The Unmaking of America —
When
the Dream became a Nightmare
June 27, 2015
The Day Perversion became Policy
On this day,
June 27, 2015, the Supreme Court of America began what turned out to
be the remarkably facile process of unmaking what had been, until the ascendancy
of Obama in 2008, the making of America as a land of religious liberty,
the indefeasibility of personal conscience, freedom of speech, and freedom
from religious and political persecution. It was a land free of tyranny
and unstained by despotism. One thought freely and one expressed oneself
freely: without fear of an iron fist to stifle either. The public square
was the venue of competing thoughts and challenging ideas — not a stage
for staged protests by adult and largely spoiled prepubescents.
No one owned the square and no one could
evict you from it. Civility ruled in a civil society. The rule of
the mob was a blight from the past — the name-calling, the branding, the
scurrilous labeling of those who disagreed with you: these were, after all,
the hallmarks of fascism long banished by the Great Generation. That
is, until the Left — that cubistic pastiche of self-acclaimed academics,
self-styled revolutionaries, militant atheists, and hate-mongers took ownership
of the square and cordoned off democracy for the exclusive use of the
faux-illuminati who turned out to be no more enlightened than the National
Socialists of Germany in 1933.
Thoughtless, monotonous, and easily-memorized
slogans (“What do we want? (x) … When do we want it? Now!”)
replaced rational thought and legitimate speech (speech requires
mind, slogan only requires the monotony of stultifying voices). It is essentially
the perpetual cry, and the sole thought-process, of children: “We want
it! And we want it now! And if you don’t give it to us now we will
throw a fit, sulk, cry, and grate on you until you relent.” Ask any
parent who has raised spoiled children on the pabulum of Dr. Spock. We have
learned that if you piss and moan a lot you will get your way because you
are too obnoxious to be further tolerated by thin-skinned and “enlightened”
parents more concerned with the feng shui of their house than the
character of their children. This is where they often first learn how to
win: by virtue of sound — not by merit.
Changed
All that changed today. The Supreme Court
arrogated to itself the right — hitherto reserved to God Who Himself
instituted it — to redefine marriage ... no
longer as the union of one man and one woman (from
time immemorial) — and to accord this divine dignity by nothing
less than political fiat, to a perverse but wealthy fringe
of homosexuals and lesbians intent on unraveling, and then destroying the
fabric of the family in America. But, of course, it first it had to be
"redefined" by those who never possessed the audacity of
having first defined what had always been understood.
The implications are enormous. America,
as it had been, no longer is. It is the land of the perverse and the
home of the muzzled. Freedom was not enhanced this 27th day of June, 2015
— it was marginalized, "redefined", and brutally crushed by the few for
the few, by the powerful over the powerless, by those who govern, over the
governed.
Today, the concept of the family was not
redefined by law. It simply ceased to exist. The American experiment
was grand, but because it was good and largely religious, it was ultimately
doomed to failure. The good ever antagonizes evil, and the content, the
malcontent.
Does it really surprise you?
The Precedent
Whence, perforce, we must ask, comes the
power that crushes what will not adulate it? Who gave them this power? The
answer was provided over 2000 years ago:
"And the devil led Him into a high mountain,
and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and he
said to Him: To Thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them;
for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them."
(St. Luke 4.5-6)
" All
this power and the glory of them ... are delivered to me — and
to whom I will, I give them."
Ponder this ... and the terrible predicament in which we find ourselves
today.
Then ask yourself for whom
— and what — you really voted in 2008 and re-instantiating
the notion of stupidity, again in 2012. How will you answer your children
and grandchildren for what you have done, what you have made possible. Or
will you, too, be (dare we say) a "denier"? Will you deny
the state its pound of flesh and teach your children in the (once secret)
confines of your house? In the dark? In "Priest-holes" like Recusants in
16th century England? What if they, the little ones, inadvertently
speak of it outside the home (Es ist möglich)? Indeed, in this godless
technocracy is there any place to hide from Big Brother who has
big problems with your choosing God over them,
over the policy, over the agendum ... that you yourself ratified
when you voted ultimately for your children — if, biologically, any more
are forthcoming.
What have you taken from them that you yourself, upon a time,
once enjoyed — and why?
When we banished God from America, we
banished the source of all our blessings. We worshipped at the altar of
politics and race and gender and correctitude. Is it any wonder we now worship
"false and lying gods"? The pantheon is now in Washington. Go. Worship there
… because your house, your Church, your family has been pulled down here.
At the expense of being crass, you kissed their asses already … and because
you have, you cannot kiss your children.
Goodbye America —
until a better comes along or the real thing, thrown down in tatters of
red, white, and blue revivifies or finds a more worthy nation. And at the
moment there is no such on the earth.
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
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