tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73160459366764642232024-03-06T12:02:33.940-08:00Standard of LibertyStandard of Liberty is an LDS-oriented educational foundation which exists to raise awareness of radical sexual movements
overrunning America's Christian-moral-cultural life and to inspire the public will, families, and individuals to counteract these trends.Standard of Libertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732477603906638899noreply@blogger.comBlogger255125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-82201134006913106532024-01-06T07:51:00.000-08:002024-01-06T07:51:37.088-08:00Polygamy and Homosexuality: The LinkHi! We did not post all last year! The main reason may be that we have been enjoying a new church and learning how to actually worship God and how to actually study the Bible. It's a small local Bible church, but growing rapidly. Every Sunday we talk to people who are in the process of leaving the LDS church. Our prayers for new friends have been answered to overflowing. In spite of complications with our family and friends, we have never been so happy and confident in the Lord. <br /><br />Who knew there was so much to learn and love and rejoice in and find rest in through Jesus Christ in God's Word? Who knew we could praise and glorify God singing 6 or 7 lively songs about Christ who was born, lived, taught, died for our sins, and was raised as if it is Christmas and Easter every Sunday? Who knew we could eat up 40-minute Sunday sermons based on one or two Bible verses taken in context and applied to our everyday lives and go home rejoicing every week? Who knew we could enjoy Bible study classes with Christian friends multiple days/nights a week? Who knew it doesn't matter what you wear or what your past has been or what "callings" you have held? Who knew it's all about loving God and becoming a new creature in Christ? As rubber-stamp Mormons we certainly didn't know any of these things. <br /><br /> It was when we came to Christ that we found ourselves no longer welcome in the Mormon church and began our long journey out of it and into truth and healing and real worship of God. <br /><br />So that is what's been happening. We hope and pray any readers we still have will experience God's saving grace as we have, and be confident in the assurance of salvation through Christ this very day (something priceless that Mormons never have).<br /><br />On to the topic of this post, the link between polygamy and homosexuality---and also every other out-of-bounds sexual lust, perversion, and preoccupation. As a wise woman wrote, "Sex is a serious thing. If it is misused somebody gets hurt." <br /><br />We are looking at this topic from a lifelong-Mormon-recently-seeing-the-light perspective, as in how polygamy was instituted in the early church, how many splinter groups emerged when the mainstream church gave it up (or rather pretended to), how facts about this historical practice have suddenly been admitted to by the mainstream LDS church itself, how practicing splinter groups are being exposed for their many atrocities common to the practice, how the internet is making these facts and push-backs highly public, and how there is a glaring crucial blind spot concerning homosexuality inherent in these ex-Mormon anti-polygamy, yet always pro-gay, conversations. Yes, most ex-Mormon channels and podcasts are pro-gay no matter what they are talking about. It always pops up how ignorant, cruel, and hateful the Mormon church is toward gays. But here we are particularly discussing the glaring blind spot linking polygamy and homosexuality coming from ex-Mormons.<br /><br />Once the Biblical boundary of marriage between one man and one woman is crossed, say, be it through adultery or its euphemism polygamy, we submit that there is no reason to have any boundaries at all. Granted, this boundary may be crossed in many ways, such as child abuse and pedophilia, incest, pornography, rape, sex trafficking, prostitution, the list goes on. But here we are concerned with a strange phenomenon in which those who are adamantly against the horror of polygamy are outspoken in favor of homosexuality. That terrible blind spot.<br /><br />We know why this is happening. It is happening because today's culture has utterly accepted all things homosexual to the point of granting this particular lust/behavior a special identity, special celebration, and special rights, no questions asked, no thinking required, and no health warnings issued. And having jumped on the virtue-signalling band wagon without any critical thinking, the lgbtetc brainwashing within many people's minds is complete. While they can see the abuses in polygamy and of course child sexual abuse, they can't see past the end of their own noses when it comes to homosexuality, which is certainly inordinately fraught with illnesses and abuses and tragedy and death. <br /><br />Bear in mind, this is not true of LDS church leaders, past and present. It is our opinion that they most certainly know. They know these sexual perversions are wrong and harmful. They know Joseph Smith was a conniving scoundrel---in many ways, including seducing women in God's name. Otherwise, why did they cover up his sexual and other shenanigans for nearly 200 hundred years? And now, when they finally are forced to admit them (probably for legal/financial reasons) because of the pervasiveness of information on the internet, why else would they continue to unscrupulously whitewash these facts unless they knew? <br /><br />Yes, the leaders know, and don't care. They are only concerned with their corporation, their personal gain, their fame, their power over the peons, and their standing in the world. This is a corporation richer than Google or Disney. They know exactly what they are doing and why. This is nothing new in the history of mankind. Human corruption is a broken record, playing over and over again. But the LDS members, the ordinary trusting members, don't know. And apparently neither do many of the ex-members who on this topic seem to have traded one set of man-made beliefs for another set of man-made beliefs: We don't believe in Mormonism anymore; instead we believe in all the woke ideologies that have become popular around us in the last few years. Voids have a way of getting filled, for good or evil.<br /><br />Many ex-Mormon podcasts and YouTube videos, and as a result, many vulnerable ex-Momons, as part and parcel of leaving the church, along with exposing polygamy as truly terrible, are lgbtetc affirming. We submit in this post that this makes no sense. For one thing, if they had stayed a little longer in the LDS church, they would have found it to be more and more pro-gay itself, at least looking the other way and allowing all things lgbtetc to infiltrate the church by leaving these issues up to local leaders who are all over the map politically and even morally. Left-leaning inclusivity is seeping into the LDS church big time. (<a href="https://universe.byu.edu/2022/06/12/byu-students-and-faculty-gather-in-first-ever-approved-lgbtq-demonstration/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://bycommonconsent.com/2022/11/16/the-lds-church-supports-the-respect-for-marriage-act/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://inclusion.byu.edu/lgbtq-resources" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/topics/gay?lang=eng" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://thecougarchronicle.com/byu-professor-speaks-about-transgender-child-in-class-the-cougar-chronicle/" target="_blank">here</a>) It has given up many of its hardcore doctrines in favor of mainstreaming. (You can bet they reeeeeally wanted a Mormon U.S. president and still do.) This is nothing very new for the church, as we know it eventually gave up polygamy, and even pretended to demonize it, to advance in the country and world. The way things are going, it ought to bring it back soon for those same reasons! <br /><br />Another reason being anti-polygamy but pro-gay makes no sense is because both stem from being out of God's boundaries for human sexuality. An honest thorough thinker can see this. Once a man's conscience is seared to the point where he can look at any number of females with lust and get them to "marry" him, what is to stop him from lusting after anyone and anything? This may be shocking for some people until you put your squeamishness aside and look at the human male honestly. Warning, this may get graphic. Males like the sensation of sex. They like the pressure and the friction. This is unique to men in its own way. If a man is not concerned about his wife's emotional well-being or physical comfort, he will not have the empathy, love, and patience it takes for her to prepare for penetration. Even if, or especially if, a man has unlimited (lonely? jealous?) women at his beck and call, he may get impatient, even bored. Since women do not or should not allow sodomy to be committed on them, the man may fantasize about sodomy with men. Indeed, there are many instances when men involved in adultery, polygamy, incest, etc. also stray into homosex.<br /><br /> Anyway, that's our Biblical stance. <br />Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-68754673289877489142022-12-06T15:24:00.001-08:002022-12-08T08:19:58.037-08:00LDS Church Sells Its Soul<p>If you are a disillusioned Mormon gay, gay activist, or gay supporter, including the unlimited sexual identities and behaviors represented in the letters in LGBTETC, you should be very happy today, or at least feel a great sense of validation and progress. If you are an active, traditional family values, conservative Mormon you should be very disillusioned today indeed, and owe yourself some serious mature adult reflection.</p><p>On November 15, 2022, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints <a href="https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/respect-for-marriage-act-statement" target="_blank">voluntarily released</a> to the world---you might call it a family proclamation to the world---a statement in support not of traditional marriage but of gay marriage including all the "rights" of all LGBTETC people. To quote the Associated Press, "The church's public stance is a stark contrast from 14 years ago, when its members were among the largest campaign contributors in support of <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna25350987" target="_blank">California's Prop 8</a>, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman in response to cities such as San Francisco granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples." To <a href="https://bycommonconsent.com/2022/11/16/the-lds-church-supports-the-respect-for-marriage-act/" target="_blank">quote a pro-gay blogger</a>, This is "the first time the LDS church has acknowledged the civil legitimacy of same-sex marriage and publicly supported legislation that requires that civil recognition." <br /></p><p>The thing is, the church wasn't required to say anything about this
U.S.Senate proposal to repeal the already existing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Marriage_Act" target="_blank">Defense of Marriage Act</a> (1996) in the
U.S. Code and replace it with the proposed <a href="https://www.frc.org/talkingpoints/the-disrespect-for-marriage-act-harming-children-threatening-religious-liberty" target="_blank">Respect for Marriage Act </a>. (Many are rightly calling it the Disrespect for Marriage Act.) The proposal has been recently voted on (12 Republicans have voted for it, including Mormon and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mitt-Romneys-Deception-Promotion-Massachusetts/dp/1461028078" target="_blank">father of gay marriage</a> Mitt Romney) with the goal to include in it gay marriage along
with traditional marriage. (Funny how the Defense of Marriage Act came to be with the sole purpose of protecting traditional marriage against same-sex marriage!) What the church did was pro-actively <a href="https://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2022/12/05/take_it_from_an_ex-mormon_the_churchs_new_stance_on_legal_gay_marriage_wont_help_it_retain_members_retain_members_868144.html" target="_blank">give wholehearted support</a> to this proposal to give equal respect to gay marriage as is given to traditional marriage, in the laws of the entire United States. </p><p>What has
happened here is the self-proclaimed Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has made a public relations move to
win the approval of the world and flow with the culture, and there's probably a lot of money
involved too, by embracing the now institutionalized practice of gay marriage, that is homosexuality, that is sodomy, in the form of respect and understanding for some made-up new "rights" found nowhere in the constitution or history of the country, and clearly defined as sin in the Bible, one of the standard works of said church. <br /></p><p></p><p>And don't think gay marriage is all the LDS church has decided to support. Its statement which we include below gives legitimacy and support not just to so-called gay rights but to the so-called rights of all the letters in LGBTETC with no limits as well. Yes, that includes the T for transgenderism which is all about cross-dressing, puberty blockers, hormones, and the permanently sterilizing, destroying and mutilating of healthy body parts to simulate the opposite sex, even in children and teens. And there's no end. The list of genders keeps growing. Apparently the LDS Church is suddenly in the affirmation-only camp for unlimited sex and sexuality madness, full speed ahead.<br /></p><p>Let us focus for a moment on the travesty that exponentially sped up the LDS ride down this slippery slope. But we have to shed our squeamishness and first define the euphemisms love, gay, homosexuality, gay marriage, and yes, transgenderism. These are all just clever ways of cleaning up the loaded and ugly word: sodomy. The fact is, two men together (no matter what they call themselves or what they dress like or what they have done to their bodies) cannot mate (which mating is what true marriage entails). With each other, two men, or any number of men gay or trans, can never do the thing that makes babies. Anal penetration, which is sodomy, is the primary way two men simulate sexual intercourse, one or the other of the men's anuses playing the part of the female vagina. The institutionalizing of gay marriage is essentially the institutionalizing of the practice of sodomy. Indeed, many straight couples now engage in this practice, thanks to the modern societal legitimization and normalization of homosexuality and gay marriage. This may actually put the lie to gayness as an identity, because sodomy, the act which ultimately distinguishes male gayness, is now approved of and available to all (even lesbians who may find ways to simulate it also). Not only does this practice <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Health_Hazards_of_Homosexuality.html?id=v0VTnQAACAAJ" target="_blank">cause disease and chronic health conditions</a> off the charts, it also easily spreads horrible and slow fatal sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS. There is always unnatural bleeding involved. Please note that there are no chastity or behavioral or fidelity rules or boundaries inherent in the LGBTETC ideology and lifestyle. Please note that heterosexuals often commit sexual sins and sexual crimes also, but homosexuality is notoriously, off the charts pornographic and <a href="https://medium.com/@neuropsychology/gay-promiscuity-statistics-partners-45fc370c0ca5" target="_blank">promiscuous</a>, and especially prone to crimes such as drug abuse, domestic violence, and child sex abuse, marriage or no marriage.<br /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Now that we have that clear, here is a brief outline (many books could and should be written on this) of some of the many developments and events that have taken place in which to show how the Mormon church has flipped its stance to publicly embrace the practice of sodomy as a civil right, indeed, under the euphemism, marriage. <br /></p><p>Less than 30 years ago the Mormon church had quite Biblically and vocally continued to condemn homosexuality as an abomination, a vice, and a sin in opposition to God's plan that could and must be repented of (The <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Forgiveness-Spencer-W-Kimball/dp/0884944441" target="_blank">Miracle of Forgiveness</a> by Spencer W. Kimball, 1969, <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world?lang=eng" target="_blank">The Family: A Proclamation to the World</a>, 1995). But an insidious softening had already begun (October 1995 Ensign article, <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1995/10/same-gender-attraction?lang=eng" target="_blank">Same Gender Attraction</a> , a squishy article in which homosexual tendency is likened to the Apostle Paul's thorn in the flesh). As the sexual revolution stepped up its campaign to decriminalize, destigmatize, and normalize homosex behaviors (<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/lawrence_v._texas" target="_blank">Lawrence vs Texas</a>, 2003) and label, protest, demonize, and punish those who stood for their Christian beliefs regarding marriage and family (churches, adoption agencies,bakers, photographers, printers, venue owners), the Mormon church continued to stand against homosexual behaviors (BYU student expelled), while continuing to soften on and embrace the homosexual identity (<a href="https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/interview-oaks-wickman-same-gender-attraction" target="_blank">Oaks-Wickman Interview</a>, 2006), (<a href="https://www.gaylawnet.com/ezine/religion/GodLoveth.pdf" target="_blank">God Loveth His Children</a>, 2007), which is at the very least, intellectually dishonest. Incidentally "God Loveth His Children," this once famous tortuous treatise, is now hard to find. We think it was axed because it stated rather offhand that some people could overcome homosexual tendencies; it also said we should resist and reform wrong feelings. The church never says things like that anymore. Apparently church leaders decided the infinite atonement of Christ is not infinite or atoning, because it is not applicable in one or more instances. <br /></p><p>To continue, it wasn't long before the church stepped in line with the world to accept homosexual tendencies (by this time they had institutionalized the euphemism same gender attraction) as a harmless and immutable identity like race or eye color that cannot and need not be changed or repented of (<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/12/06/166687164/mormon-church-launches-website-on-same-sex-attraction" target="_blank">mormonsandgays.org</a>, 2012). Although in 2008 the Mormon church surprised everybody, especially its own members, by uncharacteristically---according to its most recent attitudes---leading the <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna25350987" target="_blank">fight against gay marriage in California</a> , it not only subsequently conceded this fight throwing its obedient, exhausted and persecuted California members under the bus, but specifically called off any further organized Mormon member opposition to gay marriage (in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/mormon-church-is-conspicuously-absent-in-md-same-sex-marriage-referendum/2012/10/28/65d1eb16-1dfc-11e2-9cd5-b55c38388962_story.html" target="_blank">Maine</a> and <a href="https://wwrn.org/articles/37121/" target="_blank">Maryland</a>, 2012). The next years showed an ever increasing softening toward homosexuality, mostly as an identity but as a practice also, such as publicly endowing Church monies (read: member tithing) in support of gay activist groups (<a href="https://www.deseret.com/2015/3/20/20561098/inclusion-center-honors-pres-uchtdorf-other-community-transformers" target="_blank">Inclusion Center Awards Social</a>--supports gay organizations, 2015) and picking up pro-gay activist code words such as diversity, inclusion, respect (<a href="https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/byu-launches-office-of-belonging-to-root-out-racism-combat-prejudice/" target="_blank">BYU Office of Belonging</a>, 2021). We began hearing <a href="https://bycommonconsent.com/2006/01/23/brokeback-mountain-in-sacrament-meeting/" target="_blank">talks in church</a> settings inclusive of gayness and invitations to gays to speak before congregations. (<a href="https://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/73708-queer-member-speaking-at-byu-womens-conference/" target="_blank">Sister Eubank introduced a lesbian</a> in BYU Women's Conference, 2021). Some Mormon wards began instigating diversity training (<a href="http://www.blaireostler.com/journal/2018/8/8/lgbtq-mormon-inclusion-contact-list" target="_blank">Mormon Inclusion</a>, 2018). Even the Tabernacle Choir visited San Francisco and sang solidarity songs with the gay men's choir under its leadership (<a href="https://www.deseret.com/2018/6/26/20647875/it-s-all-about-the-music-san-francisco-gay-men-s-chorus-performs-with-mormon-tabernacle-choir" target="_blank">SF Gay Men's Chorus sings with Tab Choir</a>, 2018, many of which members were found to be on the child sex offender's list). It was no surprise to those paying attention that Kimball's famous book, <i>The Miracle of Forgiveness,</i> which decried homosexuality in no uncertain terms, got questioned, cancelled, and pulled from the gay-affirming, doctrinal heavy weight, Deseret Book (<a href="https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=2762815&itype=CMSID" target="_blank">Miracle of Forgiveness fading</a>, 2015). The church continued to soften toward and embrace the homosexual "identity" (<a href="https://fhss.byu.edu/lgbt-student-resources" target="_blank">BYU counseling center</a> and <a href="https://www.usgabyu.com/single-post/byuhistory" target="_blank">changes in honor code</a>, allowing activists and groups on campus, 2007-current day). At the same time the church disingenuously and rather sheepishly, vaguely, and occasionally continued to disapprove of the inherent behaviors. This is intellectual dishonesty, which doesn't appease anyone on either side of this issue except the willfully blind and deaf, like telling a man it's wonderful that he can go to school to be a doctor but it would be a sin that he ever practice medicine. </p><p>The church's public relations line is: <i>Our</i> gays don't act out. Is that in any way true? Here is a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/rcr1oj/why_im_not_surprised_tom_christofferson_is_dating/" target="_blank">quote from a gay Mormon</a> trying to navigate his life in the LDS church by observing others in his situation: "I learned they [the high profile Mormon gays he observed] didn't actually follow the law of chastity [which prohibits homosex in all its manifestations including flirting and hand holding etc.]. Cuddling parties, dating, and casual hook-ups [sodomy] were a common and secret part of these men's lives." This man goes on to say, "Their hypocrisy played a role in my decision to leave the church and helped form my belief that any openly gay man in the church is not following the law of chastity." Our gays don't act out? Oh yes they do. And they love to initiate younger men and boys. That is nature of homosex. <br /><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifdZwbkoll6n_CmGN7w1hOcTO03Tn3mHsGzJRIBdu5YHmXfP2KVzzbpoxrF7nQbf89DvmlOlWADyQsaK-1hc1Ilxkpkg5rFtO6bV-fRhs_LA_XvRvNEUrrbJQldPeSvpvUORG46_w-xLW--6TxPpN2BgmDKBtgkv2eHIDoZ4uSuItmVxLqXOc6Nk87/s640/tomchristoffersonwithdragqueen.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="523" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifdZwbkoll6n_CmGN7w1hOcTO03Tn3mHsGzJRIBdu5YHmXfP2KVzzbpoxrF7nQbf89DvmlOlWADyQsaK-1hc1Ilxkpkg5rFtO6bV-fRhs_LA_XvRvNEUrrbJQldPeSvpvUORG46_w-xLW--6TxPpN2BgmDKBtgkv2eHIDoZ4uSuItmVxLqXOc6Nk87/w170-h208/tomchristoffersonwithdragqueen.jpg" width="170" /></a></div>Then, like a cherry on top, the church has made a hero out of one of its apostle's gay brother and published his book (<a href="https://deseretbook.com/p/cd-that-we-may-be-one?ref=detailed-card-4&variant_id=155907-paperback" target="_blank"><i>That We May Be One</i></a>, 2017) which proclaims that his sexual relationship (read: sodomy) with his gay lover of 20 years was beautiful. (This book was highly recommended reading in our ward Relief Society by the bishop's wife.) To update, this man, Tom Christofferson, who just five years ago said he left the gay behaviors behind and joined back up with the church, is now by his own admission back into homosexuality, has written another book published by the church, has been on the <a href="https://deseretbook.com/p/perfect-love-in-an-imperfect-world-tofw-centered-in-christ-tour-2018-mp3-audio?ref=detailed-card-2&variant_id=174023-audiobook-mp3-" target="_blank">speaking circuit for women</a> with big wig Sheri Dew, and dating fellow homosexuals, if you want to call it dating. In other words, acting out. The church, as usual these days, <i>acts</i> as gay affirming only, despite what it may say and despite its tenets. <br /><p></p><p>Like the old adage says, actions speak louder than words. Just as Mormon gays may say they are chaste and yet we know that entire ideology is <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5842099/" target="_blank">pornographic</a> and <a href="https://pro-lgbt.ru/en/5193/" target="_blank">highly promiscuous</a>, the church may say one thing when their actions say another. Of course we must look more at what the church did and continues to do rather than what they have said or say in between. The key question is, what is the signal they are sending? What is the message they are sending specifically into Mormon homes? It is of course the message that parents should respect and affirm an attention-seeking/rebellious/confused/abused child or teen or young adult in whatever sexual identity they got off tiktok that day! No searching for causes, no counseling, no healing, no instructing, no health warnings, no Bible, no religion, no nothing. <b>It has been our experience that in the last 20 years or so the LDS church leadership on every level and in every entity has offered absolutely no leadership or thought or care or help to individuals and families who are dealing with unwanted LGBTETC confusion and problems. They have simply cancelled those of its members resisting this juggernaut, while taking step after step to encourage and support wholesale gay-affirmation. </b><br /></p><p> It is our understanding that the highest church leaders instruct famous Mormons and politicians and entities such as Deseret Book, BYU, etc. on strategies and public stances they should take. In the case of the "disrespect of marriage act," Mormon Mitt Romney was all for this Act while Mormon Mike Lee seemingly stood against it, or at least wanted it amended; we can see here another example of the Mormon church speaking out of both sides of its mouth in true Orwellian doublespeak. We have seen that members pick up their perceptions and marching orders by way of what the church leaders actually do and get done rather than what their doctrines or scriptures say or what may be said periodically in a talk, and that increasingly infrequently, vaguely, and contradictorily. This is what the Bible calls hypocrisy, being neither hot or cold, serving two masters, and putting one's trust in man instead of God and being cursed for it. