Sunday, October 18, 2015

Vandalism By Diversity

When a vandal draws mustaches on paintings, he doesn't need to use any imagination. It was the artists who did all the work of creating unique portraits; the vandal can simply make the same defacing movement for each and every picture. Yet the vandal chooses to delude himself that somehow he is being clever.    
                                                 

That's how it is with those who "vandalize" God's design for human affections. God did the work of creating a system which would actually function, a system upon which whole viable societies could be built. Those who deny God's design don't have to make the effort (really impossible anyway) to create an alternative system which would work equally well; they can simply contradict God, over and over, like drawing mustaches over and over, and choose to agree among themselves that they are being clever.        
                                                               

The world of live-stage theater in America has long been heavily populated with moral anarchists who want to deny God's plan. So they do deny it, over and over; but no matter how many times they make the exact same denial, they compulsively insist that their LATEST redundant denial is "a daring breakthrough." Recently in Denver, a theater company produced a musical play titled "My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding." The same old thing, denying the real God and His natural order YET AGAIN as pop culture has been denying it for most of my lifetime; but the newspaper announcing the show predictably called the play "unusual." It was in fact just one more superfluous mustache scrawled over God's artwork, identical in spirit to the other defacings.                                                                                                                          

It will of course be argued that fiction or drama about normal relationships must be many times more overdone and redundant than fiction or drama that praises deviancy. But normal relationships are many times MORE NECESSARY to humanity than chaotic "alternatives," and so are that much more worthy to be depicted. I say this as one who believes in cutting all possible slack for sexually abnormal persons, as when a woman goes lesbian because men raped her and left her literally unable to feel any desire for a male. But the mustache-drawing vandals are not about merely making allowances for hard cases; they are about fighting to destroy ALL standards everywhere, so that they personally can either feel good about their own crazy self-indulgence, or be LIKED BY other persons who are crazy and self-indulgent.