Why Laws Restr icting Sodomy will Benefit Families, Amer ica, and especially Sodomites Contents: Explaining “Gay Marriage” to Children Why Does God Hate Sodomy So Much? 1. Sodomite practices are unsanitary, spreading terrible disease. 2. Sodomy is unnatural. 3. Sodomites reject the Word of God. 4. Sodomite cultures become extremely violent. But how does Adam and Steve’s “marriage” hurt my marriage? Sodomy is All a Big Misunderstanding. Understanding Desires Desires Betray Us “Gay Marriage” Part Two: Adultery Heartbreak Facts The Direct Connection between Promiscuity and Heartbreak Sexual Union: More than Physical Understanding the difference between “looking” and “lusting” Dehumanization: Dark Delights Explaining “Gay Marriage” to Children Of all the issues that make Americans shout at one another, Gay Marriage gets the shouting about as loud as anything. Do you know what Gay Marriage is? (Answer: That’s where instead of daddies marrying mommies, daddies marry daddies and mommies marry mommies. Now, it takes both a daddy and a mommy to make a baby. And without a baby, you are neither a daddy or a mommy. So it gets kind of confusing.) A similar issue is discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Do you know what that means? Do you know what discrimination means? (“Discrimination” means hating some group of people so much that you hate anyone in that group. Laws against discrimination mean landlords have to rent their homes to everybody, and employers have to hire anybody. In public schools, it means children aren’t allowed to be disrespectful of anybody in some group. That’s what its supposed to mean. But Benefits of Sodomy Laws Page 1 by Dave Leach, candidate for Iowa Senate in practice, Bible believing Christian students who proclaim that evolution is a lie and sodomy is a perversion are persecuted by teachers and students both, motivating many parents to home school their children, while students who proclaim their love of perversions which they shouldn’t even know exist, are protected and encouraged.) Do you know what “orientation” means? (“Orientation” means how something is facing. If your living room window is oriented towards the street, that means when you are in your living room you can see the street. If your solar collector is oriented towards the sun, that means it is facing the sun for as much of the day as possible. If you are “oriented” towards a behavior, that means you like that behavior.) Now here is my most difficult question. I hope you don’t know the answer, but I am afraid you will. And if you don’t know, I don’t want to tell you. But I know our society is telling you all about this, in a way that will make you want to do things that will destroy you. So I have a strong desire that you, and other children, know just enough about this thing to turn away in horror when society recommends this thing to you. And yet I do not want to be the one to tell you enough about what this thing is to start imagining how good this thing might be, before it is the right time for you to know. I also know that adults watching me ask this question of a child your age will feel embarrassed just because I am asking, and some will blame me for embarrassing them and you, even though some of these same adults have voted for politicians who have made sure that public schools teach this junk all the way down to Kindergarten. So I want to challenge you embarrassed adults watching this, to direct your shame logically: towards the education policies which your votes have allowed, if not required. I hope you will be so ashamed that you will vote differently, and persuade your fellow Americans to vote differently, so that innocent children may safely remain innocent. But newspapers are full of this phrase, “discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation”. So if this discussion is allowed to proceed, if you are ever to know what the newspapers are talking about so much, I have to ask, do you know what “sex” means? (There are three things it will help you to know: first, sex is something people do when they are naked, which explains why it is so important to dress modestly, because the more you show everyone your body, the more danger you are in that this thing will happen at the wrong time and place, which will destroy you. Second, the diseases which sex can give you, if you do it at the wrong time and place, are hideous, and can last your whole life long, and make your life short. Third, God created sex to create babies. That’s why sex between a man and a woman who have committed themselves to obey God and to love each other as long as they live, and to love the babies they create, is wonderful, even though sex anywhere else, by anyone else, is perverse and hideous.) Why Does God Hate Sodomy So Much? The Bible gives only four clues that I can find why God is so down on Gays, as they call themselves, or Sodomites, as American law called them until I was a teenager, and as the Bible calls them. (Sodomites say the Bible doesn’t call them that. See my Bible study about that, at www.Saltshaker.US, click on “Sodomy”.) As I ponder God’s reasons, during my run for Iowa Senate in 2010 against Matt McCoy, Iowa’s first out-of-the-closet sodomite lawmaker, whose “eloquent advocacy” is credited by