Did you hear about the black Miami Dolphins safety who dared to express a thought? The poor guy was beat to the ground by the NFL and the Dolphin organization for expressing an opinion on Twitter. When the openly gay, nominally talented Michael Sam was drafted by the Rams at the very, very, very end of the draft, Sam planted a liplock on his beau, with the ESPN cameras zooming in for a close up of the momentous event. Don Jones, the black safety from Miami, tweeted "OMG!" and "Horrible!". Did I mention that Don Jones is black? Well, Michael Sam is too, and this is helpful in establishing the ground rules of thought crime. Black gay trumps black straight.
Actually, I'm beginning to think that gay is the ace of hearts in the thought crime deck. The media is cray cray over anything and everything that smacks of gayness or rainbows. 1-3% of the population, depending on who you ask, is gay. How can such a small minority drive the national agenda to the point of ostricization and real-world consequences for not bowing to the rainbow god? This is a good question that no one ever asks. Maybe they don't want to know. Maybe they're afraid to ask.
It's really too bad that Don Sterling isn't gay. His "racism" may have landed him a much softer fall from grace, and perhaps he would be able to keep the team he's built. But no. Sterling is white, Sterling is a Jew, and the players are mostly black. The thought police will wrest his team away and award it to....wait for it...black owners. Because black. Because da Joooos have all the money.
Most people stood idly with their hands in their pockets when white guy quarterback Tim Tebow was viciously torn limb-from-limb for daring to verbalize his Christian beliefs. The media whipped themselves into a frenzy, with Tebow's blood dripping from their snarling snouts. It was, quoting Don Jones, "horrible". Even after the ESPN hyenas ripped him out of the NFL, the attacks continued. I can deduce from this that white Christian men are the deuce of clubs in the thought-crime deck.
Here is a soft tomato for the "tolerance" and "inclusion" crowd; you get bonus points if you splat a Christian or a Jew in the face. By the way, nice rainbow shirt, bro.
I have the sense that there is an organized movement against Christians. Even on nominally conservative sites I see a number of comments talking about how religion, and Christianity in particular, is a "fairy tale." Sad thing is, they offer no evidence to back up their claim. We are just supposed to accept on blind faith that G-d does not exist -- just as theists take it on blind faith that he does exist.
ReplyDeleteMore and more I have the feeling that the left thinks it is going to win because it has one more ace up it's sleeve somewhere. What they do not realize is that the right has decks and decks of aces and those aces will trump the left's lone one.
The left is using the force of law to impose its will on the majority of Americans who do not want it. What they do not realize is that they are the ones who have ignored the rule of law. The right is going to make it an art form. As the right actually goes out and gets things done, they will be victorious over those who like to do things by hash tag.
Yes, there is a war on Christians. I've heard it explicitly described as such by gay friends of mine.
DeleteOf course, in their eyes, the Church has waged war on them for two millennia. I have to admit, I do see where they're coming from on that score.
But now some of them have the idea that they can put a stake through the heart of the institution which marginalized them for so long.
What they don't realize is that in war, the other side gets to play its turn as well.
To my Christian friends, I would simply acknowledge that yes, it's war. And wars are best fought with sobriety, and an eye towards how to end them.
To my gay friends I've warned against the costs of open war, and told them that while I regret their marginalization - and won't participate in it - I won't participate in their war on Christianity, either.
Of course the war on Christianity has more than just gays engaged. But they are a vanguard.
If people on the left were to say, "OK, we're in power now so we are playing 'gotcha,' I could accept it -- not agree, but accept the premiss. Instead, they are saying, "We are preaching inclusiveness in the belief that there is room for everyone." Such statements do not coincide with their actions.
DeleteI would like to see how long a completely gay society would last with out a little hetrosexing going on in one form or another.
ReplyDeleteWhat really pisses me off is that if straight people wore their sexuality on their sleeves the way gays do, they would be hounded into the ground. When was the last time you saw all-but-nude straight people holding parades? As for sexuality in entertainment, isn't it the conservative element that want to reduce it? And they are condemned for it?
Obviously, sexuality is am important part of human existence. But to (approximately) quote Dr. McCoy from Star Trek: "Mr. Spock was right. We shouldn't let our hormones do our thinking for us." If we let our base instinct get the better of us with little thought to the consequences then we are lost. Morals were not put in place by a bunch of old fogeys who did not want anyone to have fun; they are the hard-learned lessens of civilization. The thing with people on the left: they say it is their right to do whatever they want to do, they just want us to pick up the tab for it all.
When was the last time you saw all-but-nude straight people holding parades?
DeleteLess than a year ago. Watched from my balcony. Good times!
:D
(Just being playful here. Couldn't resist.)
Now seriously...
Morals ... are the hard-learned lessens of civilization.
Civilization is changing. There are roughly two possibilities:
1) Sexual mores are just as important was they were to our survival, and we're losing them.
2) Sexual mores are in fact not as important as they were 1000 years ago, or even 100.
1) means we're doomed. 2) means we're not the human beings we once were.
I lean towards 2, but I don't pretend to know conclusively.
My view is that the few generations, starting with the Millennials, will face an incredibly difficult set of decisions - how to embrace the possibilities offered by sci-fi levels of technology, without losing their humanity. Even if they succeed in not losing it, it will change, irrevocably.
If I had to pick from the Bible something for them to meditate on, it wouldn't be sexual, it would be Ecclesiastes:
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Hubris and vanity will be causing the downfall of men and women long after universal promiscuity and 57 varieties of "gender" become ubiquitous. IMHO, of course.
Heinz Meanz Genez?
ReplyDeleteWhile I am far from being the world's most devout Christian, I would not, in any way, be surprised to see rains of fire and pillars of salt in America (and the rest of the world) soon.
ReplyDeleteMost especially in that Sodom-By-The-Sea which takes the name of Saint Francis in vain.
Sorry for those gays who've suffered for not being able to flaunt utterly sleazy, perverted lifestyles until recently, but not that sorry.
Because the operative word in the prior sentence is 'preverted'