C.S. Lewis and how the acceptance of gay sex leads to the eradication of friendship
Cover of C.S. Lewis June 13, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - When close friends are presented in film or literature today, the conclusion is often: ‘Oh, they are gay.’ One of the tragedies of our culture, in its vigorous acceptance of the homosexual agenda, is the corrosion of a true understanding of friendship. What is ‘ Friendship ’? Have we lost our concept of it? Today, Friendship is considered either mere casual companionship, or, if it is something deeper, a latent sexual urge . But traditionally, Friendship was neither of these things. In The Four Loves , novelist and philosopher C. S. Lewis describes Friendship as a love in its own right, as great as Eros ( romantic love ), but entirely separate from it. “Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love, but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros, betray the fact that they have never had a Friend,” Lewis declares. Friendship is founded on the vital question: “ Do you see the same truth?...