sodomite magazines with killing the Republicans’ Marriage Amendment when Republicans controlled the Iowa Senate, I can’t help but agree with the Iowa Supreme Court. I don’t mean today’s Iowa Supreme Court, which decided the Constitution requires Benefits of Sodomy Laws Page 2 by Dave Leach, candidate for Iowa Senate county clerks to license sodomite marriages, but the 1854 Iowa Supreme Court, which said in Hunt v. Hunt, “man’s laws cannot be very far out of the way, when they are in accord with the laws of God.” God’s reasons for laws against sodomy are bold – He gives the kinds of facts which it takes courage to publicly even acknowledge today – as I ponder His reasons, they make sense. I have decided that God isn’t stupid, after all. 1. Sodomite practices are unsanitary, spreading terrible disease. Romans 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 27...men with men working that which is unseemly [Gr: indecent[, and receiving in themselves [in their bodies] that recompence [consequence] of their error which was meet [Gr: inevitable]. See Appendix for explanation of this verse by Albert Barnes’ Bible commentary. I’ll mention this concern later, but the facts are widely known. The only contribution I offer to the subject is concern for them. 2. Sodomy is unnatural. Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another... Newspaper scientists today insist sodomy is perfectly “natural”, as observable in the animal kingdom. I’ll respond to this later. 3. Sodomites reject the Word of God. Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. Articles and entire books are authored by sodomite theologians to justify their behavior from the Bible. I respond to their principal points at www.Saltshaker.US, click on “sodomy” or “Bible studies”. I have tested this study through lengthy, comprehensive debates with sodomites. In all their studies that I have seen, I find ingenious spins on Scripture which are enough to convince them that most of the verses against them really are not, or are inconsequential since they are in the “Old Testament” which doesn’t matter any more, with all its wars, mixed textiles, and stoned children. But several verses written by Paul in the New Testament are too much for them. They make a brave attempt to spin the verses their way, and when their ball just won’t quite fit in the basket, they finish Paul off with “well, he was just influenced by his culture” and therefore was not really speaking for God. The bottom line is that I have never seen any sodomite reconcile his behavior with a belief that every word of the Bible is the Word of God; as Jesus put it, “the Scripture cannot be broken [Gr: loosened]”, John 10:35. (Jesus said this to nail down an argument for an extremely controversial theology, premised on every word of Scripture being authored by God.) One cannot reject God just a little, without stepping on a bottomless slippery slope. This slope is described in Romans, below, as inescapable, once stepped upon. As if rejection of evidence of God invokes the slope, and after that one slides all the way to the bottom, with sodomy but one bump along the way. This obviously does not mean every single sodomite, since 1 Corinthians 6:11 addresses a group of Christians who were delivered from sodomy. But it describes a culture which, as a whole, in its laws and role models, rejects God Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19 Because that which Benefits of Sodomy Laws Page 3 by Dave Leach, candidate for Iowa Senate may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: ...28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. 4. Sodomite cultures become extremely violent. At the bottom of the “slippery slope” just described is the kind of violence the Bible reports in Sodom, Genesis 19, and in the tribe of Benjamin, Judges 19. One hesitates to associate such ruthless violence with sodomites in America today, who at least do not yet roam streets in rampaging mobs seeking immigrants to gang rape. But have you watched sodomite parades? I have film of one in San Francisco showing a naked man with only a small cardboard cone covering his frontal privates. I have film I took in Des Moines with a man operating a puppet of a Catholic nun who would lean forward and its disproportionately large breasts would flop out. Shameless, brazen, are words that come to mind. Or sodomite protesters? Have you seen them get right up to the faces of their ideological opponents and blow police whistles as loud and as constantly as they can, their faces full of all the fury of Hell? God describes them this way: Isaiah 3:9 The shew of their countenance [expressions on their faces] doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. But how does Adam and Steve’s “marriage” hurt my marriage? Sodomite marriages undermine Biblical marriages in many ways. Perhaps the most direct way is that our culture (radio, TV, movies, magazines, books) in order to get in step with sodomite civil rights and marriage laws, glorifies “discovering” that you are “gay”, thus encouraging and tempting mothers and fathers to divorce their spouses for being the wrong sex. That is what my opponent, Matt McCoy, did to his wife and children. Marriage is under assault enough from temptation to fornicate with half