How would King Solomon judge gay marriage?
I took a train downtown Chicago this Sunday to take a long walk along Lake Michigan. The train was jam packed with young people, many dressed in rainbow colored apparel. I doubt they were all gay because it was obvious that a large number were opposite sex couples on a date and apparently going to the Gay Pride Annual Parade. Whether people were going to celebrate with them or to be entertained I don’t know.
What I do know is the huge change of sentiment mainly by young people in recent years to support gays is definitely a direct result of favorable media support from news sources, TV programs and movies to show a far different perception of gay than I remember when I was young.
For example, in the movie Lawrence of Arabia I saw in my youth, when he was captured by the Turks and imprisoned, a gay Turk officer was portrayed as a really bad perverse guy who obviously sexually assaulted Lawrence while his was imprisoned. Last year I saw the movie The Imitation Game about Alan Turing during World War II which displayed him as a genius who cracked the German Enigma Code and later was revealed to be gay, The picture dramatically implied because he was given a choice of jail or chemical sterilization, his suicide was the result of the way gays were guiltily treated back then.
There is no doubt that because of recent media support for the gay cause, public sentiment has changed. Some may even think that the method used was pure propaganda. Whatever description given, it was effective because even President Obama changed his political views to support gay marriage.
I then wondered if King Solomon ever wrote any wisdom proverbs about gays but did not find any. I then wondered how he went about to judge various issues, same as our courts now do today, and found this proverb.
The first to speak argues his innocence convincingly, then his opponent comes along and interrogates him. (Proverb, 18:17)
So what does this proverb have to do with gay marriage you may be wondering? I believe this proverb is applicable to gay marriage because of the series of events in the last three days.
On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to make gay marriage legal in all fifty states. Whether the majority decision was a result of their interpretation of the Constitution, the media, or political tide, makes no difference, their decision is now the Supreme Law of the USA. In other words, to relate to King Solomon’s proverb, the first has spoken.
On Saturday, the USA Center of Disease Control declared it was National HIV Awareness Day. Below is a link of what they advise US citizens about HIV awareness and STD diseases caused mainly by homosexual sexual encounters.
On Sunday the Chicago Tribune lauded the Supreme Court decision on the front page.
What I now wonder is if the media will now tell the other side of the story, or what the King Solomon proverb suggests should be done in order to make a prudent judgement. In other words, will the media now convey these health facts as reported by CDC on the front page same as they lauded the Supreme Court decision?
In the USA today, there are 1.2 million people confirmed with HIV. Each year there is an average of 50,000 new cases added. Another 1 in 8 people have HIV and do not know it. Because of new drugs, the mortality rate has decreased. However, if a person contracts HIV, it is estimated that it will result in a cost of $500,000.00 for drugs in their lifetime. Last week the Chicago Tribune reported that new medical findings of persons afflicted with HIV now suffer other medical problems that are estimated to reduce their life expectancy by perhaps twenty years. When you consider that gays only comprise an estimated two to five percent of the present population of 320 million, 1.2 million is a significant percentage of risk. That risk is further multiplied if you consider that there is another host of STD other than HIV which can be contracted by homosexual encounters. Last year, the Federal Goverment budgeted thirty billion dollars for the treatment of HIV. 65 MILLION AMERICANS NOW HAVE A STD ACCORDING TO THE CDC REPORT BELOW.
So will this information be reported as earnestly as gay marriage was in future movies, TV, radio, and newspapers now that Gay Marriage is the law? If anything perhaNps if gays will marry and practice fidelity, these numbers may decrease. Then again, gay marriage has been introduced in public schools to second graders by having the students read stories about princes marrying princes. No one has scientifically proved one hundred percent that gay is the result of nature or nurture. Will the second grade teachers also educate the students about the health risks of gay sexual encounters?
