I’m a Christian – specifically, of course, a Catholic Christian. As such I hold that homosexual acts are inherently disordered and can never be considered licit. But here’s the difference – I and the rest of my Christian brothers and sisters will not deny the right of homosexuals to live as they please. We are free – and that means free to do wrong things. As G. K. Chesterton put it:
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
The gay man owns himself – if he chooses to engage in behavior which puts at risk both his health and his immortal soul, then that is his choice…his decision. He will bear all the consequences of his decisions before God. The problem with Islam is that in their search for virtue, all they’ve done is create a society of dogs – whipped dogs who don’t dare stir from the kennels. The problem here in the West is similar – our whipped dogs are the liberals, who have so shackled themselves to a series of lies (in this case, most notably, the insane, politically correct concept that no society is better than any other) that they, also, don’t dare stir…and so we have Islamists demanding that everyone be put in to a moral straight jacket, while liberals refuse to call them on it because to do so is to assert – correctly – that our society is better.
Those of us who are neither Islamist nor liberal are the only people who can set things right – who can both instruct liberals in the truth of our society as well as instruct the Islamists that you can be morally good without resort to a whip. Our problem is that we are caught between two fires – we must both defend morality against western liberalism while also defending liberty against Islamist tyrants. A difficult task, to be sure, and we cannot tell if we’ll be able to do it.
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