Mike Scruggs
Unfortunately
for the causes of sound reasoning and good government, many people have
been persuaded that tolerance is an unquestionable absolute virtue.
This is unthinking nonsense. Tolerance can be an important civic virtue,
if it facilitates the peace, safety, and well-being of a society. But
tolerating actions that have a strong potential to destroy or disrupt
society’s peace, safety, and well-being is extremely unwise. Tolerating
your neighbor’s cat in your backyard is an act of courtesy, but
tolerating his pet diamondback rattler in your backyard is insanity.
Tolerance can be a valuable civic virtue, but tolerating great evil or
great danger is both evil and foolish.
Yet
we see daily instances in our media of people using unqualified
“tolerance” to argue for radical social changes that have strong
potentials for social chaos. Highly destructive social agendas are
often pushed as “civil rights” even though they infringe on the civil
rights of others and the moral stability of the nation. We see these
misguided concepts of tolerance and distorted concepts of civil rights
shouting down reasonable deliberation on their impact on national
security, public safety, and the most important social fabric that holds
any nation together—marriage and family. Without these no nation can
prosper in freedom and safety. Yet we are a nation that is hastily
throwing out centuries of solid moral traditions and burying volumes of
credible scientific research to promote a radical homosexual agenda..
Unfortunately,
the radical homosexual agenda is not about reasoned standards of
tolerance and civil rights. It is certainly not about high standards of
medical and social research. These have been sacrificed to the national
political correctness agenda surrounding homosexual issues. Truth has
taken a back seat to fashionable politics and misguided ideologies. The
radical homosexual agenda is about normalizing homosexuality and
proclaiming it as virtuous. It is a militant Revolutionary ideology that
must punish any resistance to its new status. Part of that agenda must
therefore be to undermine, discredit, and destroy Judeo-Christian
teachings on sexual morality, marriage, and family. Although most of the
shouting by its leadership is directed at overturning these Scriptural
teachings, this seems to go right over the heads of many people. It is
no wonder. In the last 50 years, America has slipped down a path of
Biblical ignorance and irreverent disregard for Scriptural truth. This
decline has put the nation in a moral, ethical, and spiritual tailspin
from which it may not be able to recover. The resulting spiritual and
moral blindness has paved the way for a militant homosexual agenda and a
staggering array of leftist perversions of political justice.
Homosexuality
is not a virtue. It is a pathology with painful health and social
consequences. According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly
two-thirds of all AIDS cases in the U.S. are directly attributable to
homosexual activity. Yet they only represent two percent of the
population—not 10 percent as claimed by the badly flowed Kinsey report.
This means that homosexuals are 147 times more likely to acquire and
spread AIDS.
AIDS is by no means the only problem. According to the research of Robert Knight (Air Force Times,
December 1992), homosexual youths are 23 times more likely to contract a
sexually transmitted disease as heterosexual youths. Male homosexuals
are 14 times more likely to have had syphilis than male heterosexuals.
Lesbians are 19 times more likely to carry syphilis as heterosexual
women. John A. Eidsmoe gives three other research reports with similar
results in his 1992 book compiling the case against homosexuals in the
military. The Obama Administration ignored all such health and military
performance research data in recommending that homosexuals be able to
serve openly in the military.
Kinsey
and other researchers found that homosexuals average more than 250
partners during their lifetime. This exposes the homosexual agenda for
gay and lesbian marriage to be a showboat political platform for their
radical agenda rather than seeking lifetime companionship. Again, their
real goal is to discredit and destroy the Judeo-Christian concept of
one-man-one-woman marriage and family. According to both U.S (Dr. John
R. Diggs, 2002). and Dutch research, homosexual marriage actually
increases promiscuity and spreads disease faster.
Homosexual
practices also increase the risk of various infections. Over 90 percent
engage in anal intercourse with risks of fecal and urine contamination.
Their cancer rate is 12 times higher than heterosexuals. According
Diggs (2002), homosexuality knocks 20 years off a gay male lifespan. A
young gay male of 20 years has only a 32 percent chance of making it to
age 65. AIDS hospitalization also costs 7 times more than cancer
hospitalization. Many more shocking research reports could have been
cited on the homosexual healthcare disaster.
Of
serious concern to the military in adapting to the Obama
Administration’s open homosexuality policies is that one third of all
child molestations involve homosexual activity. This means that
homosexuals are 16.5 times more likely to engage in child molestations
than heterosexuals, which could be a major issue in keeping military
bases safe for dependent children.
According
to Williams and Weinberg (1972), 77 percent of homosexuals received
honorable discharges from the armed forces versus 98 percent for
heterosexuals. In this report, homosexuals were more than 11 times more
likely to receive an other than honorable discharge as heterosexuals.
Although many of President Obama’s supporters have cited anecdotal
instances of gay and lesbian heroism in the military, these appear to be
the exception rather than the rule. In any case, Obama’s political
desires were rammed through Congress with little concern for their
future consequences.
Oh, yes—Help restore our country’s moral backbone. Vote FOR the North Carolina Marriage Amendment.