Try to put your finger on it, and find that a finger won't do
When and if leaders in the public sphere speak out against the distorted nature of homosexuality and abortion they are immediately ransacked by the left movements as being fundamentalist bigots. It seems bizarre that such movements have so much power to silence the very people that facilitate their power.
For example the Queen of Spain, the Matriarch of an ancient, historically Catholic empire spoke out on abortion, euthanasia and perhaps most vehemently, against homosexual marriage. In doing so, the Queen was not staking out new territory or setting any new precedents; she was merely re-stating age old tenets that have facilitated the growth and well-being of her empire for centuries.
The Queen was particularly criticized for her comments on gay “marriage”.
"If those people want to live together, dress up as grooms and enter into a union, it might be in their right, but they shouldn't call it matrimony, because it isn't," The Queen said.
This was not only the voice of the Queen of Spain speaking, this was also the voice of natural order and of history. This is actually the voice of reason, a voice that has become so ostracized that its intonations now sound foreign to even the most ‘right wing’. Even in speaking truth, our voice sounds strange and shaky. From whence has this overwhelming pressure come?
There is an undeniable force rendering people of ‘good will’ subject to disillusion; this force is also disproportionate in that those individuals who are ‘gravely offended’ by tradition are an unmentionable minority (this point becomes more and more irrelevant by the day). Those members of society who have no tolerance for students of history (and of reason) have somehow harnessed the rest of the world to push their agenda forward as they bask in the swollen tide of political correctness.
I began to think about this phenomenon while reading an article on the Queen’s recent statement and the inevitable riot from homosexual lobby groups that ensued. My thoughts were summed up by a comment at the end of the article.
However the author of the book, veteran journalist Pilar Urbano, has defended her work, claiming that it is completely accurate and was even vetted and approved by the Royal House before publication.
"We can understand all of the prudence that surrounds the Royal House, but there is a very powerful lobby in this country, which is the gay lobby," said Urbano in a radio interview.
So then I am not being alarmist. Other people are noticing the walls moving in. We need to stand firm- the more we retreat and remain silent, the more of us will be lulled to sleep in the pseudo-peace that a dangerous passivity like ours creates.
When birth rates and marriage numbers plummet, it seems to me quite clear that a population is in decline. We continue to prop up our own distinction and the erosion of our children’s quality of life one small “nicety” at a time. The statements “freedom of choice” and “right to [fill in this blank with pretty much anything]” are workable in and of themselves. We must examine what we mean when we concede to these statements: if in saying them, we are saying that a given individual has the right to do such and such a thing at the cost of another person, where does person A’s rights end and person B’s rights begin? Is there then no standard? Do we construct morality, then on a case by case basis?
If I have the ‘right’ to kill another person the day before they are born, can I then kill them a week after? How about one year? Why not 30 years after their birth? A life is a life is a life. Where are our precedents? Who took down all of the fences without first asking what it was they were protecting?
We are living in times of reckless demolition.
To read about the Queen of Spain’s comments: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/nov/08110301.html
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