New Word Order
Is Proposed

It’s time to stop slandering the decent Vermonters who are rightly sceptical of radical social experimentation. Take Back Reality.

Tired of homophobia? Tired of the way this imprecise, politically convenient word is now so prevalent in Vermont, so liberally and wrongly applied to kindly neighbors who merely hold to traditional morality?

It is passing strange suddenly to see so many closet "homophobes" lurking about, and to think that only a year ago they were the "salt of the earth". Enough phobias already.

In the interests of precision and civility, we need a new word combination from the Greek -philia, meaning"affection for", you know, like bibliophilia. We need heterophilia, heterophilic and heterophile for those who choose to prefer heterosexuality.

Those who choose to practice the gay lifestyle are "homosexual" and homophilic.

Liberal straights who approve the gay lifestyle are "heterosexual" and also homophilic.

But those who practice and approve the straight lifesytle are "heterosexual" and heterophilic.

And wrongly maligned traditionalists would be heterophilic instead of "homophobic".

Here are some things to note:

1. Nature is solidly "heterophilic": Procreation only produces people heterosexually.

2. Mankind’s great transcendent religions are "heterophilic".

3. 6000 years of human history and society, and modern unpoliticized medical and social science, are also "heterophilic".

4. Traditional values have been, are, and will continue to be the mainstream, the river of life, regardless of the odd warp of current liberal fantasy.

5. Today’s political correctness is just plain old censorship and intimidation, just coercion in the name of tolerance, just fear and loathing all dressed up in a shabby suit, and such censorship is, as always, the product of moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

Heterophilia is not "homophobic"; if you love the sun, it doesn’t mean you hate the rain.

Marriage, family, sexual purity and devotion, traditional values, and faith are worth defending because they are, in fact, the guts, the nuts and bolts of what works in our otherwise increasingly dysfunctional society. Traditional values are not "phobic" or "phobias"; and people who hold those values are not in the business of hating or oppressing anyone, regardless of calculated shrieks >from the Victim System.

Let's be real. Old fashioned values have never been more fashionable.

Tom Wilson

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