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Jeremiah%2017%3A5" target="_blank">Jeremiah 17:5</a>.</p><p>In the middle of this terrible muddle, in 2017, Steve here at SoL was told in a person-to-person conversation with Elder Rasband, an apostle of the church who extended to him the private invitation, that he wanted to discuss the church's "evolving" (Rasband's word) position toward homosexuality. You can say that again. He said the top Brethren did not agree on this topic or how to handle it. He also emphatically said that the church would never, ever change its current position on marriage as only between a man and a woman. This newest proclamation does support gay marriage, although it also pretends not to, and everyone who isn't braindead perceives that the church has indeed flipped to now support same-sex sodomy, whether they call it marriage, respect or rights or whatever. Here is the <a href="https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/respect-for-marriage-act-statement" target="_blank">actual statement</a>, with our comments interspersed:<br /></p><p><i>The doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints related to marriage between a man and a woman is well known and will remain unchanged.</i> [We know this statement is made in regard to same sex marriage, nevertheless, this statement is not true in that sense or any other sense. First, plural marriage (that's marriage between a man and not a woman but any number of women) was practiced in the early church, is still in the church's standard works (<a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/132?lang=eng" target="_blank">D&C 132</a>), and is a doctrine never denounced and still believed in and practiced in a very real sense even today---because for Mormons marriage is eternal. For example, President Nelson has been sealed (eternally married) to two wives, and although he was not married to both of them simultaneously here on earth, he fully believes to be and expects to be the husband of at least two women for eternity. That's marriage between a man and two women, based on LDS doctrine. Second, if the above were their doctrine, why are they voluntarily supporting same sex marriage? Isn't the church about spreading and proclaiming its doctrines to the world? Instead they are proclaiming the opposite!]<br /></p><p> W<i>e are grateful for the continuing efforts of those who work to ensure the Respect for Marriage Act includes appropriate religious freedom protections while respecting the law and preserving the rights of our LGBTQ brothers and sisters. </i>[This is a contradictory position that they have taken. The church's official rule is that it does/will not perform same-sex marriages in its church houses and temples, and yet church leadership has come out in support of a law that allows for, establishes, and respects same-sex marriage. In addition, the church leaders in supporting such laws don't seem to even consider that they are leaving their <a href="https://adflegal.org/article/respect-marriage-act-cant-answer-question-what-marriage" target="_blank">members exposed</a> to sexual freedom laws that the members will have to obey or suffer punishment. Over and over again, the church has sided with its critics, while ensuring for itself the loophole that protects itself, the corporate church, and leaving its conservative members' religious freedom imposed upon and its gay members still dissatisfied.] </p><p><i>We believe this approach is the way forward. As we work together to preserve the principles and practices of religious freedom together with the rights of LGBTQ individuals, much can be accomplished to heal relationships and foster greater understanding. </i>[This is nonsense. The way forward? What does that mean? When the whole herd is going toward a cliff, the right thing to do is go backward. What we have are two opposing worldviews. This means conflict, whether LDS leaders like it or not. One side will win the conflict. We know which side is winning at the present time, with the full and informed support of the Mormon church, and its members wearing blinders. And LGBTETC activists will never stop their demands until they are treated not just equally in every detail, but however they want to be treated at the moment, until they are actually in charge and running everything, at least for a time until destabilization is complete to the point where the powers that be discard even them. In the meantime, response to this statement from the gay "community" is that the church has only made a "tiny step" toward what they want and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/23/mormons-respect-for-marriage-support-sham/" target="_blank">they are still frustrated</a>. So, contrary to what looks on the surface like some bizarre, out-of-touch, cock-eyed LDS church optimism, but what is really the same old calculated self-interested politicking, there is no "healing" or "fostering of greater understanding." What will happen is total surrender to this chaos, and the destruction of Christianity and the western world. And we are not the only ones saying this. There is a huge cultural response to the Mormon church's new stance from both sides. It seems everyone but the Mormons can see what is going on right in front of their eyes. Even the church's enemies are saying the church didn't have to do anything. <a href="https://bycommonconsent.com/2022/11/16/the-lds-church-supports-the-respect-for-marriage-act/" target="_blank">"It could have stayed silent and no one would have been surprised."</a> Of course the church has its reasons, none of which seem to be doctrinal or religious.] <br /></p><p>If you think this LGBTETC <b>affirmation-only</b> stance the LDS church has increasingly taken has not and will not now exponentially trickle down and enter every Mormon ward and stake you are very wrong. We have seen and heard of several of the following taking place. Sexual diversity <a href="https://bycommonconsent.com/2015/02/17/mormon-lgbt-outreach-part-i/" target="_blank">training in ward meetings</a>. Gays being doted on in families and wards. Homosexuality being proudly modeled and taught from local pulpits. Legally married gay couples recognized and supported in church settings. Gays and lesbians and transgenders serving as young men and young women leaders, as well as <a href="https://religiondispatches.org/openly-gay-mormon-appointed-to-lds-church-leadership-position/" target="_blank">other ward positions</a>. Mormon transgenders attending opposite sex meetings, women in Priesthood, men in Relief Society. (How do people even know what sex some people are anymore? Trans people are passing pretty well for the opposite sex these days.) Proud gay youth speaking from local pulpits. Cross-dressed children attending all ward meetings. Transgenders or their affirming parents <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/vlondr/gutsy_transgender_sacrament_meeting_talk/" target="_blank">invited to speak</a> at sacrament meetings and stake conferences. Transgenders teaching primary. Openly gay men attending the temple. Transwomen/men in drag sitting with the women in the temple. And of course the bathrooms and temple locker rooms infiltrated by whoever. You think these things and more aren't already happening or are going to soon? Think again. Top church leaders have long allowed these types of events, washing their hands of such local situations. There are so many wards and so many temples after all; they don't have time to address all of their idiosyncrasies and problems. The loophole for church headquarters is: we let the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/05/us/mormon-policy-reversal" target="_blank">local leaders</a> handle such situations, as stated in its handbook. </p><p>We submit that many, many Mormons don't like or want any of the above going on. Of course the LDS church could get around any sex-based controversies simply by changing its meetings, bathrooms, locker rooms, dorms, adult and youth programs, priesthood,callings, classes, and the entire temple experience to be nonbinary. In other worlds, men and women, boys and girls, use the same facilities, attend all meetings, and hold all offices alike, mixed up together, and no mention is made of the two sexes. Of course this still won't make transgenders happy, for instance, because they insist on being identified as the opposite sex from what they really are based on the binary male and female worldview. Still, historically, the church has been dead set against women and men being interchangeable, so that's a big problem for them. They would actually have to change everything, beginning with dumping their standard works. We here at SoL have heard they are in the surreptitious process of doing that very thing, calling it a de-emphasis on the scriptures. (Indeed, in the climate today they would need to as the Book of Mormon blatantly racist.) </p><p>We believe the LDS church has gone through many contortions to protect itself from this infiltration, including this latest move, (not caring a bit about actual human souls and what is actually right). But of course you can't sink a ship to save a ship. Whatever is encouraged will increase. If you let the camel's nose in the tent, soon you will have the entire camel. What has happened rather quickly is that the church we grew up in and raised our children in is gone, and something increasingly unrecognizable has taken its place.</p><p></p><p>And here, please do not give us the nobody's perfect line. We are not talking about imperfect human individuals here. We are talking about what is taught and modeled and perceived and learned and passed on. We are talking about principles, right or wrong, and ideas, true or false. Imperfect human are perfectly capable of either spreading falsehoods or spreading the truth. And they are certainly accountable for that, especially anyone in any leadership or position of authority. If they make a mistake they are obligated to correct it, repent, apologize, face the music. Like all the rest of us. There are tons of <a href="https://www.thelastdialogue.org/article/the-topic-abuse-of-authority-mentioned-in-bible/" target="_blank">scriptures in the Bible</a> about this abuse of power by the way. In addition, it is the ordinary people themselves who are allowing these travesties to take place and remain. If there were no members going along, supporting, and financing them, there would be no bad church leaders or false churches.<br /></p><p><b>In short, in a third of a lifetime the Mormon church has gone from proclaiming homosexuality a sin to proclaiming it an identity to proclaiming any sort of unnatural sexual identity or behavior or "medical" treatment a God-given right.</b> Remember, the statement says they are "working together to preserve the rights" of their LGBTQ brothers and sisters. The church may think it can protect its sex binary-based temples from infiltration, and protect its finances and reputation by making such statements, but it is certainly not protecting its members, wards, and stakes, and most particularly, its children. All representations of every letter in the LGBTETC alphabet soup will be exposed to Mormon minors within church walls and activities and portrayed as righteousness.</p><p>No longer is sexual purity a moral value in the modern LDS church, and it wasn't in its first 100 years if you look into its true history that has never been corrected or repented of. We baby boomers must have enjoyed the church in its only window to date in which it supported traditional biblical values and rules for human sexual relations. That era is over. It is now quite suddenly a person's "right" to be sexually immoral in formerly unspeakable and incredibly prideful and insane ways, says the LDS Church, sealing its words with the act of making the above public statement to the world. </p><p></p><p>About church members being told they should learn "greater understanding" from this development. Understanding? Of what? Love? The vast majority of males in the world today can and do love each other without homosex. Understanding of sodomy and every other sex perversion? These things are not hard to understand; they can be defined in a few words (see above). The LDS church like many other churches today, has quite rapidly caved to the idolatrous prideful Godless spirit of the times. </p><p>Die-hard Mormons who know this is wrong will call this pronouncement complicated and make up every excuse for the church they can dream up. But it is not complicated and there is no good excuse. <br /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Who can honestly deny that this is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEmglpgNxfA" target="_blank">complete reversal</a>? Who can deny this is a huge, disgraceful sellout? Who can deny it is a betrayal of God's word? Who can deny that those members who have fought against the sexual revolution in the last two decades have been abandoned, even villainized? And where is the modern-day revelation to back up this statement by the church? Thoughtful members have been left gaping in surprise upon hearing this incomprehensible statement, not from their beloved and trusted leaders but on the news. This is actually cruel.<br /></p><p>What's next? Wholehearted support of adultery? Pedophilia? Incest? Pornography? Oh wait, that's already happened. The Mormon church's entire history is fraught with succumbing to outright committing of such sins, along with softening, recharacterizing,and covering them up. Open your eyes to the church's true colors, not from "anti-Mormon materials" but from the church's own materials. Learn some true history of the church and Joseph Smith's 30-40 secret "wives"---from the church's own shocking recent admissions (<a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/plural-marriage-in-kirtland-and-nauvoo?lang=eng" target="_blank">see footnote 24</a>). Watch the <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/video/2014-08-0007-overcoming-pornography-addiction-the-healing-power-of-jesus-christ?lang=eng&alang=eng" target="_blank">video on pornography</a> addiction the church produced, complete with soothing music and sans any reference to sin and repentance. Watch the smarmy videos on the mormon and gay section of the church's website (<a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/topics/gay/member-stories?lang=eng" target="_blank">same-sex attraction</a>). Zero mention of sin. Zero health warnings. Zero preaching of sexual purity. Zero calls to repent. Zero testimonials of people who have overcome homosexuality. (Our own books highly endorsed by experts were either quickly pulled or summarily rejected by Deseret Book, in spite of Sheri Dew's <a href="https://standardoflibertyblog.blogspot.com/2017/04/homosexuality-welcome-family-values-not.html" target="_blank">written assurance</a> to us that they would include books on the other side of this issue). On these church sites you will find affirmation only for this anti-Christ madness sweeping the world. </p><p>Please know that what is encouraged, supported, respected will increase. All things licentious are now coming in double time for the Mormons, most specifically for the Mormon children.<br /></p><p>Most recently, in<a href="https://apnews.com/article/Mormon-church-sexual-abuse-investigation-e0e39cf9aa4fbe0d8c1442033b894660" target="_blank"> Arizona, a child abuse case</a> where the Mormon father sexually molested his own daughter all her young life, has been found to have been known of and intentionally covered up by Mormon authorities on all levels all these many years. In other words, this criminal conduct was known of but not reported, exactly like what has <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44209971" target="_blank">unfolded in the Catholic church</a>. The perpetrator committed suicide in 2017. The family is <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/08/19/judge-limits-privilege-defense-paul-adams-sex-abuse-case-church-jesus-christ-latter-day-saints/7847578001/" target="_blank">suing the LDS church</a> for keeping the abuse quiet. There is a lot more to this story, but there seems to be no doubt that LDS leaders allowed the abuse to continue. This is called support of the pedophile. It certainly isn't support or validation of his victim or protection of other potential victims he came in contact with through the church organization. </p><p>By the way, depending on individual state laws, when a local LDS leader learns of child sex abuse under his jurisdiction, he is supposed to <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2022/08/04/seven-years-of-sex-abuse-how-mormon-officials-let-it-happen/" target="_blank">call the church hotline</a> which is actually the church's law firm, Kirton and McConkie, which tells the bishop to report it to police <i>or not to report it</i> to police, again, depending on the state law. <br /></p><p></p><p>And also, all members should all know the church has 100 billion dollars plus stashed away for, as a church spokesman said, "a rainy day." (<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/02/08/lds-church-kept-lid-its-b/" target="_blank">$100 billion "rainy day" fund</a>) We submit that <a href="https://www.fox13now.com/2018/09/24/lds-church-settles-sex-abuse-lawsuits" target="_blank">settling sexual abuse cases out of court</a>, like a sort of reverse form of blackmail (we'll give you this huge amount of money if you give up this case and never say anything about any of this ever ), is one of the rainy day ways they use it. Sad to say, there will be a lot of rain and the church may be needing those billions. Is this why they aren't afraid to gain public approval by promoting sexual immorality--because now they have a bottomless pit of money to cover for the inevitable messes it makes? For shame. </p><p>No matter how many excuses you can think up, this is not the church many faithful Mormons grew up in and raised their children in. If you doubt this we strongly encourage you to read this article published in 1974, the year after Steve and Janice, here at SoL, were married, which to this day appears on the LDS church's website. (<a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1974/07/i-have-a-question/why-does-the-church-oppose-homosexuality?lang=eng" target="_blank">Why Does the Church Oppose Homosexuality</a>, 1974). Like we said before, in those days it was one of the most conservative churches in the world that stood for family, faith, and freedom. We may not have known of the disturbing real history of the church and the deceit used to cover it up, but ignorance was bliss and the church was a good way to raise our families. Now, those who have paid attention and watched this "evolution" and discerned it correctly are disgusted and disappointed beyond words. These are such people who can no longer participate in such an organization. You may say these people have left the church, but the truth is the church has left them. Many of those who have realized the church's falseness have chosen to serve the Lord rather than men, men who have lied from the beginning and keep changing their church to protect its great wealth and fit in with the world. </p><p>We here at SoL believe God is perfect and unchanging. Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2013&version=ESV" target="_blank">Hebrews 13:8</a>), and the Bible is reliable and incredibly rich in goodness, truth, beauty, and reliability, contrary to how the LDS church makes it out to be. Turns out many of the scriptures and phrases we used to think were purely Mormon come straight out of the good old Bible, God's unchanging Word. </p>Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-66102692819188366342022-10-22T12:01:00.010-07:002022-11-10T09:19:01.328-08:00Straight Lives Matter<p> We have said this before and we need to say it again. It's not a question of neutrality. It's a question of which worldview will be embraced and which worldview will be disallowed. No man can serve two masters. Two opposing worldviews cannot peacefully co-exist. </p><p>Nobody made this truth up. It's unalterably recorded in the history of the world. </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiU3kaO2_AI" target="_blank">Some parents are mad</a> (see clip starting at 7:25 of the video), and rightly so, about all the graphic and explicit sexual LGBTETC books now available in their children's schools. But they have something wrong. They won't say what it is they don't like about the gay books. They just say: we don't want ANY sexual ideas in school. Oops. They are making a big mistake here because schools have always had models of human sexual behavior implicit in their materials. </p><p>For example, the Dick and Jane books, which we here at SoL learned to read from back in the day, </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcY77umXYOBic0rdqKUHKSdHSlyb4waARNEnV7Pa8YhDKT5X_3bMQLftLmQ4huDOe3pTRYyoicBJcrUipOcNwWs6Yld2jg9Zno6D_YZT1i7NEcK6nftKo3-IfzRJm7JWFH03EOfZfJiv6jmUUh2e7gpKy4PGRiSz2XfCjV-uQNmkJzs8X_kJDd0w9j/s782/dickandjane.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="514" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcY77umXYOBic0rdqKUHKSdHSlyb4waARNEnV7Pa8YhDKT5X_3bMQLftLmQ4huDOe3pTRYyoicBJcrUipOcNwWs6Yld2jg9Zno6D_YZT1i7NEcK6nftKo3-IfzRJm7JWFH03EOfZfJiv6jmUUh2e7gpKy4PGRiSz2XfCjV-uQNmkJzs8X_kJDd0w9j/w206-h314/dickandjane.jpg" width="206" /></a></div>set their literacy program against a backdrop of a traditional family: father, mother, and their children. That was a model for the two human sexes and human sexual behavior, no matter how subtle. An adult male and an adult female get married, make a home, and have children of the male or female sexes whom they take care of and love and model this reality to, generation after generation. That is the one good way of sexualizing children, as in yes, you have a sex: you are a girl or a boy, and marriage and family is the usual thing that is done with that fact. Maybe 95 percent or maybe all books ever written reflect this reality and standard at least in some implicit way. So these angry parents, if they really mean what they say, would have practically all books removed from their children's school, and their children would have no standard at all for human sexual behavior in their schools, not to mention very few books of any interest or value to speak of. However well-meaning, these parents haven't thought this issue through and are not brave enough to come out and say what is really wrong with these LGBTQ materials. <p></p><p></p><p>Again, it's not about neutrality, it's about which worldview will be preferred, embraced, emphasized, taught, implied, catechized, glorified, whatever word you like, and which worldview will be harmed, rejected, de-emphasized, ignored, vilified, demonized, whatever word you like. Which worldview is what matters, not wiping the slate blank and not transmitting any worldview at all. Of course there will always be a preferred worldview modeled and taught. The important point is which will it be and will it be the best for mankind. Of course we know from human history the right answers to these questions. God's standard of human sexual behavior, even when not perfectly applied, is the most effective and benevolent for humankind. <br /></p><p>The same thing happened with the gay marriage debate. Nobody would actually come out and say homosexuality is harmful, wrong, sinful, destructive, promiscuous, pornographic, causes chronic illness, spreads terrible disease, whatever. They only said faithful traditional marriage is valuable. Now, the whole institution of marriage, which was already wounded, is in a death spiral. For instance, apparently, now sodomy is for everyone! Yes, this is what many people under, say, about 35 years old actually think. You can't give a new definition to something without destroying the old definition. Normal marriage, sexual morality, proper intercourse, family, parenthood, childhood, are some of the old certainties that have been recently redefined and are in the process of being destroyed. <br /></p><p>Elementary schools, and even many Christian/conservative churches, have given in to the secular culture and consequently the sexual revolution. The church in general is moving left. Gay (read:sodomy) is great now, it's only the trans thing that has Christians flummoxed. Will they give in to the T too? If not, because of the worldview that is now culturally preeminent (read:winning) anti-Christian sentiment. will only increase, along with all this anti-male, anti-family, anti-western world, anti-America, anti-white, even anti-observable science sentiment. There is growing animosity against traditional values, objective truth and reality, real science, and even any norms at all. All these standards are falling like cards. What will be the next one to be attacked and demonized? <br /></p><p> We submit that straightness is the next thing to go. If childhood sexual innocence, human sexuality, family, male and female, motherhood and fatherhood, child and parent, are all being redefined/erased because their traditional meanings are so very repressive and oppressive and hurtful and destructive, then exclusively male-female sexual relationships must be done away with. And not just straightness; more specifically, it is monogamous straight relationships that will be touted as the worst kind. That is what must be completely demonized. But general straightness too, that is, exclusive sexual attraction to the opposite sex. You at least have to be fluid or bisexual. Maybe even incest/minor-attracted as well. Oh and don't forget nonbinary---choose your own adventure!<br /></p><p> Of course this is not a new idea. And all you sexual revolutionist, millennial-types need to know it is not new to you. Marxism has this uprooting of the traditional family and sexual morality idea at its core. And some very famous science fiction books come to mind. Well, they are called science fiction. Now they are proving to have been prophetic. In Ayn Rand's story, <i>Anthem, </i>coupling between men and women is forbidden, along with any individuality at all. The word <i>I</i> has been removed in favor of the collective <i>we</i>. In Aldous Huxley's <i>Brave New World</i>, having babies is done by those assigned and monogamous sex is forbidden, in favor of casual sexual promiscuity. In fact, drugs are required to heighten libido and promiscuity is required. No having sex with the same person more than once! The same sorts of perverse twists happen in Orwell's <i>1984</i>. <br /></p><p>What with abortion still being pushed in half the world, with child sex abuse being increasing downplayed (even by churches), child sex trafficking increasing, the child-adult sex movement moving right along, children being sexualized ever younger, and the normal sexual development being interfered with and sexual parts being amputated by the mainstream medical establishment, and any protest against such travesties being cancelled and protestors harmed, it is not hard to imagine that straight lives will in the near future be looked down upon, thought anything from stodgy and boring to outright evil. