The Right Can't Win This Fight

LA Times ^ | May 20, 2004 | Max Boot

[neverdem]

This OpEd column was mentioned on "The Beltway Boys" this weekend. The author is definitely not a strong soldier in the culture war. I can't understand why homosexuality is not stressed as the major cause of transmitting HIV/AIDS in this country by all the public health nannies other than sheer hypocrisy.

Suicidal political correctnesss

The link goes to the table, but the whole article is available and interesting, just scroll.

[neverdem]

From time to time, I’ll post or ping on noteworthy articles about politics and foreign and military affairs.

[freekitty]

America is in cultural decline.

[Cicero]

America is on a cultural decline. The people who are fighting back against our enemies are not the same as the people who infest our corrupted courts, universities, media, and entertainment industry.

[tallhappy]

This doesn't mean that America is in cultural decline; no one who saw the response to 9/11 can think we are soft or decadent.

Boot's got his head in the sand.

[justanotherday]

Brought on by a court that chooses to make Law, not enforce it. The people of MASS were denied the right to decide the legal interpretation of marriage by the stste Senate, aided and abetted by the Boston Globe. This travesty of justice requires a response by the people.

[JudgemAll]

This is not the Right's fight, this is for everybody's sake.

For the life of me, the last time special rights were given for people's racial or sexual preferences was in Nazi Germany.

So I guess liberals do have a point, liberals can ultimately transform the US of A into a social fascist state. Nothing to gloat about.

[Vision Thing]

Advocates of same-sex marriage speak in the powerful language of civil rights and liken their cause to that of African Americans fighting anti-miscegenation laws in years past.

The smelly libs are shooting themselves in the foot with this line of reasoning. The civil rights defenders have been denouncing the gay marriage agenda.

[John W]

"...no one who saw the response to 9/11 can think we are soft or decadent."

Right after,ok.How about since?

[mcmuffin]

This battle is already lost.

The downward spiral continues.

Cal Thomas expounds

HERE

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[.cnI redruM]

Max needs to get the boot! Sometimes it's better to lose with honor that to run from the fight.

[Huntingtonian]

The inherent danger of anal intercourse combined with the propensity of gay men to engage in sex with multiple partners is indeed the reason HIV/AIDS has spread more rapidly in that community (it is far more difficult for a man to get AIDS from a woman through heterosexual sex). But the pro-gay-marriage crowd would argue that encouraging gay couples to form long-term and legally binding marital relationships some of the problems of promiscuity would be reduced.

I think the issue is not one of rights, but rather of state recognized privilege (like the privilege of driving, hunting or fishing). You do after all need a license. States have long held the power to restrict access by certain individuals to privileges accorded to the public. Marriage is state recognition of a legal bond for a purpose (to ensure procreation)

[Vision]

With gay marriage on a roll, it's time to move on to another battle.

I think this fight is far from over.

[Archangelsk]

I can't understand why homosexuality is not stressed as the major cause of transmitting HIV/AIDS in this country by all the public health nannies other than sheer hypocrisy.

Because effing is the major cause, not homosexuality. If we had a constitutional amendment against effing and applicable enforcement it would end the AIDS crisis (of course it would also end the human race, your choice).

[GraniteStateConservative]

His point is solid-- because we can't win the argument on our fundamental point (that sodomy is wrong), we'll lose the argument. You have to get them to accept that sodomy is wrong before you have any chance at getting them to agree with us on gay marriage.

[AlbionGirl]

This doesn't mean that America is in cultural decline; no one who saw the response to 9/11 can think we are soft or decadent,

So, he's saying that our will to survive proves we're not soft or decadent? The soft part, maybe I'll give him, although we've been easily turned around on Iraq, so that mitigates what he can actually cash in, but if he thinks that our will to survive proves we're not decadent he's out there.

[Brandon]

I checked your link. The most common cause of the spread of HIV is gay male sex; second most common cause (35% v. 42%) is heterosexual sex. Meanwhile, lesbian sexual contact isn't even on the chart; presumably lost in the 1.8% "other". By your logic, we should ban all sex except for lesbian sex.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Don't listen to Cal Thomas.

He made his millions as a moral crusader, now he tells us that Christians should not get involved in our culture and in politics.

So, Cal, why don't you give back all the speaking fees you made from Right to Life dinners? [$7000 each] And from all your books.

[teletech]

I think this fight is far from over.

I ABSOLUTELY agree!!

[avenir]

The rates of premarital sex, out-of-wedlock births and divorce have soared since the 1950s...

...which is why we are now facing the abomination of gay "marriage". This travesty didn't pop up out of nowhere. It's a progression from the passive/aggressive embracing of heterosexual immorality. Which was a progression from turning from God to the creation (idols). Which was a progression from ingratitude towards the Father. (Read Romans for details.)

Premarital sex/out-of-wedlock births/divorce = Vagabond, fatherless children/spiritual vacuum/increased susceptibility to sexual immorality and perversion.

(Somewhere in this demonic mix belongs the occult explosion of the 60's and 70's, which played a huge part in this cultural nosedive we face.)