I'm on the cusp of banishment to a geriatric palatinate. Due to health issues, I have lost my halcyon days of youth and thus can no longer race motocross. (Cue to a wistful eye emanating a tear.) Father Time has relegated me to more prosaic activities such as playing shuffleboard and bingo, opining about the weather and my lumbago, and complaining about how times have changed.
I always thought this last geezer pastime was simply an act of nature when people get on Social Security. A rite of old age passage. Like being forced to wear Depends. Whenever I encountered a certain uncle at our annual family reunion, he’d inevitably rejoin, “When I was YOUR age…” I now realize his reoccurring mantra was not some Sisyphean task I was doomed to boredom to hear every year, but indeed has significance.
Perhaps my most poignant realization in my 67 years is the vexation of over-reach. We humans are wired to push for and achieve more than we are happy with. Over-reach produces entrepreneurial success, military victories, and economic growth.
But the dark side of over-reach can be a Pandora’s box releasing all sorts of hideous demons.
The Supreme Court has definitively ruled in support of rights for homosexuals outlawing discrimination against them and legalizing same-sex marriage. These actions should bring the argument against forbidding homosexuality to a close and allow society’s diverse facets of society to live together in peace and harmony.
The ineluctability of over-reach has reared its ugly head to trample this tranquility. A militant LBGTQ community has arisen. Not content with a social compact in which all practice a discrete lifestyle, they rub our noses in it. Their agenda is no longer consistent with a peaceful co-existence libertarianism. It is libertine. Being left alone to engage in their ignoble behavior is no longer acceptable. Their bellicose leaders refuse anything short of society’s full embrace of their depraved lifestyles, whether we like it or not.
Emma-Jo Morris, a lesbian and writer for right-of-center Breitbart news claims the militant LBGTQ, “… cheapens the struggle gays faced for civil rights and robs them of achievements worth celebrating … gay people are losing the ability to enjoy the rights so hard fought by those before them, because the political apparatus now won’t let them, insisting instead on keeping their sexuality as a central focus and a controversial issue.”
As much as the militant LBGTQ protagonists envision a free-for-all romp through their orgiastic landscape, this over-reach pales with what is being taught at an increasing number of American seminaries. The militant LBGTQ religious dogma is known as “queer theology.” Its roots can be traced back at least in part to south American liberation theology, which is hard-core Marxist in its beliefs.
Seminaries where this blaspheme is taught include eminences such as Duke, Vanderbilt, Harvard and Yale. Alarmingly, the heresy has infiltrated institutions considered conservative such as the Methodist flagship college, SMU, and the Baptist bastion, Wake Forest.
Linn Marie Tonstad is a professor of systematic theology at Yale Divinity School. In her book, Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics, Tonstad states “Christ’s body is symbolically multigendered.” John Murawski, a Religion News Service author, reveals, “In Tonstad’s theology, sexuality and politics and divinity converge.”
A leader in queer theology is the late Marcella Althaus-Reid. Her magnum opuses include, Indecent Theology, and The Queer God. “Holiness is a Queer path of disruption made by curious amatory practices,” she wrote. God is a “sodomite … polyamorous … a divinized orgy.”
Not just seminaries have succumbed to the succubus siren song. The United Methodist Church ordains drag queens. The Presbyterian Church (USA) offers portentous online educational series such as, “Queer Eye on the Bible.”
This over-reach queer theology of militant LBGTQ warps our churches by eliminating their focus on the salvational love of Christ and his mandate to minister to those in need. This release from orthodox Christian moorings has led to an alarming increase in the number of churches with homosexual ministers preaching salaciousness as a form of social justice in lieu of the Gospel.
I’m optimistic push-back against this militant LBGTQ over-reach will happen. In fact, we’re already seeing evidence of peaceful resistance in the form of a plunge in sales and market value for LBGTQ toadies, Budweiser and Target. But let’s face it. If the militant LBGTQ does succeed in captivating the minds of our children in government schools, and the theological instruction of the gullible in our churches, Marx and Lenin will accomplish through culture what they could never do with a gun: the final victory for the dark side of over-reach.
Mike Gunn is a former Northside state senator. He lives at the reservoir.