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPbe6gNc0TF40FudAfdVCv2tslojuoBGAxFpRB-fmUiS41cnE_ulVZ1aPscAb0_nnbf0bt7g6gb3oVqIsTH-BaXwkxTKCKQUlXklQWWEAaYKPS_sHS92lHWVnktS1zm64y8tI_3oley08HRY00ak-_142ybCoh8L2vS9lDMnBU0g-EO0hCZGDpWoVI/s130/abolition%20of%20man.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="130" data-original-width="130" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPbe6gNc0TF40FudAfdVCv2tslojuoBGAxFpRB-fmUiS41cnE_ulVZ1aPscAb0_nnbf0bt7g6gb3oVqIsTH-BaXwkxTKCKQUlXklQWWEAaYKPS_sHS92lHWVnktS1zm64y8tI_3oley08HRY00ak-_142ybCoh8L2vS9lDMnBU0g-EO0hCZGDpWoVI/s1600/abolition%20of%20man.jpg" width="130" /></a></div>What we are seeing is what C. S . Lewis called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Abolition-Man-C-S-Lewis/dp/0060652942" target="_blank">the abolition of man</a> in his slender volume of the same name. When you switch out traditional time-tested objective values for anything else, men will end up eating each other up in one sense or another. And he warned about this back in the 1950s. The book's premise begins by pointing out how a textbook in a local high school refused to call a waterfall beautiful; it stated that such an idea was subjective. In other words, there is no such thing as objective beauty. Lewis saw it coming. The upending of civilization was being advanced with trashing the idea of real beauty, and he knew it would extend into trashing truth, goodness, health, reality, real science, and every other right thing as well. <br /><p></p><p>Who will care? We think very few. Certainly not enough to make a difference. Most are either too brainwashed or too intimidated to do anything. It is easier to go along. God help us.<br /></p><p>If Christians (people who hold to the standards for human behavior in the Bible), whites (people who have paler skin than others), and generally people who value humanity and reality (those against abortion and against LGBTQ-ing kids, etc.) are being silenced and harmed, and the Godless hedonistic progressive revolutionist ideas against humanity and reality are increasingly being given preference in all institutions, you can bet the whole idea of monogamous heterosexuality, and exclusive heterosexuality itself, is high on the deconstruction list. It is already scoffed at and mocked and dismissed. It only follows that straightness will someday be outright demonized and banned. (Activists are at this moment <a href="https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/12/14/refusing-date-trans-people-transphobic" target="_blank">spreading the idea</a> that straight men who don't date transwomen --that is, men who don't date other men who are pretending to be women--- are transphobic bigots.) </p><p></p><p>Of course in the meantime all of this is very unhealthy for human beings and human civilized society ---practically, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. <br /></p><p>Wear your Straight Lives Matter t-shirts while you can!<br /></p><p><br /></p>Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-85736431867881809442022-07-28T09:09:00.001-07:002022-07-28T09:21:51.381-07:00Mormon/Christian LGBTETC?<p>We came across an excellent podcast we wanted to link you to. Too bad it's so late in coming. Too bad the Mormon church is in the process of caving to the LGBTETC pressure, along with the Southern Baptist Convention, and many others. They have long since ceased, if they ever did, to make the crucial distinction between a <i>proud, self-identifying, openly unrepentant </i>same-sex sexually attracted/porn addicted/gender dysphoric Mormon/Christian, etc. and a<i> resisting, repentant, humble, help-seeking to overcome it </i>such person. They will be sorry. There are essentially no brakes being applied to this movement, not from within, not from government, not from schools, not from businesses, not from churches, and not even in families anymore. It is a Godless, anti-Christ movement that will only lead to more and more destruction. </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/U1EqktS2fN8" target="_blank">Click here to watch "The Truth About Gay Christians."</a><br /></p>Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-48570945101789394422022-07-18T12:11:00.001-07:002022-07-28T08:57:54.485-07:00The Lure of the LGBTETC Life<p>Finally, after more than 20 years of trying to learn about and bring some light to this topic, many more people with many more talents and resources than we have are doing it! Hallelujah! This is why we don't post as much anymore or start our own YouTube channel. Most of what we are seeing and hearing on our side is gratifying and an answer to our prayers. They are rightly finally calling the LGBTETC phenomenon <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/13/nyt-columnist-admits-schools-are-grooming-children-into-lgbt-identities/" target="_blank">grooming</a>. That means it's the environment, the culture, the propaganda that is luring mostly young people in unprecedented numbers into gay experimentation and ideology. Other words to describe the grab for young people by the LGBTETC and their operators are seducing, luring, tempting, corrupting, initiating. And yes, grabbing, that's a good one. It now occurs everywhere, all over the internet and in all other media, in government policies and programs, in schools, in businesses, even in churches and families and, of course, in person. Turns out the movement was always after the kids. As Tammy Bruce, a prominent journalist and self-identified and not proud lesbian, said back in 2003 in her <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Death-Right-Wrong-Exposing-Assault/dp/1400052947" target="_blank">book</a> <i>The Death of Right and Wrong</i>, " I believe this grab for children by the sexually confused adults of the gay elite represents the most serious problem facing our culture today." </p><p>We agree with Tammy, although the word <i>confused</i> rings euphemistic at this stage of the game. While in our activism days we fought the gay clubs in high schools, now there are <a href="https://www.alamy.com/drag-queen-story-hour-a-national-organization-runs-programs-intended-to-instill-a-love-of-reading-in-young-kids-and-also-seeks-to-spread-messages-about-self-love-acceptance-of-others-and-appreciation-of-diversity-parents-children-listen-to-a-story-at-the-crown-heights-image259779320.html" target="_blank">nationally organized</a> drag queen story hours in public libraries, rainbow-clad parades in our cities' public streets, and <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/drag-queen-shows-for-minors-common" target="_blank">drag shows in gay bars</a>, all aimed at the smallest children. True, there are many, many pawns in this movement, but the movers and shakers at the very apex of it know exactly what they are doing. They are thumbing their noses at God, making a lot of money, wielding a lot of power, and corrupting the young. The thing is, they will throw the whole LGBT "community" under the bus (literally) when their power is absolute. All this hateful faction-making is just being used to divide and weaken us as a people. <br /></p><p></p><p>The born-that-way and who-would-want-to-be-gay and it's-just-who-I-am and if-you-don't-accept-us-you-are-making-us-suicidal arguments have never held up and have all but disappeared. Just as the legalization of abortion was sold as a "right" and promised to be "safe and rare," the gay movement was sold as: there aren't that many, love is love (which is a meaningless circular argument), it's a rights issue, it's nobody else's business, it's who we are, there are all sorts of families. Turns out none of that proved to be sincere or true, on the abortion issue or the gay issue. Turns out both issues have not been able to hide their true colors any longer. We can see clearly that this, along with the abortion craze, wasn't about someone's constitutional rights at all, but about
anger, rebellion, nihilism, licentiousness, no rules, do whatever, let's take
over the world. It is naive, and dangerous for us all.<br /></p><p>The LGBTETC craze has exploded, most recently in the form of the in-your-face transgender movement, the T in LGBT. Homosexualist ideologies, along with LGBTETC individuals, groomers, and predators are everywhere, at work, in schools, in high government positions, in entertainment, in the military, even in churches and starring in conservative media. People get punished for their traditional values. Parents get disowned by their grown children for being "toxic homophobes."Teachers <a href="http://unamsanctamcatholicam.blogspot.com/2007/10/law-says-mom-and-dad-offensive-to-gays.html" target="_blank">can't say</a> the words mother and father. There are a hundred or more "genders." Leaders, medical professionals, and politicians refuse to define what a woman is at the same time women are celebrating destroying their unborn. The licentious are celebrating their licentiousness. Sex and sexuality are fluid, from moment to moment. And it's the very opposite of private. It's on the offense and it has come after everybody's children. Knowledge of one's own unrepented-of guilt, virtue-signaling, and attention-seeking are hugely seductive parts of it. Even parents are preempting the coming Godless dystopia, already willingly sacrificing their children on this destructive altar. </p><p>Let's not pretend, people. The LGBTETC lure is hugely seductive in today's environment, especially for susceptible, sponge-like young minds. Even Disney is proactively going after kids. And churches and families are going along. Churches do not teach law, sin, repentance, chastity or fidelity with regard to gay congregants. Parents are no longer teaching their kids about chastity or traditional values, especially when it comes to gayness. The pressure is too great. So kids are growing up thinking all things LGBTETC are cool. On a personal level it's a way to be noticed, a way, (like abortion) to avoid responsibility, a way to rebel, a way to push against peer abuse, and a way to deny or avoid the discomforts of adolescence and relations with the opposite sex, even a way to repress painful realities such as sexual abuse. It's a way to dismiss law, sin, goodness, God and Creation. Face it, it's just another way to be crazy and/or bad. And ask them; they will tell you it's pleasurable. But what they don't know or won't admit is, sin is only fun for a while. Then you go back to being miserable. Already, young people who were so easily caught up in the LGBTETC lure are detransitioning, many having done permanent damage to their bodies. </p><p>We here at SOL finally see a healthy backlash. But it's at least 20 years too late. At least two generations have been lured, conditioned, seduced, groomed, either into this licentious mindset and behavior or into supporting it. And the much, much older people who know better are going along. Shame on them. <br /></p>Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-78272865765413544532022-05-19T09:49:00.000-07:002022-05-19T09:49:07.398-07:00Live Not By Lies: A Real Love Adventure<div class="separator"><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Just got back from a three-week road trip in our little Tab trailer, the focal point being a visit to family in Tennessee. One night in Arkansas we watched a movie in our little trailer in the pouring rain, "Light of My Life." In the movie the father is telling his daughter how he and her mother (who died when she was a baby) liked to go on camping trips before she was born. But things would always go wrong. A flat tire, getting lost, bad weather, whatever. And the wife would say to the husband, "Isn’t this great? We’re having a love adventure." So that’s what we called our latest road trip. A love adventure. We had a few meltdowns (this is just so<i> inconvenient</i>!). We got lost a few times. We had to change our plans. We couldn’t find food. Once there were no showers and no electricity. It rained a whole lot. But we kept on loving God and loving each other. It’s all part of the love adventure.<br /><br />We know that many families, friendships, and other human relationships are struggling like never before. People don’t know where they stand with each other and where each other stands on lots of things. People have made boundaries, only because we are flawed humans and we want to protect ourselves from other flawed humans. We want to be ourselves with each other, but it’s not possible anymore because of the changes in the schools and churches and polarizing worldviews and damaged relationships. So oftentimes we are afraid and exhausted when we talk to or see each other, if we even do talk to or see each other. It is exhausting trying to avoid offending someone or avoid being offended. We have in essence lost our confidence to speak freely, some even in their own families. It is very tempting to give up on any meaningful relationships and just barely show up and be nice. <br /><br />Nevertheless, we are all having a love adventure. All of this bad stuff is going to keep happening. But we can work on loving God and each other despite the getting stressed out and angry and annoyed and hurt and offended and inconvenienced. Despite everything.<br /><br />We read a book aloud on our road trip which we think everyone could find something good in. I, Janice, the read-alouder, underlined and made notes on every single page. It is called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Live-Not-Lies-Christian-Dissidents/dp/0593087399/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=Cj0KCQjw1ZeUBhDyARIsAOzAqQIUtJjrbmiCOWzE9VA6IJ-R4KOcdhwsBqL5wk6Kw01kGE49-HIinaMaAngtEALw_wcB&hvadid=463383948127&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9029721&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=13498339315199521719&hvtargid=kwd-966522573260&hydadcr=22561_10346245&keywords=live+not+by+lies+book&qid=1652977224&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><i>Live Not By Lies</i>,</a><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Live-Not-Lies-Christian-Dissidents/dp/0593087399/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=Cj0KCQjw1ZeUBhDyARIsAOzAqQIUtJjrbmiCOWzE9VA6IJ-R4KOcdhwsBqL5wk6Kw01kGE49-HIinaMaAngtEALw_wcB&hvadid=463383948127&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9029721&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=13498339315199521719&hvtargid=kwd-966522573260&hydadcr=22561_10346245&keywords=live+not+by+lies+book&qid=1652977224&sr=8-1" target="_blank"> A Manual for Christian Dissidents</a>,</i> by Rod Dreher. It gave us hope. Even though we all may have different problems dealing with our families and churches and polarizing worldviews in today’s world that affect all aspects of our lives, there is a bigger danger we should be addressing. The loss of freedom. <br /><br /><br />The author describes and interviews several incredibly courageous people who resisted throughout the Soviet takeover of Poland and Czechoslovakia after the end of WW II. They all said that the family and other small groups of human relationships are a threat to communism and totalitarianism. So these governments always want those things questioned or controlled or damaged or destroyed. In order to resist this total takeover of one’s life, inside and out (which is what totalitarianism is), the people the author interviewed say one good idea is to form small groups of family and friends and acquaintances that meet often, as many as you can, small groups who have something in common.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizfSuH9wI3WEBtAYGZ_zy8kKugt-BkbktHvPzJin_qAoeSoJ6EquwhTwWg460KpEX67zBuSXYJFolyOnDkQGuBaFOb-t9XScX1BcgJftHT3xW7_rAqBqGVdclFXUyFn35Naz55qudZFD7EVD9aUS7PZEvzjYSGyHYqFIOAuOi7PlsQGgxPOmW2dH9p/s640/live%20not%20by%20lies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="424" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizfSuH9wI3WEBtAYGZ_zy8kKugt-BkbktHvPzJin_qAoeSoJ6EquwhTwWg460KpEX67zBuSXYJFolyOnDkQGuBaFOb-t9XScX1BcgJftHT3xW7_rAqBqGVdclFXUyFn35Naz55qudZFD7EVD9aUS7PZEvzjYSGyHYqFIOAuOi7PlsQGgxPOmW2dH9p/w133-h200/live%20not%20by%20lies.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><p></p></div><p>It can be practically anything. Off the top of my head, book groups, pickleball, choirs, plays, dinners, movies, games, workouts, orchestras, hiking, sports teams, knitting, photography, bird watching, food truck picnics, anything concrete to build interested small group gatherings on---that have no hierarchy telling you what to do and getting gain from it. This independence and freedom to form and meet in groups of our choice
is training us to resist powers that wish to control every single aspect
of our lives, especially our minds.</p><p>We know people are doing a lot of this already (sorry if your groups weren't mentioned above!). But we also know that the last few years have caused a lot of isolation and loneliness. People just aren't talking like before. Well, it's time to take back the freedom mentality! And from this book we learned that meeting together in person for whatever worthwhile activity is much more important and deeply valuable than we might have thought. <br /><br />On this same road trip we took a side trip to Alabama and met some YouTube video people called the <a href="https://www.rvoddcouple.com/" target="_blank">RV Odd Couple</a>. This couple recently bought hundreds of acres for a new special RV park
(patriotic, conservative, Christian) and we wanted to see it in person.
They were so nice and the place should be a state park it’s so gorgeous. We joined up. We met people. Another small group with something in common!</p><p>Totalitarianism happened in eastern Europe in our lifetime and the people who resisted it had to be strong to hang on to their sanity and their convictions and their freedom, if only in their minds. They hoped it would end soon but meanwhile they had to use their imaginations, even to go underground, but they did it. And those who didn’t lose their lives or minds came out free on the other side when the Iron Curtain fell in 1989. <br /><br />This same thing can happen here. We have all seen it happening already, although in more soft, disguised, insidious, and sophisticated ways. We like the many positive ideas this books shares about confronting this problem and wanted to share one of them with you. But we highly recommend you get a hold of the book for yourself and your family and friends. It's a huge eye-opener (we never learned about any of this in school!) and contains many highly encouraging, faith-promoting suggestions and Christian coping tools. We will be reading this book again and again. <br /><br />Keep up the good work! In spite of everything, it’s a love adventure!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3elZe6LiomhiPcCNck5lTMr1eel-NxiRgqLYJUb_yUpRaMy7gILWxRQiwXQFSDvezt6Wl6SASGpg0d3inGGPhHeXLIHSE4wEJXrPfiKTIKCgqVBQmwihsrrcvX8ym4gOOQ1bfQbQXgMRVyqT_M8tmLpzf8eJmgvL7JxNUWdJi3ylJ8n9V2BtaE0Gm/s907/rv%20odd%20squad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="907" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3elZe6LiomhiPcCNck5lTMr1eel-NxiRgqLYJUb_yUpRaMy7gILWxRQiwXQFSDvezt6Wl6SASGpg0d3inGGPhHeXLIHSE4wEJXrPfiKTIKCgqVBQmwihsrrcvX8ym4gOOQ1bfQbQXgMRVyqT_M8tmLpzf8eJmgvL7JxNUWdJi3ylJ8n9V2BtaE0Gm/s320/rv%20odd%20squad.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><p></p>Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-26656025688107016482022-04-10T08:08:00.005-07:002022-04-22T08:00:09.425-07:00If You're Pro-Gay You're a Groomer<p>Open letter to a former friend, </p><p></p><p>We call you a former friend because we used to feel an affinity with you by way of our shared beliefs and values. We wish you all the best, but are sad that we no longer share those important values with you. You quite recently developed a blind spot that has compromised that affinity and that friendship. <br /></p><p>You were against "gay marriage" until your son decided he was gay. You say you're a Bible-believing Christian but the Bible condemns homosexual behavior in no uncertain terms.You say there are good gays; you say it's about who they love. But gay marriage is not mating; it is a euphemism for sodomy which is a hurtful and harming act, the opposite of love. You say there are bad gays. But who is making any distinction between good and bad gays in any significant way? The fact is homosexuals commit child sexual abuse at a rate 36 times higher than heterosexuals. You say gay is fine for those good gays but grooming kids to be LGBTETC is child abuse. If gay can be good why is this grooming wrong? Ah but gay is never good. This is the blind spot that is your downfall that is contributing to the complete fall of human civilization. </p><p>Let's talk about language and how euphemisms change crucial understandings of important words and meanings. A euphemism is "a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing." Relatively speaking on the timeline of humanity, homosexuality was the most unspeakable of behaviors until five minutes ago. Then it came to be called gay in a purposeful and systematic program of conditioning. Gay behavior, which is a euphemism for sodomy, which the euphemism "gay marriage" legitimized this behavior for people of all "sexual orientations" (another euphemism--a way to make any sexual lust or behavior sound fine). </p><p>Our beloved church, just like so many beloved friends and family members, has embraced homosexuality and in doing so has become a form of groomer for the rising generation, for minors, for children. A proof of this is that statements about gays or gayness include no warnings or chastity lessons or boundaries whatsoever, including ages involved. Where are the warnings of the unique and deadly diseases and drug abuse and child and domestic abuse that are not only common to the gay population but much more prevalent than in the heterosexual population? Where are the limits on promoting homosexuality of all kinds to children? Completely absent, as seen atn gay pride parades with children in tow, gay affirming books for children, and drag queen story hours in public libraries. Even the rainbow icon, a staple of children's art and imaginations, has been hijacked by the perversely oversexed LGBT crowd. This is propaganda. Another word for it is grooming. You're promoting behaviors as wholesome that are highly dangerous and destructive. Sex is a serious thing; if it isn't used properly someone gets hurt. So why did you soften, why are you doing this? Because for whatever selfish reason you gave in to the wickedness of the times. <br /></p><p>Even if individuals or groups do or say nothing against the gay movement, they are groomers because all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing as Edmund Burke said. Acquiescence is quiet assent. What is allowed/encouraged will increase. We could go on and on. But our beloved church and so many beloved friends and family members do more than quietly ascent. Here is quote from our church's last general conference, women's session. "We, as Latter-day Saints, are pleased to be part of a coalition of faith, business, LGBTQ people and community leaders who have worked together in a spirit of trust and mutual respect." Wow. They are no longer quiet about it. As such they have become groomers. They are announcing to the rising generation that gay is great. You don't think that will influence vulnerable young people, parents and children, people of all ages, to wonder and experiment and seek out gay-affirming material? First we endure, then pity, then embrace, said Alexander Pope.</p><p></p><p>Of course the "gay community" (another euphemism for a group of proud rebels against God and biology) is still mad at the LDS church because the church, while following the world in accepting and sympathizing with the "gay identity," (another euphemism---for out-of-bounds sexual lust), quite weakly resists accepting an open display of the inherent behaviors. Gays have church callings and trannies crossdress freely in Mormon wards and stakes. The LDS church, no matter how angry the LDS gay crowd still is for past
offenses, has entered the embrace stage, at least outwardly and
policy-wise. We suggest the angry, self-righteous pro-gay Mormons or ex-Mormons have a
little more patience. The LDS church is bowing under the pressure,
gladly, it appears. At least they say they are "pleased" about their
