Culture war updates

The US push against tradition, religion, and the family continue at a swift pace.

FT notes that it is the Russians who are opposing the homosexual propaganda juggernaut, including in international affairs.

Pink News is reporting that the Russian government is considering banning homosexual propaganda nationwide. Many municipalities in Russia have already done so, including Saint Petersburg.
Russia is taking an increasingly active role globally in pushing back against the Homosexual Internationale. Hungary and Lithuania have followed suit.

he then adds this part:

Greg Forster reports in these pages today about homosexual propaganda being foisted upon American school children.
We may not agree totally with the Russians, but I wonder if most Americans would agree such things should at least be banned in grade schools?

Foster's article notes:

it goes without saying that gay couples are families too, and anyone who doubts that is on par with people who doubt that cross-racial couples are families. NRO’s Kevin Williamson discovered the video being shown in a town he used to live in and comments: As a fellow practitioner of the occult arts of persuasion, I must confess my admiration. . . . That’s a Family! is not about tolerance or treating people decently. It is about indoctrination, a fact that its enthusiasts make little attempt to hide.

One is reminded of a prophecy from Medjugorje in the 1980's, dating back to before the fall of the Berlin wall. It said that there would not be a World War III, and added that the west was getting proud in it's own capacity and rejecting God, but that Russia would spread the word of God throughout the world.

At the time the prophecy seemed absurd: the European press was promoting the idea that President Reagan was provoking a World War III, and the USSR was still actively atheistic.

And in a country where the PC are pushing the idea of "holiday trees" and getting rid of the smallest crosses, no one notices that teaching homosexuality as normal behavior is a religious dogma.

Sigh.

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Obama care has all sorts of surprises inside the bill, which was passed unread.

similarly, a UN bill for disability includes the idea of "reproductive rights" that will negate countries from banning abortion.

TurtleBayblog is reminded of this item:

How can anyone be against a global treaty on disability rights?

Uh, maybe because of the fine print that would allow outside, unelected officials to order you what your laws should say?
or as the blog points out: these treaties are like Arthur Dent's eviction notice:

Readers of the late Douglas Adams’ classic book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” will no doubt remember the following exchange, which occurs when protagonist Arthur Dent confronts the local bureaucrat who is attempting to demolish his house:

`…You hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to call attention to [the plans] had you? I mean like actually telling anyone or anything.’
`But the plans were on display…’
`On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.’
`That’s the display department.’
`With a torch.’
`Ah, well the lights had probably gone.’
`So had the stairs.’
`But look, you found the notice didn’t you?’
`Yes,’ said Arthur, `yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying “Beware of the Leopard.’

Sadly, the practice of deciding on a course of action, forcing it through by any means necessary, and then retroactively pointing out that one’s critics could have voiced their objections at the proper time and place is not just the stuff of comedy...