Posted on 12/20/2013 8:11:15 AM PST by doug from upland
I blame the public in general for allowing a small minority to dictate rules of behavior and public policy. Gays are not the problem, but rather, the public that tolerates the tyranny of the minority.
It appears Christopher Hitchens is a traditional liberal. That’s something completely different than today’s so called progressives. I don’t agree with Hitchens’ opinion about God, but I would fight to defend Hitchens’ right to say what he believes. It appears he would do likewise for me and my beliefs. That is correctly called tolerance.
Progressives are intolerant, regressive hypocrites who appear to be completely unaware of how ridiculous and illogical they seem to any mature, rational adult.
It's not the public's job to leap all over every new thing that comes down the pike. The public trusts its legislators, in a representative democracy, to carry its water. Career politicians forget this, and get paid off by lobbyists with hidden agendas. They take the thirty pieces of silver, and breach the public trust; then lie and cover up and run again, and the public is still busy trying to make a living, take care of kids and get from one day to the next, and reflexively reelect the corrupt-but-familiar devil they know rather than someone they've never heard of who is being vilified by the devil-they-know. And on and on. That's why it always takes a deep crisis for people to finally act; and why humans have to have periodic revolutions.
You are correct that America was founded on principles specifically meant to counteract those mechanisms. But the left studied the principles with the express purpose of finding ways to subvert our system, by surrupticiously capturing all public institutions and corrupting them, which they set out to do over the last century and gradually accomplished. Finally, they have captured the fort -- the presidency, and the enforcement arms of goverment, the DOJ, the CIA, the NSA. The public is now effectively under anti-constitutional martial law.
You're right about gays not being the problem; according to the Bible, they are the punishment.
Oooooo, you’re really going to hate Fridays...
I didn't write it, dude. I just read it.
Atheism, and "functional" Atheism is the hinge on which the door to homosexuality opens to a society. It's right there in Romans 1.
It’s the punchline to a joke...
Isn’t telling the joke first, standard humor protocol? :o)
Usually.
Lemme look it up...
You Will Hate Fridays
One day a guy dies and finds himself in hell. As he is
wallowing in despair, he has his first meeting with the devil...
Satan: Why so glum?
Guy: What do you think? I’m in hell!
Satan: Hell’s not so bad. We actually have a lot of fun down here. Are you a drinking man?
Guy: Sure, I love to drink.
Satan: Well you’re gonna love Mondays then. On Mondays that’s all we do is drink. Whiskey, tequila, Guinness, wine coolers, diet tab and colas. We drink till we throw up and then we drink some more! And we don’t worry about getting a hangover because you’re dead anyway.
Guy: Gee, that sounds great!
Satan: You a smoker?
Guy: You better believe it!
Satan: All right! You’re gonna love Tuesdays. We get the finest cigars from all over the world and smoke our lungs out. If you get cancer no biggie, you’re already dead, remember?
Guy: Wow... that’s awesome!
Satan: I bet you like to gamble.
Guy: Why yes, as a matter of fact I do.
Satan: Cause Wednesdays you can gamble all you want. Craps, Blackjack, Roulette, Poker, Slots. If you go bankrupt... you’re dead anyhow. Do you do drugs??
Guy: Are you kidding? Love drugs! You don’t mean...
Satan: That’s right! Thursday is drug day. Help yourself to a great big bowl of crack, or smack. Smoke a doobie the size of a submarine. You can do all the drugs you want, you’re dead, who cares.
Guy: WOW! I never realized Hell was such a cool place!
Satan: You gay?
Guy: No...
Satan: Ooooh You’re gonna hate Fridays.
That’s a keeper!
I’m sure the coming Sharia Law will coddle gays and they’ll be juuuuuust fine.
It is up to the public to hold the political class accountable. It is not being done. The political class has become disconnected from the people. The people get the government they deserve. Obama got elected easily in 2008 and 2012. The Dems have controlled the Senate since 2007. If you look at the single digit approval ratings for Congress, I don't believe the public trusts its legislators.
The public is now effectively under anti-constitutional martial law.
Where are the outcry and outrage? Who is enforcing martial law? What happened to the "people's representatives?" Who defends the Constitution?
“Gay is the least appropriate of all. Those people are miserable and self-loathing because they know what they are. That’s why they so desperatly seek our validation, and viciously attack us when they don’t get it.”
Bingo. If homosexuality was really the wonderful thing they keep trying to convince themselves of, why on earth would they ever need to punish those who disagree with them? I’m a Christian and I know Christianity is wonderful whether anyone else agrees with me or not.
‘Christopher Hitchens, the secularist and author of “God is not Great” said in a New York Post interview, “More and more I find that those people are the real enemy intellectually. There’s no dishonesty like liberal dishonesty, just like there’s no intolerance like liberal intolerance. There’s nothing they won’t excuse and no excuse they won’t deploy. Their piety is a big aspect of that.”’
Christopher Hitchens’ comments remind me of this C.S. Lewis quote which definitely applies to the homosexualists and modern leftists:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience”
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Wow...I can think of plenty of words much more harsh than that.
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