"coalition," offering up flattery, pandering, and turning a blind eye to behaviors. <br /></p><p>There is a lot of uproar and righteous indignation against the Disney corporation recently plainly exposed as grooming children toward all things LGBTETC. Child sexual abuse, the public cries! As if that wasn't already happening everywhere. Euphemisms that allow for this particular type of child sexual abuse <i>are</i> everywhere, including in our churches. They include: fairness, equality, inclusivity, diversity, unity, love, authenticism, your truth, your identity, and on and on. Notice that they are the very same euphemisms used to get homosexuality accepted and mainstreamed and whitewashed. And again, no one is making any significant or widespread distinction between "good gays" and "bad gays." The LDS church says their gays don't act out. Really? And from you, who used to be our friend and think like us, we hear that good gays were the ones for gay marriage but these bad gays/perverts are the ones coming after kids. Really? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Bruce" target="_blank">Tammy Bruce</a>, a prominent self-identified lesbian who nevertheless admits she is messed up, wrote that the nefarious gay movement was coming after kids decades ago. (<i>The New Thought Police</i>, 2001, <i>The Death of Right and Wrong,</i> 2003)<br /></p><p></p><p>The shock and dismay that <a href="https://youtu.be/1GPbK-3sylc" target="_blank">grooming</a> of <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/05/disneys-obsession-with-grooming-children-is-nothing-new-but-their-openness-about-it-is/" target="_blank">children</a> into "alternate sexual and gender identities"is going on by <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-protesters-gather-in-front-of-disney-hq-to-protest-grooming-and-pedophilia" target="_blank">Disney</a>, is proof that many people know that all things LGBTETC are taught. Yes, it shows that people do believe children are not born that way. Of course. It also shows that people know that there is something terribly wrong with it. Heterosexual sex education in schools never had this kind of backlash. It's disturbing though that this argument, lately stirred up by Florida's new law banning LGBTETC grooming of K-3 school children, doesn't extend to older children. Have you ever looked at, say, ninth graders? Many of them are nowhere near physically mature, not to mention the immaturity and susceptibility and vulnerability of their minds. Why only K-3? This is all very obvious stage one thinking. Too little, too late.<br /></p><p>We might say that the boundary against child sexual abuse is the last sexual boundary to be resisted, and the last to be dissolved. As it is, our world today has surrendered to homosex. With its fancy euphemisms and fight for radical "individual rights" ( another euphemism---for sexual sin, killing unborn babies, etc.), the Godless sexual revolution will get society to surrender this last boundary as well, no sweat. That's where all this has been heading, with its softening of punishments for child sex offenders, man-boy love, and the growing idea that consent should be the only requirement for sex in any circumstance. Here is a quote from a popular queer "Christian" preacher, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkNKW7Dj0l4" target="_blank">Brandan Robertson</a>: "For those who are in open or in polyamorous relationships, your relationships are holy, they are beautiful . . . they are welcomed and celebrated . . . seek to follow Jesus in all of our relationships . . . be honest and respectful and self-sacrificial and consensual and loving with your partners. When any of us live into these standards we can be sure we are on the path to wholeness and holiness . . . " <br /></p><p>Anybody can say a child consented. Children are sponges, easily enticed, manipulated, stimulated, influenced, bribed, and scared. We see this in the grooming of the young into sex trafficking. </p><p> But, by the way, don't forget, those caught in the LGBTETC trap and its sexual activists (including sympathetic churches) with be among the first to be tossed aside when anarchy has played itself out a and the powers that be take over. Such precious, deluded souls are merely pawns used by much more expansive and forward-looking despots to gain control. <br /></p><p>Former Friend, your son was groomed into homosexuality. Ask him. If he's honest he'll tell you by whom, whether it was peer abuse, child sexual abuse, internet chat rooms, internet porn, articles, books, movies, the pro-gay society we live in, the media in general, junior high, other boys, older predatory males, Disney, or all of the above and more. Don't you want to know?<br /></p><p>Other words for grooming are conditioning, indoctrinating, brainwashing, lying, abusing, recruiting, exploiting, controlling, manipulating. Those who have been groomed become groomers. Readers, are you conditioned? Have you gone soft on homosexuality? And are you now a groomer? <b>You are a groomer if some time over that last few decades you have become excusing or accepting or supporting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, etc., ideology, lifestyle, or behaviors on any level in any way, in your private communications or within your sphere of influence.</b> </p><p>If you preside over a church congregation and invite or allow the promotion of LGBGETC activists or materials in your meetings, you are a groomer. If you hold family gatherings welcoming openly gay or trans family members especially with minors present and provide no warnings or teachings against such behaviors, you are groomer. If you showcase and admire and chat up and excuse your favorite gays (the "good" kind) in your communications with others, you are a groomer. We could go on and on. And furthermore, if you think there is no harm in supporting anything LGBTETC only among adults and that these attitudes or policies do not trickle down from those adults to their children to influence the rising generation you are greatly mistaken and you are a groomer. Upset about K-3 indoctrination? Disney agenda? What a joke. You may not be directly grooming kids, but you have groomed leaders, teachers, and parents to groom kids. <br /></p><p>Even if LGBTETC people are only a few percent of the population, which they now are, and will never be more than that, our entire society and its policies and laws and religions and schools are so much in their control that everything is increasingly being run in their favor to the degradation and exploitation of everyone else. This is what happens to a culture that buys into this vice. It is ruined. <br /></p><p>It began with "let them get married" and now it's come to "let them groom children." Everyone should have seen it all coming and fought it at its roots. Now it has captured your heart, our friend, and the hearts of what used to be moral, decent people. It's a steamroller now and will never stop until it is stopped by even more malevolent powers, while in the meantime the natural innocence of the young is messed with and destroyed. <br /></p>Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-90301452749141218122021-12-19T08:19:00.003-08:002022-02-15T06:07:36.052-08:00God Can Change Your Heart---If You Want <p>The gospel of Jesus Christ is all about our hearts. Let us repeat that. The gospel of Jesus Christ is all about our hearts.</p><p>Now our hearts are prone to sin, to selfishness, to temptations, to wickedness. That's the human condition, the fallen, natural man. Here is the Good News. God can change that about us if we want him to.Yes, contrary to old Calvinist notions that seem to be so popular these days and pervading every Christian sect, <i>there is something required of us</i> if we wish God to change that proclivity to sin. What is required lies in our hearts. We have to truly and sincerely recognize and hate our sinfulness and give it up to God from the depths of our hearts. We have to want our heart wrenched away from sin and changed. It can be the greatest battle one fights out, all privately, within his own consciousness. <br /></p><p>If you miss this you miss the whole gospel of Jesus Christ. And you also give permission to sin and to love whatever sin you like to yourself and everyone else. You have made God over to suit that sin. You have made yourself a false god. <br /></p><p>It's like the man with the red lizard (representing a favorite sin) on his shoulder in C. S. Lewis's book, <i>The Great Divorce</i>. The angelic being says to the man that if he would like to go to where God is all he has to do is just say okay, take it off my shoulder, that's all he has to say and then the angel will take away the lizard, do the dirty work, destroy it forever. But the man has a terrible time saying that. He finds it extremely painful and difficult to tell the angel yes, take away the lizard. It is the most wrenchingly impossible-feeling thing for him to do. He has gotten used to the lizard on his shoulder running his life. He has grown dependent on it. He has been getting something he wants from it. It is his false idol, his god. He knows it would be good to let it go, but he doesn't really want to let the angel destroy it. He identifies with it. He worships it. He serves it. (We won't spoil what happened. <a href="https://www.cslewis.com/uk/books/paperback/the-great-divorce/9780060652951/" target="_blank">Read the book</a> if you want to know in the end what the man decided to do. )</p><p>God won't take away what we won't let him take away. He won't destroy our false gods unless we offer them to him. There is a sacrifice involved, not of blood, like in the Old Testament, but of the inmost heart. It's much harder than sacrificing an animal on an altar. But it's possible and it's real. </p><p>Many people today choose a certain sin, formerly and still Biblically clearly a sin, and decide God wills them to this temptation permanently. And if God wills it, it must be right. This is the case with homosexualism. They insist it is who they or other people are. They further insist that this condition can peacefully co-exist with the worship of God, the God of the Bible. They are simply wrong. </p><p>C. S. Lewis, who lived in a day not too long ago when homosexuality was considered unspeakably depraved, said that if a person has that proclivity he must resist it, even if it persists all his life. Times have changed. Today, homosexuality is accepted, encouraged, celebrated. We know that what is encouraged increases. It has increased and is increasing, expanding, growing more and more preposterous and absurd. The confusing of the two sexes is now all over the place---males are accepted as female athletes, women are accepted as males able to have babies, male sexual criminals saying they are women so they can be incarcerated with women, taxpayer funds being used for "sex transition" surgeries---all of the above for which we have radical feminism and gay marriage to thank. (Yes, radical feminism and homosexualism are all about confusing the two sexes, pretending they are interchangeable. Now suddenly proponents of radical feminism and homosexualism are miffed at the transgender movement, the T in LGBT, because without the distinction between the two sexes, all their claims and arguments melt away. If they are intellectually honest they will see transgenderism is just an in-your-face form of their own ideologies.) Sure, some form of this depravity has always been around. But the difference now is that while previously this out-of-bounds lust and conflation, was considered depraved, it is now considered decent. Evil is now called good. </p><p>As such, Christians bend over backwards trying to rationalize this sexual temptation. Yes, they say, we can worship God and homosexualism at the same time. It's just the way people are. It's how God made them. It's cruel to put them through such wrenching pain and difficulty, asking them to give it up, even to give it up to God. Really? <br /></p><p>Don't we all have something we have to give up to God continually? And those of us who have been truly born again, don't we continually do that? If it isn't one sin, it's another. Some sins we get rid of permanently, like the bank robber who pays his debt to society and never robs another bank, or the alcoholic who permanently quits drinking. Others sins, like irritableness or selfishness or lack of faith in Christ, these may keep popping up. The difference in the false and true Christian is that the false Christian identifies with his sin, he likes that red lizard on his shoulder, he doesn't go before God on his knees and open his hands and beg God to take that proclivity away. Not really. Not truly. Not to the end. No, people who come to the point where they publicly identify themselves as gay have not given God permission to destroy that lizard. If they had, they would never announce their sin to the world as who they are. Does a closet adulterer-at-heart announce to the world that is who he is? No. The truly repentant Christian resists his sins, he hates them, they are abhorrent to him. He continually falls on his knees and opens his hands and gives them up to Jesus. He does that as long as it takes, even if he is resisting and repenting of his heart-deep sinfulness on his deathbed. See the difference? It's a huge difference. It is all the difference between a true follower of Christ and a hypocrite and idolator. <br /></p><p>Lots of otherwise basically well-meaning people have developed this terrible, anti-Christ blind spot. They have been systematically brainwashed into homosexualism. They have bought into the LGBT identity thing, instead of admitting it's merely lust and bad behavior, like a pet red lizard which has been fashioned into a god above God. It's just another thing all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons have made an exception for and have actually put into the place of God, having stooped to love this thing more than they love God.</p><p>We know that no man can serve two masters because he will love the one and hate the other. It just isn't possible to hold on to your red lizard and worship God too. Which will you choose? It's up to you. And it all takes place in the deepest inner folds of your heart. </p><p>Merry Christmas and Lord bless. <br /></p><p></p><p> <br /></p>Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-56561012640066148732021-11-24T11:47:00.002-08:002021-12-19T07:10:44.354-08:00Now--- Who and What is Excluded?<p>We have said repeatedly, borrowing from the late <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Slouching-Towards-Gomorrah-Liberalism-American/dp/0060573112" target="_blank">Robert Bork</a>, in a highly polarized world as we have today, one worldview will be preferred and the other worldview will be harmed. Preferred also means emphasized, and has developed today to mean celebrated and even forced upon. Harmed also means de-emphasized, and has developed today to mean denounced and even punished. </p><p>Whichever worldview is chosen in any given era, the opposing worldview will be harmed, de-emphasized, denounced, and punished. No, it's not about being kind, nice, or inclusive or celebrating diversity. These are lies. In reality, two deeply opposing worldviews cannot peacefully co-exist. One will be celebrated, the other will be harmed. </p><p>In our lifetimes, the preferred worldview has flipped from preferring and encouraging lawful godly traditional biblical family moral values to preferring and encouraging unlawful Godless experimental secular anti-family unlimited-sexuality values. There is no doubt about this development. People, in their power, greed, ignorance, willingness to conform, pretense at enlightenment, desire to belong, bitterness, hatred of God, etc., can pretend this cultural shift is just about diversity and inclusion and kindness but it's not about those things at all, because half the world is being ignored, excluded, and hurt. There is zero diversity, inclusion, and kindness for people standing for God and traditional family values. Yes, granted, before, not long ago, it was the other half being ignored, excluded, and hurt. But which worldview has proven throughout human history to be more beneficial and benevolent toward mankind? God or idolatry? Fidelity or promiscuity? Purity or depravity? Honesty or deception? Sanctity of life or the despising of posterity? Freedom or tyranny? Personal responsibility or victimhood? Truth or lies? The answer is obvious we hope.</p><p>Even in most churches, which have historically been the bastions of traditional morality, we are seeing the shift toward the latter worldview described above embraced. This shift is exposed in a new documentary called "Enemies Within: The Church," which highlights the Southern Baptist Church, but mirrors what is happening in many or all of the other denominations as well, large and small. Apparently, even the previously strongest and most conservative, traditional family values churches and leaders have flipped. Apparently, with enough pressure and enough love of the world and money and power and popularity, the most trusted leaders can make deceptive step-by-step compromises until quite rapidly they have sold their souls on and for a dime. And then shun and villainize and fire and even disappear their brothers and sisters who don't go along. <br /></p><p>Here is a quote from this <a href="https://enemieswithinthechurch.com/" target="_blank">upcoming documentary</a>, coming in December 2021, a short version of which can be seen now on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOnaakLuJ90" target="_blank">YouTube</a>. The film shows a lot of church leaders and scholars full-on buying into the gay agenda, and why this is utterly wrong.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwnMkM8yOgeIHlfrBWXxFP5an1tTCCuZ0flC50c7syK0N0dwTCjCfNIX-DkmrMVvaUVd8Eb9o2lmUHfzpiZGcVWvVcmxzBekHg_oFoVIGZUojm31Nmr-HRxjPGQbncHFIon_wg1j3O7fE/s467/Screenshot+2021-11-24+at+09-54-06+Enemies+Within+The+Church+DVD.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="467" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwnMkM8yOgeIHlfrBWXxFP5an1tTCCuZ0flC50c7syK0N0dwTCjCfNIX-DkmrMVvaUVd8Eb9o2lmUHfzpiZGcVWvVcmxzBekHg_oFoVIGZUojm31Nmr-HRxjPGQbncHFIon_wg1j3O7fE/w207-h196/Screenshot+2021-11-24+at+09-54-06+Enemies+Within+The+Church+DVD.png" width="207" /></a></div>"The truth will come out eventually. People will realize that the gay movement lied and that people are not born gay, people can change. People are going to realize that the Bible is clear and the Bible is right and that it all made sense from the very beginning, that there are two types of bodies designed. There was male and female and that they were made for a certain design and a certain purpose. And so once people realize that truth, ultimately, all of these people who played all of these games to try to minimize it, or to try to camouflage it, or to try to accommodate, or to succumb to it, they all lied. They were all part of the big lie."<p></p><p>This big lie at the moment is having its way in every aspect of our society. The secular, Godless, unlimited sex worldview has won the day, while the biblical, God-fearing, sex-only-in-proper-marriage-relationships is being excluded and punished. That is where we find our culture in all its entities today. But this accomplished sexual revolution is by no means the only outcome of the secularization of our country and our world. Every non-benevolent force, every tyranny man can devise, is descending upon us. </p><p>As far as government, schools, churches, and even families, go today, to paraphrase C.S. Lewis, every human institution ends up doing the opposite of what it was originally intended to do. </p><p></p><p><i>O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men. </i>Psalms 107:8, a scripture we find throughout the Psalms.<br /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-62920149760771012802021-10-25T12:39:00.005-07:002022-02-15T06:31:55.420-08:00Trans is the New Gay<p>We haven't posted for a long while. There are several reasons for that. One is that many many more voices, although not in the mainstream culture or in churches as we hoped, have finally come out of the woodwork and are now saying at least some of what we have been saying for almost 20 years, people with much more influence and reach and resources. This is something we have been wishing and praying for, and we have felt a bit vindicated and relieved. There is much more truth and common sense and God and Jesus being spoken and shared these days than when we started <a href="http://standardofliberty.org/" target="">Standard of Libert</a><a href="http://standardofliberty.org/">y</a> in 2005. People are finally saying there are only two sexes and men and woman are different and the only objective standard for moral human behavior comes from God. There seemed to be no need to keep repeating what these other voices are saying much better and louder than we can. But there's another reason for this post. What we are hearing is too little, too late.</p><p>Once our society surrendered to homosexualism, all hell has rapidly broken loose and will continue to wreak havoc with little resistance. And even our friends, whom we so appreciate saying a lot of those good things listed above, have accepted homosexualism, at least to some degree or in some way. Hey, they say, my grandson is gay, my son, my daughter, my friends are gay, my co-workers, my fellow Christians, my fellow LDS. Who am I to judge? Well, Christ asks us to put the truth before even those. But people made their choice and that has made all the difference. That is why we are where we are today. <br /></p><p>In the last few decades our modern culture surrendered to homosexualism in all practical ways. The battle against gay marriage was fought weakly and wrongly, emphasizing lovely wonderful happy traditional marriage at the same time completely avoiding any warning against or any condemning of any other type of sexual behaviors, such as same sex, bisex, pan sex, polygamy, child sex abuse, etc. It was a terrible strategy. And it completely and utterly failed. </p><p>Regarding the cultural acceptance of homosexualism, the legalization of gay marriage cinched the deal. Even though the legalization of certain behaviors does not make them morally right or good, practically everybody is tolerant now of the gay identity and its behaviors, surrendering completely to homosexualism and same-sex sexual relationships, even in churches and elementary schools. They even fool themselves into thinking their gay children, relatives,friends, employees, and coworkers are behaving perfectly morally and are safe and fine, and that they can have a lot in common with them that negates this one discrepancy. The gay identity is now either ignored or tolerated all the way to accepted and celebrated, even to the point of punishing those who speak against it and or those who even support traditional family values. <br /></p><p>We are annoyed with people saying, well, if a man can say he's a woman, if people are insisting men can get pregnant, we've hit bottom! There's no sanity! It's over! Anything goes!<br /></p><p>We're tired of that because these are the same people who now for all intents and purposes peacefully co-exist with homosexual behaviors, who either pretend it's who people are (false), or pretend it isn't harmful (false), or pretend it doesn't affect them (false), or pretend there's nothing to be done about it (false). <br /></p><p>So homosexualism has won the day. Even in many of the most conservative, Christian arenas it is winked at. The lies are widely accepted as truth or at least totally accommodated. </p><p>What's interesting (and annoying to us) is that now these same people, who have given in to mainstreaming homosexualism, are all up in arms about the latest trend: transgenderism. And even some honest transgenders are up in arms about how far transgenderism has gone and how it harms women particularly. What a mess.<br /></p><p>As males pose blatantly outwardly as false females, stealing everything from <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rachel-levine-sworn-in-first-openly-transgender-four-star-admiral" target="_blank">government positions</a>, to sports victories, to bathrooms, to virtue from girls and women, to innocence from small children, suddenly the travesty is beyond the pale to anybody with half a brain. Why? Not because it's basically different from homosexualism. It's actually the same sort of thing. In gay relationships one of the couple have to pretend to be the opposite sex. Get it? Whether they trade off or not, they are participating in fake sex, or an imitation of the real thing. They can't do the real thing. Now, take transgenderism. It's just another way of faking sex, this time as a public identity and more, oftentimes with all the superficial trappings. The hair, the clothes, the make-up, even the hormones and surgical manipulation of body parts. But it's all pretend. <br /></p><p>Gayness has merely gone from something we could sort of ignore and tolerate, that is the gay thing where people still appeared sort of normal, as male and female, even though they were gay, to something we can't and don't want to ignore and tolerate, that is, people actually dressing up and insisting they are really the opposite sex, not just in the bedroom but in public and in public policies, jobs, sports, schools, everything. <br /></p><p>Women were already being harmed by men who chose other men for nonreproductive sexual partners. Women were already being harmed by being abandoned by their husbands who prefer to have perverse sex and then being lauded by the culture for being true to themselves. Now girlhood and womanhood are being mocked and embarrassed and harmed and degraded in more open ways, even though the world is doing its best to disguise it. And only now our friends say that's just going too far? Where have they been? Where did they think this would go? </p><p></p><p></p><p>Of course we can go back much farther. Radical feminiism, the acceptance of easy divorce, premarital sex, promiscuity, radial feminism, legalization of abortion, the degradation of motherhood and fatherhood, sex workers, the multi-billion dollar porn industry, perverse sex education in schools, the corruption of language, and on and on. But it is true that once the world accepted gayness, with people keeping the overt fake sexual behaviors mostly in the bedroom, male public bathrooms, bathhouses and the like, trans was just around the corner. Acceptance of outrageous cross dressing came along followed by increased rebellion and/or the more serious gender dysphoria that demands to be taken as health and sanity. </p><p>Remember the movie <i>Tootsie</i> with Dustin Hoffman going to such great lengths to pass himself off as a woman to get a job? We laughed. But in real life these days some men go to even greater lengths and actually can pull it off, for a time anyway. Sometimes voices and the size of hands and feet may still give it away. The funny thing is, while transgenders claim to truly be the opposite sex, they seem to always give the truth away themselves. Right up front and proudly. They don't really want to be a mere female or thought of as a mere female. They want to be a transwoman---a perverse man who pretends he is a woman and demands everyone believes he is too---and everyone has to know. That's their claim to fame. It can only be rebellion and/or mental illness.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGr0v-BstKN_lF-4YcGaNYxW5aZDRUzMv1TAzPvz6On8kavOkdQnelzlo0wHhUeFJXenfkd7wlzp7cOF8l60lWorVoJMz289T3SGpJg5i1CTSsEdGEiK_8J2p2yigaUjedOpADiO5G1F8/s2048/wild+elephant+cover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1492" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGr0v-BstKN_lF-4YcGaNYxW5aZDRUzMv1TAzPvz6On8kavOkdQnelzlo0wHhUeFJXenfkd7wlzp7cOF8l60lWorVoJMz289T3SGpJg5i1CTSsEdGEiK_8J2p2yigaUjedOpADiO5G1F8/w146-h200/wild+elephant+cover.jpg" width="146" /></a></div>We may wonder and sometimes really can't tell anymore which of the two sexes a certain person is. In a larger sense it doesn't matter. But there come times and places when it does matter a great deal. Think about how unkind that may be to others. They don't know what to call you, what pronouns to use, where to direct you. And people now live in fear of getting it wrong and being punished for it. As we wrote in our book, <i>Wild Elephant, the Gospel Truth about Today's Stampeding Sexuality, </i>every male and female has the responsibility to be the least bit courteous to others by presenting themselves as the sex, male or female, they are, most especially when they start growing up and into adulthood. It doesn't take much on your part for people to know immediately what sex you are. It's a most basic courtesy that has been abandoned. <br /><br /><p></p><p> Transgenderism is actually just a skin deep outward manifestation of all things sexually confused. It's o only the clothes, the make-up, the hair, the absolute nerve of it showing itself in public and demanding compliance, which it is now being given, that is different than mere gayness. Transgenders are actually just fancy gays and lesbians. The transwomen go for men, and the transmen go for women. That is homosexuality by another name. Transwomen (read: crossdressing gay men) are now even demanding that straight men date them or they are called hateful and transphobic. (And of course it can go every other direction too except the one healthy sexuality. It's the whole alphabet soup.)<br /></p><p>Now, with the normalization of transgenderism, sexual confusion is now in our faces in every public arena. We can see the nonsense with our eyes, Men obviously dressed as women pretending they really are women is just one example. It's affecting ordinary people's everyday lives, marriages, families, children, goals, interests, jobs, churches, government, medicine, military, education, and well-being. And decent people all the sudden don't like it. They say, we can't accept it; once we have accepted transgenderism, we'll accept anything.
