Building a Highway to Hershey.
Posted on 04/22/2002 2:48:37 PM PDT by A. Pole
April 2, 2002
WITH THIS RING I THEE SODOMIZE by Thomas Fleming
Kudos to Jonathan Rauch for his letter-perfect parody of liberal smugness. Writing in the latest Atlantic, Rauch waxes Polonian as he blames conservatives for undermining marriage:
Those who worry about the example gays would set by marrying
should be much more worried about the example gays are already
setting by not marrying . . . At a time when marriage needs all the
support and participation it can get, homosexuals are pleading to
move beyond cohabitation. We want the licenses, the vows, the
rings, the honeymoons, the anniversaries, the benefits, and, yes,
the responsibilities and the routines. And who is telling us just to
shack up instead? Self-styled friends of matrimony.
Ironic, isn’t it? The very words he uses--"ironic" and "sad." How ironic that people who are revolted by homosexuality are so short sighted not to apply the sacred term "marriage" to practices that they regard as obscene. Robert Frost once described the liberal as someone "unwilling to take his own side in an argument." Some of this reluctance to defend their own point of view stems from the liberals’ insistence upon appropriating other people’s positions. Liberals are always telling conservatives what a "real conservative" should believe, but Rauch has gone all the way, instructing "social conservatives," who are for the most part practicing Christians and Jews that to be true to their values they must endorse homosexual marriage and set aside the traditional Christian (and conservative) view of homosexuality as an unnatural vice. Because, you see, to be really conservative, you have to be--what else?--liberal. The same goes for being really Christian or really old-fashioned. And if you think this makes sense, you are really dumb.
The policies promoted by stupid liberals destroyed marriage, and now another set of stupid liberals want to take the next step. Let them. Let them redefine marriage to cover significant relationships between lesbians and their cocker spaniels. All they will do is to teach Christians and conservatives not to look to the government for moral support. If I were a young "social conservative" contemplating marriage, I think I would forego the usual government dog license and content myself with the vows exchanged in church. These people have nothing to say to us about anything, and I would not believe them if they told me the right time while I was staring at my own watch.
If conservatives could ever get over the idea that they are running the country, if they could wake up to the fact that their enemies are destroying everything good, decent, and true, they might begin to understand that there is no point to compromising with the left. If we are true to our principles, they will attack us, and they will continue to attack until we cry uncle--as most conservatives do, fairly early in the game.
We don’t have to be rude or call them names. We can tell them, ever so politely, that ours is the party of Christ and theirs is the party of Anti-Christ. We create; they destroy; we remember; they forget. We speak truth; they lie--all the time and about everything. Once you are clear in your own mind, you are free to go about your business with the same cheerful spirit as the Christians displayed in the days of Diocletian.
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Boy, did that argument piss him off. Heh heh heh.
Yes, Spiney Norman was already here.
Good up to this point. They won't be impressed by a line like this -- more likely they'd laugh. And besides, it's smugness of the sort for which Mr. Fleming rightly criticizes Mr. Rauch.
Better to follow Peter's advice: Maintain good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in case they speak against you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation. (1 Peter 2:12)
Building a Highway to Hershey.
I am not championing same sex marriages but there is a world of difference between what two consenting adults chose to do and what an adult and a child do and you know it.
Incredible. It's hard to believe that these people believe their own nonsense -- that is, if they do.
I have no idea. That's my wife's department. That illustrates my point - if two guys marry, they duplicate all the functions otherwise apportioned according to traditional sex roles. Marriage isn't supposed to double your workload and complicate your life. It's supposed to make things easier, via delegation of responsibility. Among other things.
What is your age hangup?
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