GOOD INTENTIONS supported by dodgy science often lead to disaster.
The “West” invaded several countries in the Middle East after the 9/11 Twin Towers attack with the aim of liberating those countries from the iron grip of Islamic fundamentalism and promoting democracy.
A crucial component was regime change – removing despots and replacing them with western style democracies. A noble aim.
A decade later the region is in shambles. The despots have been removed. In their place is near anarchy for the most part. Libya is in ruins. Iraq is paralysed, much of it now in the hands of ISIS.
Afghanistan is unsafe; all hostile to Christians. The so-called Arab spring, motivated by the lure of democracy, has decimated Syria – nearly half its people are displaced, starving and sick.
Tunisia was thought to be safe – we now know otherwise. Egypt has, perhaps wisely, replaced its former strong man with another strong man. The latest result of all this is that thousands of Mediterranean and North African migrants risk their lives at sea to reach Europe, their former livelihoods completely destroyed.
The same “West” is on another crusade of regime change, having learnt absolutely nothing from the past. Convinced that they, and they alone in the entire world, are right, they are now ready to forcibly export another kind of cultural democracy – legalised homosexuality and same-sex marriage.
During his recent visit to Barbados, Mr Ban Ki-moon found at least two such weapons in our society. Stigma and discrimination against LBGT people were responsible for the march of AIDS.
Not promiscuity. Not people sleeping around. Not womanising. Not having multiple sex partners. Not people on the down low. Not prostitution. On the contrary, he urged us to embrace sex workers and drug pushers. That’s regime change.
You don’t need God, nor the Bible, to deduce that heterosexual marriage is absolutely fundamental to society. If we’re so totally idiotic, so weak, so stupid, to fall for this crass nonsense, we will find ourselves in the same position as Iraq and Libya, metaphorically speaking.
Destroyed, in disarray, shattered as a society. With no one to help. Not even God.
– TREVOR R. SHEPHERD