Posted on 03/26/2013 9:03:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In some ways, today's Supreme Court arguments over California's proposition 8 were overshadowed by the decision of several Democratic senators from red or purple states to openly and active support marriage equality. Actually, even that pales in comparison to Richard Land, the key Southern Baptist political evangelist, who just said, basically, "nevermind," when it comes to the next generation of evangelicals being uncomfortable about gay rights. (To be sure, he still opposes gay rights, still thinks that gay marriage will lead to polygamy, and believes that anti-gay leaders are being ostracized from polite society.) On that last part, he's kind of correct. The zone of tolerance for acceptable viewpoints has narrowed very quickly.
Why has the structure of the gay rights debate shifted so quickly? The Week's Peter Weber has found six reasons. I have some guesses, a few obvious ones, and a few not-so-obvious, and I'm going to try to put them in order of importance.
First: Harvey Milk had it right. All politics is personal. Self-identified gays make up about 3 and a half percent of the population. That means that almost everyone with a social life in America knows someone who is gay. In fact, nearly 60 percent of Americans surveyed say that someone close to them is gay. (Sarah Palin's best friend is gay.) Of those who've changed their minds on the issue, the plurality say that they simply expanded their circle of empathy because their circle came include gay people.
But here's the important point: in order for this to happen, gay people had to take risks and come out. So: the pressure within the gay community to stigmatize "the closet," a pressure that can be pretty intense at times, has paid off........
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There are several reasons. First, for the past 20 years or more, the media has engaged in a full court press trying to "normalize" gays in America.
Then, of course, comes Hollyweird with their "gay agenda" programs such as Glee which seems to add a new gay character about every other week and The New Normal. And, finally, not to be outdone, the NEA has utilized the public schools to indoctrinate our children that gay relationaships are totally "normal" and don't harm anyone. However, what they have carefully ignored is that the children adopted or raised in gay relationships lean more toward gay relationships themselves than heterosexual relationships. It's a little factoid that the left prefer you not know.
I don’t think there’s been all that much of a sea change among the public. Much of this “new support” is just kids going along with what’S popular as kids always do. Gays are among the most activist people out there...that’s the only reason we’Re seeing all this propaganda. I think gays know that their influence has peaked...if they don’T win this SC battle their power wanes permanently and gays go back to being thought of as deviants ...thus their desperation.
Oh, and last, but not least, this whole issue is about ~3% - 4% of the population.
Squeaky wheel, meet the grease!!
It’s absurdly simple: without God, anything is permitted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony
Maybe someday conservatives will learn these was done by Will and Grace. Government only put the finishing touches on things.
“There’s been a gay juggernaut since last summer.”
The gay juggernaut started in the Clinton years. The press once dubbed the decade “the gay nineties.’
After a while, so many people throw their hands up and give in that this so-called tipping point is reached. Only those with strong will and an understanding of the moral basis for their beliefs do not bend to the unceasing drumbeat.
This is how they got the public to be against the war on Iraq, too, by the way. The people who control the levers of this society are quite powerful, and seem to be able to get their way no matter what we think.
One of the leaders was a man who proclaimed himself better on the homosexual agenda than Ted Kennedy, his name was Mitt Romney, campaigning AGAINST Bill Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell", because it wasn't 'total equality'.
Mitt wanted a fully open society and military.
Not sure about the President being gay, but other than that...well said!!
Look into Larry Sinclair, the Chicago bathhouses, his poems from when he was in Hawaii with Frank Marshall Davis, his buddy Rahm Emanuel, that homo basketball player he takes with him everywhere, his Pakistani roommate, and then you be the judge. All I can prove with certainty is that he is a pussy and a metrosexual.
What popped into my mind was Richard Burton's ( i.e. his character's ) comment in Night of the Iguana that we live our lives on two levels, the Real, and the Fantastic, and that trouble comes when we confuse the two.
It seems to me that gay marriage is in the realm of the fantastic, and that our society has entered that realm, while the everyday life of most people, or at least everyone that I'm aware of, is left behind in the reality of mothers and fathers and children and teachers and grandparents. It's like a Night Gallery episode.
“Mark Levin covered gay rights and the Constitution on his show today. He was brilliant, as always. ... I wish I had saved it, but I was driving.”
You can download it from marklevinshow.com
Mark Levin audio downloads
http://www.marklevinshow.com/sectional.asp?id=32930
Click on the show link with the date you want, right-click on “Right-click to download this show” and “Save Target As...” from the pop-up menu.
Prager’s excellent essay, “Judaism’s Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism Rejected Homosexuality” is a must read. After reading it, I can say that America’s future is hanging on the edge of a cliff. It has been pushed there by the unrestrained polymorphous sexual drive of men who have cast off the traditional Judeo-Christian values that have set us apart in human history. For a good read as well as the discussion afterwards, go here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3001152/posts
Check out “The New Tolorance” by Josh McDowell
“If homosexual marriage is so accepted, if not popular as the polls tell us, where is the Constitutional amendment to make it legal? If its as favored as you guys would have us believe, a Constitutional amendment would sail through Congress and the States in no time.”
I got a lengthy non-response.
I also got cut off before I could ask if the 14th Amendment actually made the 19th Amendment unnecessary.
Then you had the report in the early '70s of the psychiatrists saying homosexuality is not a mental disorder. Propagandists began spreading the lie that 10% of the population are homosexuals. Even the term homosexual was limited and most refer to themselves as "gay." And with Hollyweird making it seem that every family had a homosexual member, and that they were a persecuted minority, it was inevitable that we'd arrive at this moment.
VA only passed its amendment by 57% in 2006. It would have passed by more if the wording wasn’t so strict, it seemed to bar any private contract between people like wills or medical directives, and the AG had to clarify what it actually meant. Plus Northern VA.
In my opinion, we have been conditioned to think marriage comes from the state, so many accept any impossibility as marriage as long as the state says so. To many they are simply contracts that can be broken and resumed between any parties the state decides. How does the state decide? It decides by whatever judges, pols, or the voting majority thinks of marriage at the time.
Freegards
It’s mainly propaganda.
But to whatever extent there has been any “tipping,” it’s primarily due to the unreliability of libertarians in the cause of saving the republic, because they give away its moral basis.
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