Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything

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Ignatius Press, Mar 3, 2014 - Religion - 250 pages

Why are Americans being forced to consider homosexual acts as morally acceptable? Why has the US Supreme Court discovered a constitutional right to same-sex "marriage", which until a decade ago, was unheard of in the history of Western or any other civilization? Where has the "gay rights" movement come from, and how has it so easily conquered America?

The answers are in the dynamics of the rationalization of sexual misbehavior. The power of rationalization—the means by which one mentally transforms wrong into right—drives the gay rights movement, gives it its revolutionary character, and makes its advocates indefatigable. The homosexual cause moved naturally from a plea for tolerance to cultural conquest because the security of its rationalization requires universal acceptance. In other words, we all must say that the bad is good.

At stake in the rationalization of homosexual behavior is reality itself, which is why it will have consequences that reach far beyond the issue at hand. Already America's major institutions have been transformed—its courts, its schools, its military, its civic institutions, and even its diplomacy. The further institutionalization of homosexuality will mean the triumph of force over reason, thus undermining the very foundations of the American Republic.

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Contents

The Culture War
3
Aristotles Laws of Nature
15
Rousseaus Inversion of Aristotle
28
The Argument from Justice
45
The Lessons from Biology
52
Inventing Morality
66
Marching through the Institutions
115
SameSex Parenting
143
Sodomy and the Boy Scouts
173
Sodomy and the Military
184
Sodomy and US Foreign Policy
195
Conclusion
207
Afterword
215
Acknowledgments
231
Index of Proper Names
237
Index of Subjects
243

Sodomy and Education
154

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Robert R. Reilly is Director of the Westminster Institute. In his twenty-five years of government service, he served as Special Assistant to the President and as Director of the Voice of America, and he was also Senior Advisor for Information Strategy to the Secretary of Defense, and taught at National Defense University. He attended Georgetown University and the Claremont Graduate University, and he has published widely on American politics and morals, foreign policy, and classical music. His other books include Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing EverythingSurprised by Beauty: A Listener's Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music, and The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis.

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