Posted on 07/21/2016 8:25:51 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Technology investor Peter Thiel implored Republicans from the convention stage on Thursday against waging "culture wars" on lesbian, gay and transgender communities, mere days after the GOP approved a national platform that defines marriage as between “one man and one woman.” Thiel, who himself is gay, stressed that "every American has a unique identity." He said attempts to require transgender Americans to use particular bathrooms is a "distraction from our real problem." And in a first for a GOP convention, the Facebook board member and PayPal co-founder drew attention to his own sexuality: "I am proud to be gay, I am proud to be a Republican, but most of all, I am proud to be an American," he said.
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So secular means children should be taught Islam and taught Christianity is evil? The funny thing is you are actually advocating a religiousness education. The left wing globalist philosophy is a religion. What are the important issues, that we can let our kids be taught the full Elizabeth Warren agenda?
Seems gay billionaires are acceptable to the GOP, guess money and GOP politics mix after all...but GOP politics and Christian belief not so much...
The Politico article and some of the discussion here bothers me so much I'm going to post the actual text of Thiel's speech. Since it just appeared on multiple TV channels and is on the RNC site, I don't think there can be any copyright issues.
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Good evening. I'm Peter Thiel.
I build companies and I support people who are building new things, from social networks to rocket ships.
I'm not a politician.
But neither is Donald Trump.
He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.
Where I work in Silicon Valley, it's hard to see where America has gone wrong.
My industry has made a lot of progress in computers and in software, and, of course, it's made a lot of money.
But Silicon Valley is a small place.
Drive out to Sacramento, or even across the bridge to Oakland, and you won't see the same prosperity. That's just how small it is.
Across the country, wages are flat.
Americans get paid less today than 10 years ago. But healthcare and college tuition cost more every year. Meanwhile Wall Street bankers inflate bubbles in everything from government bonds to Hillary Clinton's speaking fees.
Our economy is broken. If you're watching me right now, you understand this better than any politician in Washington. And you know this isn't the dream we looked forward to. Back when my parents came to America looking for that dream, they found it—right here in Cleveland.
They brought me here as a one-year-old, and this is where I became an American.
Opportunity was everywhere.
My Dad studied engineering at Case Western Reserve University, just down the road from where we are now. Because in 1968, the world's high tech capital wasn't just one city: all of America was high tech.
It's hard to remember this, but our government was once high tech, too. When I moved to Cleveland, defense research was laying the foundations for the Internet. The Apollo program was just about to put a man on the moon—and it was Neil Armstrong, from right here in Ohio.
The future felt limitless.
But today our government is broken. Our nuclear bases still use floppy disks. Our newest fighter jets can't even fly in the rain. And it would be kind to say the government's software works poorly, because much of the time it doesn't even work at all.
That is a staggering decline for the country that completed the Manhattan Project. We don't accept such incompetence in Silicon Valley, and we must not accept it from our government.
Instead of going to Mars, we have invaded the Middle East. We don't need to see Hillary Clinton's deleted emails: her incompetence is in plain sight. She pushed for a war in Libya, and today it's a training ground for ISIS. On this most important issue, Donald Trump is right. It's time to end the era of stupid wars and rebuild our country.
When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet Union. And we won. Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom.
This is a distraction from our real problems. Who cares?
Of course, every American has a unique identity.
I am proud to be gay.
I am proud to be a Republican.
But most of all I am proud to be an American.
I don't pretend to agree with every plank in our party's platform. But fake culture wars only distract us from our economic decline.
And nobody in this race is being honest about it except Donald Trump.
While it is fitting to talk about who we are, today it's even more important to remember where we came from. For me that is Cleveland, and the bright future it promised.
When Donald Trump asks us to Make America Great Again, he's not suggesting a return to the past. He's running to lead us back to that bright future.
Tonight I urge all of my fellow Americans to stand up and vote for Donald Trump. ***************************
How is anyone PROUD to be a HOMOSEXUAL?? Are Heterosexuals PROUD of being heterosexual?? WHAT is to be PROUD of??
