Previously John C. Wright authored a post on the topic of the the channel formerly known as SciFi in their caving into pressure to include more homosexual characters in their shows. His post was soon troll-bait by the homosexually lobby which descended upon him in droves. Some 800 comments before he turned off the comments. You can imagine exactly how predictable the comments were and that they knew little or nothing about Mr. Wright’s view on how he first saw homosexuality as wrong while he was still an atheist.
Though John C. Wright did use some words not fitting with the dignity of the human person who suffers from same-sex attraction. He has since apologized more than once for the usage of those words and followed up with what the Church teaches on homosexuality and the statements made in regards to treatment of those with some level of same-sex attraction.
He has now written a six part post on this and his genesis in first coming to believe that homosexual acts were not moral. He is doing anything but preaching to the choir since for the most part his audience is not exactly open to the truth on human sexuality. On one previous post he had referenced that the homosexuality lobby is made up of a lot of heterosexuals. This is certainly true since they see common cause in preventing the restriction on sex in almost any way. The culture will cater to homosexual acts with a wink in a nod to normalize sex outside of marriage. The culture is also catering to fornication, adultery, multiple marriages. John C. Wright certainly makes the case for how our culture has been nothing but a boon to predatory males while being destructive towards women..
Preaching obvious truths about what the culture has enabled is quite difficult since it is not obvious to most. Most people think there are being charitable and compassionate when they talk about people “living together”, “significant other”, and every other example of condoning sex outside of marriage. The idea of sexual sin is pretty much laughed at and can even be met with giggles. Or at the least met with the idea that you can only believe that because your a Christian. That it is a spiritual work of mercy to rebuke the sinner (always with charity) is not possible in their view. The reality for them that to even mention sin is ironically sinful – “you’re judgmental”
John C. Wright has a rare apostolate in that fans of his SF and Fantasy books read his blog. As an atheist for most of my life and a lifetime fan of SF I can certainly say that the genre is filled with atheist and agnostics. He has a tough audience to write for on his blog, I just hope that some pause to actually read what he writes.
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Yea – they even posted it on his Wiki page.
I wondered at him taking it down and personally thought he should repost the original article with a link to an apology & explanation at the top. Especially since they citation on the Wiki page was to an outside source it’s doing him no good (or was, I see the link is now dead).
From my perspective the article wasn’t that bad, but then again I thought he was talking about the homosexual lobby in negative ways and the sins. Rereading it I can see how others (or even John) could have taken it as the people suffering.
PS. I fully agree with his shutting down of the comments section – but I was totally frustrated.
I had NO ability to tell him what to do! 😉
It’s too bad that, as you say, SF is “filled with atheist and agnostics.” The Catholic faith is a perfect addition to science (both describe the nature of reality) and insanely fertile ground for SF and fantasy.
May God send more good folk like Mr. Wright into the field!
Christina- he took down the post because that Wiki page was channeling in tons of trolls, and several of the iterations of the citation were, um, less than reasonable. (I know, on Wiki? Say it ain’t so!)
I think he reacted too much to to folks taking offense– sometimes, truth *really hurts,* and if you know you’re prone to taking offense on a topic, it’s a good idea to avoid writings on that topic….
It boiled over from his lady wife’s LJ, after she committed the unspeakable sin of not judging her friends by their melanin content.