Posted on 05/26/2015 6:03:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via the Brody File, hard to believe a country that’s 70 percent Christian would acquiesce in a legal regime like that, but then I look at this poll and remember we’ve already reached the point where Christian-owned businesses can be effectively shuttered by the state for politely declining to participate in a gay wedding. It’d be more accurate to say that the effort to brand Christian teachings that undermine progressivism as “hate speech” has already begun in the public sphere, with the fate of the private sphere still undetermined. Based on early indications, though, merely entertaining an opponent of same-sex marriage in your home has already risen to the level of a felony thoughtcrime, provided that he’s famous enough.
Over at the Daily Beast, Tim Teeman responds to Rubio with a nice illustration of Rod Dreher’s Law of Merited Impossibility: It’s hysterical fearmongering to believe that gay marriage will threaten Christians, but to the extent that Christian teaching is prejudiced, well, then you deserve it.
“Because today we’ve reached the point in our society where if you do not support same-sex marriage you are labeled a homophobe and a hater,” Rubio said. Absurdly. You are only labeled a ‘homophobe’ and ‘hater’ if you come out and say something homophobic and hateful.
Mr. Rubio, despite great provocation by you and others like you, LGBTs and their supporters—many of whom are Christian, by the way—who back equality actually think you can say and think whatever you like, as long as it doesn’t incite violence and hatred. If it does, they will object, as any reasonable person might.
If you claim that LGBTs do not deserve marriage equality, and your argument has the ring of prejudice about it—and it necessarily would because you are arguing against the principles of equality—then expect to be called out for it.
But you are not being silenced. You are being disagreed with.
I don’t know. Does telling a gay couple “I can’t provide flowers for your wedding because my faith doesn’t recognize your union” have the “ring of prejudice” about it? If the attorney general of the state can level a six-figure fine for a statement like that, wrecking the business owner’s livelihood, is that being “disagreed with” or “being silenced”? If lefties are going to be ruthless with Christian holdouts from the new gay-marriage regime, they should have the decency to acknowledge the ruthlessness.
Interesting that Rubio’s using language like this now, though, after telling the media a few weeks ago that he’d probably attend a friend’s gay wedding if asked. That seems like a contradiction — why enable a legal regime that’s marginalizing Christians? — but it doesn’t need to be. What he’s objecting to in the clip isn’t so much the practice of gay marriage (although, for the record, he objects to that too) as the refusal of supporters to grant accommodations to businesses whose owners object on religious grounds. Those two should be separate issues, but increasingly they aren’t. How come?
Depending on who you chose to listen to, we passed that cultural point many years ago. Some can’t even handle a cashier saying “Have a Blessed Day!”without running to the nearest ACLU advocacy group.
“gays” are nothing without “being” “gay”
it’s their entire identity....they feel threatened at their very CORE...by Normalcy?
Because Normal is to understand they are not Normal.
Thats right, the contrast is far too threatening for them to TOLERATE....
they cant tolerate their ISSUES...so we’re supposed to...
not much different in that regard from Al Qaida
ISIL VS,,,TGBLT whatever...
Haha, what? We’ve been there since at least Obama was elected, if not prior to that point.
We’re at the edge of losing the rule of law, the very foundation of our Republic,and Rubio is scheming with Chuck Schumer to surrender it and the country to fraudulently documented foreigners.
(He still wants amnesty)
“...It is abomination.”
They also identify themselves based on sexuality. Hence, all things must be sexualized, and yep, our society is obsessed with sex, just as Cruz said.
Good point.
Agree, it really is excessive for gays to identify as gay to the exclusion of everything else. Maybe they are just the low-IQ stupid ones.
It’s not true of all of them; at least that was not my impression when I lived in San Francisco for ten years and trained at American Conservatory Theatre, where probably a third of students and teachers were gay. It really didn’t matter to me, or to anyone else, for that matter, that there were so many gays there. They were talented professionals first and foremost and didn’t particularly talk about being gay. I wonder whether that’s still true among those who are talented, intelligent professionals.
But then, I’m a grrrrrl. I do recall that one of my straight male classmates, a very handsome fellow, was pestered by a couple of gay guys who made him very uncomfortable.
But that was ‘70 - ‘90, and apparently things have changed. Have gays become more aggressive since then?
I worked with many. Yes. Very threatened.
Ive never seen anyone referred to as a famous Heterosexual....and I’m fairly certain that I never will. We are bombarded with “information” on this famous “gay” athelete...or “gay” this or that..
Famous Heterosexual Quaterback Joe Montana??
Sexuality is indeed thier PRIMARY Interest.
I remember the first time i hear the word gay used...as “gay” . My mouth fell open, and then I laughed
I`m 47. I didnt know it meant happy till later lol
Im certain that “gays” have raised thier level of aggressiveness.
even young girls have gotten far more aggressive in that period of time.
as the culture has become ever more over sexualized..the aggressive have become far more so.
Im 68 and can actually remember a time when the word “gay” was rarely used to refer to anything.. except [ don we now our ] gay apparel....in one Christmas Carol
“...For it was fiesta and we were so gay
South of the border, down Mexico way...”
Islam trumps LGBT.
I cant remember what old movie i first heard the word used as happy. Think it was marx bros :)
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