Priggish Hypocrisy

Light in Dark Places

Incest remains officially verboten in New Zealand.  Consequently, a brother and sister who have borne a child, are before the courts.  This from Stuff:

A brother and sister who met as young adults have been sentenced for incest as they co-parent their child in Christchurch. The sister has been put on community detention that will keep her at home at night caring for her daughter – a healthy baby – and she must do a year of intensive supervision.

Her older brother’s sentencing was put off at the Christchurch District Court sentencing today because his probation report had not been done. Judge David Saunders told the brother that he must not go within 100m of flat where his sister is living unless he has prior approval of the Community Probation service. The sister has the child for five days a week, and the brother has it for the other two days. He will be sentenced on December 2, on charges of incest, wilful damage, and a breach of a community work sentence.

One self-confessed liberal blogger sniffs the wind in both directions: 

While incredibly yucky, they are both consenting adults. I find their decision abhorrent, but I don’t think my moral judgement should have the force of law on them.

Herein sits the elephant-in-the-room:  this brother and sister were consenting adults, and this nation in its secular humanist hubris has declared that in New Zealand it must be legal, moral, ethical, and civilised to permit homosexuals to marry.  The secularist West cheered its little heart out.  The justification for this monstrous shift in marriage law was (of course) the alleged immorality of continuing to deny true love between consenting adults.   The self-confessed liberal blogger joined in cheering and celebrating that ignominious move. But if homosexuals be permitted to marry because of "truuuu wuv", why not a brother and sister, eh?  No, no, no--incest is something evil.  Our liberal blogger says he finds "their decision abhorrent".  The blogger's position is nothing more than hypocritical priggishness.  The "principle" and "righteous demands" of truuuu wuv, once so important when it came to homosexuals, disappear in a puff of smoke.  Actually, true love is what the liberal secular humanist says it is.  Anything else is verboten.  Abhorrent. 

We are thankful that incest is still a crime in New Zealand.  But doubtless it will not long remain so.  Within twenty or thirty years it will likely all be gone.  The law recognising and preserving marriage, already reducing that institution to rags, will itelf be in tatters.  Secularists will not long tolerate hypocrisy in their position.  They will compel true belief.  They will force the ilk of our liberal blogger to abandon hypocrisy and comply.

It pleases the Lord to give rebellious cultures enough rope on which to hang themselves in the void.  Trying to knot the rope, crying "this much, but no more" will not hold.  When a people sow to the wind, they reap the tornado.

For Christians, merry warriors that we are, we must relish the joy of battle--praying, watching, worshipping, labouring, and doing good to all men, particularly those of the household of faith.  Like Frodo's Light of Elendil, it is in the darkest places that it becomes brightest.  As Galadriel put it: "I give you the light of Elendil, our most beloved star. May it be a light for you in dark places, when all other lights go out."