There’s a strategy that is often used by people who want to conceal their lack of credibility by using words and phrases that are associated with legitimate abuses of authority.

• “You can’t force your beliefs on me!”
• “Racist”
• “Separation of Church and State”
• “I’m not hurting anyone”

Because of the emotions that are triggered, any objective analysis that would otherwise be deployed is now pushed aside in favor of accommodating the person who’s apparently being subjugated by an abusive system.

Accommodated…Never Evaluated

When you say you’re in pain, because people assume that you’ve been hurt by something or someone other than yourself, they’re not going to ask what you’ve done to yourself. Rather, they’re going to ask what happened to you and, should you have a response that sounds like that of a victim, your perspective is rarely evaluated as much as its immediately accommodated.

In other words, by sounding like you need help, you can avoid being held responsible for your actions.

Take the phrase, “I’m not hurting anyone.”

It’s Bad for the Team

A lot of times you hear that statement made in the context of someone who wants to insist that what they’re doing is harmless, even if others see it as problematic.

Sometimes, it’s a valid point.

There are occasions when you’re being evaluated in a way that is overly critical.

But there are other times that it’s used to conceal a mindset that says if it doesn’t both me, it shouldn’t bother anyone else and if it does, they don’t matter.

For example, Homosexuality. When a homosexual tries to justify their lifestyle by saying that they’re not hurting anyone, do they have a point? Are homosexuals “not dangers to society” and is homosexuality “compatible with full health”?

These aren’t the complaints of a collective that tends to be overly conservative. This is coming from the National Library of Medicine. Homosexuality, from a purely objective standpoint, is bad for the team.

As a member of the LGBTQ community, you are declaring…

• I can subscribe to a lifestyle that represents a complete departure from the way the human species is designed and call it “normal.”
• I can declare the physical and psychological roles of husbands and wives along with mothers and fathers as being social constructs as opposed to gender specific functions.
• I can promote my perversion as a sophisticated alternative despite its liabilities in the context of public health and social order.

70% of those with HIV are either gay or bisexual men.

It’s a sick resolve to be wrong at society’s expense.

No Such Thing as Being Sick

Homosexuality is like any other immoral act in that it’s prompted by a perspective that says “I can make up my own rules.” This is why even those that aren’t homosexuals will endorse same sex marriage because of it being founded on the idea that I don’t have to answer to anything greater than myself.

Those that want to refrain from condemning it as perverse and instead embrace it as an irrelevant shortcoming in light of God’s grace forget that forgiveness only registers in the mind of the person who believes they need to be forgiven. If “acceptance” manifests itself only as a subsidy for bad behavior, that isn’t Christlike let alone “loving.” You don’t validate the need for a doctor’s office by saying there’s no such thing as being sick.

Nobody’s in the Ditch

The idea that any kind of decadence or injustice can be justified by trying to suggest that the ramifications are limited to a purely personal dynamic is a perspective that resonates only in the mind of the person who’s thinking of no one other than themselves. They can say that they’re not hurting anyone because the only person they’re paying any attention to is the individual they see in the mirror every morning.

You don’t justify driving on the wrong side of the road by saying you have the right to be happy, nor can you ignore the problem you’re causing by overlooking the people you’re forcing into the ditch.