Because That’s what the left does.
According to her, I said the following: “I’m a married human being, so what does this mean for me? It’s against the way I see marriage. It’s against the way I see myself.” Shapiro scoffed, “Same-sex marriage is wrong because, well . . . because it’s wrong.”
An imaginative fabrication. Apparently I’m married? (I’m not). It was frustrating that after a twenty-minute interview in which I listed numerous reasons why government redefinition of marriage is bad for everyone, Shapiro published a (completely fictional) quote that boiled down to “it’s my personal opinion.” What do you win the “LGBT Journalist of the Year” award for? Yarn-spinning? Creative hijinks?
Yet this broach of journalistic ethics is more interesting than irritating to me. Shapiro said it herself numerous times: This issue is already decided. Public opinion has ruled: There are no good arguments for traditional marriage.
So why should Lila lie? If my arguments were stupid, why not publish them?
The answer is simple enough. It must be that the complexity of the marriage debate does not only affect traditional marriage supporters, it affects everybody. As I made my arguments to Shapiro during our interview, she seemed perplexed and unable to reply with more than stock responses: “You’re not gay. Why protest something that doesn’t affect you?” “Aren’t you worried you’ll end up on the wrong side of history?” Her article ridicules the “closed-mindedness” of traditional marriage supporters, but when faced with actual arguments on the subject, Shapiro opted to pretend I’d said something else. Even on the “cusp of victory,” same-sex marriage supporters are taking no chances by engaging these dangerous, volatile truths.
You can’t rule out the possibility that Ms. Lila Shapiro was simply too dimwitted to understand legitimate arguments against same-sex marriage and replaced them with simplistic slogans that dimwitted leftists *can* understand.
Oh, if anybody ever asked me, “Aren’t you afraid you’ll end up on the wrong side of history?” I would shoot back, “What utter arrogance on your part! You can see the future clearly, and know, for certainty that I’ll be in the wrong? Really? Are you so clarvoyant that you can see future history now? Really? Of COURSE I’m not afraid of that. Why aren’t you afraid that by destroying any real definition of marriage that you could be dooming the future where societies that accept this new definition decline in population? Don’t think that’s at all possible? It’s happening NOW!! The population in Europe is declining! Oh wait, except in Muslim communities, which condemn gay marriage. Hear me, and hear me good. Any society that does not support and encourage the bearing and raising of children will be replaced by one that does, by sheer numbers if by no other means. Why aren’t YOU afraid of being on the wrong side of THAT history?”
“You’re not gay. Why protest something that doesn’t affect you?” Liberalism only knows entrenching radical narcissism and identity-group strife. It’s more divide-and-conquer-oriented than liberals themselves realize.
The above question is nothing but a cheap little evasion. Liberalism is supposedly for the benefit of all personkind all the time, but is portrayed as only affecting its pet hobby-horse groups according to the situation.
@Eremon, on top of which when public schools are already pushing sexual identity politics on the pre-pubescent, which could potentially affect my children/grandchildren, it DOES affect me.
Perhaps Lila Shapiro can elaborate on her views of the concept underlying gay marriage. Perhaps she can explain how the rise of the oceans begin to slow and our planet begins to heal and the end of war and the restoration of America as the last, best hope on Earth is inextricably linked to gay marriage.
Apparently, Lila, gay marriage is the ultimate prize. In the words of Obama himself: “The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people. Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children ( … ) This was the moment – this was the time – when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves, and our highest ideals.”
So, Lila, what exactly is the great and powerful concept underlying gay marriage? Oops. Where are “our children” coming from in this gay marriage plan? Did Obama get that part wrong?
Gay marriage is almost the ultimate prize. The ultimate prize is a gay wedding that has been planned by, flowers supplied by, photographed by, and catered by someone whose religious beliefs are violated by “gay marriage.” Only with their submission can the wedding be perfect.
If it were me, I could think of better ways to celebrate “the happiest day of my life.” Not so for the ultimate gay-marriage warrior, apparently.
Read the words of Masha Gessem and other gay marriage “activists.” They are lying. They do not want to “strengthen” marriage. They want to mock it, to dilute it even further, until it is seen as a joke. Look at marriage rates in countries that have enacted gay marriage. They were already low before gay marriage, and they plummeted even further when gay marriage was enacted. Europe has fallen into ennui and decadence, and the enemy (Islam) has sent its hordes to fill in the gaps.
Shotgun gay wedding with shotgun pointed at clergy
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/20/idaho-citys-ordinance-tells-pastors-to-marry-gays-/
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/steven-greydanus/pastors-not-facing-jail-time
No, pastors are NOT facing jail time for not marrying gays…
…despite what you may have seen on social media lately.
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For some reason a Washington Times article from October 20, 2014 headlined “Idaho city’s ordinance tells pastors to marry gays or go to jail” has been making the rounds on Facebook and Twitter and so forth. (People don’t check dates on social media.)
Sean L:
Correlation does not equal causation.
From my reading of the comments by Sean L., I do not see any “correlation does not equal causation” smoking gun.
Cultural decline is universally marked by the decay of the common morality and ethic reducing the level of “civilization” to impulses, intolerance, dumbness, licentiousness, crippled science and militant vanity. “Dumbness” is marked by over indulgence and “edification” delivered by contempt, disdain and hostility. Sound bites, punch lines and bumper stickers replace enlightenment and wisdom.
Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America) noted that: “Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.”
I made the following observations on another thread recently:
We have become too clever by half in our growing belief that our internal compass of “right and wrong” is some sort of common Global Positioning System which is picked up by a yet to be identified antenna in each if our skulls.
Sorry, but that dog won’t and can’t hunt. Baal, Mot, Kothar, Yamm, Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Apollo, Athena, Juno, Jupiter, Pluto, Minerva, Amun, Horus, Osiris, Odin, Thor, Balder, Shiva, Vishnu, Ganesha, etc. are all “gods” who left no enduring texts. They counted on clever priests and oracles to discover their divine will.
Free will is the “gift” of obedience or disobedience and the consequences that follow. But “free will” poses a complex question which is basic in nature: obedience or disobedience to what?
Oh, Helio, yes! Shout it from the housetops! I hope that’s a Christian apologetic in effect, but make no assumptions.
@Craig Smith, it’s great that you added that. But please note I was quoting somebody else’s ironic quote of the phrase. Am with you all the way. What they teach kindergartners today is the DNA of tomorrow’s national life. Even at a purely selfish level it’s ominous—we’re older than these hapless Young Pioneers, and what will our reclining years be like with them at the levers of power? Especially considering whites will be a despised remnant the way things are going.