We say, once you accepted the false interchangeability of men and women, as in radical feminism, homosexuality, gay "marriage," gay parenting, etc. you set yourself up to accept transgenderism, the public manifestation of gender bending gayness, and everything else. And don't deny it. Homosexuality is now accepted in every outward, practical way as normal and mainstream everywhere except maybe here at <a href="http://standardofliberty.org/" target="_blank">Standard of Liberty</a> and in a few other out-of-the-mainstream groups.</p><p>Even the Mormon church doesn't say anything negative about it anymore. Our current bishop refers to LDS lesbian marriage in terms of "the magic of their love," and says gay students are 150 % welcome in his institute classroom. In many ways it's not the same church we knew all our lives. For one thing, it no longer preaches and upholds traditional family values. We have found that those with outspoken strong biblical traditional values are no longer welcome at all. It certainly can't work both ways. <br /></p><p>So, friends, please don't get indignant over the transgenderism travesty and all its fallout at this late date; you don't have the right. You surrendered normal sexuality somewhere along the line a while ago. And who knows what's next? </p><p>But is it coming in the future or is it already happening?</p><p>A while ago we predicted that the ultimate human wickedness of our day (second to abortion) would be the acceptance of the spontaneous sexual abuse of anyone. Anyone who felt the urge could do anything to anyone sexually anywhere, any time. We thought of how a child or minor walking down the street could be sexually assaulted by a stranger, and anyone complaining about it, such as the victim or bystanders or the parents, would be the ones at fault--arrested, punished, fined, re-educated, have the child taken away, whatever. After all, the powers that be pronounce such preposterous nonsense as: we all need sex all the time, sexuality can never be denied, children need to be initiated--the sooner the better. What dreadful ideas. But is this scenoario coming true today?<br /></p><p>Recently a ninth grade girl was <a href="https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/michael-w-chapman/liberal-media-censor-alleged-bathroom-rape-teen-girl-boy-skirt" target="_blank">forcibly sodomized</a> in her posh Virginia high school's bathroom by a boy in a skirt. This was covered up and denied by school officials who continued to push a transgender bathroom policy. The boy was merely transferred to another school and sexually attacked another girl, this time in a classroom. Guess who got forcibly arrested and put in jail for ten days before the perp was even held accountable-----<i>the father of the first raped girl</i> who insisted on bringing it up at a school board meeting. Here's another incident. You've probably all heard the news lately about the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-raped-train-bystanders-nothing-police-say" target="_blank">woman who was raped</a> for 40 minutes on a train in Philadelphia while many bystanders did nothing to help. </p><p>A prediction that we hoped was preposterous at the time is now really happening. Sexual predators increasingly realize they can get away with practically anything. And they are and they will. Increasingly.<br /></p><p>It's not about gay or bi or trans-identifying people. It's about very bad and harmful behaviors---and those very bad and harmful behaviors not being called out, And then those bad behaviors even being preferred over proper and right and healthful behaviors. </p><p>The only thing to do is repent of all this destructive nonsense, all of it, and seek God's guidance as to what to do about it.<br /></p><p> </p>Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-70686136916806464472021-03-26T15:46:00.009-07:002021-04-07T07:18:19.298-07:00The Courage to Oppose Error at Its Roots<p><span style="font-size: small;">In the last 20 years or so, society has blatantly and unashamedly turned itself upside down. Where before, mainstream culture and mores reflected biblical traditional morality in all policies and laws, we now have mainstream culture and mores reflecting an opposite "new morality" in all policies and laws. We think we know one reason this has happened. It has happened because God-fearing, conservative people, of which there are many more than Godless, hedonistic people, refused to call out the bad and harmful ideas as bad and harmful, and instead sidestepped crucial issues by pretending to be in favor of something else, something perhaps thought a tiny bit less controversial. That was very naive. It's like aiming somewhere else and expecting to hit the target. It's like running away from an enemy bent on destroying you and expecting to survive. Well-meaning people got distracted, fighting merely for good instead of against evil. And lost every time. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Here are several of many examples, the following of which all have to do, interestingly, with the power of procreation. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Abortion. Instead of saying they are against the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/717d0e626d9547eaba4d279962433952" target="_blank">destroying unborn human beings</a> at any stage of development is not "pro-choice," the powers that be on our side, took up the banner of being "pro-life." This was a huge mistake. We should have taken the stance that sexual intercourse is where the choice is. Although of course we are for life, the pro-life argument ignores the crux of the problem: <i>personal responsibility for sexual behavior.</i>To this day, even with the huge efforts and strength of the pro-life movement now actually pointing out how human life begins at conception and how barbaric abortion is, personal responsibility for having sex is rarely, if ever, mentioned. And yet it's the underlying cause for the many, many millions of abortions. People decided to have sex and got pregnant. If they had been more thoughtful in making that first decision (whether or not they wanted to have sex knowing they may get pregnant and then would be responsible for that human being, which thought process is certainly possible for every healthy, normal human old enough to have consensual sex), there would be practically no abortion argument. (Cases of abortion because of rape resulting in pregnancy or abortion to save the mother are so very rare and really have nothing to do with arguments such as "my body, my choice" which have resulted in so many millions of unwanted babies being destroyed.)The fact is, when even minimally intelligent people decide to engage in the act that makes babies, they know it, and they know they are taking that risk. With sexual intercourse the choice has already been made: pregnancy, or the conceiving of a new human being, may well be the natural result of this act. This is 10th grade biology. Why have we never heard that argument? Why is that argument not the whole argument? Because society has been brainwashed into believing that isn't the issue, that people can't be held responsible for their sexual choices and behaviors. That is ridiculous. They can be held responsible, and it is the whole argument. Responsibility for individual sexual behavior is one crucial concept that makes people civilized.You do the act, you have to take responsibility for the results of the act, one of which may be pregnancy. We lost the battle because we didn't face the real issue, that people want to free themselves from the responsibilities of their sexual choices and behaviors. The opposition was so clever and so intimidating---focusing on the woman's "rights" and the fact that you can't see the baby developing---while completely distracting minds away from the ultimate problem: sexual irresponsibility, or the trumped up "right" to have sexual relations without having to live out the natural consequences. As a result, over <a href="https://www.texasrighttolife.com/more-than-61-million-babies-killed-in-47-years-of-legal-abortion/" target="_blank">60 million</a> unique human beings have not been allowed
to be born in the United States and experience life here on earth. Destroyed because of and by their own
irresponsible, hedonistic, Godless parents. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Pornography. The mainstreaming and availability of obscenity has exploded in the last 25 years or so. Where before, a person had to show ID to purchase pornographic material in person, now a young child can be exposed even accidentally through all kinds of media (even the books in public school libraries), including the internet available in homes and schools and libraries where every sort of porn can be accessed by the touch of a button or two. This "freedom" has been fought for in our culture and courts in the name of freedom of speech or expression (but really it's about money and controlling people by exploiting human weaknesses) with little or <a href="https://opc.org/new_horizons/NH04/03d_web_extra.html" target="_blank">no real concern for the destruction</a> it can and does bring upon human lives, on minors, adults, marriages, and families. Instead of coming out strongly against the existence of the multi-billion dollar porn industry itself, which is not good for anyone, those against it merely swatted at the scourge with a flyswatter. Let's put this control or limit or filter on it, they said. That was the extent of our societal opposition, which is no real opposition at all, just a management.Hardly ever did we hear the argument that porn is indecent and obscene, that it hurts people, that there is nothing good about it for human beings, that it engenders all sorts of societal ills, that the industry itself should be run out of town and obliterated. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Homosexuality. It is easy to see how the public gave in to this formerly unspeakable tendency and vice. It took some decades and a lot of planning and conditioning and brainwashing and shaming and name-calling and virtue signaling and calling upon Love, as in why can't people "love" (read:sex around with) anybody they want? Legally, they argument was that people should be able to do whatever they want in the privacy of their bedroom. Quite rapidly, because of "<a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/the-most-influential-essay-youve-never-heard-of.html" target="_blank">the overhauling of straight America</a>," society decided it would no longer reject this behavior, but rather celebrate it. The lame arguments of those who resisted were, well, lame. They went something like this: We aren't anti-gay; we're just pro-family. Lame. Same as the weak and ineffectual anti-gay marriage argument (see below). They completely neglected to point out the many intrinsic and unique <a href="http://www.healthhazardsofhomosexuality.info/" target="_blank">health hazards of this behavior</a>. They completely neglected to remind people that deadly HIV/AIDS was spread by this behavior. They completely ignored the sex addiction, drug use, violence, and predatory nature compounded by this behavior. They completely threw under the bus the many confused people experiencing unwanted homosexual tendencies, and those who chose to repent and heal. Now, many states have outlawed any treatment of minors for unwanted homosexuality. And it's going to get worse. They completely failed to see they would reap what they sowed, as in children being taught all manner of sexual licentiousness and sexual behaviors and gender identities in public schools. What is encouraged will increase. All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Failing to stop evil leads to more evil. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Gay Marriage. This one is so very obvious. Instead of saying, hey, sodomy is harmful, it's dangerous, we don't want to mainstream it or legitimize it because it's not good for individuals or society, they said, okay, homosexuality is fine, but we want to conserve the traditional meaning and purpose of marriage. We here at SoL even went to pro-traditional marriage rallies where they had gays speak which was very weird. Did we really need <i>their </i>stamp of approval? We guess the pro-traditional marriage people were rendered desperate to show that they weren't "homophobic!" Sorry, it didn't work, did it? The whole effort was branded bigoted from the start. The well-meaning protestors didn't realize that in the gay worldview there is no leeway allowed anybody. You have to be completely on board or you are a terrible person. Here's the point. Only a man and a woman can do the thing that makes babies. Government and society have a vested interest in that institution so children will be taken care of by their legal parents. Two same-sexed people can never do the thing that makes babies, therefore they should not be able to hijack the God-given marriage institution,which is really what their goal was. Marriage was not the goal. What has happened is that <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mitt-Romneys-Deception-Promotion-Massachusetts/dp/1461028078" target="_blank">the definition of marriage has been changed</a> so far from its meaning that its meaning is destroyed. In addition,with gay marriage, sodomy became legitimized even for opposite-sex couples; it's another type of sex straight people feel free to engage in. These results and others will continue to negatively impact our culture, as in how the words mother and father are being outlawed and children are being procured and raised by same-sex couples and perverse sexual behaviors and identities are being taught in schools. And people thought they could save marriage by ignoring the evil infiltrating our entire culture! It's an example of not being able to see the whole forest because you're looking only at one tree. The fight for traditional marriage was too little, too late.<br /></span></span></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gay
Rights. This phenomenon came along with conceding to the gay sexual
identity that was clinched by the legalization of sodomy and then gay marriage.
Gay people, as people, have the same rights as everybody. Gay rights, so-called, are really about freedoms too far, as in unlimited personal sexual "rights" and the demanding of the public celebration of them.This has turned into the taking away of the legitimate rights of others, such as religious freedom and what should be the rights of children to go to school without being taught sexual revolutionist ideologies. So-called gay rights and the punishments attendant to those who
supposedly don't respect them are full of emotion and pretense and
arrogance and obsession with hedonistic sex and sexuality. Bakers, photographers, wedding services, printers, churches,
adoption agencies, you name it, all have been beaten into submission,
punished, fined, even jailed in some places. Our side's last ditch effort at
an argument is religious freedom. We believe in God's word, they said,
and we have a constitutionally-protected
right to live out our consciences. Didn't work, did it? Isn't working, is it? That's because
the spirit of the times is preferring sexual freedom over everything
else and is pushing a "living constitution" that changes to fit the trends. Many
years ago, our friend, the late Richard Wilkins,<a href="http://standardofliberty.org/janice4.htm" target="_blank"> told us this would be so</a>, that sexual freedom would trump everything. and we let this happen
through all the steps leading up to "gay rights" such as the acceptance
of the practice of sodomy. </span><br /></span></span></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Transgenderism. This trend is really just another version of homosexuality. It's about a person pretending to be the opposite sex and behaving sexually in a way that is usually sterile, which is essentially what happens in gay coupling. Transgenderism is actually just more blatant, as the individual posing as the opposite sex actually presents themselves as the sex opposite to what they really are in whatever ways they can or want to, from clothes and hair and make-up, to puberty-blockers and hormone-induced characteristics such as beard growth and voice change, to surgical mutilation and contrivances to healthy body parts. The whole ideology is a blatant despising of biological human sexuality and human posterity. Some trans people themselves will admit that they are obsessed with themselves, with their sexuality and gender identity, to the exclusion of any concern for the hurt they are causing, their responsibilities, mental health, physical health, or posterity. And many who had been lured into this experimental concept in the last 10 years or so are now in the process of <a href="https://www.transgendertrend.com/detransition/" target="_blank">detransitioning</a>, to the horror of the LGBT activists and the ignoring of mainstream society. Our society is in the middle of bathroom/locker room travesties and transfemales/males in general being allowed to dominate and destroy girls' and women's sports, and minors being influenced to begin "transitioning" with or without parents' knowledge or consent, but there is even a lot more destructive fallout to come. The exploitation, abuse, and law suits will be off the charts.<br /></span></span></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We could go on and on. </span></span></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Lesson to be learned? Start now to have the courage to <a href="https://decisionmagazine.com/franklin-graham-hate-evil-love-righteousness/" target="_blank">stand against the evil thing</a>. Don't make deals with the devil. Don't worry about your "tone" or alienating people on our side. (If that's how they react to the truth, they aren't on our side!) Don't compromise on truth and reality. Don't make up strategies (that's for you, <a href="https://www.frc.org/updatearticle/20210325/noem-settle" target="_blank">Kristi Noem</a>!) and stances and talking points that benefit you/make you look a little nicer. Just stand directly against the error, come what may. Or else, as can be seen, you will surely lose the battle. You might lose it anyway, but who knows who you influenced for good? And the Lord knows whose side you're on. </span></span></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> As we heard Andrew Klavan say the other day, "You can lose a fight, but you can't win a surrender."<br /></span></span></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="_2LDBlAH0cF64rqMHa4viCd"><span aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Opens Profile Card for sgraham mstar.net" class="VHquDtYElxQkNvZKxCJct lpc-hoverTarget" data-is-focusable="true" data-lpc-hover-target-id="react-target-v2-46" role="button" tabindex="0"><div class="VHquDtYElxQkNvZKxCJct"><span></span></div></span></span></span></span></h1><div class="DWrY3hKxZTZNTwt3mx095">And from C.S.Lewis, The Abolition of Man,<br /></div><div><div class="rps_770a"><div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><div>"Wherever
any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its
credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the
wrong position."</div><div><br /><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h1>Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-60245380552361614662021-02-08T13:40:00.000-08:002021-02-08T13:40:07.001-08:00Detransitioners -- Living Not By Lies<p>If you look on YouTube you will find hours and hours of videos featuring very honest and quite sad souls telling their stories about their journeys into transgenderism and their consequent journeys out. They refer to their situation as MtFtM or FtMtF. These are people, still quite young, who now regret living for multiple years as the opposite sex (and perhaps all the fluidity leading up to it). As they explain how they got into transgenderism, such as for various reasons from childhood trauma to pornography to child and adolescent gender confusion to gender dysphoria to mental illness to radical feminism to brainwashing, or to a combination of some or more of the above, the more it becomes glaringly obvious that these important causes are completely ignored by the trans-affirming community, which now includes practically the whole world. Sad, isn't it, that practically nobody cares what life-shattering causes are behind transgenderism? <br /></p><p>You will hear these people speak about how in the beginning they were, not advised to get psychological help, but only encouraged to affirm their delusion by drastically changing their outward presentation of themselves, encouraged by activists, by friends, by professionals, by family, even sometimes by misguided or psychopathic parents. So-called transition to the opposite sex may include opposite sex clothing, hair styles, and make-up, taking opposite sex hormones, face and body hair growth and/or hair loss, voice training, breast removal or implants, and other surgeries to remove or contrive body parts or change facial contours. Some of these procedures are obviously irreversible, including infertility and voice changes. One FtM decided to detransition (FtMtF) when she began losing the hair on her head; her deep bass voice (also from testosterone) is now irreversible. Some detransitioners are faced sur<br />geries to remove the breasts that formed from estrogen or replace the breasts they had removed. Yes, it is dizzying. <br /></p><p>Heartfelt warnings are given on these videos. These include: Please stop and think before you do anything drastic. Children should not transition. Ask yourself, where did you get these ideas? What are the deeper problems? Don't oversexualize yourself or others. Don't compare yourself to others. Get psychological help first. Stay away from pornography. The transgender/LGBT community does not care about your true well being. Don't get brainwashed by the pro-LGBT culture. You most likely won't be any happier after transitioning. It doesn't solve your deeper problems. Your biological sex can't be changed. It's all a delusion. It's very dangerous. The high rate of suicidality of transgenders is not due to society. Find God. Love yourself as you are and how God made you. </p><p></p><p>We here at SoL feel vindicated---although it's been a long time coming and you won't hear any of these warnings hardly anywhere and we wonder how long even these videos will be allowed. Detransitioners report all sorts of denigration and criticism for their decision to detransition, nevertheless they bravely share they journey, with their regrets and hopes. Some say there are more destrans than trans people online now. <br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiknsDriKazo6yhw4ASkoD0rGP7NXZXKMdr1vl0G1OuYVgFJnz2HrtX8zpEadHRLk2P4FYGHjC9HiMxP_kzseH_At3KMWVSxZUIWGCAyGiPxzEmeS04WxcutC65Twgw9_upEo7JFqaByw/s640/live+not+by+lies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="424" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiknsDriKazo6yhw4ASkoD0rGP7NXZXKMdr1vl0G1OuYVgFJnz2HrtX8zpEadHRLk2P4FYGHjC9HiMxP_kzseH_At3KMWVSxZUIWGCAyGiPxzEmeS04WxcutC65Twgw9_upEo7JFqaByw/w172-h259/live+not+by+lies.jpg" width="172" /></a></div>It can now be seen that the transgender movement is located somewhere prominently on that very slippery slope we have talking about for 15 years. If we pretend that male and female are interchangeable, and homosexuality in all its forms is harmless and laudable, and if we continue to allow unlimited pornography and ignore all the other very real and important issues that hugely affect individuals, families, and society as a whole when it comes to sex and sexuality, there is no end to the potential damage. <p></p><p>We may not be able to do much about this societal train wreck and the permanent, generational damage it is doing. But one thing everyone can do is what Rod Dreher points out that Solzhenitsyn called "personal nonparticipation in lies." "Let us refuse to say what we do not think." Do not repeat lies. Do not by your silence appear to acquiesce. We suggest checking out Dreher's 2020 book, "<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=live+not+by+lies" target="_blank">Live Not By Lies</a>," which addresses how all sorts of lies are the majority of what we encounter today. <br /></p><p>Our hearts go out to homosexuals, ex-homosexuals, transgenders and detransitioners alike, and everyone else involved or touched by these crucial issues, which is everyone. God bless!<br /></p><p> </p><p> <br /></p>Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-79902372061562903962021-01-28T07:57:00.006-08:002021-01-29T07:27:41.916-08:00For Straight Couples: A Word to the Wise<p>In this post we are going to more specifically discuss one compelling reason many straight people (especially millennials but people of all ages too) are readily accepting the gay concept. No, it's not just that they believe people should be able to love (read: be intimate with) whomever they wish, which if you think about it for one minute proves to be a very bad idea. There is another even more compelling reason there is so much acceptance, even encouragement of gay relaions. And it's much worse than the toleration or acceptance of others' gay behaviors. </p><p> FYI, we are going to try to say the following as carefully as possible, just because some words are just not acceptable or are too offensive to people these days for various reasons. But this is such an important topic, at least public health-wise, that people cannot afford to be squeamish. Still we will try our best to word things in such a way as to not offend, even though people will still choose to be offended. But that's another topic.</p><p>One could go about this sensitive topic from a purely factual, scientific, biological, medical standpoint. Or a psychological standpoint. Or a biblical, God-based standpoint. Or a historical experiential standpoint. Or even a common sense standpoint. All come to the same conclusion. But in this upside-down world people are rejecting all of the above in favor of their own egocentric arbitrary "enlightenment" or "wokeness," which is actually the opposite. Yes, people think just because they are young now or living now, today, they are smarter than anything or anyone else, living or dead, without any evidence of or reason why other than they think they are smarter and more enlightened or evolved than others, which they are most certainly not. Human nature in general never has and never will change. But that is another topic also.</p><p>Yes, we are stalling. What we are going to try to say isn't fun. But here goes.</p><p>Male on male physically intimate relations can in the understood sense culminate in only one way: by utilizing a human being's body orifice that is regularly employed for elimination of body waste. (Of course there are names for this we are not using right now.) They use the word gay, but that is just a ruse. This is a popular practice among a growing number of males because of many reasons. One reason is that the people participating are damaged in various ways. Another is that no courting of the opposite sex is required. Another is because of the pleasurable sensations resulting from the friction and resistance this tight body part naturally supplies, and also the sensations that can be stimulated around this highly sensitized body part. Another reason is the stimulation provided by internet pornography and the readily accessible number of instant partners available through the internet. In other words, it lends itself to promiscuity, without the risk of procreation or expectations of a relationship. Another is human nature. And on and on. But of course in this scenario one male partner gets the better deal and the other male is more directly compromised in many ways including health-wise. <br /></p><p>Now that we have carefully navigated our way through that uncomfortable explanation, let's talk about male on female intimate relations relating to this practice. We'll just come right out and say it. One reason straight people today are suddenly so accepting of this male-on-male practice is because they are perfectly capable of doing it themselves and are increasingly doing it. That is, the male can do it to the female, but not the female to the male, which is an important point in this discussion we'll get to later. <br /></p><p>But why? Why, when there is a female body part that perfectly accommodates the corresponding male body part without any risk or harm to either, are male-female couples resorting to using that other body part? Possible answers: another sort of pleasure, variety, no need for consideration of the woman's more tender body part, no danger of pregnancy, thumbing one's nose at God, showing how free and enlightened one is, supporting the gay concept. More simply, obviously, since in the last half century our society has put its stamp
of approval on this behavior, even to the point that it is paraded in our streets and
taught to our children, there is no reason in millennials' minds not to try it. </p><p>This makes us rethink that scripture in Romans 1 that we always thought was about woman-on-woman intimate relations, the L in LGBT. Maybe it's not about L but about women allowing men to do the above to themselves as one man does to another. The scripture says,"for even their women did change the natural use [that body part made for elimination of body waste] into that which is against nature." Could be. It makes sense. The women were allowing men to do this to them, to use their bodies in this way. This is one reason AIDS is such a huge problem in Africa. There the practice we are discussing is not particular to male on male, which is fast becoming the case elsewhere, as we are pointing out here.<br /></p><p> Let's talk a little about this practice of utilizing for pleasure that tender human orifice made for elimination of body waste (without which function we would soon die), that is, utilizing this body part for that which is against nature and the ramifications of this practice. (By the way, apparently there are all sorts of ways this body part can be stimulated and stretched in unnatural ways for sadistic physical gratification but we won't get into that here, although it's a slippery slope.)<br /></p><p>We refer to the very big book, now being banned, called <i>The Health Hazards of Homosexuality</i>. There are not only very gross chronic health problems directly related to this practice, but very very high risk of fatal diseases, even between faithful partners. In other words, it's against nature, or the way our bodies work, to use said orifice for purposes of physical gratification. It hurts us. It corrupts us physically. Unspeakable ailments and hideous diseases result, particular to this behavior. </p><p>Now a word to wise straight women faithful to their husband/boyfriend who participate in this practice or are tempted to or are being talking into it by their husband or boyfriend. These chronic and potentially fatal health risks do not apply to your male partner. No, they are risking nothing in practicing this behavior on you. It is your body that tears and bleeds, not his. It is your health that is in great danger, not his. Only yours. Think about it. Is that right or fair? Or in any way loving or caring? Answer: no. Absolutely not.<br /></p><p>Women, please note. It usually requires some patience and humility and consideration for the man to wait for the woman to prepare for proper, natural, harmless intercourse. And his rewards for this patience can be very great, in the form of more fulfilling and shared pleasure and true intimacy, trust and love and tenderness. No so with the practice we are discussing. People participating in this practice need have no, shall we say, warming up stage. They don't have to wait for their partner's body to prepare itself. Can you see that this is the same as it is when men force themselves on women or other men in what is still considered a criminal way? Of course here we are talking about consensual relations. But women, ask yourselves, why in the world are you consenting to such disrespectful, unnatural, invasive, irresponsible, and dangerous treatment? It amounts to a terrible form of abuse to your body, even if you find it in some way pleasurable. Lots of pleasurable things are risky and unnatural and harmful. </p><p>But do not despair. If you and your spouse have been lured or tempted into participating in this practice, it is understandable in this highly permissive, eroticized culture of today. This practice is encouraged and celebrated in our world today, even in the most explicit ways in articles and books and workshops, to name a few places, aimed at minors no less. But you can forsake it and repent. This is why we have a Savior. Wives, it may be up to you to tactfully explain these things to your husband so he'll understand. </p><p>Most likely, for those of you participating in this behavior, if you are reading this, it is a mere sin of the flesh. As C.S Lewis said, those sins of the flesh are mere flea bites in comparison to the sin of pride, or defiance against God. Do you think yourself smarter than nature/God? Are you defying nature and God? That's where you really need to examine yourself. </p><p>The practice we are discussing is hugely on the rise not only between people of the same sex but between opposite sex couples. The word is everybody does it, gay or straight or everyone in between or beyond. So straight couples, ask yourself this: Why, when you have all the body parts between you two required for safe, proper, and pleasurable intimate relations, are you participating in the only thing gays can do that imitates it, which behavior is very dangerous and disrespectful to your bodies and your souls? <br /></p><p>Women, your body is not only a highly intricate organism designed to function in its own best interest, it is a temple housing a precious immortal soul. Men, a woman's body and your own, deserve to be treated with the greatest respect, including through proper intimacy. </p><p>We submit that one reason straight couples have become so accepting of the gay concept, their gay friends' behaviors, and gay marriage is that they are participating in that same behavior themselves and this is one way to avoid feeling guilty about it. Because they do feel guilty deep down. They choose to ignore that feeling and in so doing are at risk of becoming past feeling anything good and true. <br /></p><p>Dear ones everywhere, "gay" or "straight," we beseech you to think this through. <br /></p><p><br /></p>Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-29885105294167938822021-01-03T15:37:00.002-08:002021-01-03T15:44:46.611-08:00A Prayer to Feel God's Love<p>A friend once told us to pray about what is true, and do it all through the day. Our gift to you is this sample prayer written by Janice. Our friend said to read your prayer twice daily. Another idea of his was to set your watch or phone to bling at you every hour throughout the day to remind you to say a short prayer along these same lines. If you are feeling down or stressed, try it for three weeks and see what miracles occur. (Thank you James Cox!)<br /></p><p></p><p>Dear God,<br /><br />I am a valued, beautiful, spiritual, perfectly loved child of Thine. My past, my actions, my sins, my age, my looks, my words, my thoughts, my circumstances, and how others think about or treat me have nothing to do with thy great unchanging love for me. As I choose to acknowledge my noble true identity as a beloved child of God I know I will feel more tender love, awe, respect, and true charity for myself and all others. Because of Thy great Love Thy Son Jesus Christ gave his life to save me from my many human sins, or else I would not have a way to Heaven, where all is goodness, truth, and beauty. This is proof, along with all Thy glorious Creation, of Thy wondrous Love for me and all of Thy children. I choose to embrace Thy enduring Love, the grace of Christ, and the guidance of the Spirit of the Lord as the sole source of my feelings of high self-worth and motivation for continual learning, improvement, and spiritual growth. Help me live every day in the warm, calm light of Thy Divine Love, come what may, and do all things out of gratitude and love for Thee.<br /><br />Short version: I am a beloved child of God. Father, help me to feel it.<br /> </p><p>Happy New Year to everyone from Standard of Liberty <br /></p>Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-77988567145433970452020-07-13T08:44:00.000-07:002020-08-02T09:06:57.369-07:00In a Time of Universal Deceit<br />
