Restoring the Sacred

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Stephen M. Krason : Old and New Tyrannies Borne of Lust


From an essay published today at Crisis Magazine:

We have seen many examples of the tyrannical mindset of those who are at the forefront of this latter stage of the Sexual Revolution, led by the homosexualist movement and its political and governmental allies. We have observed the treatment by state human rights commissions of bakers, florists, and photographers who religiously object to serving same-sex “weddings”; the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate; Catholic adoption agencies being shut down because they won’t place children with same-sex couples; New York City’s threatening to fine employers, businesses, and landlords who won’t use a person’s preferred pronoun referring to his or her gender... 
What these examples show is a massive assault on such time-honored liberties—ultimately grounded in natural law and concerned with protecting human dignity rightly understood—as religious freedom, free speech, and respect for basic privacy in the name of claimed sexual liberties of all sorts. Essentially, what is held is that the latter take precedence over every other right—even those specifically catalogued in traditional human rights documents such as the U.S. Bill of Rights, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, European Convention on Human Rights...  Moreover, they represent a clear attempt to force people to accept and even endorse behaviors and practices that they find morally objectionable and that affront the natural law...
 This shows the extent to which many people, driven by the master passion of lust, will go to suppress a deep-down guilt which most have—despite their denials of any such thing—for their transgressions...
There is a need to get people to endorse one’s immoral conduct to lighten the burden of guilt and insecurity and reassure him that what he’s doing isn’t so bad after all—oh, and if one is in the position to do so, he will even not hesitate to force people to do that... 
To read the entire essay, click on the below link:
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/old-new-tyrannies-borne-lust