Outflanked

God took a rib and created Woman for him.

Imagine all the miracles He could do with a limb.

Man took his hand and tried to create in kind,

But all he got for his trouble was another man's behind.

On August 2, 216 BC Hannibal of Carthage led an army of approximately 50,000 soldiers against a Roman army estimated to have been 86,000 strong near the Italian town of Cannae.  Hannibal's numerically inferior army was able to envelope the Roman army and utterly destroy it.  Up to 75,000 Roman soldiers and allied troops may have been killed in one of the bloodiest battles in human history.

Today, numerically superior conservatives are being enveloped and destroyed in a pincer move by progressives.  Conservatives have chosen the valley of despair and indifference.  The progressives have outflanked them and taken the high ground.  On the hills of politics, education, science, religion and morality, a barrage of deadly fire is raining down on conservatives.  It's becoming a bloodbath.

I once heard somewhere that Man doesn't really advance.  As he takes steps forward in one area, he takes steps backward in another.  There does seem to be some truth in that.  We are a technologically enriched society but I believe we are morally bankrupt.  We have risen technologically and declined morally.  All the blame for that moral bankruptcy isn't the fault of progressivism, but I believe, as conservatives, we should put all the blame on progressivism.  Once (If?) we send progressivism back to the pit of Hell from which it came, then we can work on other sources for our immorality.

We are a society that tolerates a pogrom against the unwanted.  We're baby killers.  And we're good at it. 

The only time progressives don't think with a collectivist mindset is when they're assigning societal value to an individual.  Low men on the totem pole for them are babies, children and the elderly.  Abort babies, deny medical care to the elderly (a poor investment), and give children to same-sex married couples (a wise investment).  If progressives want to decrease the surplus population, and they do, then - after aborting babies - giving adoptions to same-sex couples is a good alternative.  A child raised in a homosexual environment will, at a minimum, consider it to be a worthy lifestyle.

I believe homosexuality should remain stigmatized to the extent that heterosexuality should be the preferred lifestyle.  By stigmatization, I mean in the same manner that a baseball team would prefer a 3rd baseman who bats 330 over one who bats 250.  One player is not a better human being than the other.  Giving marriage to same-sex couples is saying they can play the game as well as heterosexual couples in child-rearing and that is profoundly insane.