Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything

by Robert Reilly

Overview

Why are Americans being forced to consider homosexual acts as morally acceptable? Why has the US Supreme Court discovered a constitutional right to same-sex "marriage", which until a decade ago, was unheard of in the history of Western or any other civilization? Where has the "gay rights" movement come from, and how has it so easily conquered America?

The answers are in the dynamics of the rationalization of sexual misbehavior. The power of rationalization—the means by which one mentally transforms wrong into right—drives the gay rights movement, gives it its revolutionary character, and makes its advocates indefatigable. The homosexual cause moved naturally from a plea for tolerance to cultural conquest because the security of its rationalization requires universal acceptance. In other words, we all must say that the bad is good.

At stake in the rationalization of homosexual behavior is reality itself, which is why it will have consequences that reach far beyond the issue at hand. Already America's major institutions have been transformed—its courts, its schools, its military, its civic institutions, and even its diplomacy. The further institutionalization of homosexuality will mean the triumph of force over reason, thus undermining the very foundations of the American Republic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621640868
Publisher:	Ignatius Press
Publication date:	09/01/2015
Edition description:	Second Edition,New edition,New paperback edition with new afterword
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Robert R. Reilly is Director of the Westminster Institute. In his twenty-five years of government service, he served as Special Assistant to the President and as Director of the Voice of America, and he was also Senior Advisor for Information Strategy to the Secretary of Defense, and taught at National Defense University. He attended Georgetown University and the Claremont Graduate University, and he has published widely on American politics and morals, foreign policy, and classical music. His other books include Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything, Surprised by Beauty: A Listener's Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music, and The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

Part 1 The Rationalization and How It Works

1 The Culture War 3

2 Order in the Universe: Aristotle's Laws of Nature 15

3 Rousseau's Inversion of Aristotle 28

4 The Argument from Justice 45

5 The Lessons from Biology 52

6 Inventing Morality 66

Part 2 Marching through the Institutions

7 Sodomy and Science 117

8 Same-Sex Parenting 143

9 Sodomy and Education 154

10 Sodomy and the Boy Scouts 173

11 Sodomy and the Military 184

12 Sodomy and US Foreign Policy 195

Conclusion 207

Afterword 215

Acknowledgments 231

Appendix: Disease and Mortality 233

Index of Proper Names 237

Index of Subjects 243

Editorial Reviews

"Robert Reilly shows that to go with the flow of the homosexual movement is to go against nature, science, children, marriage, the family and the common good; in fact, to go against common sense."
—Patrick F. Fagan, PhD, Senior Fellow, Family Research Council

"If you read only one book on homosexuality and the radical changes now being instituted within our culture, let it be this one!"
 — Joseph Nicolosi, PhD, Cofounder, National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH)

"This book is a stark warning that should be read by every lover of liberty, and a call to action for those who would preserve it."
— John C. Eastman, JD, PhD, Chairman, National Organization for Marriage, Founding Director, Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence

"The important contribution of Reilly's book is explaining the background of the relevant Supreme Court cases. What drives those cases is not law, but ideology."
— John S. Baker, JD, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Louisiana State University Law School

"A rare tour de force on a defining question of our time."
— Robert Royal, PhD , President, Faith & Reason Institute

"A stiff brush against the fur of today's judicial and journalistic 'wisdom'."
— Michael Novak, Former Director of Social and Political Studies, American Enterprise Institute

"America's ruling class is shaping our society according to its taste for homosexuality and its distaste for natural families. If you want to know the philosophical and legal background of the revolution that is being imposed upon America—and its consequences—read this book."
— Angelo M. Codevilla, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Boston University; Author, The Character of Nations

"First philosophy fell, then psychology, the courts, education, the military, and even the Boy Scouts. No one has told both the broad sweep and the specific details of this story better than Robert Reilly."
— Austin Ruse, President, Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute

"The mainstreaming of sodomistic practice is a sign that a culture has lost not only its faith but also its mind. Robert Reilly patiently and convincingly explains how that flight from reason occurred and what can be done about it."
— Charles E. Rice, JD, JSD, Professor Emeritus of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School

"Robert Reilly is to be admired for tackling such an explosive topic with reason, balance, aplomb, and moral clarity."
— Jay W. Richards, PhD, Author, New York Times bestselling books Indivisible and Infiltrated

"Robert Reilly explains how the acceptance of the rationalization for homosexual behavior may bring down our culture and society unless it is exposed, understood, and opposed."
— Fr. C. John McCloskey, Coauthor, Good News, Bad News

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