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I give 4 stars to the courageous lady and soap (at least) for the mouth of the previous reviewer. It's interesting how gays respond to criticism. The previous reviewer's response says a lot about how militant gays think and behave. They don't argue a point using reason, they just shout you down and murder you in their heart. Like most addicts they are full of anger, resentment, and fear.Can they show that the so-called gay life DOESN'T destroy communities and societies that embrace it? Can they show that gay marriage is anything more than unnatural, unhealthy, and ungodly self-indulgent addictive behavior?Reason, history, and almost all religions all declare unambiguously that there cannot be true love between two people addicted to unnatural vice. Addicts of any kind do not develop and nurture loving relationships. They take hostages. And studies even show that children with even dysfunctional heterosexual parents are in general more psychologically, emotionally, morally and spiritually healthy than with supposedly "loving" homosexual parents. And it has been proven in sociological studies (which the media won't report, of course (since it's owned and run by the enemies of truth, moral goodness, and true beauty - connect the dots here) that there is much more abuse and violence percentage wise among gay and lesbian couples than normal couples.Chesterton was quite right when he said that when you get rid of the supernatural, what you're left with is the unnatural.How does God see people engaging in unnatural sex? Maybe we should start with the simple question, Why do you think they call it "Sodomy"? -- "The men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure." (Gen 13.13; Cf. 19.1-9, 24-25) "Sodom, Gomorrah, and the surrounding towns, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual promiscuity and practiced unnatural vice, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire." (Jude 7) "Their very look bears witness against them; their sin like Sodom they vaunt, They hide it not. Woe to them! they deal out evil to themselves." (Isaiah 3.9)The words of St Paul in Romans 1:24-32 especially, which, like the words above are inspired by the Holy Spirit, which means they are God's words , if spoken today, would get someone arrested, fined and/or imprisoned in numerous countries, because they speak the naked and uncomfortable truth about gays and lesbians. He says:God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator...For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct. They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, greed, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward their parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.And then he says that it is "God's decree that those who do such things [as homosexuals do] deserve to die." Today, since Christianity's (especially the Catholic Church's) understanding of the law of grace and mercy in Jesus Christ through his redemptive Cross and resurrection has developed, and we have the means, that could mean some lesser punishment like imprisonment would be more appropriate or, better yet, treatment to reverse the perverted orientation for those who desire to overcome the addiction and become heterosexual, by proven methods - yes, proven - such as are employed by Dr. Joseph Nicolosi and colleagues at NARTH (National Association for the Research and Treatment of Homosexuality).In the wilderness of our modern theologically, morally, and metaphysically bankrupt age - which is much worse, and is the cause, ultimately, of our economic bankrupcy - having the Christian faith is like being a man who sees things from a higher vantage point than others, or like one given a pair of glasses in a land where all are nearsighted - one is able to see things that others cannot see, and even what the others do see one sees more clearly. Having the Christian faith (and to a lesser degree the religious and moral beliefs of other religions which acknowledge the sovereignty of God and the objective moral order) allows one to see the truth about what is good and what is evil, what helps persons, families, and society and what harms them. It gives one a solid grip on reality. It is an antidote to moral and spiritual blindness. I am reminded of Dostoevski's line in The Brothers Karamazov: "If there is no God, everything is permissible."When you're talking about people engaging in one of the few sins that "cry to heaven for vengeance," the sin that provoked God to send down fire and brimstone from heaven to destroy five cities, the sin which in great part (besides abortion, infanticide and contraception [1]) led to the weakening and the the fall of the Roman Empire (and other empires as well - including our own), don't start telling us that these people won't do significant harm to the society in which they live their living death.[1] Contraception, which Pope John Paul II called "a lie in the language of love" since the contraceptor is holding back part of himself, his procreative powers, from his spouse, not only leads to abortion and a spiraling population decline, but logically leads to fornication, infidelity, divorce, and even homosexual behavior. For, as E. Michael Jones has rightly said, "Homosexual behavior is simply the premise of contraception [the separation of sex from its 'telos', its finality, its ultimate purpose: the begetting and upbringing of children] carried to its logical conclusion." (See culturewars.com or some of his work, including audio, here) The end result of the contraceptive mentality, besides the ultimate tragedy of the loss of many souls in eternity, is the weakening and death of the society that embraces it. And a fortiori the toleration and especially the approval and legal recognition of such human degradation as homosexual behavior.