Gay Marriage and Religious Scarves
By Rabbi David Eidensohn
The issue of Gay Marriages roil America. Should we recognize two men or two women as married? Or should we continue defining marriage as one man and one woman?
In France, a Federal Law prohibits children from wearing religious clothing, such as scarves worn by Moslems, in public schools.
At first glance, these two issues are unrelated. But they are linked. In America and France, redefining marriage or the way to dress in public school is rooted in decline of family. As family crumbles, wrenching changes appear. This is the true import of the gay and scarves issues.
America is not dealing merely with the rights of gays. Nor is France suddenly faced with the issue of school-children and their dress. America and France are falling and failing with demographic replenishment and family. The war about gay marriage is only a symptom of the greater disease, which is a culture not dedicated to family and children.
In France, the issue of scarves is related to the decline of white people. Caucasians do not have many children. However, Moslems have large families. As these children attend public schools, they bring with them their influence and challenge the weakening way of the white French. The ban on religious garb is an attempt to assert Caucasian values.
There are those who blame the rise of the Gay Lobby on certain activists, or on the atheist media. There is certainly some credit in that direction. However, if family-value Americans really believed in family, gays would still be in the closet. Gays are a product of a society where gender war and divorce are common.
As long as those who oppose gay marriage don’t themselves have a truly functioning family and marital environment, no amount of protesting will solve the problem. If society is sick, there will always be problems with those who belong in the closet. The Bible Belt has a huge divorce rate, almost as bad as everywhere else. What, then, can be done to fight with the gays about marriage when nobody wants it?
The French are in the same pickle. They don’t want to have strong families and children. Moslems do. Thus, every day that goes by tilts the power in France from the original population to immigrant Moslems. Will banning the rights of children to wear their traditional clothes solve this problem? Of course not. Thus, not only will the law not stop the increasing power of immigrants, it will antagonize them and make things much worse.
The French are gambling that the public school system can somehow reach the minds of Moslem children and make them like other French people. What the French don’t appreciate is that Western society is a sewer to people like me and the Moslems, who utterly despise the "fun" and "no family" civilizations. Never will any of us want to be like that. Our children are more important than sexy movies, food that is poisonous to the human body, and culture that ruins anyone who touches it.
What is actually happening in America and France is that two entirely separate and mutually opposed societies are competing. The larger society with the vast majority of the populace, are the "fun" people. They despise deeply religious people and consider life important in terms of "freedom" and "fun." The other society considers life in terms of G-d and religion. They have large families. A scissors relationship exists and expands between these two. The small religious and family communities grow geometrically, and the large but family-poor society shrinks geometrically. Every year that goes by the larger "fun" people age and are not replenished. The "family" societies explode with vigor and youth. It is, ultimately, no contest.
Yes, we must battle gay marriage tooth and nail. Yes, we must lobby. Yes, we must make rallies. Yes, we must contact the politicians. However, all of this is not going to solve the issue.
It is time for family people to put up or shut up. If they want family, then the tooth and nail, lobbying, and rallies must be against the society and culture of fun. This is the problem, not the gay lobby. Once we have strong families, the gay lobby will go tamely back to the closet. Or quite possibly, many homosexuals may take a new look at family, and decide to join the fun.
A major sexologist has declared that partner sexuality of any kind no longer works, and that "autoeroticism is spirituality." This saves a bundle on lubrication! This is the climate where many troubled people seek in homosexuality what they did not receive elsewhere, because they had no proper and loving parental relationships. They are not entirely wrong! "Fun" people don’t give, they take. Thus, partner relations are a farce. If we do not learn to give, we will all end up in the closet, one way or the other. While we are there, pouting and anguishing, we will hear the loud noises of those who have new ideas when family failed.
I grew up in a very secular environment. In those days, being religious was a disgrace. Then, one did not dissent from the prevailing styles. I was always the funny kid. The boys were always talking about this girl and that car. My father had no fancy car. I didn’t have the expensive toys. In my house, we never talked about materialistic things. We were just family and religion. All of the energy went to producing children who worked and studied. Fun was for the religious holidays.
Today, I have a large family. We are very close, and strong in our religious values. Those who used to make fun of me have a lot of money but few children. It is not their thing. So, they disappear, and my kind explodes demographically. This is the story of the West, its future, and the real issue behind gay marriage and the banning of scarves in French public schools.
We want Moslems to learn from us. Maybe we should learn something from them. Maybe if we did respect cultures with large families, we wouldn’t be in such a mess ourselves.
There is, however, an alternative to family. That is passing laws to suppress the family people. And when that fails, call out the police. And when that fails...