Posted on 01/12/2006 7:33:23 PM PST by Ma3lst0rm
Shalit responded on Jan. 10 in a statement sent to GLAAD in which he wrote, "I certainly had no intention of casting aspersions on anyone in the gay community or on the community itself. I regret any emotional hurt that may have resulted from my review of 'Brokeback Mountain.'"
"In describing the behavior of 'Jack,'" he continued, "I used words ('sexual predator') that I now discover have angered, agitated, and hurt many people. I did not intend to use a word that many in the gay community consider incendiary."
In his review, Shalit called the film "wildly over praised" and described Gyllenhaal's character as a "sexual predator" who "tracks Ennis down and coaxes him into sporadic trysts."
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But we all know that. Anyone with a brain can see that that's upside-down. How has the homo lobby been able to convince so many ostensibly rational people that left is right, strong is weak, and good is bad?
More to the point, how do we fight that perception? How do we return the world to normalcy?
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I think he is more afraid of getting his ass kicked by Rex Reed!
Glad you're a good typist...it's easy to type 'l' when you mean to type 'k'...
And with that chuckle, I'm gonna open up the first beer of the day.
great srars -- I have been looking for those for a while.
thanks!
I guess I see more insidious forces at work. Behavior has traditionally been weighed against some social norm, which usually derives from a morality. The concerted effort of the Left for more than half a century has been to detach us from that moral standard, and consequently, to erase those norms. Therefore, when "new" behavior is presented, we have nothing against which to measure its acceptability, so anything goes.
I suspect the homosexual agenda serves two purposes: one, it provides another dialectical wedge to split society; and two, it establishes a sounding board, a yardstick to measure the progress with which our society is decaying (the norms are being destroyed). A society that openly embraces acts as perverted as homosexuality is one whose moral roots have been all but pruned. One that resists the normalization of homosexuality is one that is secure in its notions of right and wrong, and relies on a moral authority to dictate those boundaries.
I would say that America is somewhere between the edges -- not as corrupted as say France or Sweden, but not nearly the upright beacon of righteousness it once was either.
Sounds like you got it nailed much better than I did.
Shalit responded on Jan. 10 in a statement sent to GLAAD in which he wrote, "I certainly had no intention of casting aspersions on anyone in the gay community or on the community itself. I regret any emotional hurt that may have resulted from my review of 'Brokeback Mountain.'"
"In describing the behavior of 'Jack,'" he continued, "I used words ('sexual predator') that I now discover have angered, agitated, and hurt many people. I did not intend to use a word that many in the gay community consider incendiary."
I'll bet he did, there isnt anyone or any organization that dares to go toe to toe with the homosexual lobby. They are enourmously powerful and have people in high places. Will Shalit ever work again. Not much.
A very vicious and influential 2% of the population.
I will never forget what they did to Anita Bryant.
Remember Laura Schlesinger...gone.
Oh, no. You pegged the "school of fish" mentality perfectly. The Left loves compliant people, unquestioning simpletons who chant the party line between bong hits. They LOVE the notion of peer pressure; why own the sheep when you can own the shepherd?
My question was how do they create that peer pressure to begin with? And it seems to me they tore down the old values then slipped in a fake, superficial set while we were scrambling to fix the old ones.
The antidote to their poison is Truth. Their ideas don't work. They spawn horrible consequences -- some intended, some not -- which the creators ignore as they go on to their next crusade.
Hold them accountable. Demand answers to their failures. HAUNT them with their failures. Remind them every day in every public venue how badly they've botched everything they've touched. It won't stop them, but it will deny them exclusive use of the hall.
In other words, use their own herd mentality against them. Nobody wants to be thought stupid. And to embrace a discredited, outmoded, duplicitous ideology is not only stupid but dangerous.
By the way, Zoidberg is my favorite Futurama character.
They have only the power we let them have. If we'd quit being so scared of them, there isn't squat they could do.
Apparently Gene was P-W-ed
They have only the power we let them have. If we'd quit being so scared of them, there isn't squat they could do.
That's what the Germans said about the Nazis.
And they were right. However, they didn't stop letting the thugs push them around, and their cowardice resulted in their society being destroyed.
We're going to have to fight them sooner or later. Why do it when they're at their strongest?
Another weak-kneed person buckles under the unrelenting assault from the left. Does anyone have a backbone any more?
There is a cost but I think it is well worth standing up against the unrelenting onslaught of lies that is "gay rights".
BUMP
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