The Unmaking of America —
When
the Dream Became a Nightmare
June
27, 2015
The Day Perversion became Policy
On this day, June
27, 2015, the Supreme Court
of America began what turned out to be the remarkably facile process
of unmaking what had been, until the ascendancy of Obama in 2008, the
making of America as a land of religious liberty, the indefeasibility
of personal conscience, freedom of speech, and freedom from religious
and political persecution. It was a land free of tyranny and unstained
by despotism. One thought freely and one expressed oneself freely: without
fear of an iron fist to stifle either. The public square was the venue
of competing thoughts and challenging ideas — not a stage for staged
protests by adult and largely spoiled prepubescents.
No one owned the square and no one could
evict you from it. Civility ruled in a civil society. The rule
of the mob was a blight from the past — the name-calling, the branding,
the scurrilous labeling of those who disagreed with you: these were,
after all, the hallmarks of fascism long banished by the Great
Generation. That is, until the Left — that cubistic pastiche of
self-acclaimed academics, self-styled revolutionaries, militant atheists,
and hate-mongers took ownership of the square and cordoned off democracy
for the exclusive use of the faux-illuminati who turned out to
be no more enlightened than the National Socialists of Germany in 1933.
Thoughtless, monotonous, and easily-memorized
slogans (“What do we want?” … “When do we want it? Now!”)
replaced rational thought and legitimate speech (speech requires
mind, slogan only requires the monotony of stultifying voices). It is
essentially the perpetual cry, and the sole thought-process, of children:
“We want it! And we want it now! And if you don’t give it
to us now we will throw a fit, sulk, cry, and grate on you until you
relent.” Ask any parent who has raised spoiled children on the pabulum
of Dr. Spock. We have learned that if you piss and moan a lot you will
get your way because you are too obnoxious to be further tolerated by
thin-skinned and “enlightened” parents more concerned with the feng
shui of their house than the character of their children. This is
where they often first learn how to win: by virtue of sound —
not by merit.
Changed
All that changed today. The Supreme Court
arrogated to itself the right — hitherto reserved to God Who Himself
instituted it — to redefine marriage ...
no longer as the union of one man and one woman
(from time immemorial) — and to accord this divine dignity
by nothing less than political fiat, to a perverse
but wealthy fringe of homosexuals and lesbians intent on unraveling,
and then destroying the fabric of the family in America. But, of course,
it first it had to be “redefined” by those who never possessed
the audacity of having first defined what had always been understood.
The implications are enormous. America,
as it had been, no longer is. It is the land of the perverse
and the home of the muzzled. Freedom was not enhanced this 27th day
of June 2015 — it was marginalized, “redefined”, and brutally crushed
by the few for the few, by the powerful over the powerless, by those
who govern, over the governed.
Today, the concept of the family was not
redefined by law. It simply ceased to exist. The American experiment
was grand, but because it was good and largely religious, it was ultimately
doomed to failure. The good ever antagonizes evil, and the content,
the malcontent.
Does it really surprise you?
The Precedent
Whence, perforce, we must ask, comes the
power that crushes what will not adulate it? Who gave them this power?
The answer was provided over 2000 years ago:
“And the devil led Him into a high
mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment
of time, and he said to Him: To Thee will I give all this power,
and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom
I will, I give them.”
(St. Luke 4.5-6)
“ All
this power and the glory of them ... are delivered to me —
and to whom I will, I give them.”
Ponder this ... and the terrible predicament in which we find ourselves
today.
Then ask yourself for whom — and what — you
really voted in 2008 — and yet again in a paroxysm of
stupidity, in 2012. How will you answer your children and grandchildren
for what you have done, what you have made possible. Or will you, too,
be (dare we say) a “denier”? Will you deny the state its
pound of flesh and teach your children in the (once secret) confines
of your house? In the dark? In “Priest-holes” like Recusants in 16th
century England? What if they, the little ones, inadvertently
speak of it outside the home (Es ist möglich)? Indeed, in this
godless technocracy is there any place to hide from Big Brother
who has big problems with your choosing God over
them, over the policy, over the agendum ... that you
yourself ratified when you voted ultimately for your children — if,
biologically, any more are forthcoming.
What have you taken
from them that you yourself, once enjoyed — and why?
When we banished God from America, we
banished the source of all our blessings.
We worshipped at the altar of politics and race and gender and correctitude.
Is it any wonder we now worship “false and lying gods”? The pantheon
is now in Washington. Go. Worship there … because your house, your Church,
your family has been pulled down here. At the expense of being crass,
you kissed their asses already … and because you have, you cannot kiss
your children.
Goodbye America
— until a better comes along or the real thing, thrown down in tatters
of red, white, and blue revivifies or finds a more worthy nation. And
at the moment there is no such on the earth.
Geoffrey
K. Mondello
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
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Faithful to the Sacred Deposit of Faith entrusted
to the Holy See in Rome
“Scio
opera tua ... quia modicum habes virtutem, et servasti verbum
Meum, nec non negasti Nomen Meum”
“I
know your works ... that you have but little power, and
yet you have kept My word, and have not denied My Name.”
(Apocalypse 3.8)
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