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Absolute Value

If you didn't catch the drag show behind Old Main last week for "National Coming Out" week then you missed out on men dressed in feathers, stiletto heels and enough make-up to rival Tammy Faye Baker.

As an idle spectator to these types of escapades, I am bothered by the times in which we live.

We live in a time in America when we gladly engage behaviors such as homosexuality and men shamelessly dressing as women - because society has incorrectly come to believe abstaining from this would be oppressive and wrong.

We live in a time in which we attack, ridicule and belittle those who are strong enough to stand for what is right and respectable. These attacks are thinly guised under the slogans of "diversity" and "freedom." Society relentlessly attacks those people who philosophically oppose such behavior and labels them "hate mongers," "right-wing extremists" and "closed-minded."

We brutalize these people and feel deeply satisfied because we are the bearers of human rights. We see ourselves as such "do-gooders."

Somehow, if you don't support homosexuality and its practitioners then you are oppressive to human rights and diversity. It is a travesty in America when a person who opposes homosexuality is labeled with these harsh words and treated like a monster.

Society attacks those who we should most respect and admire; those who despite the labels and insults are willing to stand for what is right, natural and commensurate with human dignity.

Those of us who oppose this institution are not "closed minded," not "hate mongers," and not "right-wing extremists." We are simply people who are willing to stand for a fundamental set of values, no matter how politically incorrect they are.

Somehow, Americans have rejected any set of fundamental values. The prevalent view is that values are relative, and no one's values are better than another's.

We are delusional if we think that values are "relative." There are values that are "absolute" and never change. What changes is the willingness of people to follow them.

It is much harder to live a moral life than it is to live an immoral life, and because we are unwilling to put ourselves through the hardship of living morally we give in to our vices. To make ourselves feel better about it, we tell ourselves that there is no set of core values; that values are relative.

Values have consequences, and values make a nation (God, country, family). It is unfortunate that we stand by while a few elite radical liberals convince us to believe that homosexuality and abortion foster a healthy society. These people and those who follow them are more dangerous and more destructive than we can ever truly understand. They are whittling away those pillars that sustain our great country.

It seems that the only sin that can be committed in contemporary America is the imposition of morality, common sense and decency on another person.

Everything must be tolerated, except of course for Catholicism, which is intolerant toward sin and indecency.

Those who support and engage homosexuality tend to forget its costs. They choose not to recognize that homosexuality undermines an institution that comes about when a man and woman come together and create children - family. Man to man relationships are the antithesis of this idea of family.

Furthermore, when our society reflects homosexual values, especially flagrant ones like dressing in drag, it creates a distorted reality that our impressionable children must grow up in. Moreover, they challenge the social structure that has worked for more than 5000 years. When something survives for millennia, it probably survives due to the innate virtues of the system. When we rob decency and morality from the system it will fall apart. I wonder where we will be then.

Let me finish on one final note, please do not misinterpret me to be one of "Bible Jim's" cronies or that I advocate the persecution of homosexuals. Homosexuals, like all other people, have dignity and value. But that does not mean that we should not oppose homosexuality just as any other thing that subverts our society.