The
recent rise in gay rights, and the rights of LBGT-LMNOP communities, evinces
something more disturbing than a sexual agenda. We are forced to ask: who
is in charge of the planet?
In
2008, Obama proudly
proclaimed that he understood marriage to be the union of a man and a
woman. Obama had to, or he would not have been electable. The
attempt to redefine marriage did not have broad popular support at that time.
In
2008, Proposition 8 (affirming marriage to a man and a woman) passed the muster
of a referendum to become state constitutional law in California, arguably the
most liberal state in the Union.
In
2012, the Ninth
Circuit Court Court of Appeals overturned the decision, in violation
of popular will.
In
2014, a federal judge overturned a similar
Arkansas state amendment limiting marriage to a man and a woman.
Eventually, the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 declared marriage redefined to
include same-sex couples.
What
is noteworthy is that all of this was done against the will of the people
expressed through referenda.
And
not just in the United States. In 2010,
in Argentina, which formerly prided itself on a macho culture, marriage
was legally
redefined after a series of dueling
court decisions that ended in legislative change.
Argentina,
while it allows freedom of religion, has an established Catholic Church – much
like the Anglican Church in England. The Catholic Church has clout in
Argentina and was vociferous in condemnation of redefining marriage, and yet
the Church was defied. Why?
Strict
Catholics obviously outnumber gays. Why would Argentine politicians
ignore them to appease a demographically insignificant minority?
[T]he
[Argentine] Catholic Church ... organized marches and verbal attacks on the
bill as "a plan to destroy God's plan[.]"
One is
not shocked that Europe includes same-sex couples in its definition of marriage,
as post-Christian and secular as Europe is. However, courts forced the
same on Brazil in spite of popular opposition and a growing Evangelical
Christian population that would not have approved. Argentina may have the
Catholic Church, but Brazil has 40-plus million Evangelicals, and they
vote. Yet they are ignored.
Turning
aside from Western nations, Vietnam redefined
marriage in 2015. Yet Freedom House lists Vietnam as an unfree nation.
Somehow, a man's right to attempt to marry another man trumps other
rights.
In
2017, a court in Taiwan has ruled in favor of redefining
marriage.
The constitutional court ruled that Taiwan's current Civil
Code, which stipulates an agreement to marry can only be made between a man and
a woman, "violated" the constitution's guarantees of freedom of
marriage and people's equality.
It
gave Taiwan's parliament two years to change the law and implement the ruling.
If legislators fail to do so, same-sex couples will be able to register to
marry regardless.
We see
a noticeable pattern that this is not welling up from the people, but is the
result of activist courts around the world. Democracy be damned.
Tyranny be damned. Homosexuality über alles.
Even
more disturbing trends are following suit:
Tel
Aviv trumps New York to be named world's best gay city – Daily
Mail, 2012
Welcome
to Tel Aviv, the gayest city on earth – Boston
Globe, 2016
GAY
PARADE TEL AVIV ISRAEL 2016 – (Disturbing) YouTube
Tel
Aviv? Israel? The land of the Torah?! Don't they read the
book ofLeviticus?
We are bound to ask, WWMD (what would Moses do)?
China
is being assaulted with this and is slowly
yielding.
In
1997, the Chinese government abolished the law on hooliganism, which
criminalized homosexuality. In 2001, the Chinese Society of Psychiatry
declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. After 2001, then,
homosexuality was no longer defined as a crime or an illness in the official
context, and since then, China's LGBT community has been able to find a
comfortable (comparatively speaking), semi-overt living space: Gay parks and
gay bars are booming in Chinese big cities; the topic of homosexuals is no
longer a taboo for Chinese media. More and more reports centering around the
Chinese homosexuals' predicament and condemning those homosexuals who marry
straight a wife or husband to cover their sexual orientations have been
published.
China
is not a free country, yet somehow gay rights are important.
Now, I
am not in favor of persecuting gays, and I see no problem with allowing for
civil unions for them. But what strikes me as odd is that the gay agenda
is pushing ahead in areas where free speech does not exist. How did gays
get this much clout?
In
Cuba, gay and transgender rights are on the march.
Cuba
hosts first transgender Mass - Reuters
Cuba?
Cuba is not a free nation! Yet, somehow, transgenderism is
prospering? Who is in charge? Who rules?
Homosexuality,
which was once universally illegal or taboo, is now illegal only in India, and
the Muslim world, and some parts of Christian Africa. And India seems
ready to go along. Only a large Muslim community may be stalling
India. Nor is the prohibition universal across Muslim nations. Some
Muslim countriesallow
homosexuality, while pedophilic abuse of
boys is common in others. What does scare Muslims universally is female
sexuality. What should be allowed is forbidden; what should be forbidden
is allowed.
The
above nations often have nothing in common. It may sound conspiratorial,
but it is becoming obvious that against the wishes of the majority of people
across the world, across all cultures, across all religions, and across all
forms of governance, an agenda for homosexuality is being pushed
successfully. The agenda tramples on democracies and tyrannies with equal
measure.
Now,
obviously, gays are a small minority, not big enough to swing elections, nor
even to exert much social pressure in tyrannies. So who is pushing this?
This gay agenda is not an end in itself, but a symptom of something else.
We may
be forced to admit there is an internationalist elite bent on deconstructing
all societies everywhere to an end where they will be in control. There
is no other plausible way to explain this. When tyrannies can uphold gay
rights but not freedom of speech; when courts overrule majority wishes on
marriage; when the
Irish vote to officially call two men "married," when Israel
–Israel! – arguably the first people in history to set rules and
standards on sexual behavior, now boasts of the most gay-friendly city on
Earth, then something is radically wrong.
This
is a symptom of a greater problem. An international elite is pushing
this, and it is the problem. I do not see any other valid explanation.
Mike
Konrad is the pen name of an American who wishes he had availed himself more
fully of the opportunity to learn Spanish in high school, lo those many decades
ago. He writes on the Arabs of South America athttp://latinarabia.com. He also
started a small website about small computers at http://minireplacements.com.
