Posted on 04/26/2015 10:21:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It certainly seems so.
This week has been very revealing in terms of what conservatives actually think and what progressives imagine we think. The “big” question that kicked it all off was “would you attend a gay wedding?” This was, apparently, supposed to separate the knuckle-dragging haters on the right from the sophisticated and pious leftists. John Nolte writes:
"Another Republican presidential hopeful, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, made all kinds of headlines when he said something that would not surprise anyone who has spent any amount of time with a conservative Christian — that he would attend a same sex wedding. Out here in the real world this is a dog-bites-man story. Nevertheless, our media considered it as newsworthy as the sinking of the Titanic."
And that’s the problem. As surreal as it seems to most of us on the right, the leftist media and progressive groups actually believe that we have such hate in our hearts that we wouldn’t support our own friends and family members should they be gay. This is, after all, a very different question than whether or not gay “marriage” should be legal. At least it is to us.
This fundamental misunderstanding of conservatives seems more than a simple political weapon designed to rally progressives against those (supposedly) intolerant, nasty Republicans. The conviction with which they approach such topics–so certain that some candidate’s willingness to attend a gay friend’s wedding will instill in the base a violent disgust–suggests that they really believe their own myths about us.
They can’t see anything but their own bias, so when Ted Cruz attends a reception hosted by conservative gay businessmen, leftists go nuts. To them, the fact that Cruz attends functions hosted by gay businessmen doesn’t show that he’s not “homophobic” or that he doesn’t “hate” gay people....
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Example Socialist Jim Jones created Jonestown and excluded all dissent.
I could not attend the ceremony. Implicit in the vow taking is community support of the couples marriage. By being present and quite I am endorsing their vows to each other. I cannot do that.
We don’t hate people who disagree with us. We answer our call to hate sin but love the sinner.
More than that. IIRC, he got good company and praise from San Francisco mayor George Moscone.
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