It gets better... and other random thoughts.

Gay marriage, gay adoption, gay parents, gay soldiers, gay priests, gay, gay, gay.
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What to do?  I edited an earlier post on homosexual parents raising gay kids because of inappropriate humor - I said something like:  "How very sad - and yet the cycle continues, these kids too will be disowned by their homosexual parents.  Why?  Because no one wants gay kids."  I know - how offensive.  I thought what an awful thing to say in light of teen suicides and all - so I didn't post it.  (I know, I did here.)  Why would I want to say that anyway? I don't know.  Maybe because I wouldn't wish being gay on my worst enemy.
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False hope.
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Contrary to the YouTube video campaign, it doesn't really get better.  Unless you are taking a butt-load of anti-depressants.  Many of the gay people I know all take some form of medication for depression and anxiety.  In the old days alcohol was the drug of choice in self-medicating - today there are prescription remedies and pornography to take your mind off things.  Though well intentioned, telling kids it gets better is rather deceptive however.  In truth, it doesn't necessarily get better, it is just that if you give life a chance, and suffer yourself to mature, you learn how to cope and handle stress - you learn survival skills - you become a better person.  Just like anyone else who is different has to do.  eventually one finds friends along the way to support you - some will even exploit you, and there is an entire gay culture out there just waiting to take you in... to make you feel normal.  If you believe what that culture tells you - then yeah, I suppose it gets better.   
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New sexual ethics.
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As I always say, contraceptive culture leveled out the playing field of sexuality, and laid the groundwork for general acceptance of homosexuality as a 'natural' variant in human sexuality.  I'm convinced that is why we see so many gay people today - why so many can come out publicly, and so on.  Call me Dr. Janet Smith, but I think contraceptive culture is a big part of it.  Likewise, the women's movement or radical feminism has pretty much always partnered with the homosexual movement.  I'll stop here because I don't want to pretend this is something academic and follow up with footnotes and links to prove my point.
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Gay all around us.
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They're here and they're queer - as the proverb goes.  They are here - they've always been here.  So what to do?  I don't know.  I'm accused of writing about this stuff all of the time - 'all gay all day' - but gay activists write about this stuff all of the time as well, while the news and entertainment industry is almost all about gay stuff - so why am I the bad guy for writing my opinions on the subject?  It's turning into a gay world.  Thankfully the Church is currently teaching more clearly on this issue, than it did on contraception.  It is hard teaching.  For the person able to accept it and who orders their life in accord with Church teaching, it does indeed get better - the state of grace is the only true happiness on earth - but that doesn't mean it gets easier.  I think the it gets better people really mean to say it gets easier.  Not for the Christian however. 
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Gays in the military.
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At first glance, I can't see why gays in the military, or the repeal of don't ask-don't tell is a big deal.  They have women in the military - so the increased-sexual-assault threat/argument goes rather limp when you consider that arrangement.  Yet obviously there are deeper considerations, as pointed out by Military Archbishop Timothy Broglio:
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Broglio also detailed his concern that Christian chaplains, and those of several other religions, might lose the right to proclaim teachings that oppose homosexual behavior. The danger to religious liberty, he said, “is latent in the agenda being advanced by many” under the guise of mere tolerance. In reality, he said, “there is an agenda to force everyone to accept as normal and positive behavior that is contrary to the moral norms of many religions, including the Catholic Church.”
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“While the Armed Forces will never oblige a priest or minister to act in an official capacity contrary to his or her religious beliefs,” he noted, “there is the danger that teaching objective moral precepts or seeking to form youngsters in the faith could be misconstrued as intolerance. Then indeed, freedom of religion would be compromised.”
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The archbishop also articulated the crucial difference between constitutionally guaranteed “free exercise of religion,” and the much more limited idea of a mere “freedom of worship.” If the military opts to silence many faiths' opposition to homosexuality, he said, their religious liberty would suffer.
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"As Catholics,” he warned, “we must be attentive to the protection of our freedom of religion”-- neither subordinating it to the idea of tolerance, nor trading it for the mere “freedom of worship.” If members of the Church do not defend this freedom in the public square, he said, “we may well lose it.” - CNA
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To me, the Archbishop makes sense - I get it, I can agree with it, and I accept it.  But just as with the say no to gay marriage thing, or the exclusion of gay men in seminaries, I wonder if it will be listened to.  These matters have taken on a political trajectory of their own and I don't see how it can be stopped in our moral and political climate.  Moral relativism seems to have been the one key dynamic at work in the attempt to normalize homosexual behavior these days. 
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Consider these statements - a sampling of personal testimonies as it were:
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"I don't know what is wrong with gay marriage, my neighbors are two really nice lesbians, and they are okay."  "My brother or some other relative is gay, and he's really successful and happy - what he does in his bedroom is no one's business."   "My dad is transgender - we love him because he is more himself in women's clothes."  "My kid is gay and has a boyfriend - I just want him to be happy - even though they drink too much."  "Father So'n'So used to be gay but he isn't now."  "Brother Arnold just thinks he is gay - he'll get over it during the dark night." 
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I suppose one could go on and on with anecdotal evidence on how normal everything has become and how happy everyone is with their choices in life.  Individually.  Over the years, tolerance paved the way for acceptance, and acceptance has opened the flood gates of equality.
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But will it get better?