Posted on 04/27/2015 9:55:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
Gay people in America are among the most self-righteous and intolerant people there are. The most recent gay backlash against two of their own for stepping out of line shows just how deep politically correct intolerance runs in their community, especially in ultra-liberal bastions like New York.
Ian Reisner and Mati Weiderpass are two prominent gay businessmen in NYC and the owners of OUT NYC, a hotel catering primarily to gay people. Reisner is also Jewish and a supporter of Israel, and last week he hosted a small reception for Senator Ted Cruz from Texas. The dozen attendants discussed foreign policy, but Cruz and Reisner both acknowledged that their views on gay marriage were polar opposites. Cruz is against gay marriage, Reisner is ardently supportive.
Now the NYC gay community is calling for a boycott of OUT NYC and urging gay people to shun Reisner and Weiderpass. The organizers of the Broadway Bares Solo Strips fundraiser, which raises money for AIDs related causes, have canceled their bares solo strips event in protest of Weiderpass and Reisner hosting Cruz. Executive Director Tom Viola explained that organizers could not "in good conscience" host the fundraiser at a venue "whose owners have alienated our community."
Now, Reisner and Weiderpass have spent years supporting gay causes. But apparently the mere act of meeting with a politician unpopular with the gay community is enough to “alienate” them from their “community.” In an open and free society, people should be encouraged to openly exchange views with people they disagree with, but in NYC’s ultra-liberal gay community, it is akin to an act of treason, and the traitors must be boycotted and shunned as social pariahs.
It reminds me when I was a student at Georgetown University Law Center. I was widely despised as an “ignorant and backward homophobe,” as I was more than once called. I was even the subject of several editorials in the student newspaper denouncing me personally.
Now, I have been an ardent supporter of gay civil rights and specifically gay marriage for almost four decades, long before it became fashionable to do so. I believe under our Constitution, all our citizens should be guaranteed certain basic rights. And I’d like to suggest to my fellow conservatives that that is the direction the wind is blowing.
So why was I reviled as an “ignorant and backward homophobe”? Well, it began with my comment in a constitutional law class that I saw no reason to give gay applicants special preferences in admissions to universities. I argued that it was an entirely false argument that students could not understand legal issues related to gay rights issues without having a certain number of homosexual students present. And the mission of the law school and fairness were both better served by admitting the best qualified students, whether straight, gay, white, black, male or female.
But what really got me in trouble with the PC police was when I added as a humorous aside, “besides, gay people are incredibly boring.” Now, that was considered far, far worse than saying “gay people are going to Hell to burn in eternal agony for their sin of sodomy.” It is a shibboleth of liberals that gay people are simply more fabulous than straight people: better fashion sense, cooler nightclubs, and the admirable bravery to proclaim their gayness in places like Manhattan and GULC (where of course they’ll be feted and congratulated).
I’ve known a lot of gay people, and from time to time have read gay magazines like The Advocate, just to try to understand a different culture. Well, by and large, it’s a culture obsessed with cruises and cruising, and not in the least bit interesting. But in certain ZIP codes in America, mostly the ones where the elites of our country reside, saying that is strictly forbidden, ipso facto proof of bigotry and narrow-mindedness. In fact, it is these same elites are often shockingly bigoted, narrow-minded and intolerant of any opinion they don’t like.
I have no problem with any group of my fellow citizens demanding the same civil rights I enjoy under the law. In the America I believe in, we are all equal before the law. But the respect of fellow citizens must be earned, not arbitrarily demanded. And where we can express honest differences of opinion without being threatened with harm or being cast out socially. These are principles most ultra-liberals simply don’t understand, unfortunately.
Politically Correct Intolerance = My Way Or Else
Truths about sodomites, like truths about blacks, are “hate facts”. Even when not knowing and acknowledging those truths can get others killed, through disease or violent crime.
I read this and completely agree with the author, but have to say I’m at a loss for how to go forward. Most of the people I know are appalled at the tyranny of liberalism, but none in our own capacity has the power to make much of a difference. The liberals are remarkably well organized, and we can’t even get the Republicans behind conservative values, even after we support them with our votes.
I think we need to pray for a God fearing leader who can unify this nation and turn us back to our founding principles.
The pervs have turned this into a war.
Let’s not disappoint them.
Easy. There are more of us than them and their supporters. Take your business elsewhere and NEVER back down regardless of the cost to you personally or financially.
If people refuse to do that, they deserve the hell they created with their compliance and will lose their ‘stuff’ anyway.
I’m gay and these ultra liberals piss me off.
Bump
Then you, as a lawyer, should recognized that homosexual "marriage" is not equal rights, but superior rights with regard to hetero-sexual marriage.
And I’d like to suggest to my fellow conservatives that that is the direction the wind is blowing.
non-sequitor. Simply because the "wind is blowing" in a certain direction, is does not follow that that is the best direction.
Look how many ‘conservatives’ follow his advice on a variety of issues. They believe in nothing but weathervanes. Which is why they stand for nothing and why the militant gay lobby now runs Bartertown.
Until the first changes, the second will not.
This is yet more proof that liberal calls for “fairness” and “tolerance”, along with calls for “inclusiveness” and “diversity” are all a guile-laden means to give liberals the means to simultaneously claim the moral high ground against conservatives as well as to advance the liberal agenda.
