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When you get called a bigot or homphobe....

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Friedrich Nietzsche (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The appeal of ethical relativism is rather plain to see. If there is no right and wrong then I can't be convicted of any wrong. Ethical relativism allows me to write my own law , to edit on the fly, to finish "I may do this . . ." with an unassailable ". . . because I want to." Desire becomes its own justification. My will becomes my law. This appeal, however, soon enough begins to dissipate if we have any interest at all in being coherent, consistent in our thinking.  We quickly turn, "I may do this, because I want to" into "You may not do that, because I want to do this." Consider, just as an example, homosexual sexual perversion . The problem, morally speaking, with homosexual sexual perversion is that it is an abomination to God .  Ethical relativism, of course, bars God from the conversation. Therefore there is no reason by which we might condemn the practice. There is, to these

Vatican official: Gay marriage a “revolutionary project” for “complete destruction of the family”

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ROME , March 14, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The doctrine of “equal marriage” is a slogan created by post-Christian , socialist revolutionaries as a political tool to create a totally new cultural paradigm of morality that can only be implemented after the “complete destruction of the family unit,” a high-level Vatican official told an audience in Britain last week. Bishop Jean Laffitte, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family , spoke to an audience at the Student Union Hall of St. Mary’s University College in Twickenham on “Marriage and the Family in a Culture of Relativism ." Vatican Family Secretary Jean Laffitte does not see redefining marriage as a civil rights issue. He warned of a massive, international effort to rewrite social norms in the formerly Christian countries of the West that has resulted in the “extremely rapid extension” of laws “that endanger the very survival of the family.” He affirmed what many in the pro-family movment have lo