Posted on 12/27/2013 9:33:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In America, society stigmatizes open racism. A public figure who uses a racial slur or declares a racial group inferior can expect to be jeered, mocked, even summarily fired. Private individuals might alienate acquaintances, ruin friendships, or lose romantic partners by revealing their racism—or might not, depending on the subculture they belong to.
Should remarks made against homosexuality be stigmatized in the same way? America is unsure.
Anti-gay slurs are now widely frowned upon. Cultural pressure to favor equal marriage rights for gays is increasing, but Americans tolerate opposition to gay marriage in a way they don't tolerate opposition to interracial marriage.
And what of Christians who believe that homosexuality is a sin that transgresses against God's will and consigns those who practice it to an eternity burning in hell? Is polite society going to tolerate those sorts of beliefs toward gays and lesbians?
At bottom, that is the question raised by the controversy surrounding Phil Robertson, the star of the A&E reality television series Duck Dynasty, who found himself suspended after telling a profiler from GQ, "It seems like, to me, a vagina—as a man—would be more desirable than a man’s anus. That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! She’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying? But hey, sin: It’s not logical, my man. It’s just not logical.”
He also said:
Everything is blurred on what’s right and what’s wrong. Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men. Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers—they won’t inherit the kingdom of God....
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So far it seems not to have caused either of them any problems. As far as I know, it IS Dan Savages real name.
Did he bend over for Obama, or did Obama bend over for him?
The pictures I saw last year of Savage and his partner, Terry Miller, at the White House were with VP Joe Biden.
I don’t know.
“A Duck Dynasty Solution for A&E: Phil Robertson Should Debate Dan Savage”
Nope. Phil should just keep doing what he loves: hunting ducks, eating Miss Kay’s cooking and being with his family. He doesn’t even have to count his own multi-million dollar fortune. He can get Willie to do that for him.
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