The Pursuit of Gayness

When I was 17, I tried to get a job in San Francisco. Included in the application was a questionnaire to help determine whether I was psychologically fit to serve the public. Beside the sentence, “Most people are basically good and trustworthy” I checked, “Strongly disagree.” It wasn’t that I didn’t like most people, or even that I thought most people were unworthy of respect and decent treatment. On the contrary, I was stating that I was fundamentally at peace with human imperfection. I just wasn’t going to let my goodwill to men depend on men’s good behavior. What I should have realized was that the very nature of the test was opposed to my way of thinking; the test was there to make sure I would never “strongly disagree” with the public’s behavior. The company wanted someone who would never stand in the way of people’s freedom to pursue their own happinesses as they wished. I mean, this is America, right?

Most people nowadays accept that San Francisco-freedom as Gospel but, as you’ll see, this Gospel isn’t true. Standing for true freedom isn’t popular at all today, since “true” is a word that limits things by tying them to reality. Of course freedom has to be limited to reality or else it’s meaningless fantasy. But that never stopped activists from clamoring for the “freedom to choose” to kill unborn children, ignoring the reality that killing a person … kind of robs him of all freedom. And what about the “freedom” of men to dress as women and use the public ladies’ room, regardless of the reality that such eccentricity robs women of the freedom to enjoy privacy from men? And here’s a question for you pro-gay-marriagers: Will churches be free to practice their religion by refusing to marry same-sex couples? Or haven’t you thought that through?

From the beginning, American society understood that free men, despite their sundry imperfections, can live in peace and prosperity if they live in right relation to one another and to God. Freedom was placed within the context of the laws of God and Nature, the guardrails that give definition to the track along which men pursue happiness. Without these guardrails, “happiness” itself becomes an empty and indefinite promise which we are not free to pursue.

The American founding did not put forth a code of ethics. The lack of law was a gaping call to life in the Spirit, which St. Paul contrasted so emphatically with the life under the law from which Christians are liberated by faith. Having few laws is a step closer to the “true freedom” that Americans want to claim. True freedom in America is only the risky and adventurous call for all men to find their places in society as liberated moral agents, understanding that, as Augustine stated, “Law cannot make a man good, and without good men there can be no good society.”

Public schools forced to teach gay rights (against my religion), Military Chaplains forced to marry gay couples, traditional marriage losing its meaning in the public eye, a victory for a group dominated by those who hate the traditional morality that keeps our country afloat–DON’T RUB IT IN.

But the freedom that is popular today is as standardized and oppressive as the personality test I failed in San Francisco. For decades, people who were not pro-abortion suppressed their better judgment for fear of seeming oppressive themselves. Today’s “gay marriage” debate is laboring under the same problem. Whether we’re for “gay marriage” or not, few of us will speak the truth, because we believe in the false “freedom” which demands that each person submit himself unconditionally to mob morality, raising his right hand and swearing “I will never speak of any reality that limits the freedoms of others to do as they like. I will never stand for truths which have been rejected by the public. I will never strongly disagree.”