There is a pinnacle atop a mountain. It is the rock of God; a foundation of religious principles with a pillar each of ethics, moral values and justice for all. Logic, moderation and self-control stand as guideposts. At the foot of the mountain lies it's opposite; the law of the jungle. Here, both man and beast vie for advantage by cunning or brute strength. In-between is a slippery slope.
He who gives thanks to the Lord, dutifully greeting and honoring his fellow man, speaking truthfully, fair in deed, and exercising moderation and self-control stands squarely on the pinnacle, but should he stray just a small bit and compromise a single thing, he steps out onto the slope and he will begin to slide down the slope and will continue to slide, for there is nothing on the slope to stop him; neither a guidepost nor plateau of substance or lasting worth.
Upon stepping onto the slope, one comes across a long string of milestones, each a separate accomplishment, and each bringing one nearer to the bottom of the mountain; to the law of the jungle.
The first milestone to be encountered came early in the last century, with the advent of modern birth control. It was this which enticed many to step off of the pinnacle and come to this pleasurable milestone, but this stop was only the first stop of a long string of milestones, for the tree of life planted carefully on the pinnacle by God had been breeched and the long slide was to happen.
Having shunned thought of life for an immediate sensual pleasure, the people had redefined the meaning of life and rejected their pinnacle at the top of the mountain. With life not first, the people realized that they were not perfect, gaining a knowledge of good and evil by having put on the garments of evil.
Willfully arriving at the first milestone by their desires, the people found they could not stop from sliding to the second, and then to the third and fourth, arriving at and then passing through first pre-marital sex, then adultery, pornography, and on to homosexuality. Here, they began to group and hold themselves from slipping further, but they could not. They began slipping again, now with the next milestone of "same-sex" marriage clearly in sight.
Only those with good eyesight could see what milestones lay yet further ahead, and these visionary men warned of what they saw; polygamy was just a mile further, followed by incest and then bestiality, and the people were as yet barely halfway down the slope.
Yet further down very few eyes could see. Here one found a new breed of humans, looking everywhere for a more erotic feeling, for this had displaced the principles of religion which remained sound and still at the top of the pinnacle. Passions and sensual pleasures had replaced the now antiquated principles of the Lord. The discomfort of the slope could be alleviated only by a more enhanced physical feeling, and this, the people reasoned, must be the route to the heaven that they vaguely still recalled from their oldest of memories.
The jungle awaited it's new flock, of whom would find a liberation and freedom where the strong and the cunning would no longer be subservient to the reasoned principles of religion, with each individual having an equal choice of paths to take, unencumbered by the religious laws of past. Here a man could take a woman at will, or exact immediate justice when he was wronged, and these things enhanced the erotic pleasures for both man and woman.
The people now halfway down the slope did not see a path back up the mountain to the pinnacle from where they had come, for each of the milestones they had passed now stood in their way from return. Most difficult was the last passed milestone of homosexuality, for the people had come to believe that a conquering of this stone had brought about liberation from old religious prejudices which still sat peacefully at the top of the pinnacle, and beyond that were faithfulness of marriage and ills of innocence before marriage, and further beyond was the very first milestone of pure innocence, even in marriage, and a tree that branched through all eternity but mostly absent of immediate pleasurable feelings that the people had become so accustomed to, all now ancient and out-of-date values practiced only by the most old-fashioned and prudish. There was, for them, nowhere to go but onward down the slope, for the ancient religious values still peacefully set atop the pinnacle were now laughable and bigoted, for this the people were told by those that had obtained bliss at the bottom of the mountain, now servants of the jungle's horned ruler.
In time, the people will pound a signpost deep into the slope, and it will read "marriage is a union between a man and a woman" which is exactly the makeup and number for creating a child, and then gravitation will begin to change. The people will find their way back up the slope and, having a renewed freshness of the ancient values, will reside on the pinnacle, the rock of the Lord, and will not step off.
States' Liberty Party, November 27, 2003.
Modified 12/6/03