https://www.facebook.com/PhilrobertsonsupportPosted on 12/20/2013 12:29:01 AM PST by Impala64ssa
The suspension of Phil Robertson from A&E’s Duck Dynasty is outrageous in a nation that values freedom, according to social critic and openly gay, dissident feminist Camille Paglia.
“I speak with authority here, because I was openly gay before the ‘Stonewall rebellion,’ when it cost you something to be so. And I personally feel as a libertarian that people have the right to free thought and free speech,” Paglia, a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, said on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Thursday.
“In a democratic country, people have the right to be homophobic as well as they have the right to support homosexuality — as I one hundred percent do. If people are basing their views against gays on the Bible, again they have a right of religious freedom there,” she added
Robertson has been suspended from Duck Dynasty due to comments he made to GQ that have been deemed “anti-gay.” According to Paglia, the culture has become too politically correct.
“To express yourself in a magazine in an interview — this is the level of punitive PC, utterly fascist, utterly Stalinist, OK, that my liberal colleagues in the Democratic Party and on college campuses have supported and promoted over the last several decades,” Paglia said. “This is the whole legacy of free speech 1960’s that have been lost by my own party.”
Paglia went on to point out that while she is an atheist she respects religion and has been frustrated by the intolerance of gay activists.
“I think that this intolerance by gay activists toward the full spectrum of human beliefs is a sign of immaturity, juvenility,” Paglia said. “This is not the mark of a true intellectual life. This is why there is no cultural life now in the U.S. Why nothing is of interest coming from the major media in terms of cultural criticism. Why the graduates of the Ivy League with their A, A, A+ grades are complete cultural illiterates, etc. is because they are not being educated in any way to give respect to opposing view points.”
“There is a dialogue going on human civilization, for heaven sakes. It’s not just this monologue coming from fanatics who have displaced the religious beliefs of their parents into a political movement,” she added. “And that is what happened to feminism, and that is what happened to gay activism, a fanaticism.”
https://www.facebook.com/PhilrobertsonsupportCamille Paglia is the only current leftist I know of who seems to show any classic liberal tendencies, i.e., she may not agree with what someone says but she’ll find for that person’s right to say it.
1. We do not live in a democratic country. We live in a Representatuive Republic.
I had this agrument with my flaming liberal older sister. Sometimes it’s easier to just ignore them. Since I didn’t stupid her I can’t unstupid her.
And yet she uses the language of the fascist and fanatical left. I disagree with folks who like prunes yet I do not have an irrational fear of prunes so I could not be called pruneophobic. I like Paglia for her embrace of freedom and could happily go through life not knowing how she indulges her wants or needs but it certainly instills no fear in me knowing how she does.
But she is, without a doubt, smarter and a bigger freedom loving person than a guy like Bill O’Reilly will ever be.
The Christian does not have views against gays, but against choosing the sin of homosexuality. If they don't choose the sin of homosexuality, there are no homosexuals. Phil Robertson got it right -- it is the sin that is the issue and the sinner, which is all of us, needs to get right with God concerning it.
****people have the right to be homophobic****
She won’t truly be intellectually honest until she loses that stupid canard.
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I am also surprised that someone who is making the case for being intellectually honest is using that word.
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