[Renzy]

(07-10-2014 09:24 AM)scorpion Wrote:  

Sargon of Akkad: that post went right over your head.

I wasn't making a direct comparison, I was simply pointing out that attitudes toward sexuality and morality can shift over time. Your grandfather or great-grandfather probably looked at homosexuals with the same disgust you look at pedophiles, and would never believe they could be celebrated as mainstream. It's very arrogant and silly to believe that we, today, have reached the ultimate end of all human understanding, and that those who come after us will necessarily think the exact same way that we do because we got everything so right.

The point is that if present trends continue, your grandson will have as different an opinion on sexual morality from you as you do from your grandfather. That's just how social attitudes work and shift over time, especially if a culture has become degenerate and decadent.

Your post reminded me of a passage from Orson Scott Card's essay on homosexual marriage:

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The proponents of this anti-family revolution are counting on most Americans to do what they have done through every stage of the monstrous social revolution that we are still suffering through -- nothing at all.

But that "nothing" is deceptive. In fact, the pro-family forces are already taking their most decisive action. It looks like "nothing" to the anti-family, politically correct elite, because it isn't using their ranting methodology.

The pro-family response consists of quietly withdrawing allegiance from the society that is attacking the family.

Quietly withdrawing is why I predict that homeschooling and private schools are going to become more and more popular with people who are simply sick and tired of fighting this sort of stuff and simply want to get away from it now.

Let the liberals have the public schools, the media, etc. My house will be TV-free and my kid will be going to a private school.