And so our fearless martyr, Kim Davis, is released from the federal jail to the sound of rock’n’roll, Satan’s favorite tool of evangelization. Except that the “artists” who created the hideous tune “Eye of the Tiger” were none too pleased with the association of their song to Miss Davis, and filed a cease and desist order. Ah well, this is what happens when Protestant “pastors” like Mike Huckabee try to make a pact with the devil. Oh wait, he already did, when he rejected Christ’s True Catholic Church for the Protestant heresy.
In all fairness, Miss Davis might not be responsible for selecting the soundtrack, nor orchestrating the embarrassing rally that it accompanied. However, her lawyers continue to prattle on about how terrible it is that she is being “forced to violate her conscience,” as though that were the crux of the issue. Absent from the debate are the horrors of sodomy and the objective fact that two men cannot be married, any more than Bruce Jenner can be Caitlyn.
As humans we have the unfortunate handicap of interfacing with reality through the medium of language, and this deficiency often leads us to believe we can alter reality simply by altering the words we use to describe it. Thus, we hear so many complaints about the “re-definition” of marriage, as though such a thing were actually possible. But there is a reality to marriage which cannot be altered by word-smithery, an essence which belongs to it regardless of what language we apply to it. Thus, one cannot contract a marriage, nor enter into the married state, if one of the parties is deceased. It simply cannot be done, and even if a law were passed “re-defining” marriage to allow, to coin a term, necrogamy, this law would be a farce.
Larry and Steve, or Kim and Donna, are fundamentally sexually incompatible. They cannot produce children, ever, by their very natures. This is totally different from marriage between a man and a woman when one party is sterile; this is a deficiency in the nature of the sterile party, not essential to it. Whereas a woman is essentially incompatible of producing off spring with another woman. As I often say, the mere fact that I even need to explain such things shows the insanity of our age.
However, our age is poisoned with nominalism and existentialism, the former teaching that essences aren’t real, and the later teaching that essence is real, except that existence precedes essence, which of course means that essence isn’t really real at all. Our lack of understanding of basic metaphysics has led us to believe not that things are what they are, but that they are what we define them to be. Hence, marriage can be re-defined. This is why it is fundamentally flawed to say “I am opposed to the re-definition of marriage.” Say instead, “Marriage must have a male and a female party by its nature.” (Polygamy does not contradict the nature of marriage, by the way, since it is ordered towards procreation, but has been prohibited by civilization and God for a very long time.)
Protestants of the Bible-thumping variety (a) have little use for philosophy and (b) believe that the individual’s conscience is the measure of faith. Because they regard Scripture to be the only infallible guide to faith, and all other sources as merely fallible, they rely on individual judgement to determine the correct Protestant sect to adhere to, and have little concern whether someone adheres to this sect or that, just so long as they agree on a handful of “fundamentals.” Thus, we hear nothing of the objective order from them, and a lot about individual conscience.
Of course, in the post Vatican II-era, we don’t hear much about objective reality from the Catholics either. And so, our only representative on the scene, Mr. Marco Rubio, an admitted apostate who attends Protestant or Catholic services as suit his fancy that Sunday, was thankfully barred from the pep rally, where he surely would never have stated what needs to be said.
As to Miss Davis, who knows what will happen to her? She probably won’t be impeached in a state like Kentucky, but whatever does happen, she will likely be a mere memory in a year or so, as we march onward to our Brave New World where men are women, women are men, and to be a “husband” does not require a “wife.”
Mors Sanctorum 