Pivot of Civilization or Rivet of Life? Conflicting Worldviews and Same-Sex Marriage
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PART 1- ELEMENTS OF FREE WILL
1 – Choice, Boundaries and Consequences...…………………………......1
Choice and Ecology 1 Natural Boundaries 2 Free Sex? 5 Wellness Doctrine for Promiscuity 8 Magic Bullet - Codependency on Technology 12 Ecological Consequences of Gay Lifestyle 13 Boundaries of Silence 21 Lessons of AIDS and Anal Sex 27
2 – Politics, Alliances and Cognitive Dissonance .………………………..32
Manifestations of Cognitive Dissonance 32 Lesbianization of a Women’s Movement 44 Infinite Orgasm 52 REAL Women and Feminists for Life 57 Politics of Oppression and Patriarchy 64 Lesbian and Gay Bigotry 70 Third Wave Feminists 80
PART 2 – TWO MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE PARADIGMS
3 - Pivot of Civilization……………………...…………………………….……83
Mary Wollstonecraft 85 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 86 Emma Goldman 88 Margaret Sanger 98 Alfred Kinsey 106 Henry Morgentaler 117 Humanistic (Modern Gnostic) Civilization 125
4 - Rivet of Life…………………………….………………….……….………139
Two Sides in a Binary Decision 139 Creation of the Universe 143 Creation of Life 148 Creation of Mankind 171 Christianity 101 183 Pagan Slander 186 Gnostic Cancer 191 Greek and Roman Sexism 206 Christian Patriarchy 212 Christian Hypocrisy 223
PART 3 - UNORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY: THE “COMPROMISE” PARADIGM
5 - Debunking Gay and Pro-Gay Christian Theology……….……..……..228
God’s Truth 228 Bailey’s Pervert – The False Homosexual 236 Queer Christianity 246 Born Again Bisexual 260 Consequences of Sexual Experimentation 263 A Scriptural Boundary for Man-Boy Sex? 274 Rev. Dr. John Spong 281 Replacing Leviticus Code with the Condom Code 290
6 - The Paradox of Homosexual Reorientation…………..…..………….307
The Divided Kingdom 307 Is Conversion Therapy Ethical? 310 APA Fight Over Reorientation 313 Scientific Facts on Conversion Success 315 The Right to Choose 318 Reasons GBLTQ Want to Change 320 There is No Gay Gene 322 Psychology of Homosexuality 329 Barriers to Change 337 Reorientation Process 339 Role of the Church 343
PART 4 - THE PRACTICALITY OF COMPETING WORLDVIEWS
7 - Babies, Children, Adolescents and Parenting……………………………345
The Unorthodox Family 346 Symptoms of Crisis 353 Collateral Damage From Divorce 358 Why Do You Work? 363 Anti-Parenting Culture 370 Family Risk Factors 380 Teen Sexual Liberation 390 Abstinence 399 Abortion 409
8 - Singles, Couples, Marriage and Alternative Families………….…….425
Singles Life 426 Offensive Against Marriage 434 Cohabitation 444 Heterosexual Matrimony 447 Christian Marriage 450 Paradox of GBLTQ Marriage 457 Alternative GBLTQ Union 483 Clones: Alternative Family Planning 490
PART 5 – PIVOT OF CIVILIZATION OR RIVET OF LIFE?
9 – Theistic Boundaries to Rights and Choice………….………….……….503
Is the God of the Charter Real? 505 Your Choice – Your Voice 514 Twenty-Four Questions of Philosophy and Belief 516 Pivot of Civilization or Rivet of Life? 526 Respecting Each Other’s Space – A Last Hope Paradigm Shift 526 A Christian Closing Prayer 530
Appendix 1 - Letter to High School……….……………….…………………….533
Endnotes…………………………………….………………………...……………..540
Ecological Consequences of Gay Lifestyle
British sociologist Jeffery Weeks, in AIDS and Contemporary History, in 1993 wrote:
It was an historic accident that HIV disease first manifested itself in the gay populations of the east and west coasts of the United States.
This view has been almost universal among gay and AIDS activists even to this day. The movement’s inability to recognize its own responsibility for the disease in North America, keeps silent the good that can be learned from the crisis. Previously quoted, gay journalist and author, Gabriel Rotello, stands among only a few in claiming accountability:
Yet there is little ‘accidental’ about the [gay] sexual ecology…Multiple concurrent partners, versatile anal sex, core group behavior centered in commercial sex establishments, wide spread recreational drug abuse, tourism and travel - these factors were no ‘accidents.’ Multipartner anal sex was encouraged, celebrated, considered a central component of liberation. Core group behavior in baths and sex clubs was deemed by many the quintessence of freedom. Versatility was declared a political imperative. Analingus was pronounced the champagne of gay sex, a palpable gesture of revolution. STDs were to be worn like badges of honor, antibiotics to be taken with pride.