Evil is on the rampage. It is gradual and insidious and disguised, which is the worst kind of evil because you don’t notice it and you don’t realize it’s happening and you don’t recognize it for what it is. A natural disaster is easier to handle and cope with than this kind of evil. <br />
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Some of you may be annoyed and tired of our outspoken beliefs, and may be questioning them. A lot of us are questioning a lot of things we have believed all our lives. Okay. But there is always right and wrong. There are such things as true principles. There is evil and there is good. It is a grave error to throw the baby out with the bathwater. You have got to know the baby is a good thing.<br />
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We at SoL submit that the gay movement is a primary cause of much of the evil in the world today. Most people caught up in it are being cruelly enticed and exploited and deceived. For all sorts of reasons, it is at the center of the government malfeasance and misery and unrest and anarchy and ignorance going on right now. We remind everyone that in the 1980s Dr. Fauci was also in charge of how this country handled the AIDS epidemic, setting up a propaganda campaign that convinced people that not just homosexuals, but everyone of every age was at risk of contracting the horrible sexually-transmitted disease. Sound familiar today?<br />
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Truth is, once a society gives in to the travesty of "gay marriage" it is set up to give into anything. For one example, read the Black Lives Matter manifesto. You may be shocked to learn that the gay ideology runs clear through it. They are all about “disrupting the nuclear family structure" and "resisting heteronormativity." How miserable these people must be to want to spread their misery to everyone else. <br />
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There are two worldviews at war, although at this time the correct side is very weak. The gay movement, the wrong side, is Godless; atheism is at the root of all these new movements. It is the antithesis of the natural family and the way God made us. It is out to destroy its opposite. It aims to ruin every ordinary family one way or another. And it is tainting everyone and everything.<br />
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Some of you are probably rolling your eyes and saying you know all this. We hope so. But the fact is, good people are increasingly thinking and speaking and acting to accommodate and pacify the evil rather than being strong in their hearts and minds about what they know from experience and from their own eyes to be right and true. People are very intimidated and afraid and are letting their fear guide their thoughts and words and actions, even if they don’t realize it. We have heard lots of excuses for why right-thinking people don't speak up. It's totally understandable, but there is a price for silence. It's how people weaken and begin to go along. History tells this same story over and over. Still, there are some of us who think it is worth the risk of losing friends and positions and being shunned and censored and worse in order to live and speak according to the dictates of our consciences. We are sad when our friends cave in. We are sad to lose friends. As human beings we might be annoyed and frustrated and complain about it. Nevertheless, we choose to be sadder but wiser. <br />
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We hope our readers have seen how society has degraded itself far past merely celebrating the bad. It is now recharacterizing and attacking the good. The devil and his servants are twisting and resisting and even destroying everything valuable and right and healthy, such as history we can learn from and "heteronormativity." The devil wants people suspicious of real innocence and beauty and humor. He wants people turning those things into anything but innocent, to something from uncomfortable and inappropriate and dangerously liable to be misunderstood and exploited, or to something actually wicked and ugly and nefarious.<br />
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Heaven forbid, but there seems to be coming a day when normal sexual development, male-female romance, the nuclear family, and normal sexual relations will be touted as everything from boring to repressive to unenlightened to unhealthy to evilly tyrannical. Oh wait, that is already happening. The acceptance of gay sex, i.e sodomy, has led to the dangerous practice of sodomy among straight couples. And that's just one example. The damage of increasingly sexualizing children is unimaginable. Do good people really want to let that sort of thing continue and expand and take over our culture? All it takes is for good people to do nothing. <br />
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The devil has many thinking they must live their lives conforming to and maneuvering around the dirtiest pathological minds and the most entitled victim mentalities. He wants us thinking that never offending certain people (only the certain people the current trends favor) is the
highest good, that cowardliness is noble, and that reality is
destructive. He wants people to toss out absolute truths, rational thinking, and real justice. The devil loves a lawless, thoughtless, mob mentality. <br />
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The devil also wants everyone distracted by wanting to be popular and having friends and being well thought of. He wants everyone going along with an arbitrary and everchanging shallow, false virtue and arbirtrary morality, which only ends in chaos. He wants us afraid of certain thoughts and words. He wants us superfocused only on human relations, and yet he wants us hyper suspicious and critical of those we know best. He wants us to think we can be nicer (and healthier!) than God. <br />
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All good lies have something attractive and true and ostensibly good in them, such as to be kind, or use nice words, or life is all about finding your own truth and happiness and fulfillment. But shallow truisms leave out crucial facts, such as people may be hurting and deluding themselves and others, there is a time to use the strongest language available, there are important realities, and selflessness is greater than selfishness. It’s all a trick. It’s all an evil intangible trick to deceive our minds and poison our hearts and forfeit real happiness and essential freedoms.<br />
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Once in a while we may feel this corruption trying to creep into our hearts and minds. But we mustn't stop resisting as long as we are capable.We must search out and think and speak and hold on to real goodness and rightness especially in this time of universal deceit when, as George Orwell said, telling the truth is considered a revolutionary act. <br />
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By the way, here are some more revolutionary words. We are not believing any of the numbers being reported by the news on the corona virus "surge." Nor have we ever donned a mask throughout this-- what we always thought was--a bad seasonal flu. They lied before, why wouldn't they be lying now? It's all to get rid of Trump, who is being held responsible. Who would want to vote for four more years of this madness?<br />
<br />Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-14465031756460231402020-06-26T06:45:00.000-07:002020-07-13T08:21:42.290-07:00Is the Cry of Present American Racism Good, True, or Helpful?Here at our house we recently went through our books to give away some we didn't need or want. There was a big old coffee table book in the stack that sat there for months, since the thrift stores were closed and not taking donations. Yesterday we took it out of that give-away stack and put it back on the shelf. It is entitled, "The Civil War." We are keeping it because it is a record of actual horrific events that people are now completely ignoring. Therefore, it is all the more instructive and precious.<br />
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C.S. Lewis said, "Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time." Did slavery in America go uncorrected and unrepented? Are we reliving over and over the same old sins and errors? Well, no. According to the founding documents of our country and the sacrifice of more than 600,000 lives and the abolition of slavery, it did not. At great cost slavery was institutionally corrected and repented of in an extremely dramatic way, probably unparalleled in the history of the world. When people deny this correction and blood atonement so to speak, they deny historical facts and the efforts and sacrifices of many noble and brave people. <br />
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The error and sin of slavery was corrected and repented of. But there are some uncorrected errors and unrepented sins flourishing today and being added upon with more errors and sins. We submit that there exist uncorrected errors and unrepented sins alive and prospering in America today, which errors and sins are flooding streets and minds of many Americans and causing a lot more harm and potential danger than any respiratory virus ever did. <br />
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First we want to say we believe the current racial argument and unrest to be a construct of leftist politicians, media moguls and "journalists," or the powers that be, those with great influence over ordinary people, who <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-daily-wire/the-michael-knowles-show/e/70155261" target="_blank">exploit the emotions and struggles</a> of the masses to further their ends. If this sounds alarmist or conspiratorial, one needs only to review some history, ancient and modern, to see that it is nothing unusual or new. It is the <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-daily-wire/the-andrew-klavan-show/e/70189194" target="_blank">nature of nefarious men</a>, from individuals to groups to nations, to grab power over others, using whatever means they can imagine, with no concern for the welfare of those they manipulate. It is also the nature of good men to go bad once they attain some power. That is why America's unique government and constitution is so suited to that ongoing potential human problem, as a representative republic with its built-in checks and balances. <br />
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Present day systemic <a href="https://americanmind.org/post/america-is-not-racist/" target="_blank">racism in America is a lie</a>. It's the same sort of lie that has pushed the acceptance of radical feminism and abortion and homosexuality and transgenderism and global warming and an overblown corona virus on a gullible, fawning, conditioned public. "Those who surrender on one issue tend to surrender on others as well" (D. French). <br />
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To quote a <a href="http://hillsdalecollegian.com/2020/06/on-the-college-and-silence-a-letter-from-hillsdale-college/" target="_blank">statement from Hillsdale College</a>, "There is a kind of virtue that is cheap. It consists of jumping on cost-free bandwagons of public feeling and winning approval by espousing the right opinion. The fact that very real racial problems are being cynically exploited for profit, gain, and public favor by organizations and people is impossible to overlook. Hillsdale College will continue to do the work of education in the great principles that are second only to divine grace, the solution to grave ills that beset our times." Thank you Hillsdale.<br />
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America is not a racist country. Individuals and certain regional areas may carry on old prejudices, but as a nation America has bent over backward to correct racial mistreatment and inequities. For all sorts of disingenuous reasons it has even greatly overcorrected, which has resulted in new problems. But the problems today concerning black communities are cultural rather than racist. There are <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/6/20/21297470/chicago-fathers-day-weekend-shootings-homicide-gun-violence-june-19-22-104-shot" target="_blank">murders and shootings</a> happening <a href="https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/chicago-75-murdered-are-black-71-murderers-are-black/" target="_blank">within this group of people</a> that far exceed any such white on black or police problems. And once again these certain whites feel it their responsibility to take care of blacks as if they are children. (There are more white BLM protesters than any other skin color.)<br />
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But it's worse than a lie. If you think about it, it's anti-Christ. As a country, America redeemed itself from the institution of slavery, which did not originate here. It redeemed itself and ought to be forgiven. All Americans, white or black, living today had nothing to do with slavery. The victim mentality felt by certain groups is systematically incited by those who have some ignorant, sad need to jump on a bandwagon or those who wish to maintain power over them. <br />
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Education systems, K-12, are beginning to add Black Lives Matter propaganda to their curricula. All sorts of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxxHV5vu1Mo" target="_blank">monuments and statues</a> of national figures, famous and infamous, are being vandalized and destroyed. <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/22/shaun-king-calls-for-destroying-statues-of-jesus-smashing-stained-glass/" target="_blank">Jesus Christ</a>, whose gospel of repentance and forgiveness is the best answer to all of these ills, is next on the agenda. Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-31582629755497090562020-06-09T07:43:00.003-07:002020-07-14T12:21:12.861-07:00If There is No Male and Female There is No SSAIf there is no male and female, there is no SSA.<br />
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No, we didn't say that. J.K. Rowling, writer of the Harry Potter series, a noted leftist, did. Yes, on June 6, 2020 she tweeted,<br />
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"If sex [male and female] isn't real, there is no same-sex attraction. If sex isn't real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn't hate to speak the truth."<br />
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"People who menstruate. I'm sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?"<br />
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She is getting all sorts of grief and backlash for voicing her thoughts, even from Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliff, the now pro-gay guy who made millions off of her. What a fair weather friend he turns out to be. <br />
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We don't agree with J.K. about a lot, but her books were very clever and imaginative and actually based on traditional values of good vs. evil and male and female, and her thoughts here are correct and important. You can't demolish the concept of the two biological sexes and then honestly insist there is such a thing as same-sex attraction, meaning male to male or female to female. It just disappears into thin air, if you think about it for a second. No male and female, no same sex persons to be attracted to each other. Here she is actually seeming to try to help gays, pointing out that they had better think about this trans thing and admit there is male and female or they themselves don't have a leg to stand on.<br />
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But LGBT activists and supporters have knee-jerk reactions to any thought or idea that limits or sheds actual light on their limitless ideology toward sexuality. All things are permitted in their world. Even things that are actually dangerous and things that make absolutely no sense. <br />
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So if there is no male or female, there is no same-sex attraction. To go further, if there is no male or female, you can't say there is opposite-sex attraction either (which you can bet some people would like to abolish). You can't say there is such a thing as trans as well, because that is a person of one of the two sexes going to great lengths to try to make him or herself over into the other of the two sexes. Male and female is the basis of all of it. There is no getting away from this reality. Boy or girl is the first thing parents want to know about their baby. As C. S. Lewis says, all evil is a perversion of something good.<br />
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We have said this before: it is a total obsession with sex (male and female) and human sexual behaviors that is at the foundation of the delusional and exploitive and hedonistic LGBT movement, which pretends to be merely about "sexual identity," and which at the same time ironically purports that male and female is merely a meaningless and hurtful social construct. Their entire platform is based on something they deny. It's a complete delusion. Smoke and mirrors. Phony wizardry. <br />
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This is how we can see that the societally approved "right" (or fatal principle as CSL called it) to designate oneself as whatever messed up or made-up gender one feels like adopting at any given time sets us up to watch the whole house come tumbling down. And we don't mean just traditional society. We mean everybody and everything. CSL called this the abolition of man, done by man himself. Yes, man is definitely capable of sweeping himself off the face of the earth in one way or another.<br />
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We have wondered why women especially in general don't rise up against the trans nonsense. As per J.K., she knows that male humans never never never experience menstruation, for example, which monthly event is serious and not particularly fun for women for decades of their lives, from adolescence to menopause. Menstruation is a big personal responsibility, and it is an insult and an affront to all females that society would wholeheartedly accept and celebrate males pretending to be females---for this reason alone. Yes, menstruation is a very big deal for females. It means they are healthy and can have babies, which is all part of a mysterious realm males will never understand or experience no matter how hard they pretend or contrive. And the fact that they pretend and that others pretend to believe them is very sad. <br />
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There is male and female. J. K. Rowling knows it. And whether or not in the future she pretends to apologize for holding and sharing her now revolutionary ideas, she knows that's what makes the world go 'round.And what makes her books sell. <br />
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<br />Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-7603836595769976102020-04-17T09:34:00.000-07:002020-07-19T13:49:38.169-07:00What Current Inconsistencies RevealHow is everybody doing in the continuing China virus-related insanity? Whatever else you are doing, we hope you are thinking.<br />
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Think about this.<br />
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Why can't Americans go to church unmolested, even to sit in their cars in the parking lot with their windows rolled up to listen to the sermon on the radio, while next door people are ordering food at Sonic? Or going to the grocery store to buy donuts?<br />
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Isn't spiritual health important too? <br />
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Why can't Americans feel free to visit healthy parents and grandparents without being accused of wanting to kill their loved ones, while any pregnant woman can walk right into a Planned Parenthood clinic where her healthy body is invaded and her healthy baby is destroyed? Progressives, with all their talk of compassion and saving lives,
believe that during this virus shutdown women can have the closest possible contact with others in order to kill their unborn babies. <br />
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When this virus is practically harmless to children, why are schools closed? In this case, school children are obviously the best way to spread herd immunity among the general population, while protecting the vulnerable. This would have happened in four weeks, according to <a href="https://ratical.org/PerspectivesOnPandemic-II.html" target="_blank">Prof. Kurt M. Wittkowski</a>. <br />
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Should we base every decision on science? Is science historically reliable? Only in the last century did doctors realize they were spreading disease and killing patients by not washing their own hands or wearing clean clothes, which clothes soiled with patients' blood and infection they deliberately wore to show how dedicated they were to their work!<br />
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How many of the behavioral changes we are being subjected to or intimidated into are due to media-induced panic, incomplete and false information, and political positioning?<br />
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Could it be that the virus was in America much earlier than has been portrayed, and that many people had it and even died of it, and that many more have been exposed and now possess antibodies/immunity? In that case, wouldn't this shutdown be absolutely unnecessary? Why is this possibility not being addressed, and rather fear of a resurgence being engendered with no facts behind it?<br />
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Do you find it chilling that many of the state and local measures being foisted on citizens are strangely arbitrary (such as <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2020/04/16/michigan-bans-many-stores-from-selling-seeds-home-gardening-supplies-calls-them-not-necessary/#6146e9095f80" target="_blank">no planting of seeds/gardens</a> in Michigan) and mirror what Mao Zedong did in communist China for no good reason? At one point he outlawed the planting of flower gardens and cooking food at home. He actually confiscated woks. The people had to eat only the food provided in a communal location.<br />
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Why are responsible adults, who have shown every day of their lives that they can take care of themselves and each other, being treated like children? Can and will the government solve our problems or take as good care of us as we do in any scenario?<br />
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Why, when the dire predictions have not come true, are tyrannical leaders doubling down on restrictions?<br />
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Could it be that Pres. Trump's strong suit, a thriving economy, is being targeted by unreasonable exploitation of this virus and the gullibility/fear of the population for political reasons? <br />
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Did you know that the president of the United States is constitutionally responsible and in charge of interstate commerce? Did you know that although businesses are headquartered or reside in states, they, their materials and their selling, cross state lines constantly? This means that state governors and city mayors have no constitutional right to close businesses in their states and cities. It is the president who can open them up.<br />
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Why do political leaders get to go get haircuts and <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/you-should-be-ashamed-critics-unleash-on-pelosi-for-showing-off-freezer-loaded-with-ice-cream" target="_blank">flaunt their freezers filled</a> with the most expensive chocolate ice cream products, while ordinary hardworking citizens can't get their child's cavity filled and have lost their incomes?<br />
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Why is it okay for Dr. Fauci to suggest we no longer shake hands ever again, but <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/07/anthony-fauci-compares-race-disparities-of-coronavirus-to-aids-epidemic/" target="_blank">gays can go ahead</a> with their promiscuous sex. This is saying: no being friendly, but unlimited sex is okay. It also insinuates that the majority of people who want to interact in casual, traditional, civilized ways such as shaking hands, is <i>less responsible</i> than is a small group of people specifically known for practicing unlimited invasive sexual behaviors including in groups and under the influence of mind-altering drugs. That. Is. Nuts. <br />
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Note 7/19/20: as Rush Limbaugh pointed out, why do we all have to wear masks because of this not very dangerous pandemic, when during the much more deadly AIDS crisis in the 1980s (which is actually still going) nobody mandated that everyone wear condoms?<br />
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Does it seem to you that certain powerful people are a little too happy and anxious to close down churches and gun stores, and otherwise arbitrarily oppress those beneath them in every way they can think of and get away with? <br />
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What do all these inconsistencies and many more reveal? They reveal the true colors of progressives, people who hate and wish to change America. We are being shown that there are true Machiavellians among us, that for them their hoped for nefarious ends justify any of their nefarious means, utilized through the exploitation of any convenient crisis. <br />
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As Mark Levin put it, "Progressives are not about humanity, they are about controlling humanity."Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-36569523400680553892020-04-06T13:52:00.001-07:002020-05-19T10:52:33.362-07:00Contagious is Not the Same as DeadlyNote: This post was written more than a week ago. We debated publishing it, but now there are more and more voices saying the same things.<br />
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When this new virus first hit we had a difficult time understanding what made it any different from other viruses that show up now and then. Explanations seemed vague. Proof felt illusive. As time has gone on there have been a lot of conflicting reports and statistics, but it does appear that the China virus, (now politically correctly called the corona virus although there are other corona viruses), is more contagious than usual for a virus. Or not. But if so, what does this really mean?<br />
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Let's talk a little more about contagiousness. When Janice stayed for weeks and months at a time at our daughters' little house near Washington D. C. to help when the triplets were small, and another of our daughters and her family lived in the basement apartment of that house, more than once a violent stomach flu raged through the entire house like clockwork, despite stepped-up laundering, sanitizing wipe downs, and handwashing. We all got a kick out of one of the little kids naming the miserable sickness "slobbery poop water," which we shortened to the SPWs or SPdubs.<br />
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We tell this little story to highlight how each healthy person's ordinary life is interrupted, to some degree, now and then, by some illness or other getting passed around. We have noticed, since we have become empty nesters, that we don't get as many colds or flus or SPdubs as we used to, probably because we simply aren't around as many people as much, especially children who go to school every day. The more isolated you are, the less prone you are to catch whatever is going around. But it may work the other way too. We tend to get whatever is going around if we are suddenly exposed closely, perhaps because our immune system hasn't been getting as much exercise, so to speak.<br />
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It is common knowledge that many illnesses are highly contagious. Many people think this China virus has shown itself to be one of those. This appears to be the sole reason a big part of the world is so-called quarantined (although never before in the world have well people been quarantined!). But the fact that the virus is highly contagious may have nothing to do whatever with how dangerous or deadly it is when people actually get it, especially when compared to normal rates of death from this or that which are part of life.<br />
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Now let's talk about dangerousness and deadliness. Is the China virus dangerous or deadly enough to intimidate the world into an unproved, unprecedented, indefinite period of tyrannical quarantine, people losing income, people losing their businesses, worry, fear, depression, and suicidality? Is it helpful to let criminals out of prisons endangering the public safety? What about the huge urban homelessness/tent city problem we usually hear so much about? Suddenly, this and other societal ills and evils that obviously have a huge impact on the passing of contagions seem to have disappeared. Not only is contagiousness not the same as deadliness, but politically correctness seems to trump both. <br />
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The entire model for the continuing lockdown is based on a dire prediction that came from a very leftist college in England, the Imperial College. This information was that over a million people in the U. S. would die from this virus. As more people have been tested, the more it is being seen that the deadliness of this virus is not nearly what was predicted. People have now admitted that the fatality rate is actually 25 times less than predicted. And of course only a tiny percentage of the population has been tested to date. Could be a huge number have been exposed with no harm done. Could be to most people this highly contagious virus is not dangerous at all. It appears that when otherwise healthy people contract even a very bad case, they completely recover. Perhaps most repel the virus or get such a mild case that they do not experience any symptoms at all, and kill off the virus naturally. <br />
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In fact, many many more people are said to have died of the seasonal flu already this year than the China flu, even with flu shots being prepared each year to match mutations. In the U. S. alone 20,000-60,000 deaths have been attributed to the seasonal flu in each of the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html" target="_blank">last seven years</a>.<br />
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In 2017 almost 3 million people died in the U.S. from this or that. Death is a fact of life. And suddenly people are acting like it never happens.Or that it's completely preventable. Or that people who accept this fact are monsters. <br />
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It should also be universally understood and reported by now that the vast majority of those who are seriously affected by this virus, and the seasonal flu also, have serious underlying health conditions, some even terminal illnesses. Many of these individuals would have died of their primary condition, perhaps hurried along by whatever cold or flu or pneumonia they caught. We had a close relative die in November who had several, chronic, life-threatening heath conditions, but who had been going about his life for many years amazingly well, most recently relying on portable oxygen. He even drove on a road trip the day he got suddenly so dangerously ill that he had to be hospitalized. He died six days later. This sounds very similar to the China virus fatalities: very health-compromised people who get a mysterious pneumonia-like complication on top of their main problems, which their already weakened bodies cannot combat. For all we know, he caught the virus and it put him finally over the edge.The doctor had said that if he got anything whatsoever at that point he wouldn't survive.<br />
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Very sick people succumbing to all sorts of things, including the seasonal flu, is nothing new. And yet the public is perceiving that such deaths are caused by this new virus only, even that perfectly healthy older people, or healthy people of any age, are in danger of dying of this virus. It may well be that many deaths are being attributed to the virus, when the patient actually died of their primary illness. We don't say a person who lost a long battle with cancer died of pneumonia. We say he died of complications due to his long battle with cancer. Many are dying with the virus, not of it. In some cases perhaps the deceased patient didn't have the virus at all, but is counted as a virus statistic. This is the kind of thing that skews statistics and causes undue concern. (Note 4/17: This unscientific padding of numbers has now been admitted
to on national TV by national expert, Deborah Birx. Autopsies are not done, nor is
testing.)<br />
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The real facts show that while this virus is one of those highly contagious bugs, it is not very dangerous or deadly at all to the general population, thank heavens. While the contagiousness is said to be high, the death rate is quite low and is proving to be lower with each test taken. In addition, the world has a record high elderly demographic. People are living longer, even with chronic bad health, than ever before. So this unfortunately gives the China virus, along with other viruses, a large vulnerable group to prey on.<br />
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But these tidbits of real information are habitually glossed over. <br />
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The most logical and human and sane thing to do in a free country that guarantees certain rights to the people would be to warn vulnerable individuals to self-isolate until the danger for them has passed. Indeed, many people isolate their babies from RSV during the flu season, and many people with chronic respiratory problems isolate themselves too. Seriously, people know how to wash their hands and otherwise protect themselves and loved ones, friends, neighbors, co-workers, acquaintances, and even strangers from viruses spread in this way. <br />
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Even as we follow the rules, everyone ought to be thinking about why the danger from this virus is being overstated and misreported, why responses are reliant on incomplete and inconsistent information, and why news reports are full of blaming and politics. Everyone ought to take into account the divisive spirit of the times, the existence of powerful, despotic, communist countries, the fierce competition between countries, the unmitigated hatred many Americans have shown for the current U. S. president, and the fact that a very popular socialist is running for president of the United States of America.<br />
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Everyone ought to wonder why such draconian measures have been indefinitely put in place to control the movements, activities, and occupations of the general public, like never before. Could be there are principalities and powers behind the scenes who have no qualms about exploiting any disaster for reasons of their own. <br />
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<br />Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-56960052424252237492020-03-27T11:57:00.000-07:002020-04-17T10:41:27.453-07:00Comparing the AIDS epidemic to the Current Health CrisisDuring the 1980s the entire public, including elementary school
children, was swept up into a propaganda program to scare everyone into
thinking all people were equally at risk to get the horrible deadly
disease called GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency) which was quickly changed to AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome).<br />
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Now, despite persistent propaganda, even some gays admit AIDS is a gay disease, which by
the way, is still a huge problem among the irresponsible, hedonistic gay
population which spreads it through promiscuous sodomy and tainted drug
needles, fully encouraged and celebrated by the powers that be in society and government.
