Posted on 02/27/2015 5:27:36 PM PST by ConservativeTeen
Few things make me shudder quite like hearing someone use the phrase "traditional marriage" unironically.
— Katherine Timpf (@KatTimpf) February 27, 2015
This is one of those tiny but telling things. Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online. She’s a Millennial, a Hillsdale grad, and has published lots of things in right-of-center publications. And she’s a libertarian.
One is not at all surprised to find libertarians, especially libertarians in their twenties, supporting same-sex marriage. Nor is one surprised to find libertarians working at National Review. What I find startling, but a sign of the times, is that a National Review writer not only doesn’t support traditional marriage, but finds the term and concept viscerally disgusting.
A small thing, but a big thing too.
History is running right over the people standing athwart it yelling, “Stop!”
Yes and NOT “cute” at all.
Something I have held for some time. However, you have stated the case extremely well.
I actually explained to a gay co_worker that marriage is a religious institution and used the same points you did. He thought it made sense. People didn’t used to have to get a license (permission) from the gov’t to get married. They got married at church, then just publicly declared or registered it for legal matters concerning property and future children.
They’re well on the way of doing so.
oh it isn’t a decline. they have long ago decided to get down into the mud and roll around
Looks like the person in question has since deleted her tweet, coward.
It’s normal marriage. The opposite of abnormal marriage.
The glasses suck, spend the money on contacts or LASIK.
But why NR would get rid of a conservative of Steyn's magnitude is troubling and difficult to understand. For many people, Steyn was the only reason they read NR. While Lileks, Goldberg, and Williamson write great articles, much of the stuff from their other writers is pretty dry.
A big reason we are in this mess is because many have been conditioned to think that the state defines and creates marriage, in my opinion. ‘Gay marriage’ can exist because, to them, anything the state accepts is a marriage. And to the state in the modern era, all that can ever be is simply whatever judges, pols, or the voting majority think it is at any one time.
But I think it’s pretty unlikely that the state will ever give up the term at this point.
Freegards
Does the fact that two eggs can’t create a viable offspring “disgust” her too?
That Biological FACT won’t change to appease her perverted activist whims any more than wishing water would freeze at 100 degrees F instead of 32.
She is much cuter than Harf!
My NR is a gift. I read Chronicles and Human Events to get a conservative perspective.
I love Steyn and cannot believe he has not been snapped up by another site.
The NRO folks had a hissy fit over an old joke about gays that Steyn quoted.
“Here are two jokes one can no longer tell on American television. But you can still find them in the archives, out on the edge of town, in Sub-Basement Level 12 of the ever-expanding Smithsonian Mausoleum of the Unsayable. First, Bob Hope, touring the world in the year or so after the passage of the 1975 Consenting Adult Sex Bill: “I’ve just flown in from California, where they’ve made homosexuality legal. I thought I’d get out before they make it compulsory.”
For Hope, this was an oddly profound gag, discerning even at the dawn of the Age of Tolerance that there was something inherently coercive about the enterprise. Soon it would be insufficient merely to be “tolerant” — warily accepting, blithely indifferent, mildly amused, tepidly supportive, according to taste. The forces of “tolerance” would become intolerant of anything less than full-blown celebratory approval.
Second joke from the archives: Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra kept this one in the act for a quarter-century. On stage, Dino used to have a bit of business where he’d refill his tumbler and ask Frank, “How do you make a fruit cordial?” And Sinatra would respond, “I dunno. How do you make a fruit cordial?” And Dean would say, “Be nice to him.”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/366896/age-intolerance-mark-steyn
“I am sorry my editor at NR does not grasp the stakes. Indeed, he seems inclined to “normalize” what GLAAD is doing. But, if he truly finds my “derogatory language” offensive, I’d rather he just indefinitely suspend me than twist himself into a soggy pretzel of ambivalent inertia trying to avoid the central point — that a society where lives are ruined over an aside because some identity-group don decides it must be so is ugly and profoundly illiberal.
As to his kind but belated and conditional pledge to join me on the barricades, I had enough of that level of passionate support up in Canada to know that, when the call to arms comes, there will always be some “derogatory” or “puerile” expression that it will be more important to tut over. So thanks for the offer, but I don’t think you’d be much use, would you?”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/366943/re-education-camp-mark-steyn
I’d use “real marriage”, “actual marriage”, “biblical marriage” too.
It is like in Animal Farm where words and names change meaning often to mean something opposite of their original meaning.
Marie Harf is even prettier. But she’s one of the most stupid women I’ve ever listened to.
The government will tell you what you are. You have voted for 0% freedom and you shall get it as the govt sees fit. Now STFU.
I hate the term traditional marriage also.
It would suggest there are other types of marriage. There are not. There is one marriage. One Man, one Women period.........
I first subscribed to National Review in 1976. I’d read the issues cover to cover. I found it no longer valuable by 1992. Articles like this one illustrate that it has continued to go downhill.
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