I’ll welcome your vote for Trump, Mr. Thiel.
But I do not support your lifestyle.
As a free man, I don’t have to.
The homosexual lifestyle has now destroyed the sanctity of marriage and will now be directed to normalize pedophilia.
I won’t sign on to that just for your vote.
In other words, surrender to an arbitrary government imposed moral code (religion) that has no basis in science or natural law -a moral code that is imposed without authority of God or the people -an arbitrary moral code that conflicts with and in many cases limits by force God given inalienable rights that government is supposed to protect?
No way in hell!
Generally speaking, it is those in the fight that decide when the war is over. As the saying goes -lead, follow, or get out of the way.
As far as the GOP pushing the culture war -- The GOP is pushing the culture war about as much as it's pushing immigration enforcement. In other words, the GOP is being pushed by the people who have not drank the leftist koolaid...
Interesting that the leftmedia takes that as the point of emphasis from his speech.
If you watched the speech, it wasn’t.
"Cases of drug-resistant gonorrhea skyrocket (4X)"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3449774/posts
ESAD is a double entente for which the lesser known meaning is - If you do, You will.
So Bon Appetit to Thiel, his fellow techno-worshiping transhumanist/postgenderist/LGBTWhateverist abominators of nature, and the crap stained leaking condom they dribbled in on.
Exactly!! All this religious crap is just a waste of time!! We have real and serious economic issues to worry about!! My wife is super religious, me not so much. I thought his was one of the better speeches, he got down to actual numbers and problems...
He wants to be ghey, eh whatever dude!
Please explain to the class what impact sexual dimorphism has upon the fitness of species in the context of natural selection.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Sex+Evolution+and+Behavior+Daly+Wilson
We'll Wait.
>>He’s telling *us* to stop pushing the culture war!!
No. He was telling us to stop being pushed into the culture war. Being a Plantation Voter means that you provide some hot buttons that politicians can push to make you respond like a trained dog.
Disable the buttons. Abortion kills babies, but the Target bathroom is a distraction. Fight abortion but ignore the bathroom issue. Save your strength for real issues.
>>Save your strength for real issues.
So the strategic demoralization of American culture and the various symptomatic diseases documented by the CDC to be heavily associated with homosexual perversion aren’t “real issues”. Riiiiiight.
Romans 1:27
“and took into themselves the due penalty for their perversions”
What does this mean?
This is a perfect example of how the left uses language to not just push a social agenda, but to frame the thought about that agenda.
A few years ago, no one would have ever even seriously considered allowing men to call themselves "women" and use the women's restroom. The left only came up with this idea recently, and they are already characterizing it as if it has always been the case that men openly use the women's restroom, and that to complain about it is a novel idea and a distraction.
The left has become very good at this 1984 style of thought shaping. We need to get better at shining the light of truth on it.
I took it the same way
Agreed, and Thiel tried to stay in the closet anyway - or have people not been paying attention to the Gawker story?
I’ve told my folks that for years. I realized in 2008 when 7 out of 9 USSC justices were Republican appointed and Roe wasn’t even remotely close to being on the radar of being overturned that all the social issues were just a dog and pony show and that none of the politicians (Ds or Rs) actually cared about them.
>>What does this mean?
It means that individual sinners sinned. Their sin does not rub off on you or me, just as our sins do not rub off on them. Pray for them just as pray for ourselves. But you can worry about that issue if you choose. I choose not to.
http://www.google.com/search?q=ooda+loop
Doesn't work very well when a culture is so DEMORALIZED that it can't even figure out which bathroom to use, does it.
I'm just guessing here/sarc - but maybe that's why DEMORALIZATION was a strategic objective:
"According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.The first stage being "demoralization".It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion. Publisher, editors, journalists, uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science. Members of parliament, representatives of business circles.Most of these people were divided roughly into two groups: those who would tow the Soviet foreign policy, they would be promoted to positions of power through media and public manipulation; [and] those who refuse the Soviet influence in their own country would be character assassinated OR executed physically, come Revolution. "--KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)
LBGTQ
the Q for Queer has been added at this convention
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