the population, without doubling the assault with temptation to fornicate with the other half too. Another threat to families is through sodomy-promoting public education which forces small children to consider choices they should not even know exist, encouraging them to Benefits of Sodomy Laws Page 4 by Dave Leach, candidate for Iowa Senate become promiscuous before they are even physically able, and to experience all the health threats that go with that. Confused children often grow into confused adults with confused marriage-displacing “relationships” breeding more confused children. Sodomite men are particularly attracted to children. How many? Enough to fill the pages of Kinsey, the membership rolls of NAMBLA (North American Man-Boy Association), and the court dockets against Catholic priests. Innocent children are seduced, abducted, and murdered by these men, and this perversion is generally tolerated among all sodomites to the extent that I hear no public renunciations of this perversion, other than when observations like mine are made all sodomites will angrily denounce any implied association with it. Marriage is challenging enough under ideal circumstances. Ideal circumstances would be where a whole culture honors lifetime, monogamous marriage and regards every alternative sexual relationship unthinkable. Living in a culture which justifies, if not glorifies, every other perverse sexual relationship but lifetime, monogamous marriage, is the most difficult environment for any marriage. Glorification of sodomy is about the farthest a culture can go from affirming lifetime, monogamous marriage. Glorification of sodomy is about the farthest a culture can go, because: 1. Physically, at least [heterosexual] adultery sticks to bedroom uses of our bodies. Sodomy mixes bedroom and bathroom uses. (I’m trying to find a clean way to allude to the orifices chosen.) This is the direct cause of sodomite men being 44 times as likely to have HIV, and of the shortening of their lives by a quarter century, and not even that discourages them. There are even men who seek HIV positive men because they want HIV! That is as far down into self destructive behavior as any element of our culture has fallen so far, but there is still farther to fall. 2. Adulterers at least acknowledge that lifetime monogamous marriage is the ideal relationship, through their efforts to hide what they are doing, and from the shame they feel upon exposure. Sodomites are proud of their perversions, flaunting them in whatever media they can get in, and in public parades. 3. National obsession with sex, mushrooming with glorification of publicly proud sodomites, fills human imaginations with images of every other alternative to one’s own spouse. The threat to Biblical marriages is not the only reason to outlaw sodomite marriage, if not sodomy itself. Sodomy destroys family bonds, children, social conscience, and nations. Obsession with sex is not good for any nation’s economy. Every broken home struggles financially, only counting the fact that two adults now have two homes rather than one to pay for; add to that lawyer fees, career-debilitating hatred and despair, and children’s loyalty torn between two warring parents. But the greatest reason to outlaw sodomy, is for the sake of sodomites. Sodomy is All a Big Misunderstanding. Sodomites say they can’t help their desires; it’s in their genes. They produce studies to prove it. The usual procedure is that a study like this is published in some obscure journal, and makes page one of the newspapers. A few days or weeks later critics arise who have thoroughly analyzed the study and by normal scientific standards the study either fails to make the case alleged in the newspapers, or never even pretended to make such a case, but those criticisms don’t even make the obituary pages, but they flood the alternative news Benefits of Sodomy Laws Page 5 by Dave Leach, candidate for Iowa Senate sources; email lists, blogs, talk radio. One such early study alleged that brain scans looked different in sodomites. Added to the doubts whether that finding was valid, was the question whether the brain looking different caused the desire, or did the desire make the brain look different? It is alleged of the Bible that “you can prove anything you want from it”, a claim ridiculous to scholars of it, and disproved by the failure of sodomites to justify their “orientation” from it without at some point throwing up their hands and conceding that although they have successfully dodged almost all the damning verses, here’s one or two left that they must dispose of by questioning whether Paul was really inspired by God or “influenced by his culture”, and besides look at all the genocide, stoning of rebellious children, silly food laws etc. which no respectable God could have ever actually supported! But the fickleness charge which cannot stick to the Bible, sticks like glue to “scientific studies” of desires and genes. It is like the studies of whether a little wine will make you healthy. If you don’t like one study, just wait a bit for the next. Post them on a graph, and someone looking over your shoulder will think you’re following the stock market. However, I want to acknowledge that the desire for physical union with someone