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  • Hardcover: 250 pages
  • Publisher: Ignatius Press (April 15, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1586178334
  • ISBN-13: 978-1586178338
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (214 customer reviews)
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This is probably the best book I have read on the subject of the defense of traditional marriage (and I have read several, including the one from the Heritage Foundation) and is a logical, reasoned, reasonable case against homosexual marriage. Reilly doesn't invoke religion in his defense. His argument is based on logic and Nature as observed by Socrates and Aristotle.

He goes through the history of how we got to this point, using U.S case history, from contraception to abortion; to the acceptance of homosexuality, and homosexual conduct; to the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell; the Boy Scouts; the infiltration into U.S education and more. It is sad to read.

I found myself bookmarking and highlighting my Kindle edition every few pages; that's how good it is. I read the book over two days and may have to read it again. It is best be read slowly, as nuggets of wisdom can slip through your fingers if you're not attentive.

Thoroughly recommended.
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So much of the debate over same-sex marriage pivots on the Judeo-Christian scriptures. However, in the author's words: "I make no case from religion or revelation in this book, only from reason as it discloses to us the Nature of things." This book will show you the debate between reason and passion, between logic and rationalization, between Aristotle's Law of Nature as Universal law and Rousseau's belief that reason must be subordinated to man's desires and appetites. Granted, the opening chapters about Greek philosophy weren't exactly easy reading, but once the author established the difference between "Reality - viewing things the way they exist in Nature" vs. "Rationalization - viewing things the way one wants them to be," the lines of argument are clearly drawn. We are male or female based on the reproductive organs that we are born with and we'll never change without intervention. Later chapters take the readers through the steps society has followed in separating sexual behavior for the purpose of child-bearing to sexual behavior for the purpose of pleasure—"Once sex was detached from diapers, the rest became more or less inevitable." (p.211) You'll read how the availability of contraceptives led to changes in attitudes and laws regarding sex, marriage, fidelity, responsibility, divorce, rights, on through the twentieth century, and you will learn how private, personal freedom has been exposed into public display and how tolerance has been turned into tyranny without the author ever saying "God opposes homosexuality." You'll see the shift from valuing "my children - my posterity" to "it's about me and my life.Read more ›
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This is a very courageous and well argued work. It casts light on the homosexual rights agenda. The Author exposes the pressures placed on the society by the well funded gay lobby, by Hollywood, the media and academia, and most egregiously by the Legal Establishment.

It is not at all a hateful book. It is honest. It argues for example that the word "marriage" has a meaning.

In a very real sense, the rule of law is at risk when words lose their meaning. The Big Lie technique can work here.

One of the most important aspects of this book is to expose the effort in schools, elementary and high schools, to encourage the formation in childhood of a gay or lesbian identity and the employment of our schools as governmental reeducation camps where the goal seems to be the systematic destruction of what is healthy and moral.

This book reminds us that our constitution was formed to benefit not merely the founders and those then living but posterity. This book seeks to protect young people who do not as yet have votes, but upon whom the future of this country rests..

Does any honest person imagine that the founders sought to to destroy the family, or would countenance the destruction of the natural family? Does anyone believe that those who enacted the reconstruction amendments after the Civil War did so to promote sodomy? To ask the question is to reveal its answer.

Reilly, by the way, does not let the larger society off the hook. It is a serious well-reasoned work.

I recommend this book for its arguments. Do not dismiss it because epithets are shouted at the author or the book. Read the book, Consider its arguments and documentation, Then make your own considered judgment.
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Reilly's book is nothing if not a presentation of the obvious. The attacks leveled against him as "homophobic" or filled with "hate speech" are a sad testimony to a need to respond emotionally (and erroneously) to a well presented, logical argument. Reilly has isolated the root problem of the disagreement over the homosexual lifestyle in world views which are contradictory and mutually exclusive. Certainly one can disagree with him---though rationally this is not easy because it means surrendering one's relationship with reality---but vicious, ad hominem attacks say infinitely more about the attacker than they do Reilly. There is no bitterness or animosity in this book, only an attempt to see the issue in the light of reason. If we surrender our grasp on reality in order to be politically correct, we lose the ability to reason at all. My wish would be that those who are sexually active in the homosexual life style, as well as their supporters, would see Reilly's book as an act of true charity. When one sees a friend falling, he reaches out to help. No doubt there are those who will rabidly reject the offer of help, but that should not discourage one from trying to help all the same.

The book attempts---successfully, I believe---to make a reasoned argument in defense of the natural law. No recourse is made to specific religious beliefs. It might be correctly argued that traditional religion (specifically Judeo-Christian) is implied in the arguments, but this is so only because these moral codes are themselves rooted in natural law. Aristotle is often cited as offering some of the strongest arguments in defense of Western moral traditions. At no time, however, does Reilly attack on a personal basis.
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