My message to the news sources is this. Thanks to your efforts and help to promote gay marriage, you have successfully persuaded both the courts and many of the young of our nation to sympathize with gay marriage. Will you now come forward to help forward the concerns of the opponents of gay marriage to help reveal and educate them about the other side of the story? The other side being the health risks of gay sexual practices.
In my opinion, if you do not, you will be responsible for the misery the gays and other unaware innocent people will suffer because of the health risks if they contact a STD from a gay sexual encounter. Time will tell if the court decision was wise or foolish by comparing STD statistics in the future.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
https://aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/prevention/reduce-your-risk/sexual-risk-factors/
I strongly doubt that the news media will report the other side of this story. I feel that this is Pandoras box which was opened and the tip of a huge iceberg. Many changes in culture will occur and will affect the lives of unsuspecting people. Solomon would be disappointed in the one-sided reporting of the media.
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King Solomon also wrote this in Ecclesiastes 11:4
Sow your seed in the morning,
and at evening let your hands not be idle,
for you do not know which will succeed,
whether this or that,
or whether both will do equally well.
In other words, you may never know for certain if what you say or do will have a favorable result. However, if you do nothing, you will know for sure because nothing will result.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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Thanks for continuing to challenge (very politely) this dangerous idea. Be blessed.
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Life is so short and problems so many.
Regards and good will blogging.
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Thanks again for your reblog.
Regards and goodwilll blogging.
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Thanks for the reblog.
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My new Friend, I just had to come see your Blog.
When I saw this post, I had to start here.
You left out a couple of things:
1 – It is wrong to implant indifference in a Child’s heart.
2 – The Supreme Court stepped outside it’s job description in doing this, yet not one of the other two branches of Our Government said one thing.
3 – Obama also dropped the ban on Homosexuals giving blood.
4 – Obama brought his immigrants in without testing for any diseases, it should be noted that basically all were from countries with HIV/AIDS epidemics.
5 – This year alone 10,000,000 young people 13 – 23 years-of-age will contract one (1) or more STI or STD.
If you are Latino, I have one thing you will want to see.
Keep up the good work,
Robert
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Thank you for you comments and information. . I probably would have included those issues of I had known.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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You are very welcome!!!!
I enjoy your Blog, so keep up the great work.
So you didn’t enlighten me as to your family being from Central or South America at one time or another, you see I have proof of how the press really is, among others….
Robert
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I do not understand your point about family being from Central America.?Would you care to elaborate or comment?
I visited your site. Keep up your great work.
There is so much sadness, madness and folly in our world,.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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Scatterwisdom, this would be the perfect time for a little humor down here in my shop, since I am fairly sure that since opening here over 3 years ago, that the number of times laughter has been heard here is most probably in the low single digits.
OK, so the first time I said:
“If you are Latino, I have one thing you will want to see.”
I figured you didn’t like the word Latino, so I sure wasn’t going to say something that might really upset you, when all I was doing was trying to see if what was reported to be 20 to 30 missing Children when I did this post: CPS Still Pimping Children To Sex Traffickers
https://notinmyworld.org/2016/01/30/child-sex-abuse-105/
However, after a dead link returned, in fixing that link, I realized my search results had been filtered by the media and most probably by someone else, since 20 – 30 Children turned out to be 90,000 :
Where Are The 90,000+ Latino Children CPS
https://notinmyworld.com/2017/01/25/good-parenting-29/
Scatterwisdom, both of these posts are the same senate sub-committee questioning HHS (CPS) about the missing Children in January 2016.
So far, to date, no one seems too interested in these Children, instead everyone hides their head in the sand while screaming NAZI, or BLACK LIVES MATTER, or HOMOs MATTER MORE THAN CHILDREN.
Keep up the good work Scatterwisdom, I am locking this place up and taking the day off.
Robert
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I linked you comments in a new post.
https://rudymartinka.com/2017/11/16/king-solomon-extreme-vetting-wisdom-or-madness-and-folly/
If you prefer I do not, let me know and I will edit the post.
Thanks for your comment.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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