can be overwhelming. Although the channeling of this desire towards either the opposite or the same sex has nothing to do with genes, it is very real, and it is very important that we understand what causes it, and what it takes to control it. Understanding Desires When desire engulfs you, you may think you cannot be happy until you satisfy it. You may assume your desire is a sure guide to what will satisfy you and give your life meaning. Usually not. An adult who still believes that, when engulfed by sexual desires for activities, some of which are prosecutable under American law, and others of which are condemned by the Laws of God, shows the same immaturity as a child who sees a toy and begins crying if he can’t immediately have what he never before knew existed. Parents well understand the fickleness of their children’s desires. It is their own desires whose fickleness they do not understand. Desires have no will of their own. They are the servant of your will. To the extent they are undirected, their mission is to report possibilities to your will. Possible actions, possible rationales, possible justifications. Have you noticed that when a new possibility for pleasure occurs to you which you never before heard of, and therefore which you never previously felt the slightest twinge of desire for, that the longer you consider it, the stronger desire wells up in your heart for it? God gave you the capacity for desires, to inform your choices. God doesn’t want robots in Heaven whose only movements are to raise their hands to praise Him and to put money in offering plates. God wants every detail of your personality to be your choice. That’s why human children need so much longer to mature than animals. So with each new possibility, whether a pastry, a partner, or a career, God provides us an imagination capable of what no animal can do: visualize possibilities of things which do not yet exist, and visualize whatever potential they have for pleasure, alongside visualizing the consequences of that choice, so that our choices can be informed. The only reason our will delays rejecting a potential desire is because the consequences are not determined to be unthinkable yet. When we shudder at the thought of a choice, we Benefits of Sodomy Laws Page 6 by Dave Leach, candidate for Iowa Senate have reached the point where it is unthinkable, and any desire we once felt for it simply vanishes without a trace. Whether the choice was to murder an enemy, smoke weed, have another doughnut, or fornicate. As long as your will delays making its decision, your desires will grow, demanding to be addressed. But as soon as your will decides, your desires fall into line in proportion to your will’s resolve. For animals, desires are overwhelming because that is all they have to guide them. They don’t have “greater goals” for the sake of which they need to discipline desires in their way. A goat doesn’t reason “those roses really look delicious, but if I eat the whole bush I’m going to regret it tomorrow.” In fact, cows or goats, let loose in a corn field, will eat until they bloat, and they will die unless the farmer pokes a hole in their bellies to relieve the gas. A cat doesn’t reason “Rover may have an aggressive smile, but inside I’ll bet he is a pussy cat, if I can just appeal to his better nature. So I am going to set aside my desire to run, or hiss, and I am going to set my sights on success.” Humans can choose to behave like animals, which behave like tantrum-throwing children. But humans are capable of a thing we call “success” - the reaching of a goal that requires discipline of conflicting desires, acquisition of skills, hard work and commitment. Overcoming desire for sex with another of your sex, after you have learned that it is not your most wholesome choice, is really no different than overcoming your desire to sleep in when it is time to go to work, or overcoming your desire to kill somebody who makes you mad. The fact that we have desires which conflict with our higher goals is the mark of the nature of human consciousness. Our temptation to accuse our higher goals for interrupting our desires is the mark of immaturity. When we are children we imagine exciting careers ahead. Fireman. Astronaut. Lawyer. Musician. Garbage collector. As we grow our choices become better informed. We learn that we can only pursue one at a time. At the most, two. We look forward to our first day on the job, and we find that the fervent desires of our childhood for all other careers have vanished without a trace. It turns out they were not sure guides to what will most satisfy us, after all. We only smile at their memory. If we still allow ourselves to yearn for them, that will diminish our attention to the career we are in. So it is with marriage. So it is with sticking to a healthier diet. So it is with sex. Desires can Betray Us It is really very common for the things we strongly desire to give us no happiness when we get them. It is really very common for human beings to choose to desire really terrible things. It is possible for a child to choose to live in a mess, and to complain when mother makes him clean his room, and even complain when mother cleans it herself. It is possible for a drunk to blaspheme the “holier than thou