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Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything Hardcover – April 15, 2014
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Print length250 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherIgnatius Press
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Publication dateApril 15, 2014
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Dimensions6.5 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches
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ISBN-101586178334
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ISBN-13978-1586178338
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Reilly exposes the unscientific reasons why homosexuality was normalized in the [American Psychiatric Association] diagnostic manual. He offers us some intriguing new material. In a clear, systematic, and engaging style, Reilly show us the inherent futility of same-sex acts, and eloquently explains what marriage really is. This book should be required reading for anyone who writes our laws in fact, for anyone with cultural decision-making power. We must not allow the surging political tides to obscure what you and I 'can't not know' about the nature and purpose of sexuality." --Joseph Nicolosi, PhD Co-Founder, National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH)
"Reilly has drawn on his extensive knowledge of classical political philosophy to explain the full scope of the dangers inherent in the modern homosexual rights movement. The movement threatens our very understanding of human nature, and hence of the American political regime that derives its understanding of rights and legitimate government from that nature. This book is a stark warning that should be read by every lover of liberty, and a call to action for those who would preserve it." --John C. Eastman, JD, PhD Chairman, National Organization for Marriage Founding Director, Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence
"In our society, homosexuality has become more than a 'sexual orientation'. It has now grown into a far-reaching movement seeking to redefine not only morality, but ideas about biology, human nature, law, and politics indeed, to declare opposing views as beyond the pale of civilization. Robert Reilly has the multiple talents necessary to address the full range of relevant issues, from the philosophical to the practical. A rare tour de force on a defining question of our time." --Robert Royal, PhD President, Faith & Reason Institute
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- Publisher : Ignatius Press (April 15, 2014)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 250 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1586178334
- ISBN-13 : 978-1586178338
- Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches
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At the heart of this issue, Reilly believes, is the contrast in the philosophical perspectives and differences found in Aristotle and Rousseau. Reilly embraces the Aristotelian understanding of the person and Nature (which is also a foundation of Christian understanding, at least until recent years) and rejects Rousseau, which inverts and rejects the Aristotelian understanding of Nature.
Since other reviews on Amazon.com quite thoroughly consider the arguments Reilly makes as well as the policy issues which stem from them, I will not go into them here except to say that they lay out the reasons for the contentious nature of the differences in understanding. If you don't embrace Nature as understood by Reason, all sorts of things are possible, as the current situation shows.
The book helped me to understand and articulate the issues more clearly. My sense is that what Reilly wrote will help bring clarity to those who oppose making gay okay, while those who embrace this change will not be impressed with the arguments he carefully lays out.
What were once considered quite private and delicate issues, such as sodomy, are freely and frequently discussed in the book as that is the reality of gay sexual practices. If you are sensitive to this, be prepared to be assaulted, frequently.
Reilly makes the point at the end of the book that he believes recovery from the present outlook is possible, but that if it does happen it will take great work and time to do so. He believes it will collapse because "dream worlds do not last. They invariably turn into nightmares from which people eventually wake themselves" (p. 228).
One of the most riveting chapters dealt with the pathology of anal penetration known to cause cancer, perforation of anal canal and rectal prolapse. He describes the body's punishment for the misuse of its organs. Life spans for those who engage in such activity are some 20 years shorter than normal. Suicide rates are 3/4 times normal. All of this is presented in great detail, reciting the various JAMA and other studies and reports.
Another chapter deals with the harmful effect of adoption and raising of children in the absence of a mother or father. He cites statistics and studies that show that the average same sex couple disbands after 3/4 years and is open to outside partners even during that brief period. He shows how courts rely on flawed studies to inflict political correctness on the children involved.
Still another chapter details the 1973 cave-in to gay pressure by the American Psychiatric Society to remove homosexual conduct as a listed objective disorder without any scientific basis for doing so.
It would seem that anyone seeking to disparage this work would have a monumental task in refuting the cited studies and stats.
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Es una lástima que no tenga una traducción al español.



