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11/11/2008
Audio: Hypocrisy is such a riot
In the past few days, we've seen the "pro-family" community in a supposed state of shock over the principled Prop 8 protests being waged by gay activists. They just can't believe those pesky queers would be upset with having their rights eliminated. They don't understand raging against perceived unfairness. They can't believe we would "riot." They would NEVER do such a thing.
Unless, of course, a reasoned body of legal scholars finds the passed ban to be unlawful on procedural grounds, or that it goes against minority rights in a way that violated the equal protection clause:
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(Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver speaking to CWA's Martha Kleder)
Or if a Governor voices an opinion with which they don't personally agree:
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(Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver speaking to CWA's Martha Kleder)
In those cases: RIOT!!!!!!! The only question: Would they have literal torches and pitchforks befitting the "tyranny of the majority" views that have come to define their movement?
AUDIO SOURCE: Liberty Counsel Files Motion to Intervene in Prop 8 Challenge [CWA]
**Oh, and it's not just Mat Staver. Check out what Southern Baptist top dog Albert Mohler says in a new Time piece:
"If the California Supreme Court were to issue a ruling that would invalidate the will of the people, the consequences for the court would be momentous," the Rev. Albert Mohler told TIME over the weekend. Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and one of the nation's leading Evangelical voices, called such a "usurpation" hard to fathom. Imagine, he said, how much more controversial Roe v. Wade would be now had the court issued the decision after more than half the states had held statewide elections on the issue. "Tuesday's rulings have made it much more costly for any court to reach a conclusion in favor of gay marriage," he said.
Activists Rethink Their Gay-Marriage Tactics [Time]
Your thoughts
Jeremy,
From that same TIME article,
On the Evangelical side, Mohler told TIME that religious conservatives see the threat from the gay rights' agenda as much broader than just an affront to traditional notions of marriage.
"Full normalization of homosexuality would eventually mean the end to all morals legislation of any kind," he says, echoing the line of reasoning made famous by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his dissent in the high court's 2003 decision striking down state laws that made gay sex a crime."
Even Mohler himself admits that its not only about same-sex marriage. Its our very EXISTENCE that the conservative "christians" have a problem with. Allowing gay people to co-exist with the same rights they enjoy must be fought at all costs. But you and I both know Jeremy that most American people do not read their blogs EXCEPT those that think like Mohler and the Relgious Right. Most mainstream people do not know what the Religious Right is truly up to regarding their Dominionist Agenda.
Posted by: Ken R | Nov 11, 2008 8:49:02 PM
And what happens when they get rid of the GLBT people? Then they'll come after the rest of us who aren't like them. You know, us uppity single women who never bothered to submit ourselves to a man's patriarchal authority, single guys who are a threat to society (no lie, I heard that when I was a Mormon) and anyone else who doesn't fit into compulsory marriage and heteronormality.
Blech!
Posted by: mirele | Nov 11, 2008 9:25:10 PM
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