package. Once you can decide what you are, there is no more need to be rigorous in your approach to reality, to treat matters with respect, or to try and understand them on their own terms. So people just say the most ridiculous enormities and expect them to be respected, as part and package of the demand that their self-made new identity should be respected. One such statement - universally repeated by rainbow morons - is that Jesus said nothing to condemn homosexuality or "gay marriage." That is wrong, in the first instance, because it is nonsense. There are a lot of sins and crimes that Jesus did not condemn by name: if silence from the Lord were enough to excuse a form of behaviour, we would have to tolerate (and indeed to celebrate - is that not the demand?) paedophilia, rape, cannibalism, embezzlement, treason, or torture. Not that I doubt that we shall be called to celebrate a few of these virtues sooner or later.
The point however is that the statement is false. Jesus' teaching on marriage is clear, clearly stated, and very, very hard. To quote Matthew 19 (which, in spite of one textual problem, states the doctrine clearly:
3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?”
4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made[a] them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’
5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
7 They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?”
8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality,[d] and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”
The textual problem with this passage are the words "except for sexual immorality", which appear in no other statement of the doctrine. They are fairly clearly a qualification put in by someone who could not bear the severity of the doctrine. Elsewhere, in Mark, in Luke, in the restatement of the doctrine by St.Paul, nothing like that appears. But "except for" these three words, this teaching is repeated at least four times in different forms in various parts of the New Testament. There is no teaching of Jesus that is better attested. Of course you don't like it, but only a moron could pretend that it means anything other than that marriage is between a man and a woman, that it is of divine origin, that breaking it up is an evil, and that nothing else deserves the name.
God can speak such words, human beings cannot. Nothing can be so only because you want it so. It is, for one thing, another manifestation of the ancient nature of sin - to want to be like God by sheer desire: you, said the snake, shall be like God. Is there a more God-like claim than to be able to alter the nature of reality by fiat? That is what you are claiming when you are claiming to be able to change your identity. And as it is an act of assumed God-like state, so it is an act of tyranny. It cannot stand so long as there is the little child in the crowd to cry that the Emperor has no clothes. So the child must be beaten, tortured, hunted, until it is made to state in public that the Emperor was never more imperially well dressed. That is the reason why the rainbow monsters assault and persecute pathetic little florists and bakers; the mere fact of saying that in their own individual view "gay marriage" is not marriage is an outrage against the claim that I am like God and can make myself to be what I wish. In order to be what I wish, everyone around me must see what I see. Just as the subjects to the most hideous tyranny in history had to assert, each and every one of them, that they were living in the society of metaphysical freedom and in the paradise of workers: people must see what they are told to see, or else the outrage against the delusion is too great.
As I said, intellectual looseness is part of the package. Once you can decide what you are, there is no more need to be rigorous in your approach to reality, to treat matters with respect, or to try and understand them on their own terms. So people just say the most ridiculous enormities and expect them to be respected, as part and package of the demand that their self-made new identity should be respected. One such statement - universally repeated by rainbow morons - is that Jesus said nothing to condemn homosexuality or "gay marriage." That is wrong, in the first instance, because it is nonsense. There are a lot of sins and crimes that Jesus did not condemn by name: if silence from the Lord were enough to excuse a form of behaviour, we would have to tolerate (and indeed to celebrate - is that not the demand?) paedophilia, rape, cannibalism, embezzlement, treason, or torture. Not that I doubt that we shall be called to celebrate a few of these virtues sooner or later.
The point however is that the statement is false. Jesus' teaching on marriage is clear, clearly stated, and very, very hard. To quote Matthew 19 (which, in spite of one textual problem, states the doctrine clearly:
3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?”
4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made[a] them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’
5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
7 They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?”
8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality,[d] and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”
The textual problem with this passage are the words "except for sexual immorality", which appear in no other statement of the doctrine. They are fairly clearly a qualification put in by someone who could not bear the severity of the doctrine. Elsewhere, in Mark, in Luke, in the restatement of the doctrine by St.Paul, nothing like that appears. But "except for" these three words, this teaching is repeated at least four times in different forms in various parts of the New Testament. There is no teaching of Jesus that is better attested. Of course you don't like it, but only a moron could pretend that it means anything other than that marriage is between a man and a woman, that it is of divine origin, that breaking it up is an evil, and that nothing else deserves the name.