On Bible-Thumping Bigots

(Letter)

19 May 2006

Regarding “Britain: Anti-sex Witchhunt”: The “sexual revolution” of the 60’s and 70’s is being assaulted by the “anti-sex counterrevolution”, spearheaded under the slogan of “family values”. I refer you to the cover story in New York Times Magazine of this weekend past, entitled “The War on Contraception”. A good source for information on this front is gay sex columnist Dan Savage, who periodically updates the attempts of Bible-thumping bigots to push us back to the Victorian Age. It would be foolish of us to underestimate their power, when close to 40% of the US population describe themselves as “born-again Christians”. My objection to “Biblical morality” is that there is no such thing! The Jews were a primitive, barbaric people and anyone who takes their crude attempts at a system of ethics as a basis for governing ourselves today is nuts! And the fact is, the Bible-thumpers don’t! They make something up that suits their agenda and find a verse to support it—agenda first, Bible afterwards. It is all nonsense.

However, the results of this nonsense have to be taken seriously—the gains of the sexual revolution have to be defended. I have my electronic typewriter to engage in this matter, and it is not clear to me what other means could be brought to bear—you are the Workers Vanguard, so you know better than me how to defend revolutionary gains. In all events, the values of the family are not our values, nor is the family itself a value we wish to preserve.

Yours,
C.O.