But back then it wasn't portrayed as a sexually transmitted disease. Oh
no, it was something even school children could easily contract. By sitting on toilet seats. Not.<br />
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At the
time we were personally astonished and annoyed at the distorted
reporting, fear-mongering, and encroachment of false information about
this STD into our young children's minds in school. It was completely
out of place and outrageous. We opted our kids out of surveys and assemblies and such, which made them
embarrassed, the opting out which is now something that is no longer
allowed when it comes to homosexualist propaganda being taught at schools. Everyone knows, or should know, that homosexualism is being proudly promoted in schools and libraries and churches and every other societal entity today.<br />
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note it was public health experts that made or let that happen and
continue to let it happen, even with health risks for this behavior
worsening all the time. For example, drug use (which makes users forget to take meds), the ease of finding instant, one-time partners on the internet, unprotected group sex, and people who have HIV-AIDS mixing freely with the public---all of the above in some combination are common. In addition, younger and younger people are getting involved in homosex, most likely because of huge societal acceptance, internet porn, encouragement from the gay community, sexual abuse/initiation by sex predators, and the promotion of secularism. The CDC reported in 2017 that the age for the contraction of AIDS has greatly lowered, with a dramatic increase at age 15. Fifteen to 24-year-olds account for half of all new STD infections, including AIDS. Should we fully trust public health experts? Ever? <br />
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are some similarities happening now to how the AIDS epidemic, which also disrupted the nation in some significant ways such as public campaigns everywhere and blood donations becoming tainted, was
handled. While the current virus is overwhelmingly dangerous to older
people with serious health problems, obese people, and otherwise very sick people, it is increasingly being touted as
dangerous to everyone and proclaimed that all people are extremely
dangerous to each other in casual ways, just as was touted during the AIDS epidemic. This is happening even though it is known that
it is overwhelmingly older/sick people who are most at risk of
fatality, who could easily be isolated, watched, and cared for, while
the rest of the population, some are saying 98 %, is affected not at all, mildly, or
experiences a very bad flu that is completely recovered from without
hospitalization. And yet people in all categories are being
increasingly ordered to shut themselves in their houses indefinitely. Is
propaganda spreading faster than the virus?<br />
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question: Why weren't/aren't gays sequestered away from each other in
the face of the terrible disease they pass around through
discretionary sexual pleasures? <b>No one ever told gays to change their
sexual behavior to "slow the spread" or "flatten the curve" </b>while we, who are doing all we can <i>not </i>to
spread the current virus, are urged or ordered to avoid mere social
visits. Meaning nonsexual. The closest they got to suggesting any precaution for spreading AIDS through promiscuous gay sex was the condom campaign, which was decided to be ineffective/undesirable for this type of sex. And they continue to insist that it is the government's job to find a cure for a disease they bring upon themselves.<br />
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Gay sexual behaviors, although not as immediately deadly as they used
to be because of new drug cocktails at great cost to the public, still
cause chronic health problems and shorten lives at great cost to the
public. Obviously, gays weren't quarantined because the "right" to have
unlimited sex was deemed without question more important than public
health protocol and all sorts of costs to the not-at-any-risk vast majority of the population. And yet today,
the actual<i> right </i>to pursue happiness, that is, work, associate,
assemble, travel, speak freely, worship is obviously<i> not more important</i>
than the public health and all sorts of costs during the current
crisis. Can you wrap your mind around that? Isn't this a huge double standard?<br />
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Should gays be responsible to prevent spreading their horrible disease that causes so much trouble and suffering and expense and early death? Yes. But that is not even a topic of science or even conversation.<br />
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Not to actually compare this horrific gay disease that is completely preventable with the current serious virus which people contract through no deliberate act of their own, but there is a similar prevention methodology that should be instigated. It refers to Occam's Razor, meaning that the simplest, most logical, most obvious answer is the right one. But that is the kind of answer people these days refuse to acknowledge or even consider because of political correctness and other nonsense. That obvious answer is for at-risk people to self-isolate like they do whenever there is a bad flu, while the rest of the world
carries on in order for the robust economy to most readily deal with any crisis, treat the sufferers, and save lives, and so there's a vibrant world left for everybody. <br />
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health experts who officiated in the AIDS epidemic are largely in charge of us
today. Is that a problem? Yes. Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-77709783430502584052020-03-24T14:09:00.000-07:002020-03-28T07:22:00.849-07:00Viral QuestionsIt is our feeling at SoL, and the feelings of many others, that we are not getting the full story about the current virus scare. Notice to free people: When your way of life is interrupted, when a huge number of people's livelihoods are put on hold or lost, when the economy is grossly interrupted, when citizens are panic buying and hoarding, when children can't go to school, when parents can't go to work, when churches are closed down, all of this and more <i>for an indefinite period of time</i>, it is time to use our powers of critical thinking to the best of our ability.<br />
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People will hate us for bringing up doubts and questions. They will call us names and accuse us of <i>actually killing people-</i>--yes, killing people just for asking questions, for exercising our brains, for keeping calm and carrying on mentally and emotionally. Someone has actually said to us that if we don't blindly obey orders, even suggestions, from the government (some of which are contradictory and arbitrary) we are part of the problem. Yes, we are the contagion itself.<br />
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Are people a disease? No. What ever happened to those brave cancer patients who refuse to identify themselves as their illness? We have been told that if we are not part of the solution, we are part of the problem, that is, spreading a deadly disease which we most likely don't have and won't endanger anyone with whom we are visiting. This accusation came right off the bat from a New Yorker, single and with one child, who has actually recently left New York for this crisis to live with his girlfriend out of state, leaving his ex-wife and grown child there in NYC. He didn't mention anything about quarantining himself, which has actually been mandated for people leaving NYC. This is the person, much as we love him, warning us not to go near our many extended family members here in Utah and pretty much shaming us for having a large, close family. Really? First of all, he knows nothing about what we are doing. Second, it smacks of hypocrisy, suspicion, know-it-allishness, and a superiority complex. Third, this is a person who has abandoned his own family in the worst danger zone for the relative safety of a tiny midwestern town. Who really needs shaming, if that's what we're supposed to be doing? We mention this to show the extreme herd mentality and double standard being used by leftists/alarmists, which is supposed to keep us all thoughtlessly in line, whatever that line is from day to day.<br />
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It is very dehumanizing even during this scare, to automatically treat all people as a contagion, to look from afar with suspicion at anyone with silver hair, to <i>suspect </i>those with large extended families of visiting each other and lecture them for even thinking of it. Unreasonable suspicions aside, whatever happened to people risking their comforts, even their lives, going to help others in whatever need? There are altruistic people who do this all the time, including now, like firemen and policemen and mothers. There could
be situations that override a virus scare. (And we learned to wash our hands in kindergarten.) What if our children and their children ran out of food and we had plenty? What if a daughter/mother of young children broke a leg or was incapacitated in some other way? What if that earthquake near us, which we felt, had
been many times worse? Would anyone not rush to the aid of their children or their neighbors or anyone in immediate trouble, come what may?We would hope so!<br />
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Should this virus scare really take priority over just about everything
else, even our humanity? When Utah had the pretty significant earthquake last week nobody around here seemed to care about the virus anymore, at least for one day.<br />
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Are some hospitals/emergency rooms more busy than usual? Yes, but this is nothing novel and we don't have to use sensational words like "overrun" even before they are, if ever, actually overrun. The majority of hospitals are not even anywhere near full at this time; the immediate problem is that people are acting like they are full to bursting. Gov. Cuomo is now (3/26-27) reporting the great news that the rate of growth in the hospitalization of NY patients is actually decreasing, contrary to dire predictions. Even so, the wonderful thing is that hospitals adapt. They transport more supplies and equipment and personnel. They find more rooms. They train more workers. They weather the storm. They do their best, which is pretty darn good. Americans figure these things out because we are free and innovative and resourceful and generous.<br />
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The alarmism on the news about such things is unwarranted. How much air time has been spent on the pretended false inefficacy or shortage of surgical face masks alone? All that alarmism, instead of simply reporting the need for help in locating, and encouraging the producing of, face masks, which has finally occurred to people. Turns out you can make a serviceable face mask out of ubiquitous t-shirts according to the Center for Disease Control. Yes, you can. Panic and sensationalistic reporting is never good. <br />
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An astronomy professor once said to his class, Don't worry about global warming or any other disaster. What we should concentrate on is a good healthy free society and economy. In that way, we can best deal with any crisis that comes along. Right?<br />
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More questions.<br />
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Is the U.S. anything like China or Italy? No. China is a communist country that is the opposite of America in many ways. China habitually silences truth-tellers, lies to the world to save face, and wants to control the world. Italians smoke like crazy, customarily kiss everybody, live with their aged parents, and have been importing Chinese workers for years who travel back and forth from Italy to China. Italy even started a "Hug a Chinese" policy <i>during this crisis </i>so they won't appear racist,which is actually racist. In addition, Italy's hospitals are not great. Many coddled Americans cannot imagine what such countries are really like.<br />
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Should we allow tunnel-visioned public health experts to run every facet of our lives? No. In a time of emergency other types of experts must weigh in equally. Health experts are only experts in one category, and human life has many aspects and priorities. The situation should be continually reassessed from every angle. But it looks for all the world like these particular experts are perfectly patient keeping us in suspense. Are we mere statistics to them? Are they enjoying the spotlight a little too much? Will they ever admit it if they were wrong or alarmist or doing more harm than good? Just asking.<br />
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Should this virus scare really take priority over almost everything else? Utah had a pretty significant earthquake last week. Funny how nobody cared about the virus, at least for one day.<br />
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Are we wrong in finding almost all virus headlines misleading? For instance, the news continually highlights the rising number of cases but doesn't make a distinction between people who are asymptomatic, people with mild cases, people who are very sick but not hospitalized and recover soon, and people with underlying bad health conditions who need hospitalization, and everyone in between. The headlines are therefore needlessly sensationalized. The reaction they seem to be after is: Oh, no! So many people are going to die! Instead, they could highlight the number of hospitalizations and call them that, which number is significantly less, and actually the reason we are all shut down. Healthy people are weathering this flu, much like the seasonal flu. <br />
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Did you know 7,500 people die of this or that, including seasonal flu, every day in the U. S.? We need some perspective. How many will die of this virus on top of that? How many people who are being reported as dying of the virus would have died anyway of all sorts of problems perhaps combined with the seasonal flu within a week? Does anybody really know it was the virus that killed these sick people? Are autopsies done on every person included in the list of casualties? Is it really accurate to say they were COVID-19 victims? Or were they very sick people who were going to die soon anyway based on a primary illness or illnesses they already had?<br />
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Should we shut down or ban everything that regularly kills people? Did you know about 100 Americans die in automobile accidents per day. If, as Gov. Cuomo famously said the other day, we should do whatever it takes to save one life, shouldn't we ban cars immediately? Many lives would be saved every day. <br />
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If human life is so important (which of course it is), why are so many people and leaders still for killing unborn babies, even born babies? Why are so many all for government-run health care, where government officials get to decide if old people receive treatment, as in death panels? The same progressives who have been pushing the likes of global warming, population control, abortion, and euthanasia are now suddenly greatly exercised about stopping the world to save old, sick people. Why this sudden uncharacteristic concern for the value of human life? Isn't this total hypocrisy? And why are they playing this card? Is it because this experiment in unprecedented overreaching government control of the masses---such as the shutting down of churches and businesses (including gun stores), and the need for mass online schooling that could so easily be centralized and controlled by government---fits into their socialist playbook?<br />
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Isn't it telling that half the world of ordinary people are stuck at home where their powers of speech, creativity, worship, innovative talents, and livelihood (read:life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) may well be materially/psychologically oppressed for an unknown period, while at the same time journalists and public health experts and government leaders are enjoying unhampered their full freedoms of thought, speech, mobility, work, pay, and assembly?<br />
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Have we been primed for this sort of public treatment in the last century or two? Yes, we have been brainwashed by all sorts of progressive -isms, among them: atheism, Darwinism, secularism, humanism, socialism, communism, fascism, feminism and, yes, homosexualism. How about the AIDS epidemic? You may think this is stretch but it was and still is a huge deal and we should learn from it. See a coming post. <br />
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How about this question: Are billionaire churches still requiring tithes and offerings of its members at this time? Are they even stepping up their requests for financial donations? Or are
churches with billions suspending tithes and offerings at this time when
so many members are being laid off and even losing their employment or business? Are they
giving everybody at least some of their own money back in this time of unprecedented worry, uncertainty, and stress? Have they even thought of offering such relief, like the federal government has, and shouldn't state governments offer relief too, that is at least suspend taxes? Aren't a church's own members
entitled to some of that famous humanitarian aid it brags so much about? Or some form of it? We have an idea that no matter what is said, there is not much real concern for the well-being of some churches' members.<br />
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What about this data business? Have the powers that be been <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/imperial-college-scientist-who-predicted-500k-coronavirus-deaths-in-uk-revises-to-20k-or-less" target="_blank">operating on flawed data</a>? For instance, what about this testing effort? We are seeing that the more testing for this virus that is done, the lower the rate of fatality goes. In other words, they are finding out there are many, many more people who have contracted the virus and never knew it or recovered who are not part of the testing data. This makes the predictions of the death rate, or how many people will die, grossly overstated. Why did the experts say the other day that people with no symptoms need not be tested? Shouldn't there be random samples taken in order to get a more accurate understanding of the scope and actual deadliness of this virus? The great majority of people can weather this bad flu. It's the life-threatening deadliness/need for hospitalization that should be the concern. Flawed and incomplete data cannot provide accurate numbers for that. So is every precaution we are taking based on bad information? While it's always good to take precautions against illness, is all the <i>alarm</i> unnecessary? And even harmful?<br />
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Here's a funny one. Do news people even know their math, as in their zeros? Just the other week a news report got all sorts of flack for pretty much <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/msnbc-math-mike-bloomberg-one-million-dollars" target="_blank">mistaking one million dollars for one dollar!</a> So why should the public take journalists' word on all these many-zeroed statistics? <br />
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We are sure we will have more questions as this many-pronged nightmare continues and will add to this post. Keep reading! Keep using your brains! Lord bless us all!<br />
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Excerpt from a previous post that applies to this situation as well:<br />
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One result of these above recent developments is that lately we have
seen many confused, frustrated, and sad faces, full of pain and
suffering [or panic, suspicion, confusion, and uncertainty]. And we have seen some of these same people starting to wake
up, starting to think for themselves, starting to let go of their trust
in human beings, and turn to God. After all, the <a href="https://biblehub.com/kjv/jeremiah/17-5.htm" target="_blank">scriptures say</a>
we are cursed if we put our trust in men, cursed as in stagnated, deceived, harmed, even led to hell, perhaps. Therefore, shifting our
religious [and other] responsibilities from others to ourselves and the Lord is one very good
thing that is happening. We in the trenches must engage our God-given
intellects, seeking the Spirit to discern truth and error, and guide our
families. <br />
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<br />Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-26620148470401782212020-03-24T09:48:00.000-07:002020-03-28T07:36:43.784-07:00What Ever Happened to Keep Calm and Carry On?Here we are again bringing you more stimulating reading in your time of isolation and stress.<br />
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A little perspective is always a valuable thing.<br />
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One thing that troubles us at SoL during this crisis is that we hardly hear any references at all to similar past crises and what was learned from them. Apparently history, even recent history, is very unpopular these days. Truth is, viruses and diseases (even plagues) are not something new, even highly contagious and deadly ones. Human history is full of them. Daily life is full of them. We find it strange that we have not heard that this is the worse virus that has ever existed, and yet we are supposed to be acting as if it is. We were jauntily walking toward the park the other day and a family with
young children we passed as they were leaving the park acted like we were poisonous in every way. They not only gave us an exaggeratedly wide berth but quickly called their children close and looked at us with frightened suspicion. And no, it didn't look at all like they were concerned about us senior citizens. We called out a cheerful hello that got no response. <br />
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Here's the thing. Well people used to rush to help sick people, contagious or not. "I must go to them," is the immediate reaction of heroines in Victorian novels. Today people are running away or hiding away from people whom they merely suspect might maybe be sick but who have no symptoms like coughing that would spread it any distance. If a person isn't coughing or sneezing they are not projecting germs into the air around them. Oh the lack of humanity! <br />
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The drastic global, national, state, local, and even individual responses to the China virus, especially in how to deal with this thing nobody knows very much about because of skewed and missing data, are astonishingly destructive and unprecedented. From the dust Herodotus reminds us, "Do not try to cure one evil by another." From today's world, see this <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/" target="_blank">great article</a> by a Standford professor. <br />
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We were reminded of this wonderful passage from C. S. Lewis in an essay, "On Living in an Atomic Age." <br />
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almost every year, or as you would have lived in
a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your
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In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our
situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were
already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and
quite a high percentage of us were going to die
in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our
ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly
ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the
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This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is
to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an
atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and
human things—praying, working, teaching, reading,
listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to
our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like
frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a
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Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-42785566671325556732020-03-23T10:16:00.003-07:002020-03-27T14:01:44.997-07:00Who NYC's COVID-19 Sex Guidelines are ForWe heard about a very disturbing public document on the Michael Knowles Show. The mayor of New York City and the New York City Health Department have issued this document entitled <a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-sex-guidance.pdf" target="_blank">"Sex and Coronavirus Disease 2019."</a> We will try to soften it down for you. but as Knowles said, be warned.<br />
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It talks about how to "enjoy sex" during a quarantine. Well, we are pretty sure decent people don't need any sort of special guidelines about that. In fact, nothing sexual in this document is applicable to anybody but promiscuous perverts, that is, people with no boundaries for their sexual behaviors. But apparently the mayor of NYC and his health dept. think sex addicts do need guidelines, and apparently he thinks everyone in his town is a pervert, because this document is addressed to "all New Yorkers." It kind of makes you think whoever wrote this and sent it out must be perverts themselves, which is becoming more and more obvious in the news.<br />
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"Have sex with people close to you." That is one of the bolded headings on this document. Sounds like an order. And like you are supposed to have sex with people plural, meaning more than one person. Sounds like an orgy! New Yorkers are told that "having close contact---including sex---with only a small circle of people helps prevent the spreading" of the virus. Small circle of people "you live with?" Do they mean a family? Aren't only mom and dad supposed to be having sexual relations? This document acts like there is no such thing as family or husband and wife or children. Those terms are completely absent from this document, which is about sex. And yet the heading is about finding safe partners, plural, with "someone you live with" in "your household." They don't limit the having of sex to your spouse or even your one adult partner. Making no such distinction should be troubling to all decent people in a world where incest and domestic child abuse and child sex slavery and sexual promiscuity and sexually transmitted diseases and the like are huge problems which cause huge problems. It shouldn't be taken for granted that of course this document excludes children and minors. The omission should be startlingly revealing. It means there are no boundaries for sex.<br />
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Even so, apparently everybody in NYC needs to be told to keep their sexual behaviors within the walls of their home, with whoever lives there, and stop having sex with complete strangers!<br />
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Does this sound crazy to you too? Doesn't it sound more like what animals do than civilized humans?<br />
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"If you do have sex with others [outside your household], have as few partners as possible."As possible? As if having sex is not under a person's control? As if there is no such thing as a choice in the matter? As if sex is like eating food or you will die? News flash. People can live healthy lives without any sex at all. <br />
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There's more. It talks about how you are your own best sex partner (doesn't the word partner mean there are two people involved?), to consider (consider?) taking a break from sex work or finding sex partners online (read: total strangers). Instead, do more video dating, chat rooms, porn, and sexting. In other words, we encourage you to have more virtual sex with perfect strangers. But don't forget to wash the keyboard and touch screen,---because somebody else in the household is using it for that too! Gross! It's all so gross! It suggests that all New Yorkers might want to "take care" about (but still go ahead with) anal contacts of all sorts. And of course no kissing but go ahead and wash hands and keep your sex toys soap-and-water clean. So now we know all New Yorkers have sex toys. Yay.<br />
