SOURCE: Human Events
By: Patrick J. Buchanan
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The culture war has gone global.
And the divisions are not only between, but within nations.
“Suddenly, homosexuality is against the law,” wailed Jay Leno. “I mean, this seems like Germany. Let’s round up the Jews. Let’s round up the gays. … I mean, it starts like that.”
Leno was speaking of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Obama eagerly agreed:
“I have no patience for countries that treat gays or lesbians … in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them. … Nobody is more offended than me by some of the antigay and lesbian legislation that you’ve been seeing in Russia.”
Leno and Obama were referring to a new Russian law prohibiting “homosexual propaganda.” Moscow is also warning foreigners, including visitors to the winter Olympics in Sochi, that propagandizing for gay rights can get them two weeks in detention. No kiss-ins allowed.
“Medieval,” howled The Washington Post. “Mr. Putin’s war” on gays and lesbians is “part and parcel of his lapse into xenophobia, religious chauvinism and general intolerance.”
Monday’s New York Times has a front-page story — “Gays in Russia Find No Haven, Despite Support From the West” — featuring photos of roughed-up protesters.
Our moral and cultural elites have put Putin on notice: Get in step with us on homosexual rights — or we may just boycott your Sochi games.
What this reveals is the distance America has traveled, morally and culturally, in a few short years, and our amnesia about who we Americans once were, and what it is we once believed.
Only yesterday, homosexual sodomy, which Thomas Jefferson said should be treated like rape, was outlawed in many states and same-sex marriage was regarded as an absurdity.
Was that America we grew up in really like Nazi Germany?
In the Catholic schools this writer attended, pornography — let alone homosexual propaganda — would get one expelled.
Was this really just like Kristallnacht?
As Father Regis Scanlon writes in Crisis Magazine, in 2005, Pope Benedict XVI reiterated Catholic doctrine that homosexuality is a “strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil,” an “objective disorder.” That homosexual acts are unnatural and immoral remains Catholic teaching.
Thus, if we seek to build a Good Society by traditional Catholic and Christian standards, why should not homosexual propaganda be treated the same as racist or anti-Semitic propaganda?
We can no longer even agree on what is good and evil.
When Pope Francis said, “Who am I to judge?” he was saying that a sexual orientation is something over which an individual may have no control, dating to birth or infancy. Hence homosexuals ought not to be condemned, but welcomed into the community.
As for homosexual propaganda and acts, that is another matter.
What, one wonders, is the view of those Evangelical Christians who sustain the Republican Party on homosexual propaganda in the public square? Do they agree with the Post? Or do they agree with Putin?
When the Socialist regime of Francois Hollande enacted a law endorsing same-sex marriage, a million Frenchmen marched in protest in Paris. Is America on Hollande’s side, or the side of the protesters?
When the ultra-Orthodox haredim of Jerusalem denounce the annual gay pride parade in the Holy City, whose side is America on?
The Post weeps for the “young women of the persecuted rock band Pussy Riot,” who engaged in half-naked obscene acts on the high altar of Moscow’s most sacred cathedral.
Had these women crayoned swastikas on the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., would thePost have been so sympathetic?
Putin suggested the ladies try the same stunt in Mecca.
In our late Mideast wars, America has fought for secularist democracy. Yet Christians have suffered horribly, with the murder of priests, the burning of churches, terrorism and wholesale flight.
According to LifeSiteNews, Putin, meeting with Orthodox Christian leaders, urged the world to come together to stop these violent persecutions.
“Especially in the Middle East and North Africa … the rights of religious minorities are infringed, especially Christians and Orthodox Christians. … This pressing problem should be a subject of close attention for the entire international community.”
Urging America and the West to join with Russia in saving Syria’s Christians, Orthodox Patriarch Kirill said their expulsion from Syria would be a “catastrophe” for civilization.
Has Obama ever spoken out so forcefully for international action to save Christians? Has The New York Times ever exhibited a fraction of the concern for persecuted Christians it daily exhibits for harassed homosexuals?
What did the Post mean by “religious chauvinism”?
Putin is trying to re-establish the Orthodox Church as the moral compass of the nation it had been for 1,000 years before Russia fell captive to the atheistic and pagan ideology of Marxism.
“The adoption of Christianity,” declared Putin, “became a turning point in the fate of our fatherland, made it an inseparable part of the Christian civilization and helped turn it into one of the largest world powers.”
Anyone ever heard anything like that from the Post, the Times or Barack Hussein Obama?
Personally, I don't run into gays that much, but I DO run into libertine heterosexuals who have no sense of what is private vs. what is public and need to be told "the metro, busstop, restaurant, park is NOT your bedroom and I am not a voyeurist, thank you!"
BTW, the US is not a good example of ANYTHING for ANY country, so skip that.
It's good to see a good, straight president up there, somewhere... It's been a while since some countries had one.
The United States Of America was founded on religious FREEDOM. This means everyone can believe as they wish but they cannot force others to live by their religious codes. It also means that your right to practice your religion ends at my front door if I don't want it in my home. While Christians seem to bemoan this fact, I will simply point out that they should be ecstatic and just accept that not everyone believes as they do and their beliefs do not dictate others lives. Homosexual marriage, sex etc only effects the two people having it. Their neighbors will still have the sex they prefer whatever that is, the dogs will still mate with dogs, birds with birds and the world will carry on as it always has. It changes NOTHING expect preventing persecution.
If you are not gay, don't marry a gay man. If you hate alcohol, don't drink. It is pretty simple. I actually addressed some of this on my blog a few weeks ago. http://www.alwaysbeentrouble.com/why-the-us-needs-to-stop-and-think/ feel free to read it.
And the comment takes exaggeration to dishonesty. It is not illegal to be a homosexual in Russia. It is illegal to disseminate offensive material promoting it.
As for Obama's comment - I would imagine Putin could say the same thing vice versa. "Nobody is more offended than me by the recent pro-sodomy legislation, the legalizing and patronizing of disordered sexual immorality that you have been seeing in the United States."
How much more backward could a country get? Where their president would lecture, as if from the moral high ground, another world leader for being against sodomy. And where the "moral" voice of the people comes out of the mouth of a corpulent comedian.
Wake me when the clowns have voted.
Leviticus 20:13:- If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
The Americans and Westerns have distroyed our true Christianity for the sake of their fake politics. At first there was no creation of the different denominations like the so called Catholicism, protestantisim, Anglican, Pentecost,etc. The true and original teaching is Orthodox Christianity.
God bless Putin.