I’ve been watching and responding to culture and politics for a long time now, and there’s not a lot that surprises me anymore. I’ve learned that politicians are, generally speaking, not upstanding, principled public servants but self-serving grifters who are mostly interested in staying elected to feed at the public trough.
That’s the baseline level of normal in politics now.
Every now and then, though, there are extreme, “watershed” moments that put me back on my heels as American traditions and norms are destroyed by the cultural Maoists who have infiltrated the ranks of federal, state and local governments.
One of those happened again last Friday.
Leaked amateur pornography shows a congressional staffer having anal sex with an unknown man in the Senate hearing room, video obtained by the Daily Caller shows.
The alleged staffer can also be seen in a photo, naked on all fours, looking back at the camera on the table where Senators often sit to ask questions during a hearing.
There is so much that is wrong with this incident but before I get to that, note that if this was a heterosexual hook up videoed in a Senate hearing room, I’d have a problem with that too. My response is not driven by the fact that this was gay pornography. That’s a factor, but my response is driven by something more significant than that.
To begin with, we have an act of casual sex between (one assumes) two consenting adults. Again, this could’ve been a consenting man and woman having sex. Sex is one of our primal urges and is both the source of our greatest pleasure in life and the cause of many troubles throughout all of human history.
In the course of time, Amnon son of David fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of Absalom son of David. Amnon became so obsessed with his sister Tamar that he made himself ill. She was a virgin, and it seemed impossible for him to do anything to her.
(2 Samuel 13:1-2, NIV)
Read the rest here.
But not only is it sex, it’s homosexual sex. At this point in our cultural collapse, no one even cares anymore that it’s two men caught in flagrante delicto. It only took 60 years for homosexuality to go from a shameful closeted sin to a omnipresent cultural influence that is celebrated with its own “Pride” month.
But we forget that homosexuality, like casual sex between heterosexuals, is a perversion of God’s sexual design for man and woman.
Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
(1 Corinthians 6:9-10, NIV)
The footnote for the bolded phrase reads: “The words men who have sex with men translate two Greek words that refer to the passive and active participants in homosexual acts.”
But not only is it casual sex, and casual sex of the homosexual variety, but these two dudes decided to film themselves engaged in it. Again, that doesn’t surprise anyone anymore because there are so many “sex tapes” involving the rich and famous, the not so rich and famous, and thousands of unknowns because amateur pornography is rampant in our society. Anyone can set up a camera in the bedroom or the boardroom or on the beach and film their raw lust for all to see.
Why someone chooses to do that, with all the risks it entails, I’ll never know.
But to top it all off, this particular homosexual act wasn’t filmed in a private bedroom, or an empty boardroom in some nondescript office building, or on some public beach under the shade of a palm tree. This homosexual act was filmed in what might be considered one of the most sacrosanct buildings in the world. It is home to what once was considered “the world’s greatest deliberative body,” the envy of the modern world, one that commanded deferential respect.
Here served the likes of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Charles Sumner, John C. Calhoun, Henry Cabot Lodge, Hubert Humphrey, and John F. Kennedy, among others.
What these two men did was a moral abomination and an indefensible disgrace. While the one who was identified has been fired, the inviolable and solemn decorum historically associated with the Senate has been violated in a shocking and repugnant lack of decency.
I liken it to pissing on someone’s grave, but worse.
Believe it or not, this is all going to plan. What plan, you ask? (H/T Kevin Downey Jr.)
6. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and press.
7. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in the media.
8. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, and healthy.”
Well. Here we are.
Just like we can’t go back to the time before Slick Willy poked Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office, we can’t undo the act of sodomy that desecrated the Senate. We cannot go back to an undefiled state. It’s happened.
And it’s happened because our culture produces the people who performed the act.
But we can reject the growing depravity we’re witnessing before it metastasizes and ruins us all. We can turn from our wickedness and seek God and beg forgiveness and mercy.
That’s my prayer.
Thank you Dave for addressing this. It is abhorrent and disgraceful what happened. Pandora’s box has been opened. Is there any hope at turning back and restoring morality and decency? Only God. Praying for repentance and revival in the U.S. And for a miracle… a fair honest election to remove this current corrupt administration and deep state.
Thank you for reading, Linda.