In his column today, asking, if it’s bigoted to criticize religion, David Harsanyi finds an interesting double standard in the media coverage of protests against religious institutions. Note all the self-important pundits stomping their feet and thumping their chests about the bigotry of those protesting the Ground Zero Mosque. Where were they when some disgruntled citizens protested another religious institution?
In 2008, thousands of gay-rights activists protested the Mormon temple in Westwood, Calif., for its role in passing Proposition 8 — the ban on same-sex marriage. This grew into a national protest to undermine the influence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — even though not every Mormon was involved.
I don’t recall anti-Mormon protesters being referred to as bigots for targeting religion; it appeared to be just the opposite, in fact. And if I am offended by aspects of Mormon theology, why not voice those concerns? Put it this way: If Mormons proposed the erection of a 13-story community center in West Hollywood or the West Village, I would be happy to join the outcry of protest.
Read the whole thing.
And of course no comments from the left about this church.
In case you are wondering if the progressives who wholeheartedly support the Ground Zero Victory Mosque are the same ones who opposed the Dubai Ports World Deal in 2006 (because you can’t trust those shifty brown Muslims), the answer is YES.
YOU MAKE NO SENSE! You support Mormons influencing and financing Prop 8, yet are against it? WTF seriously make up your mind! The Mosque isn’t trying to influence our politics or try to break the separation of Church and State like the Mormon Church was doing.
Calm down, Anonymous, calm down.
Guess you also then oppose left-wing religious groups taking political stands too? And please, that’s not the point of the post. Please read the post — and the editorial I linked, look at the categories in which I placed it, then understand that this is how the media treats these things.
It’s all in how we treat protests against religious groups.
Rush explained it yesterday saying that the left supports anything that sticks it to America. Further, he also pointed out that Chairman Obama has consistently supported everything that the majority of Americans oppose.
So now….as if we haven’t heard enough, voila, the “best” of the talking heads from the left are clamoring for George W. Bush to weigh in. How ironic is that ? When for the last 4 years all we’ve heard from Obama’s minions are calls for the head of the former president. This is so comical I really don’t know which scenario I prefer. I’m torn between W riding up on his white steed to save the day …or if he choses not to, reveling along side him after he tells Barack to handle the situation his own damn self.
But wait a gosh darn minute here people. Something is obviously missing from this mess. Where are the Clinton’s on this issue? Why isn’t anyone seeking out Slick Willie’s advice? Isn’t he the most revered former president since FDR? Oh, and come to think of it…. why hasn’t Hillary chimed in? Why is she so conspicuously absent now? Wasn’t it Mrs Clinton along with Chuck Schumer, who were both vehemently opposed to the Dubai Ports deal a few years ago? I can hear them now, saying. “no such deal would happen in the city that they represented.”
So much is happening so fast… and yet, all of it will be coming to a head soon. Could it be Hillary has just chosen to sit this one out, seething in the wings, poised ready to pick up the standard of the democrat party the moment the Obamanation implodes? Yeah go ahead and laugh all you Obamacans if you chose, but you know she’s aching to sit behind Kennedy’s Lincoln desk and again stare at what would shortly become her 1st act as president #45, the retrieved bust of Winston Churchill.
YOU MAKE NO SENSE! You support Mormons influencing and financing Prop 8, yet are against it?
So Proposition 8 opponents support suppressing and stripping people of the right to freedom of speech and voting as they choose – -based on those peoples’ religious beliefs.
That makes sense. Proposition 8 opponents are racist, as was shown when they screamed that all black people who voted for Proposition 8 were “niggers”. It’s no surprise that they would also be antireligious bigots.
Furthermore, the fascist tendencies they show, such as Anonymous’s insistence that Mormons should be stripped of their rights by the government for practicing and publicly expressing their religious beliefs, makes it obvious that gays and lesbians like Anonymous are clearly inferior individuals, prone to violence and intellectually immature, and are thus in no way suited or even capable of marrying responsibly.
^5 David Harsanyi!