Tolerance and the homosexual lobby

Tolerance is the gracious middle ground between complete acceptance and complete rejection.

That middle ground is where Western society used to stand in relation to homosexuality. Society expressed its disapproval of the practice through the law. Ministers of religion were at liberty to speak against it, at the times and in the places of their choosing. And yet, despite the general disapproval of society, people were at liberty to choose a homosexual lifestyle, on the understanding that they were publicly discrete and did not give offence. The conscious policy was not to enforce the law within the private domain.

The traditional gracious tolerance of Western society is a reflection of God's grace, of the kind that one would hope to see in a society with historic Christian roots. (It stands in stark contrast to, for example, Nazi Germany's violent persecution and execution of homosexuals). God did not respond to the Fall of Adam and Eve — their direct rebellion against Him — by passing the death sentence immediately upon them (which He would have been completely justified in doing). Instead, he graciously suspended the sentence, provided clear warnings against sin and of the need of salvation, and provided the opportunity of redemption and eternal life after the temporal sentence of death.

Today, the homosexual lobby, acting in league with the wider licentious Left have contemptuously rejected the gracious tolerance traditionally extended to homosexuals. 'You are either with us, or against us' is apparently their policy. It is completely unacceptable to them that anyone should be at liberty to speak against homosexuality. Everyone must move to a complete acceptance of their view, their anti-morals. Public funds must be used to promote it. The media must advocate it and celebrate it. Public funds must be removed from anyone who refuses to promote it.

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In Britain, Roman Catholic adoption agencies find themselves faced with the prospect of closing their doors unless they submit to the diktat that they open up the placement of adoptive children to homosexual couples. Their response has been hopelessly timid: merely asking for 'exemption' and saying nothing against the evil law itself or against the legislature which 'frameth mischief by a law.' ('Regulation must not trump conscience' by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor in today's Torygraph).

Piece by piece, the framework is being assembled for persecuting Christians with the full force of the State. The inherent, latent Authoritarian streak of the Libertarians is being gradually revealed.

Adoption is a precious thing, providing an analogy for our reconciliation with God. Similarly, marriage between a man and a woman is a precious thing, not only because it was ordained by God at Creation, but because He dignified it as the principal analogy for the relationship between Christ (the heavenly Bridegroom) and His church. The beauty in even these two pale, earthly reflections of pure divine love is the subject of intense, blind hatred by Libertarians and the licentious Left. Its challenge to even their hardened consciences is too much for them to bear and so they must desecrate it, trample it underfoot and decry anyone who would champion it and uphold it.

Conducting potentially harmful experiments on children is usually condemned. Not in this case. Let the experiment run then, that its designers may condemn themselves with its results.

Pity the poor, innocent children.