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And above all, says the mayor, make sure you have effective forms of birth control. Make sure you don't get pregnant! (Apparently, that would be the worst thing that could happen, even though it is the main reason sex exists and the best thing that comes of it.)<br />
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So let's summarize. What we have here for all the people of this big city is a set of guidelines for the promiscuous/perverted only. NONE of these guidelines apply to healthy, decent, straight, moral, faithful people who are staying at home with their exclusive spouse. NONE. (The document even states, "COVID-19 has been found in feces but not in semen or vaginal fluid.) This document exposes the fact that there are many more sex addicts out there than people think, that people in authority, at least in NYC, who run schools and libraries and government and health organizations, now believe there are zero sex limits. <br />
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Please note that this public document comes from the elected leader of the most populated city in America. This is mainstream. This is the country we now live in. This is how the most culturally influential people in the entire nation think generally about sex: that there should be no limits and that NYC sets set no limits. All Americans need to realize this.<br />
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Everyone should also notice how even during the 1980s AIDS epidemic (which for all intents and purposes is still going on) gays were never ordered or told or even advised to isolate themselves sexually.As in hold off on sexual partners until we get this under control. NEVER. Instead, <i>everybody</i> was told, even school children, that everybody could get this horrific new sexually--- transmitted disease spread through sodomy and drug needles---through spit and on toilet seats. <br />
And nobody has ever been held to account for this false propaganda.<br />
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And yet we are<i> all quarantined</i> today because of a virus whose
deadliness rate is falling rapidly as more reliable data is
finally known, and which we can catch through no fault or deliberate act of our own. Sex is a deliberate act. Kind of makes a person think what kind of a world we are now living in.<br />
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Can there be a more obvious admission that all the LGBT propaganda about sexual inclinations and behaviors being an identity or a minority group is a complete hoax? Every sexual revolution-based movement today---homosex, pornography, abortion, sex work, sex slavery, man-boy love, drag queens, gay marriage, trandgenderism, lowering age of consent, reduction of penalties for child sex abuse, etc.---is about unlimited, meaningless, sterile, promiscuous, dangerous sex. Period.<br />
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Sex is serious. If it is not used properly someone gets hurt. <br />
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If you are all about accepting and/or celebrating your darling grandson's gayness or your precious brother's transgendering, think again. Think what is at the core of it all. <br />
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Isn't it interesting how this bizarre time in which we are living brings out people's true colors? That pretty rainbow flag just got dragged through the mud.<br />
<br />Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-6966371631581873002020-03-22T11:14:00.004-07:002020-03-23T11:31:23.506-07:00Mormons Primed for PolygamyWe were hesitating to publish this. But since we are all hunkered down for this virus, people need things to read and that is one of our freedoms we still have! So here we go.<br />
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History is repeating itself. Polygamy is becoming mainstreamed--right here in Utah first.<br />
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Recently a Utah legislature committee unanimously voted to decriminalize the practice of polygamy. The latest step in the sexual liberation juggernaut is moving on backed by what was once the most conservative state legislature in the nation.<br />
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We know there is a great deal of denial out there but for what it's worth here are a dozen reasons the Mormon church would reinstate its doctrinal practice of polygamy.<br />
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1. The impediment that stopped Mormon polygamy is rapidly disappearing.<br />
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Polygamy should obviously be allowed based on that fact that same-sex marriage has been legal for years.The LDS church has been softening toward homosexuality almost parallel to the world's timeline. Brigham Young University just changed its honor code to allow public homosexual behavior (opposite to 10 years ago when a student was expelled for such). Many denied that the mainstreaming of homosex would inevitably lead to legalizing polygamy. But homosexuality is historically much more heinous than polygamy; it's always fake, inordinately risky sex, whereas polygamous opposite sex relationships can involve biologically normal, harmless sexual intercourse. And if it's just about consent and love, then, like homosex, it must be allowed. (By the way, homosexuality is rarely monogamous.) Legalization will do away with the reason for the 1890 Mormon manifesto ordering the cessation of the practice of polygamy, which reason was that it was pronounced illegal by the U.S. federal government and the church was threatened with incarceration of leaders and loss of property. The church still believed in polygamy and practiced it secretly for another several decades, or more as far as we know. <br />
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2. The Mormon church has never denounced polygamy as a true doctrine to this day.<br />
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The truth is, most aspects of the church are founded in polygamy, although these sordid events have been habitually mischaracterized and hidden from ordinary church members. A man having more than one wife being the only way to the highest kingdom of heavenly glory is still printed in the LDS standard words of scripture, D&C 132. The first seven presidents of the church were polygamists, having had more than one living wife at a time, the last of these presidents dying in 1945. In fact, if you give it some thought, you will realize that the church's most prevalent practices are still based on the principle of women being subordinate to men and of limitlessly less value, which is very similar to Muslim beliefs and practices. (In his day Joseph Smith was actually dubbed the Mormon Mohammad.) One excuse Brigham Young gave for Mormon polygamy was so middle-eastern polygamist converts to the Mormon church would feel at home! No, we are not making this up. The church's particular male priesthood authority, scriptures, temples, and special undergarment
wearing were all historically used to reveal, instigate, promote, and elevate the practice of
polygamy. Even visiting teaching in Brigham Young's time was instituted to bring all the women around to accepting polygamy. Again, Mormon men being commanded to take more than one wife in order to "live up to their privileges" was only discontinued, with great difficulty, because the U.S. Supreme Court pronounced it illegal.<br />
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3. Some men in the church still practice polygamy in a surreptitious way. In other words, the leaders hold the principle in high regard; they believe in it.<br />
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Living men can be officially eternally sealed to more than one wife if previous wife/wives are deceased. It is noted that high ranking men in the modern church have taken as multiple wives only women who have never been married/sealed to another man (neither widowed or divorced/virgins). This is more evidence that polygamy remains doctrinal in the LDS church. (Funny, Joseph Smith didn't seem to care about that. He actually took other living men's wives for his own!)<br />
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4. Polygamy here and now could exist secretly within the LDS church, just waiting to be spread more widely.<br />
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There is a legacy of secrecy in this practice. It was historically carried on in secret while being vehemently publicly denied. It wasn't until Brigham Young led the Mormons into the territories that it became an open practice in 1852. Poor Emma Smith did not even know that her best friends and counselors in the Relief Society (an organization of women she hoped to use to dispel the rumors of her husband's extramarital sexual exploits) and many young women she took into her house over the years were seduced by and sleeping with ("married to") her husband, the prophet. She eventually found out a great deal but probably never knew that full extent of his sexual dalliances. This principle of secrecy has never really changed. Members are just now finding out about Joseph Smith's many, many wives and the true history of polygamy by reading the church's own relatively recently posted, too-carefully-worded essays (see links below) and materials and books the church has always told them not to read. As mentioned above, some Mormon men today are still tallying up wives, living and dead. It isn't talked about except perhaps with a fond, <a href="https://wheatandtares.org/2019/10/08/theres-nothing-funny-about-second-wives/" target="_blank">eyebrow-raising chuckle</a>. <br />
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5. Leaders have to know there will not be much trouble reinstating polygamy in the church once it is legalized and mainstreamed, especially if beloved leaders are found to be "successfully" doing it.<br />
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This is because they know Mormons are relentlessly indoctrinated day after day, week after week, to follow their leaders blindly no matter what. (In church recently a leader told our local congregation that if we didn't accept all the changes happening in the church we "would be wiped out." Really.) If you think about it, as polygamy becomes culturally acceptable and legal, true Mormons should demand polygamy be reinstated as per their belief in Joseph Smith as a true prophet. It could be that fundamentalists have always been the truest followers of Joseph Smith and are not the only ones pushing for legalization these days.<br />
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Members who haven't given it much thought, but who blindly swallow everything the church says and does will go along. A regular Mormon, a grandpa, told us just recently that he would take more wives if the prophet said to. In other words, he is prepared to obey the outrageous, unbiblical command of a human being he doesn't know anything about except what he has been told, above all common sense or decency or the feelings of his wife and children and grandchildren. (No, there are no age restraints for men when it comes to polygamy. Twelve-year-old girls are free game for octogenarians!) Even the Marine Corps are taught not to obey an unlawful order. But it is the dangerous, hurtful Mormon perception not to use the brain God gave you. Just obey. For wxample, we are pretty much told to go without a family vacation or feeding your family or even a family at all (infertility treatments cost a bundle) so you can give your hard-earned pittance to a church that has used its member tithes to amass a stash of over 100 billion dollars, and probably a lot more. Sounds crazy because it is. The parable of the widow's mite is about greedy church leaders <i>taking even a widow's last coin to enrich themselves</i>, if you read it in context. To this day this passage of scripture is falsely and cruelly used as a fundraiser. In a recent article an LDS church spokesman admitted that members are taught to pay tithing <a href="https://www.deseret.com/faith/2020/2/14/21133740/mormon-church-finances-billions-presiding-bishopric-ensign-peak-tithing-donations-byu-real-estate" target="_blank">in place of groceries</a> if it comes down to that. Then you can apply for church welfare.What? They are actually saying you will get more blessings by giving your money to a very, very rich church than by fulfilling your primary responsibility to feed your children. They would rather you were dependent on the church than on yourself. Isn't it chilling?<br />
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Back to polygamy, only those who have studied material the church tells you to stay away from and thought the issue out will resist its reinstatement, which is sad because they will be mourning their beloved church. For the rest it's going to be even more sad, especially for women and children. In polygamy, as seen in its true history, it is women and children who suffer most. Also, young men. Modern polygamous communities have been known to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/14/usa.julianborger" target="_blank">expel young men</a> (their own sons!) from among them so the older men can seduce more young women without competition. Some say that women can be convinced into polygamy because they get help with the household and child care. (Usually polygamous wives today also work, providing financially for the family as well.) Maybe they are sometimes quite relieved to pawn off their immature, self-centered, oversexed, power-crazed husband on someone else. But these so-called advantages are pathetic and degrading to women and do not outweigh the terrible neglect, losses, and abuses of the mindset and lifestyle. It's so sad that people don't know or care what a real and right marriage is supposed to look and feel like.These are the people who will accept polygamy without a thought.<br />
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6.Generally speaking, men really like sex for its own sake.<br />
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Men have all that testosterone, which makes procreation a sure thing. Women like sex too, but are also very interested in things like sharing feelings and being appreciated as a whole person. This is why <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1225913.Men_and_Marriage" target="_blank">George Gilder</a> said that proper marriage civilizes men. Alas, men who have never denounced the church's polygamous foundations are totally in charge of the Mormon church. Polygamy exalts men and degrades women, similar to Islam, but it may be worse in at least one aspect. I am thinking about the underwear Mormon women are compelled to wear along with all their other underwear. But I won't get into that here.<br />
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Because of the unlimited sex aspect, men are the ones who can be most easily convinced into polygamy. Because marriage is the only human relationship that is traditionally supposed to involve sex, polygamy is a convenient way around monogamy. Mormon polygamy involves a man having sexual relationships with an<i> </i>unlimited number of women. We have never heard anything to the contrary, no limit on the number of wives for any reason. Many Mormon marriages seem to consist of an overbearing, perhaps passive-aggressive husband, and a subservient, mealy-mouthed wife, attitudes historically modeled by the church which persist today. All of these facts and attitudes help to program Mormons for the reestablishment of its historical and doctrinal practice of polygamy. <br />
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7. As Brigham Young calculated in his enthusiastic support for women's suffrage, more wives under the thumb of one husband means more votes, that is, political power. Yes, that is why he was all for it. It is the same today. Mormons love being seen and being raised in the public eye as a powerful group.<br />
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8.The Mormon church has the power to bring back polygamy in a big way.<br />
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The church is sitting on over 100 billion dollars, as has been <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/mormon-church-has-misled-members-on-100-billion-tax-exempt-investment-fund-whistleblower-alleges/2019/12/16/e3619bd2-2004-11ea-86f3-3b5019d451db_story.html" target="_blank">recently exposed</a> and admitted. That much power and money can control anyone and anything.We don't see it being used to end child sex slavery or abortion or online pornography available to children or any of the horrific abuses of modern times. For all we tithe payers know, the completely nontransparent church could be using our money to lobby for polygamy and who knows what else. So far, Utah is the first state to have a pro-polygamy bill pass through committee and be unanimously voted on by the state senate, the first step toward legalization. For your information, we at SoL have sat in meetings in the Utah capitol building in which veteran, conservative, family-values lobbyists have walked in the room with one standard, been told the LDS church's new stance on some issue, and walked out of that same room with their deeply-held beliefs abandoned. Here comes polygamy!<br />
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9. LDS women have always been treated as of lesser importance than men. <br />
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For all its protesting, damage control, flattery, and token compromises, the men-run church treats women as second class. Polygamy by its very nature makes any number of women never equal to just one man. Harriet Beecher Stowe called polygamy and slavery the twin barbarisms. Polygamy is an extreme form of exploitation and abuse of women. By the way, it has been noted that the main reason Emma Smith denied to her dying day that her husband instituted and practiced polygamy in God's name may have been because she was desperate that her sons never follow after their father in such an abominable thing. <br />
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10. The LDS church has in the last decade quietly published online essays about its history in polygamy, it seems for damage control, because of all the previously hard to find information so readily available now on the internet. (Read the essays <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/plural-marriage-in-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints?lang=eng" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/plural-marriage-in-kirtland-and-nauvoo?lang=eng" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/plural-marriage-and-families-in-early-utah?lang=eng" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/the-manifesto-and-the-end-of-plural-marriage?lang=eng" target="_blank">here</a>.) These essays attempt to explain and excuse the polygamic practices of the early church. But for many people who read them the essays are so obviously cunningly and desperately worded to protect the church that they backfire horribly. Joseph had sex with a girl "several months before her 15th birthday"? Then, hello, she was 14. Too bad most members refuse to even look the essays up--perhaps they are afraid. Most of the really bad stuff, like Joseph Smith actually taking up to 40 women to wife in the space of 3 years is relegated to footnotes you have to click on to read. (For example, the <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/plural-marriage-in-kirtland-and-nauvoo?lang=eng" target="_blank">essay</a> on plural marriage in Nauvoo reads "The exact number of women to whom he was sealed in his lifetime is unknown because the evidence is fragmentary." You have to click on footnote 24 to read "Careful estimates put the number between 30 and 40.") <br />
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11. Leaders in this church don't mind lying to members in order to protect the church and enrich themselves and keep the church a going concern.<br />
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Leaders have actually said on record that some truth isn't helpful. This is the nature of propaganda. It distorts the truth and sanitizes history and pounds these falsehoods into as many koolaid-drinking followers as it can. In doing so it infantilizes grown adults who possess God-given powers of thought and choice. This is not what Christianity is supposed to look like. True Christianity is about the free exercise of each individual's conscience and convictions. This legacy of deceit has been passed down from Joseph Smith, a profligate who covered for his sins by lying about God commanding polygamy, and continues to this day. Nowhere in the scriptures does God command any man to take multiple wives or concubines. In fact, God condemned this practice, but the cultures of the times didn't take Him seriously on that topic. Well-meaning but habitually <a href="https://www.pepysdiary.com/" target="_blank">promiscuous men</a> throughout history have tried to justify their bad behavior in the Bible but the honest ones admitted they never could. <br />
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12.The 20th and 21st century LDS church has repeatedly rebranded itself to fit the times, and it appears it will continue to do so.<br />
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Most recently for instance, it has stopped condemning abortion, accepted homosexuality in all but a few technicalities, and is in support of illegal immigration. It apparently has no qualms about completely ignoring or flipping on or spinning crucial issues. Many have noticed radical changes, omissions, and excuses in the last ten years. Certainly polygamy, with all its historical acceptance in the church could not be more radical than the church flipping on the issue of homosexuality?And if you think the church is still standing strong against same-sex marriage, note that it is always careful to include wording that passes the buck, i.e. that local leaders are to deal with these relationships--remember it's legal--on a case by case basis. In other words, the church is officially against it but we let our local leaders make the ultimate call, that is, whether or not to embrace it into their congregations. How's that for having your cake and eating it? How's that for double speak? <br />
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So there you have 12 possible reasons the church would happily reinstate the awful practice of polygamy. It all comes down to certain men imagining some great superiority they hold over women. You'd think mankind would have learned how harmful that idea is by now. But no. Some things never change.<br />
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Funny how the LDS church didn't get out of the BSA when it insanely welcomed openly homosexual boys, and then leaders. Well, men gotta do what men gotta do--at least that seems to be the basest male mentality. So what made the church finally get out? The church only got out of the BSA ---when? When the BSA decided to let <i>girls</i> in. Girls equal to boys? Hey now, we can't have that! Anyway, the BSA is now bankrupt because of all the lawsuits involving, no surprise here, homosexual molestation allegations. (For the next few years such litigation has been declared no longer inhibited by time constraints). <br />
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Polygamy in the LDS church again? The stage is set, always has been. And the unthinking leaders and members are primed.<br />
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We sure wish we were wrong. <br />
Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316045936676464223.post-30819502482628242672020-03-22T10:03:00.002-07:002020-03-25T08:52:42.495-07:00Open Letter to Pro-Gay FriendsDear Friends, <br />
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I enjoyed our visit yesterday. But perhaps I need to remind you that we have a son who got caught up in same-sex porn and homosexuality and chose to get some help and repent, who has been living a normal life for 20 years now. As such, we have a different view, one that is not popular, in or out of the church. I am sorry I didn’t mention this during our talk. We have so few opportunities to share our view. <br />
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You talked about unconditional love. We always loved our son–enough to support him in the help he eventually desired, which help is now legally banned for minors in our state and others, which ban was supported by the LDS church. So while one of the main reasons you have left the church is because you perceive it as being anti-gay, one of our big troubles with the church is its continual softening toward homosexualism, a thing which we know to be harmful in many ways, which hurt our teenage son (he was initiated by porn, chat rooms, and older men) and our family. We have experienced none of the unconditional love you talked about, either from the world or the church when it comes to our unpopular world view and real life experience. We have been met only with censorship, shunning, and hatred, even death threats. <br />
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We currently have family members, 2 nephews and a niece, who are involved or have experimented with same-sex sexual ideas, feelings, and behaviors. This doesn’t mean we don’t love them, neither does it mean we give up our deeply-held values and our very real knowledge of what this dangerous lifestyle really is. We don’t preach at them, but they most certainly know where we stand.<br />
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If you are interested, we have a web site, blog, and have produced books for all ages showing a side of this issue that until relatively recently was generally shared worldwide, most probably even by you. Now, because of the very successful and systematic sexual revolution that began in the 1960s, time-honored, healthy family values are now vilified by the world and not even allowed in churches, including the LDS church. Surely you’ve seen the church soften over the last 10 years, even with its incomprehensible flip-flops. The church is leaving this issue up to local leaders and all forms of homosexualism are being preached from local pulpits and modeled in wards and stakes. We have heard there is soon to be an openly lesbian general authority. The narrative is that Mormon gays are not sexual, which is nonsense. <br />
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Just letting you know that not all people who become disillusioned with the church believe in the embrace of homosexualism. It does seem to happen often, though, which is troubling. It would seem that people who have come to realize how horrible polygamy was and is would see that homosex is also a form of out-of-bounds sexual ideology and behavior. <br />
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Just because you find out the church is bad in many awful ways doesn’t mean God’s order, goodness, truth, and beauty are not timeless. Jesus died for us because we are all sinners. Homosexuality, like all the sexual sins, is an ancient sin, and especially in youth is often a symptom or result of worse problems or abuses or sins. It is strange how people who claim they are so loving do not bother to find out what underlying horrors may well have caused such an unusual preoccupation with sex and sexuality in their loved one. Homosexuality in all its forms is inordinately harmful and sterile and risky and predatory, and shortens lives. <br />
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There is no end of human sin and excuses for sin. The embrace of homosexuality has opened the door wide to every other sexual evil. Promiscuity is everywhere. Abortion is a way to escape the consequences for the pleasure of sex. The farce that is polygamy is coming back and with it inevitably comes the societal acceptance of and encouragement of child-adult sex. Why not if it’s all about people being free to feel sexually toward whomever they choose? If we base our reactions to these issues on sentiment and human relations alone we miss out on God’s truths, we deny Christ, and we even abandon plain decency and responsibility.<br />
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I could go on and on. But I do want you to know there is lot of gay propaganda out there encouraging youth toward these behaviors. There is also some good information that could really help people who decide they want help, although it may be hard to find because it is now censored and vilified. <br />
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Lord bless, <br />
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Steve (and Janice)Janice Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635646305645165391noreply@blogger.com0