MERE HEALING

My Story.

I was born in 1950 with several medical problems including neurological complications and a cleft lip and palate, which required immediate treatment and isolation from my mother – literally from the moment of birth.  My sudden and violent separation from her resulted in two emotional (read: psychological) conditions universally recognized and validated by Christian and secular psychotherapeutic professions: separation anxiety and defensive detachment.

The Slippery Slope becomes the Gaping Abyss.

From Robert A.J. Gagnon: Coming soon to a locale near you, thanks to supporters of homosexual practice around the world: "Advocating for the right of consenting adults to share and enjoy love, sex, residence, and marriage without limits on the gender [= homosexual practice], number [= polygamy of all shapes, heterosexual and homosexual], or relation [= incest] of participants. Full marriage equality is a basic human right." Arguments by proponents of "gay marriage" are no different from those supporting adult-consensual polyamory or incest. Indeed, one has to leapfrog over polyamorous and incestuous unions between consenting adults to validate the even more extreme violation of sexual ethics known as "gay marriage" since the twoness of the sexual bond (no polygamy) and the necessity of embodied complementary otherness (no incest) is predicated ultimately on a male-female paradigm. As this site says on its headline moniker.

Homosexual Activist Admits True Purpose of Battle is to Destroy Marriage

From Illinois Family Institute:

Even knowing that there are radicals in all movements, doesn't  lessen the startling admission recently by lesbian journalist Masha Gessen.  On a radio show she actually admits that homosexual activists are lying about their radical political agenda.  She says that they don't want to access the institution of marriage; they want to radically redefine and eventually eliminate it.

Pretty telling is this quote from Gessen:

"It's a no-brainer that (homosexual activists) should have the right to marry, but I also think equally that it's a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist. …(F)ighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there — because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie."

Read the whole thing.

Love and the Inhumanity of Same-Sex Marriage

Money quote:

To vote for it, to legislate it, to rule in favor of it, to tell your friends at the office that you think it's just fine—all this is sin. To support it publicly or privately is to "give approval to those who practice" the very things that God promises to judge—exactly what we're told not to do in Romans 1:32.

Further, same-sex marriage embraces a definition of humanity that is less than human and a definition of love that is less than love. And it is not freedom from religion that the advocates of same-sex marriage want; they want to repress one religion in favor of another.

Christians must not go with the flow. They must instead love the advocates of same-sex marriage better than they love themselves precisely by refusing to endorse it.

Read the whole thing, of course.

Another reason I hate technology.

Marco Rubio CPAC 2013

I have some concerns with Marco Rubio, but I think at heart he is a pro-US, pro-liberty conservative who has simply to be corrected on a number of premises he’s adopted along the way, after which his message will resonate more completely with constitutionalists who remain dubious. In the meanwhile, I like this.

 

Gays, Boy Scouts, and dogma

A brief, albeit provocative and wonderfully honest post from one of my all-time favorite bloggers on a subject that is getting painfully politicized.

From the Boy Scouts to the British Parliament: Left behind? Conservative Christians and the gay revolution

Evangelicals do not believe that homosexuality is sinful because it is part of our platform, but because it is a conviction drawn from Scripture.

Read the whole thing.

Is this a Compelling Christian Case for Gay-Marriage?

A compelling look at how truth gets twisted by culture to accommodate sin.

Is this a Compelling Christian Case for Gay-Marriage?.

We are raising a generation of deluded narcissists | Fox News

"We must beware of the toxic psychological impact of media and technology on children, adolescents and young adults, particularly as it regards turning them into faux celebrities—the equivalent of lead actors in their own fictionalized life stories."

Baltimore Ravens Linebacker Plans to Use Super Bowl to Promote Same-Sex Marriage | NewsBusters

Uh... okay, then.

‎"Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless against everything in us that diminishes our joy. The worst sentence Love can pass is that we behold the suffering which Love has endured for our sake, and that is also our acquittal. The justice and mercy of the judge are ultimately one." - Frederick Buechner

Blurred Vision - Andrew Comiskey

Excellent post from Andy Comiskey on the president's inaugural speech.

My Response to Your Inaugural Speech, Mr. President

Hmm. The shape of things to come, methinks.

Trading Intimacy for Intensity - YouTube

Trading Intimacy for Intensity - YouTube.

PJ Media » Chuck Hagel, Gay Rights, and Liberalism’s Incoherence

Fascinating. As is this.

Read the whole thing and follow all the links.

“THE terrible danger at the heart of our Society is that the tests are giving way. We are altering, not the evils, but the standard of good which is the only standard by which any evil can be detected and defined.” ~G.K. Chesterton

Where Peace is Hidden

Third Sunday of Advent—December 16 

Keep your eyes on the prince of peace, the one who doesn't cling to his divine power; the one who refuses to turn stones into bread, jump from great heights and rule with great power; the one who says, "Blessed are the poor, the gentle, those who mourn, and those who hunger and thirst for righteousness; blessed are the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers and those who are persecuted in the cause of uprightness" (see Matt. 5:3-11); the one who touches the lame, the crippled, and the blind; the one who speaks words of forgiveness and encouragement; the one who dies alone, rejected and despised. Keep your eyes on him who becomes poor with the poor, weak with the weak, and who is rejected with the rejected. He is the source of all peace. 

Where is this peace to be found? The answer is clear. In weakness. First of all, in our own weakness, in those places of our hearts where we feel most broken, most insecure, most in agony, most afraid. Why there? Because there our familiar ways of controlling our world are being stripped away; there we are called to let go from doing much, thinking much, and relying on our self-sufficiency. Right there where we are weakest the peace which is not of this world is hidden. 

In Adam's name I say to you, "Claim that peace that remains unknown to so many and make it your own. Because with that peace in your heart you will have new eyes to see and new ears to hear and gradually recognize that same peace in places you would have least expected." 

Adam's Story: The Peace That Is Not Of This World, Henri J.M. Nouwen. 

The Democrats have become the sex party -

I think it's pretty easy to see which way the pendulum is swinging, but English historian Timothy Stanley does an excellent job of putting a proper perspective on the matter.

Warning: language.

Gay Rights Agenda Is Shutting Down Debate on Homosexuality, Says Author

From The Christian Post comes this no-brainer:

Both Brown and Mahoney believe their struggles are symptomatic of efforts by gay rights advocates and supporters to shut down the debate on homosexuality.

"It as if those who came out of the closet fighting for what they said was equality and tolerance want to put us in the closet who take respectful difference," Brown remarked.

GLAAD Has Turned Into One of Hollywood’s Biggest Bullies

GLAAD’s latest anti-free speech rampage is so misguided that for what might be the first time ever, they’ve actually forced actress Susan Sarandon over to the correct side of an issue:

via bighollywood.breitbart.com