do-gooders” trying to help him off the street, off alcohol dependency, and into responsible work. It was possible for German voters to give Adolph Hitler a strong enough second place showing for prime minister, that he could kill the prime minister and assume the lead himself Benefits of Sodomy Laws Page 7 by Dave Leach, candidate for Iowa Senate without raising too many alarm bells. (Have American voters ever supported tyrants?) It was possible for ancient Israel to stone Joshua and Caleb for encouraging them to march into the Promised Land, when they would rather return to slavery in Egypt. It was possible for Adam and Eve to be dissatisfied with Paradise. It is possible for a man today to be dissatisfied with his wife whom he had chosen as the easiest to love of any he had found on the planet. It is possible for human beings today to reject God, good, peace, contentment, truth, Love, light, evidence, and Life itself. Revelation says it will be possible for people to curse God even knowing He Is. Apparently it will be possible, after death, for people, shown Heaven where scheming lies, torture, wars, and hatred are not possible, to run screaming the other direction. No, there is nothing inherently reliable about desires. Desires are wonderful tools, used as they were created to be used. In the hands of an immature child, any tool can destroy. “Gay Marriage” I think the whole “Sexual Orientation” mess that divides America is all a big misunderstanding of how desires work. Whether we are talking about Gay Marriage, or losing weight, or breaking addictions, or learning a musical instrument, we are not dealing with something physical. We are dealing with the nature of consciousness. We are dealing with a power which, properly harnessed, can move mountains. But which, unbridled, allowed to wander without fences, has destroyed better men than I. Let me explain how it works, by telling you how much I love my wife. Over our 25 years of growing beautiful together, I have fallen in love with her more and more. And not just with her mind. The strange part is that I am more attracted to her appearancenow, than when we were both 25 years younger, which was at a time, by the way, when neither of us were particularly young, although neither of us looked this old. Now I spend less time cutting the hair on my head, than in my ears. When I was young, I worried about how this would work. I saw how much my grandparents loved each other, who were then the age that I am now. I wanted that happiness in my old age. But I could not imagine, then, remaining physically attracted to a woman as old as my wife and I are now. I want to emphasize that I am not merely pretending to be content, while forcing my desire for young women into a dark unhappy corner, because I have resigned myself to less than I really want. I have what I want. My attraction to my wife is not pretense. I do not want to be younger, or to have a younger wife. So why are the worst fears of my puberty now vapor? Because of my genes? Did my eyes used to have a gene that made them look at young women, which, somewhere along the way, evolved into a gene that made them look at old women? Amazing, that my gene should be so affected, when it is not so with an embarrassing number of other old men. Maybe I got the gene from one of my grandfathers; my other grandfather didn’t have it, I don’t think. But if a gene explains all this, explain why I don’t feel this attraction to other old Benefits of Sodomy Laws Page 8 by Dave Leach, candidate for Iowa Senate women? Or any other woman? Just my wife. What physical cause can explain it? Shall scientists search for a Love Your Wife gene? I could be persuaded to contribute to genetic research for the right price. The explanation is simple. I followed Solomon’s advice to “rejoice in the wife of thy youth”. I delighted in the gold on my own property, and decided that it was unthinkable to dig for gold on somebody else’s. I learned that desires, as cool as they are when you steer them, can’t be trusted to lead you to happiness if you let them steer you. If you let your desires wander without fences, they will lead you anywhere you let them. We see people who follow their lusts become cruel and cold, deceiving others in order to play with their bodies, breaking the hearts of their victims, and suffering shame themselves, when their lies are finally exposed. Where there is opportunity to follow lusts without consequences, such as in countries where torturing Christians is legal, horrifying orgies mix murder with pleasure. I used to think, “well, if that is what gives them pleasure, who am I to say it’s wrong? Especially if they are consenting adults. Maybe they like deceiving each other.” But I could no longer rationalize such behavior after I read about a thing called masochism. That’s where it supposedly gives you pleasure to be tortured by someone! Doesn’t there come a point where it’s time to stop rationalizing perversion, and start feeling sorry for these people? I learned from observing others, from reading the Bible, and from struggling with my own mind, that the human imagination will lead your desires wherever you allow it. Unfenced lusts will not only lead you to all these places, but will justify going there. Like the snake in the