Posted on 12/29/2013 7:23:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Gay-rights activists have won the culture war—why the need to act like sore winners?
Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson’s victory over the A&E network, which sheepishly reinstated him late Friday, is a rare culture war victory for conservatives. Though Robertson’s controversial remarks to GQ magazine were fairly cringeworthy, it is exhilarating to see the zero-tolerance liberal commissars who police the public square with such Javert-like zeal get their, er, goose cooked by their worst nightmare: a rural, Southern, fundamentalist Christian duck hunter who does not give a tinker’s damn what they think.
Bien-pensant activists and their corporate and media enablers lecture us endlessly about the virtues of “diversity” and “tolerance.” In fact, these are Orwellian terms they use to mask the intolerant monoculture that they truly desire — one that sends dissenters from the maximalist gay rights line to the… well, to the closet.
We may (must?) celebrate a gay man hanging naked by hooks embedded in his back before a cheering crowd — as happened at this year’s Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco, the annual sadomasochism festival, sponsored in part by Marriott Hotels and American Airlines — but we must banish from public sight a Bible-quoting fundamentalist who believes what nearly all Christians believed about homosexuality until around 50 years ago. A society in which St. Paul’s letters are considered “hate speech” is one with no place for traditional Christians. And people are surprised that these Christians push back?
The thing is, gay-rights activists have won the culture war. America has changed and is changing with astonishing speed....
(Excerpt) Read more at ideas.time.com ...
Good writing. Time magazine? Surprised.
Huh?
The tides of battle are fickle, indeed, but the War is far from over.
It's like saying the British put down the uprising after Bunker Hill.
We have only just begun to fight.
...actually, I’m less enthusiastic the further into it I read...
Sorry, but Time is wrong and Duck Dynasty is right! Just another minor victory for decency and religious free speech (which has been on the decline lately).
"Though Robertson’s controversial remarks to GQ magazine were fairly cringe worthy"
They are only controversial because people with AN AGENDA choose to make them controversial. 99% of straight people didn't find them cringe worthy.
The expression is "tinker's dam," as in something of no more consequence than the mother of a tinker. Two hoots. Same idea. (Not that I personally endorse looking down on tinkers or their saintly mothers. . .)
The WHOLE article boils down to sat that we have the right to be wrong. I don’t believe we’re wrong!
Did you read the sentences, “The thing is, gay-rights activists have won the culture war. America has changed and is changing with astonishing speed”?
No, they have not “won” the culture war. For the sake of my daughters, they have not won the culture war.
“Tinker’s Damn”—Sweet phrasing, that.
The homo agenda is about misogyny.
It’s less than 50 years ago. I believe I was in my twenties when the whole “being homosexual is an acceptable lifestyle” agenda started to really be pushed. That was 30 something years ago.
In any case, they don’t win. I’ve read the book.
I don’t get it. Robertson spoke bluntly and plainly. How else can one talk about the differences between “starights” and homosexuals without talking about basic biology? He didn’t use childish terms like “bush” and “pussy,” which are truly vulgar, because he is long past being childish.
I want to be in your echo chamber
everyone I am around is a lib
” who believes what nearly all Christians believed about homosexuality until around 50 years ago”
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Errrrrr, no. Up to the PRESENT day and beyond, TYVM.
Do I tolerate as a Christian....yeah, whatevah.
Do I ACCEPT and CELEBRATE as a Christian? Um, no.
“Tinker’s Damn”—Sweet phrasing, that.
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British phrase, if I’m correct.
I just love old sayings. My grandfather used to say “cyarn”. Found out many years later her meant “carrion”. (Scots-Irish blood, here......with Cherokee for the mix. ;-))
He would say....smells like cyarn in heah!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker
FWIW, the explanation I heard for the phrase was that "tinkers" traveled around doing odd jobs like repairing pots and pans with holes in them. The dam was a small clay wall built around the hole that contained a small amount of molten metal until the metal cooled and completed the repair. The now-worthless dam was then discarded. I have no idea if that is where the expression actually came from.
Ooops. That rings a bell. I did read that once, now that you remind me, and it makes more sense. I think your explanation is the real origin. Sorry about that. In any case, we've established that it's a "dam" and not a "damn," darn it!
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