On Sexual Totalitarianism

A fantastic piece in the American Spectator on the totalitarianism of the sexual 'liberation' crowd:

But the movement to legally ban sexual orientation therapy illustrates the increasing authoritarian impulse to squelch dissent from the Sexual Revolution’s latest pressing demands. 

It also confirms the growing gnostic assumptions about human reality, enshrining feelings and impulses as sacred, while instrumentalizing the human body. Parents and minors who want help resisting what they believe are inappropriate temptations are to be villainized. But parents who facilitate pumping their children’s bodies full of hormones in preparation for sexually mutilating sex change procedures are to be affirmed. Sexual preference is protected but not physical sexual reality. 

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Whatever the New Jersey law’s other problems, it is foremost an attack on private conscience and religious freedom, imposing a perceived. secular ideological orthodoxy upon traditionalists who dare to dissent 

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More widely, there is also the law’s intrusion of government into the arena of inner desires. Traditionally the only sexual association government has legally recognized is male-female marriage, largely because of that union’s role in procreation and the rearing of children. But what of this new world in which the state legally affirms every range of sexual practice, desire and identity while anathematizing dissenters?

Read the whole thing here.