Michael Callen is another outspoken AIDS activist. His self-reported medical history was typical of gay men in the most active core group in New York’s sex scene. Not until forced to confront his own AIDS infection, did he acknowledge how much sex and disease he had. He wrote in Surviving AIDS:
I calculated that since becoming sexually active in 1973, I had racked up more than three thousand different sex partners in bathhouses, back rooms, meat racks, and tearooms. As a consequence, I had also had the following sexually transmitted diseases, many more than once: hepatitis A; hepatitis B; hepatitis non-A/non-B [now called hepatitis C]; herpes simplex types I and II; venereal warts; amebiasis, including giardia lamblia and entamoeba histolytica; shilgella flexneri and salmonella; syphilis; gonorrhea; nonspecific urethritis; chlamydia; cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus mononucleosis; and eventually cryptosporidiosis.
Randy Shilts describes his version of the ecological consequences of gay sex in his landmark narration of the life of AIDS Patient Zero:
By the time Bill Darrow’s research was done, he had established sexual links between 40 patients in ten cities. At the center of the cluster diagram was Gaetan Dugas, marked on the chart as Patient Zero of the GRID [Gay-Related Immune Deficiency] epidemic. His role truly was remarkable. At least 40 of the first 248 gay men diagnosed with GRID in the United States, as of April 12, 1982, either had had sex with Gaetan Dugas or had had sex with someone who had. The links sometimes were extended for many generations of sexual contacts, giving frightening insight into how rapidly the epidemic had spread before anyone knew about it. Before one of Gaetan’s Los Angeles boyfriends came down with Pneumocystis, for example, he had had sex with another Angelino who came down with Kaposi’s sarcoma and with a Florida man who contracted both Kaposi’s and the pneumonia. The Los Angeles contact, in turn, cavorted with two other Los Angeles men who later came down with Kaposi INTRODUCTION - Why This Book? Why Now?……………………………..........i
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Proponents of same-sex marriage contend that the inclusion of homosexuals in the definition will have little negative impact upon the heterosexual conventions of marriage and family. Some say the impact will be liberating. Others believe the consequential erosion of theistic values in the affairs of state will only make society better. This book argues that these conjectures are misleading and will in the end be proven false and damaging, should same-sex marriage be adopted. In reality, both personal and national level decisions on same-sex marriage are a test of belief and conviction.
This book takes the issue of homosexuality out of its "rights-based" context and looks at same-sex relations from a broader perspective- within the philosophical framework of what feminist Diana Alstad calls the "planetary battle" or the "morality wars" over "who has the right to decide what's right?" The thesis of this book is that acceptance of same-sex marriage will symbolize state preference for the beliefs of secularism, humanism, and free sex ethos, over traditional theistic-based, Judeo-Christian values.
Worse, the legislated merger of same-sex and opposite sex societal spaces under one definition of marriage will signify that the homosexual lifestyle is the same culturally, morally, and ecologically as the heterosexual way of life. In fact they are an anathema to each other.
This book equips and leads the reader to face his or her philosophy of life, before deciding on issues like same-sex marriage. The reader discovering a very complex, multi-faceted, and interlocking set of issues will face the question, "From where do we draw our moral wisdom?" Secularist (Pivot of Civilization) and Christian (Rivet of Life) worldviews are developed and their relative merits in facing key issues of the day are studied. The institutions of marriage and family will be cast in far-reaching perspective.
The book will detail the potentially harmful ramifications of such a huge move away from theism and also show the societal benefits of an exclusive and distinctive definition of same-sex union, in keeping with recognition of a separate and unique homosexual minority lifestyle.
About the Author
Carman Bradley gave his will to Jesus Christ during an evening windstorm in Kuwait City, 7 March 1997, bringing to an end a major calamity in his life.
Two years later, he founded an intercessory prayer ministry based in Calgary
(www.intercessorsanonymous.org)
He also subsequently founded: (www.marriagereality.org)
The authorship of this book is motivated by his passion to defend the Gospel- the Good News. In Kuwait, he worked as Chief Engineer for the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observer Mission. His education includes Civil Engineering and Masters of War Studies degrees from Royal Military College, and a MBA from Queen's University, Kingston. He is presently a business management consultant based out of Calgary. He is married with three teenage daughters.