The attitudes and worldview of modernity are alive and well in so
called "post-modern world.. Bruce Thornton make some interesting
observations about what we see in the effort to redefine marriage:
"The
redefinition of marriage currently before the court reflects the modern
disdain for tradition, and modernity's overweening arrogance about our
superior "scientific" knowledge and our power to alter human and social
reality to fit our modern prejudices and ideologies. Schooled by the
media, popular culture, and dubious social science, many have come to
think that homosexuality is a human variation no more significant under
the law than hair color or eye color, and so any other point of view can
only be the result of irrational prejudice and bigotry. Of course, this
belief is unprecedented in human history, for even societies that
treated homosexuals better than we think we do never claimed that they
weren't anomalous. Even the ancient Greek celebrator of homoerotic
attraction, Plato, called sex between males "against nature." Thus our
modern view does not reflect advances in scientific knowledge, but
rather changing fashion and the efforts of a gay identity-politics lobby
that finds social and political traction in casting gays as victims of
civil rights inequality."
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