Can the Pursuit of Liberty Encompass Both a Homosexual and Christian Agenda?

John R. Houk
© March 29, 2006

The Christian Right has been more vocal in the last quarter century about political rights and liberty. The result of entering a more vocal stage has resulted in the emergence an angry leftist liberal anti-Christian Right.

Is it because the Christian Right espouses Christian Rights as opposed to those who suppress Christianity? That is what many homosexuals intend in any political agenda. I am both a homophobe (proud of it) and a person that believes in individual Rights. How does one find a balance when each group believes the other is entirely degenerate? Both Christians (Evangelical and Fundamentalist anyway) and homosexuals do consider the other deviant. The first based on Biblical interpretation the later based on secular humanistic relativity. So how does one measure liberty among such mutual aversion?

You cannot find an equitable measure as the two ways of living are significantly mutually exclusive. The answer lies in electoral community standards. I must stress the answer does not lie in a legislative judiciary, rather within the community. In most of America that excludes homosexuals. There are pockets that would accept homosexuality as a community in America. The answer is about community and liberty. General liberty to all, measured liberty in the community. General liberty is the right to believe and speak universally, communal liberty is specific to location.

The idea will probably be unacceptable to both groups. It is such polarization on a national scale that is pulling America apart. Both sides consider themselves patriots and the other side contemptuously evil. Both sides clamor for the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that is stamped on America’s Declaration of Independence. Yet both sides have become so entrenched in their ideology that compromise is unacceptable.

I am for pockets of liberty based on community, however another danger arises. There is the potential of an ugly desegregation to develop if managed incorrectly on a social/political scale. Regardless of there huge loud voice, homosexuals are a decidedly minority group. It would be too tempting for the Christian group to view homosexuals as demons that might result in an economic suppression. In the land of Liberty that is injustice. Therefore the pocket solution should entitle Constitutional protections for the minority, whether it is homosexuals, atheists, non-Christian religions or whatever.

If the concept of Liberty is not revamped in this nation polarization might be the beginning of the demise of the Republic as we know it. It could happen it happened to the Roman Republic. Lack of compromise will result in the opposite polls battling for hegemony much as in Rome. Someone will win without compromise. I pray it is the Christian Right.