Slippery slopes. For all the 20-plus years I’ve been doing this work, I’ve warned about them. Many times in response I’m told even by well-intentioned people, I’m just fear-mongering when I warn people that some law or some cultural acceptance is a slippery slope that will take us farther and faster than we’ve ever imagined. I’m saying it again, however. Slippery slopes are real. They should be avoided at all costs—because the cost is always greater than we can imagine.
When the big push was to normalize homosexuality, we were told that sexual orientation is genetic; people are born “gay.” Never mind that there’s been no credible scientific evidence that supports that contention. That reality doesn’t matter if you can win the hearts and minds of people by repeating the lie often enough and have enough emotionally-laden stories. Why is this acceptance of this fabrication so important? Because it convinced people that it is discriminatory, hateful and bigoted to not allow them to, for instance, marry.
That belief is really the basis for the US Supreme Court 2015 decision that forced the redefinition of marriage on the entire country. Inherent in the belief of the majority of the justices is that people involved in homosexuality are born that way. We can’t have laws that don’t treat them like everyone else, just as we can’t do that for black Am ...
