MODERN DILEMMA
"The sexual revolution did not start as recently as we think in the sixties. Nor was it the outcome of a passive natural social change. It was the result of intelligent planning, hard work and perseverance. It all started with the extreme fascination with science and its technological capabilities, in the wake of banishment of the church from delving into public life. The human mind became the Ultimate arbiter of all human affairs, and all time-honored values were subjected to its new rulings. In their haste and superficiality, however, people missed the obvious fact that the human mind itself, and by its own admission, is an imperfect instrument, and that with its limitation it cannot pass such ultimate judgments as those concerning the absolute moral standards.
To further replace God by man, a movement arose between the two World Wars called “Morality without Religion”, accusing religion -and not human error- of causing enmity and conflict between people. They pretended the same moralities could be attained without necessarily ascribing them to religion and called them “unattached moralities”. But as religion moved out of focus God was dethroned, and new codes of morality were issued wherein the immoralities of yesterday became the normalities of today, and secular humanism could at last frankly declare that human values must be made by human beings and without relevance to any non-human or supernatural reference. With the shift towards materialism such values as honor, chastity and purity became empty words and nonviable currency. A full range of indoctrination worked to stretch the boundaries of freedom to include license, and in a society that emphasizes individuality, every human whim became a human right. It was another setback when the tidal wave that hit society deluged also many of the traditional custodians of religion and protectors of its values - The Clergy. These were the Trojan horse, because instead of leaving the religious camp to the libertarian camp, they started working on religion itself by new re-interpretations and new exegesis of the texts to render lawful and permissible what has been unlawful and reprehensive along the whole history of those religions. Many of those clergy themselves fell prey to the germs they were supposed to fend off. Some even interpreted the institution of “celibacy” (commitment to sexual abstention for religious reasons) as refraining from marriage but not from having sex.
The homosexuality movement was a fairly late comer on the wagon of the sexual revolution. Homosexuality, of course, is not a new invention as it has always been there in practically all cultures and among all people but, one would guess, in more limited proportions. It had its lobby whose activities followed more or less subtle ways, but its influence mushroomed only over the past decade or so. I do remember academic conferences where some scientific papers were given, upon rigorous scientific methodology, to prove by scientific experiment “the safety of anal sex”. That was in the early seventies, and to me the findings were so contradicting to simple common sense that I began, for the first time in my academic life, to doubt the honesty of some scientific researchers. Shortly thereafter, the APA (American Psychiatric Association) declared that homosexuality was no more to be considered an illness to be treated but merely an orientation or a sexual variant. The rest is history.
The debate about homosexuality is ravaging. “Be what you are” they say, “and do not be ashamed of it”. Many unsuspecting youth started to experiment, to discover what they really are. Consent is a requisite, and the lobbies in Scandinavia are trying to bring down the consent age to four years. A ‘Gay Pride Day’ is annually observed in California with media coverage, a ‘Gay Pride Month’ in some school districts has been established to remove bigotry and prejudice, and two-man or two-woman households are being presented as alternative forms of family. Recently, science began exploring a possible anatomical or genetic basis for homosexual orientation."
(From: Family And The Sexual Revolution)