Both the so-called Right and Left have weaponized the word orientation.  Some people labor under the mistaken idea that this tactic is exclusive to the Left.  It isn’t.  Thinking about sexuality with any orientation in mind is confusing.  That’s intentional.

One activist puts it this way, “Leftists want to organize you by ‘skin-tone differentials’, ‘gender’, & ‘sexual orientation'”.  He urges, “Don’t let them.”  And he concludes, “Community is greater than the collective.”  I have no reason to believe this activist is anything but well intentioned.  At the risk of giving offense I offer the following observations.

Two of his categories are biological — skin-tone differentials (race) and gender.  Sexual orientation is not biological.  Morality enters the discussion by necessity.  We can’t decide our skin color or our gender.  We must decide our sexual orientation.  And our decision will be informed by morality.

It is dangerous to conflate the three designations.  Both the race and gender issues were weaponized after the force feeding of sexual orientation dogma.  This force feeding started in earnest in Maine in the late 1970s with the introduction of the idea into politics by lesbian activist Dale McCormick.  Only one man spoke against it at the public hearing.  Ben Bubar Jr, leader of the Christian Civic League of Maine.

Campaigning for the replacement of historic Christian understandings of sexuality with the new orientation dogma continued for the next four decades.  Campaigners pivoted from sexual orientation to race and gender after civil marriage was repealed in Maine.  Orientation is the glue that binds sexual, gender and skin-tone differentials into the trojan horse that smuggles the non-sensical idea “community is greater than the collective” into everyone’s brain.

Think about it.

We are created with a skin color and gender at birth.  Our erotic sensibilities (sexuality) develop as we mature within this skin color and gender.  Our erotic ends must be shaped by moral thinking.  Until the day we die Christianity teaches that we can be forgiven for the sin of Sodom.  Christianity doesn’t speak of a sin of skin color or gender because there is no need.  There is, however, a political end that is served by conflating the three categories as if they are benign orientations.  That political end is the promotion of docility in the masses.

Justice cannot exist in a world where a black man and a white man can be married with stolen children while declaring their gender.  The rich don’t need justice.  Their money protects them.  The rest of us get to live through the collapse of our families, neighborhoods, churches and workplaces as the civilization is ground to a stop by ideologically careless campaigns.

If I were asked to edit the activist’s motto I would write, “Some people want you to divide over race and gender.  Don’t divorce your neighbor.  Love overcomes hate.”

Amen.