This has been on my mind today, but making a post about seemed to get difficult as soon as I started on the task.
Thoughts seems to come easy, but expressing them in words not so easy.
So, when I got home, I decided to look a bit closer at this Rob Portman flip-flop in support of same-sex marriage.
You see, his son flipped him to support same-sex marriage. How does that happen? How does the son flip the father, but not the other way around?
After reading the story, I still think the Senator failed his son. His son had an explanation which he gives on Huffington, in which he related his shame at who he was, but that went away. His shame went away soon after he told his parents of his same-sex attraction. Now he thinks he has to get married to somebody of his own sex. He went the whole hog for the left-wing position. He rejected the moral argument. His parents did not guide to the right. Evidently, they did not try. He tries to take a middle ground and encourages everyone else to do the same. But you can't. There's no middle ground here. It is either wrong or it isn't.
For those who think it isn't wrong, they enter a different kind of world. There is no escaping this. You can't play it both ways. A man can't serve two masters.
Being "severe" must mean holding on the one true view. Incompatible views cannot both be true. One or the other has to be wrong or false. There's no middle ground. It cannot be compromised.
Our society today does not stigmatize homosexuality as it once did. Perhaps that is more humane. But does that mean that homosexuality must be put on the same level as heterosexuality? If so, why is that so? For those who think so, they
must reject the teachings of religion. This has been taught for thousands of years. Now all of a sudden, what has been taken for granted as being true for so long, is now false? What was considered moral is now immoral? Just because of what some political activists say?
I think Rob Portman's son is very confused and Rob Portman himself is probably worse. He is unfit to lead and it is a good thing that Romney didn't put him on the ticket. That's true whether or not he would have helped Romney win or not. The Republican party is confused and so is most of the country. There's no reason to be confused. Wrong is wrong. They can't hold to the right? Is the father the master or the son? Who teaches, the father or the son? Who guides, the father or the son? Who leads the nation---those who hold to the right, or those who refuse to be guided to the light and sink into darkness?
This country is on the wrong path in more ways than one. Hopefully enough people will come to understand it that way and turn away from these wrong things before it is too late.
In America, our cultural method of debate tends to divide individual issues into carefully separated spheres of discussion. This hyperfocus on single issues, from gun rights to illegal wars to invasion of privacy, draws us away from looking at the bigger interconnected picture, otherwise known as the "macro." Each social or political conflict is compartmentalized by the mainstream, the dots are left isolated and the overwhelming overall threat to our foundational principles is marginalized. The problem with this civic philosophy is that the general public is left without peripheral vision and unequipped to comprehend that there is a process in motion, an overarching plan that is eating away at the edges of our liberty from every angle, one small piece at a time. That is to say, we have been conditioned to obsess over the pieces and ignore the plan.
