There are two groups within our society that are marginalized, have a fair amount of disposable income, and are hated or subverted by those who are against Christendom and a civil society.

One group is the Jews. At times they are their own worst enemy, particularlty the liberal and reform, who believe in making the world right over ridee the law and the prophets. They do marry, but continue to seek power and professional respectability. They hate their believing brethren: the Orthodox.

But the Hasidim can walk down the street unmolested, you generally have a tolerant society.

In NZ, the Jews are a micro minority, outnumbered by any other religion but the Easter Orthodox. We cannot use the Hasid text. But we can use the gay one. Homosexual couples have to work to get kids, and most don’t bother. They want to explore the world, have disposable cash, and use that to obtain power, pleasure or both.

In a civilized society, a gay couple can walk down the street unmolested[1]. That test has never been met in the Islamic world, and is no longer being met in Birmingham, Rotherham or Amsterdam.

We should pray for our gay friends. That they find Christ. There are many men and women who should not marry, and holy celibacy is an honour choice, with less stress than dealing with a spouse.

But by their actions you will know them. And this father is not doing his duty.

Did you know that homosexuality is a crime punishable by death in the United Arab Emirates? Neither did Ms. Ismail, until she and her Argentine-born girlfriend arrived in Dubai. After learning that she had been deceived — her mother isn’t sick — Ms. Ismail and her girlfriend then booked a return trip to England via Tblisi, in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. However, Ms. Ismail’s father followed them there, where he reportedly tore up his daughter’s visa and stole both her and her girlfriend’s passports. They contacted a friend in London, who booked a hotel for them in Istanbul, which they were expected to reach after a cross-country bus ride. When the couple didn’t show up in Istanbul on schedule, fears for their safety made international headlines but now they have been found, alive, after being “arrested for having no passports and were being held by Turkish authorities ahead of their deportation.”

What have we learned from this story? First, if you’re gay, don’t ever go to Dubai — or anywhere else in the Islamic world. Buy yourself an atlas and draw a big red “X” on every Muslim country on the map.

Second, maybe you should have a serious conversation with your liberal friends about immigration policy. It is often the case that people who immigrate to prosperous Western democracies believe that they can (and should) bring with them the customs of their native lands. In Detroit, for example, three people — Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, Dr. Fakhruddin Attar, and Attar’s wife, Farida — have been indicted by a grand jury on charges related to performing female genital mutilation on little girls. Perhaps some of your friends don’t like a certain politician whose policies are aimed at preventing the United States from being destroyed by a tsunami of immigration, but how much Third World savagery are you willing to endure for the sake of your liberal principles?

Third, let’s talk about the definition of “homophobia.” In recent years, liberals seem to have decided that we are guilty of “homophobia” if we either (a) express any negative opinion about gay people, or (b) oppose any LGBT-related policy advocated by the Democrat Party. One of the most basic principles of a free society, however, is the right to your own opinion and especially to express your opinion about public policy. Yet our liberal friends would have us believe that anyone who quotes Justice Scalia’s dissent in Lawrence v. Texas, for example, is perpetrating hate speech that justifies censorship, or maybe a violent riot in Berkeley.

There are many dyscivilizational experts within the West. They accuse the church of many things: from abuse to hatred. They target the Catholics, and hate it when old farts still love their spouses, or quote the old poets.

For another canary is when the books are burnt or locked away.

Add the state’s Curriculum and Assess­ment Authority’s principles and guidelines dictating what texts should be studied in years 11 and 12, and it’s no wonder Victoria is once again being ­described as our Albania of the South — a state where cultural-left ideology and group-think rules, and freedom of thought is under threat.

The guidelines warn that texts should not be chosen “regardless of literary or dramatic merit” if they deal with “violence or physical, psychological or sexual abuse”, “gratuitous use of coarse language” or they “promote or normalise the abuse of alcohol, the use of illegal drugs or other ­illegal behaviour”. Texts dealing with the full ambit of human ­nature with all its flaws, weaknesses and susceptibility to give in to temptation are to be cut from the state-mandated curriculum.

Often the most enduring and worthwhile examples of literature by their very nature portray the dark and unsettling side of ­humanity and personal relationships. In the Greek tragedy The Bacchae, Euripides presents Dionysus as a god of wine, promiscuity and physical gratification that represents an enduring ­aspect of human nature. Other Greek tragedies, such as Antigone and King Oedipus, centre on the nature and impact of violence, ­deceit, betrayal and the ­impact of psychological and sexual abuse.

Shakespeare’s Macbeth, as vividly portrayed in Roman ­Polan­ski’s film adaptation, is awash with violence and death, and there’s no escaping the reality that what drives Lady Macbeth to suicide is her mental and psychological ­instability. The final scene of Hamlet is also bloody, and once again the destructive impact of psychological abuse is evident with Ophelia’s suicide. As proved by one of Shakespeare’s most memorable characters, Falstaff, it’s also true that great literature often involves bawdy scenes ­involving alcohol and rude and ­offensive language.

Similar to Falstaff, the central character in Zorba the Greek would fall foul of today’s PC thought police as he is consumed by the attraction of women and drink, illus­trated by his statement: “To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.”

There’s also no doubt that if the Victorian guidelines relating to “social and sexual relationships” are taken seriously then metaphysical poets like Marvell and Donne would be unacceptable.

Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress is a seduction poem feminists would castigate as misogynist in nature as the poet’s aim is to convince his mistress to consummate their relationship “like amorous birds of prey”. Donne’s poem Elegie: To his Mistress Going to Bed would also definitely be in the no-go zone as the lines, “Licence my roving hands, and let them goe, Behind, before, above, between, below”, would cause feminist apoplexy.

and they hate literature. They want to deny that we are lustful, wrathful, drunk, disorderly, beautiful, glorious and noble. Victoria, the state in Australia, as usual has gone full moron here.

What this is doing is driving a generation away from reading. They have been fed politically correct gruel, and they gag at the next dose. They want to read something real, and (since they have not read enough good writing) they do not have taste.

Most books published now do not meet my standards, and my standards are in the gutter.

There is a cure. Read the old stuff[2]. It is generally available for free, as it is out of copyright. Use this week in reaction as a starting point, they have an arts section each week.

And put more poetry[3] and more essays up. With a bias to the old stuff.

1. Yes, homosexuality is a sin. So is fornication and adultery. We do not stone adulterers. (The family courts instead make them wish that execution was the punishment for infidelity). We are all sinners, and we can preach the law, asking that people repent.

2. Most of the old authors had appalling private lives. They would not meet the requirements of the ultrapuritan Victorian guideline group — particularly the real Puritans such as Donne and Milton.

3. Note to self: more Milton, more Pound, more Eliot.