Posted on 05/08/2009 9:47:02 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Joe Wurzelbacher probably didn’t intend to draw the wrath of the elite when he gave an interview to Christianity Today. But the fiery thunderbolts hurled from our cultural Olympus are crashing all around Joe the Plumber now.
“I've had some friends that are actually homosexual,” Wurzelbacher said. “And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn’t have them anywhere near my children.”
In a free country, we are told, everybody has a right to their own opinion. Wurzelbacher is quickly learning that, according to the American elite, what you actually have a right to is their opinion.
There are certain subjects – and homosexuality is certainly one of them – where the elite have reached a consensus about the limits of permissible discourse, and no one who aspires to influence in American society can be allowed to contradict that consensus.
The suggestion that homosexuals might be a harmful influence on children is an opinion so at odds with the elite consensus that Joe the Plumber could not have inspired more furious denunciation if he had quoted Mein Kampf.
Yet it is a fact that the Boy Scouts do not accept gay scoutmasters, and it is a fact that -- despite the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy -- homosexual behavior is still prohibited under the Universal Code of Military Justice.
Four decades after the Stonewall riot in New York that is generally cited as the spark that ignited the gay-rights movement, attitudes like Joe’s remain far more widespread than you might realize if all you knew of American opinion was what you’ve seen in the news media. Despite the elite consensus – which is so influential in New York, Hollywood and Washington, D.C. – the average resident of Lucas County, Ohio, probably agrees with Wurzelbacher.
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This guy has held his own every where he went, as an ordinary Joe American he has proved him self better than almost all current politicians, he has to be a better conservative than about 70 or 80% of the republican politicians.
Well everyone always tells me that I’ll argue till I’m “blue in the face.”
I guess arguing till I’m dead is no stretch.
Good post, BTW.
People say to others “you think you’re always right” but why would we hold an opinion if we think we are wrong?? Of course we think we’re right, or we’d change our opinion!
Speakin’ truth to power.
This is our Joe the Plumber.
I like that about you!!
I use facts when explaining my position, so a guy at work told me they were MY facts, not his. At that point I realized you can't cure stupidity or Obama Delusion Syndrome.
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