Garden of Eden, they will create the most persuasive arguments for how delightful this thing will be, how much you crave it, and how little you can live without it. That is, until your will rises up and says, firmly, “No. That is unthinkable. I must not even think about such a horrible thing again.” At that point, all desire for this thing, all arguments for it, all rationales justifying whatever cruelty towards others is required of you to acquire it, vanish like morning mists under the rising sun. When your will reaches this point regarding overeating, you will lose weight. When your will reaches this point regarding adultery, your marriage will become joyful. When your will reaches this point regarding skipping practice on your musical instrument, your talent will soar. When your will reaches this point regarding an addiction, you will quit, with few if any withdrawal symptoms. If your will reaches this point regarding same-sex attraction, your homosexual gene will instantly evolve into a heterosexual gene. But why should you? What was on God’s Mind when He put homosexuality in the same category with adultery? Meaning, God’s recommended penalty for both is the same. As long as we have to fence in our desires at some point, why not put it around the safest, most wholesome pasture? God explains why He fences off homosexuality in Romans 1. Because of the hideous disease that goes with it, and because it is unnatural. How can hideous disease not be the consequence of putting mouths on toilet ports, mixing up bedroom and bathroom functions? Benefits of Sodomy Laws Page 9 by Dave Leach, candidate for Iowa Senate Who can call it “natural”? Animals in nature don’t do it. News reporters say they do, but all you see is animals starting with the same sex. That’s because, being animals, they are sometimes too dumb to figure out what sex the other animal is. In fact, they probably don’t even know what sex they themselves are. So once they figure out that the other animal doesn’t have the expected equipment, they dismount, blush, and say “Oh, pardon my boo- boo. I thought you were a woman." I mean, if even humans have to look closely to tell which is which, can you really expect every animal to be that much smarter? Notice also the obsession with fantasy in the culture of sodomy and adultery. Perhaps you have to buy pornography, like I did decades ago, to see the depth of this obsession. Doesn't it strike you as dehumanizing to enter relations with someone who is pretending you are someone or something else, whose pleasure is only disrupted by any reminder that the person he is with is actually YOU? Besides the dehumanization, doesn't this strike you as a clue that no matter how far men run from God, they struggle to act or feel natural in what God has declared unnatural? Do you know how intensely you must concentrate to tell yourself you are with someone other than who you are with? I wasn’t always this happy. In my past, which I am happy to say is distant, I lusted for things which today make me shudder. Fortunately, they made me shudder then, too, in time to avoid more ruin than I have experienced. If you have never had even a momentary desire for anything the least bit wrong, it is not because your mind was unwilling or incapable. It is because you, in your integrity, stopped your mind in its tracks and ordered, “Mind, don’t even think about going there! I see how steep that cliff is, and I am determined not to let you drag me over!” I learned that when we do that while far from the cliff, desire to jump off remains as weak as distilled water. But the closer we allow our minds to wander, and peek over, the more powerful and irresistible desire becomes. It is very important to understand that I am not talking about suppressing desires which we still believe to be good. Freud had no understanding of the nature of desires, when he theorized about the futility of suppressing evil desires. To the extent we “suppress” our desires, in combination with recognizing their destructiveness, they do not just build up like dammed up waters, until the inevitable eventual breaking point of the dam, and then come crashing down on the unsuspecting countryside, the way Freud imagined. To the extent we “suppress” our desires, in combination with acknowledging their incompatibility with goals more important to us, they simply cease to exist. To the extent we make any desire, addiction, or perversion “unthinkable” in our hearts – to the extent we choose to remember the associated consequences and shudder at the harm that would cause others and ourselves, that former desire leaves and does not return. I have heard many testimonies of people who came to such a point in their lives regarding substance abuse, who went “cold turkey” without even any withdrawal symptoms. Conversely, to the extent we allow our imaginations to wander without fences, they will go anywhere. Anywhere. When you start with your mouth on a toilet part, you are already on a “slippery slope”. You have already had to deaden your conscience to its complaints that this simply isn’t good hygiene. You have already had to pretend that something you know is not wholesome, really has nothing wrong with it. Benefits of Sodomy Laws Page 10 by Dave Leach, candidate for Iowa Senate