Posted on 01/03/2003 1:52:52 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Bi-sexuals are not well liked in the gay-community.
If you're a conservative, the concept that special rights and privileges ought to be granted to people who engage in specific sexual behaviors should be repugnant to you.
Conservatives believe, at the very least, in equality before the law - not the creation of privileged groups.
Few Middle Americans, for example, understand the hatred and prejudice that exists between many blacks and Latinos - despite the "we're fellow minorities and victims" routine that their respective "community leaders" sell to the public.
Likewise, lesbians and sodomites don't get along with one another - they're essentially separate tribes with very different "styles". They form a political coalition, but they rarely socialize with one another because neither has anything to offer the other.
Bi-sexuals are particularly hated by both sides, although they are, again, officially tolerated.
Many times in college I saw an attractive, normal-looking girl get briefly "involved" with your typical heavyset, leatherclad diesel dyke for a few months (all the while dating men simultaneously) only to throw her over for a good-looking guy.
I particularly remember one case of a very hurt dyke whose "girlfriend" was continuously "cheating" on her with men. She even said, at one point, "what do they have that I don't?", at which point I couldn't help bursting out into uncontrollable laughter.
There is no such thing as a "gay" - there are people who engage in homosexual acts are there are people who do not.
One cannot be "bigoted" against a behavior.
Is it up to you to judge your neighbor or is it up to god?
It's not a matter of judging people, but of judging acts.
If someone lies, it is neither prejudiced or bigoted to (1) say that lying is wrong or (2) to inform someone that they should not lie.
If someone boasts to me, saying "I love to tell lies. It makes me feel great. I am one proud liar!" I have a right to inform them that I find their behavior repulsive and that they should be ashamed rather than proud of their behavior.
Yet when someone says "I love to engage in sodomy. Sodomy makes me feel great. I am one proud sodomizer!" it becomes somehow socially unacceptable to criticize.
Our society is awash in moral cowardice masked as "tolerance". People should accept the fact that when they choose to enagage in certain acts and then trumpet their engagement in certain deliberate acts from the rooftops, people may call them on it.
Bennett is committing copyright infringement and his defense arguments aren't going to fly with a court. His attorneys are either seriously incompetent, ignorant of copyright law, or trying to win the court of public opinion.
First of all, he's clearly a blatant self-promoter. Who ever heard of this guy before he was on O'Reilly? Now he's trying to appropriate O'Reilly's fame to further his own career, to the point of using O'Reilly's name on his audio tape.
He's charging money for this tape, which instantly nullifies any 'Fair Use' argument.
He's also using nearly all of the segment in question, probably only editing out a few seconds in order to make his specious 'Fair Use' claim. While the tape may foster discussion, fair use is limited to short excerpts, not "nearly all" of a selected work.
The courts will see this for what it is, an attempt to ride O'Reilly's coattails to fame. Fox is correct to stop this.
It is up to me to discern that my neighbor's behavior as evil (even as I discern the sinfulness of my own behavior) and refuse to excuse, condone, or celebrate it. That is not only an appropriate "judgment", it is a judgement commanded by Jesus Christ himself.
It is up to God to condemn my neighbor and carry out the sentence. That "judgment" is His alone. I certainly am in no position to second-guess God's "judgment." Are you?
A "gay" is not a unique gender or species of human being. It is a perverse, diseased-spreading, death-inducing sexual behavior. Unless my neighbor is vocal about it or otherwise brings it to my attention, I would never know. He ought to keep it to himself and not bring it to my attention. Such shameful things should be struggled with privately.
That's the way I feel about many women's groups and religious organizations -- always trying to push their agenda on others -- but I don't hate women or fundementalists Christians.
O'Reilly and his spokesman are behaving like a liberal democrat - demonize those you disagree with, e.g. calling those who support Bennet "Militant fundamentalists."
Christians should not be surprised at O'Reilly's attitude. It is what one would expect from a blind unbeliever. Unbelievers behave in this way because there is a veil over their hearts. O'Reilly has a strong sense of right and wrong, but it is based on worldly standards.
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I realize you're not making the genetics argument here. It just seems like a good opportunity to post some links on the issue:
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