For example, in the wake of the 1969 Stonewall Inn riots in New York, in which gay men were brutally treated by police, it was often said that they just wanted to be “left alone”. [1]
It wasn’t long after this, that advocates for homosexual rights claimed that they just wanted to be able to “come out of the closet” and to participate in normal society.
Fast forward to the several incidents where owners of small businesses such as those that offer wedding services, cakes, meeting venues and photography serves have been hauled before government regulatory agencies and fined or even threatened with being thrown in jail for the crime of politely declining to be hired in support of an event relating to a same-sex “marriage”.
And then there is the case of the CEO of Mozilla, Brendan Eich, being fired because it was discovered that some years prior he had donated to a ballot initiative effort in California that defined marriage as being between one man and one woman.
By the reaction of supporters of homosexual rights today, it is clear that they are willing to issue death threats, slash tires, and to grind anyone into the ground where they can when it is found that they oppose this agenda.
So, it was never about just being left alone. The homosexual lobby now has the knickname of “gay mafia” or “gaystoppo” and the case of Brenden Eich proves it. But that must not surprise anyone, for a person becomes a liberal when they decide in their youth that they can lie to themselves and it doesn’t matter. When you lie to yourself, it is nothing to lie to others. You end up affiliating with people who like the same lies. You take pride in your common lies, for you cannot appeal to truth. Indeed, truth itself becomes a tool and a tactic that only exists to advance your agenda. Otherwise, truth itself is malleable and plastic. And then when dealing with people who do not share your common lies is by what power you can gain over them, for you cannot appeal to principle, at least not honestly.
[1] See for example,
DVD Review: STONEWALL UPRISING (PBS)
http://www.stageandcinema.com/2011/04/23/stonewall-uprising/
Multicultural pieties are an ideological weapon, designed to paralyze societal defenders. They are not the unintended consequences of goofy good intentions, but deliberately honed tools of political power, wielded without good intentions of any sort.
— Glenn Reynolds
As in Wonderland and Orwell, words mean what their speakers wish them to mean. Such is life in these United (snicker) States today.
Reading 1984 aloud in public should be a requirement before a politician or business leader gains a position of power.
I’m reading a book about how rational Germans watched in horror as 1930’s Germany became the most insanely destructive force since the Mongol Horde. Why is it that those who so fervently speak of peace and justice almost invariably ignite mindless slaughter and misery? It seems to be in our nature, and probably will be until we exterminate ourselves.
Time to pass wind there fella. Here follows part of a post on an earlier thread:
First of all, sexual expression is a powerful compulsion. Genesis 6 teaches how even G_d’s angels couldn’t restrain themselves from responding to the temptation of all those babe-ulous human females. There is no doubt that people are hard wired to produce hormonal and physical responses to visual, auditory, olfactory, and tactile inputs accordingly, with lots of cognitive feedbacks that amplify those responses that themselves become inputs (else why would anyone masturbate?).
Those (sexual) compulsions compete with commercial, intellectual, social, and educational inputs. They make cooperation with a person more difficult. Lack of cooperation increases conflict. Conflict requires resolution. Enforcing settlements requires authority backed by physical power sufficient to override those sexual compulsions. The more sexually crazed a society becomes, the more conflict results, and the more centralized power becomes necessary to maintain order. This is why socialists seek to destroy self government via promoting sexualized children.
Sexualized people do not focus well on work. They have conflicts and traumas that require remedial education, counseling, “conflict resolution,” policing, adjudication, prison guards, parole officers, welfare case workers… i.e., they “make jobs” for unionized Democrat thugs. Thus they concentrate power. The more power becomes concentrated, the more easily one can sell favors to the highest bidder, the more the bidders control the government for their own ends and at the expense of everybody else. This means you.
Now perhaps you understand why it was the Rockefeller Foundation that funded and promoted Alfred Kinsey’s “research” (he was in fact a sadomasochistic homosexual pedophile) and his ideological heirs that are still calling the shots on “sex education” in public schools to this day. This is the source of your ethic. Sexual expression outside one’s spouse is destructive to liberty. That is why it is prohibited in the Bible. The Biblical system required no government, no police, no army, no social welfare system, just teachers and judges. Got it now? OK, so we’re ready for Part III!
What do we do from here? In my humble opinion, it is the enforced uniformity from the Federal government that is the problem here. Were the States free to define their own moral laws, we would soon find out by natural law competition whether homosexual conduct leads to destruction. We would soon find out whether the isolation resulting from rigid criminalization of sexual depravity results in a happier more prosperous society. Federalism is the answer. After all, there is a big difference between taxes and the condition of roads in Utah versus California.
I agree 100% with your sentiments.
Liberals are immune to their own hypocrisy. Logic and reason is not important to them. They have recently figured out that they can use Political correctness to intimidate all opposing views into silence.
Liberals don’t even need to be well organized, they just “know” when to get offended and how to attack. At this point, they are offended if you are not offended along with them.
You would think that at some point they will have played out their hand and their tactics would come back around to themselves. Sadly, we are not there yet.
Their tactics aren’t even well thought out. They just keep going.
Personally, I don’t believe there’s some organizational structure that instructs them on how to act.
I Blame education starting with Multiculturalism, political correctness and moral relativism. But placing blame is the easy part. Unseating these deeply held views of liberals will be next to impossible.
I onder how what her old girlfriend Janet Waco is up to these says?
She’s a fan of minatures. I hear she retired to her estate and sets up models of buildings with kids in them.
Then sets them on fire.
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