LA Times — Conservative Jonah Goldenberg wrote an article today for the LA Times and the Partisan Report. The titles; An ugly attack on Mormons and The attack on Mormons and the hypocrisy that allows it. The articles are basically duplicates (as usual) and continue the outpour of cries against the attack on the Mormon Church by Gays. The Goldenberg article starts with:
“Did you catch the political ad… in which two smarmy Mormon missionaries knock on the door of an attractive lesbian couple. “Hi, we’re from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!” says the blond one with a toothy smile. “We’re here to take away your rights.” The Mormon zealots yank the couple’s wedding rings from their fingers and then tear up their marriage license.”
And ends with:
“It’s often lost on gay-rights groups that they and their allies are the aggressors in the culture war. Indeed, they admit to being the ‘forces of change’ and the ‘agents of progress.’ They proudly want to rewrite tradition and overturn laws. But whenever they’re challenged democratically and peaceably, they instantly complain of being victims of entrenched bigots, even as they adopt the very tactics they abhor.”
With a whole bunch of crappy examples in between on how gays have bullied others to get their way.
Then finally Goldenberg gets it right with this:
“My own view is that gay marriage is likely inevitable, and won’t be nearly the disaster many of my fellow conservatives fear it will be.”
Then spins those very words:
“But the scorched-earth campaign to victory pushed by gay-marriage advocates may well be disastrous, and “liberals” should be ashamed for countenancing it.”
Lika’s Take:
Does this guy need “STUPID” tattooed on his forehead or what? I understand the Mormons are pissed but you know what? It really doesn’t taste so good when you’re forced to each your own crap that you’ve already dished out. The mistake the proponents of Prop 8 made was not anticipating that a victory would result an overwhelming passion on the opposing side. A passion to fight back like never before. To fight what is right for all of us.
I am sick and tired of hearing about all the bad things gays have done since the Prop 8 victory. Why? Because they are whining and playing the victim just like they accuse gays of doing. That, and the fact that ‘they’ were doing the same damn things before the Prop 8 vote. As my grandma used to say, “It’s like the pot calling the kettle black.” (Yes, I know there’s a racist undertone to that idiom but, hey, she said it… Not me! And, yes, she was a racist but I still loved her dearly. That was before I knew any better or else I would have tried to change her views.)
On the night of the election I heard of countless reports of gays being vandalized. Their vehicles trashed and painted on. Harsh sexual and gay slurs being yelled out. Countless! And what about the decades of violence and murders we’ve had to endure. I don’t think our relatively small acts in comparison qualifies as justice in the eye for an eye sense. Then there are the lies the proponents ran in their ads. Like Prop 8 would result in homosexuality being taught in schools; that religious clergy would be forced to marry gays; that churches would have to change their beliefs. Lie after lie after lie. I am sick of these bitches! There! That’s how I really feel.
That may be how I really feel but it’s only because I am hurt emotionally by my peers in this great nation of liberty. Those same people that work to damn us into a lower class are also our fellow citizens and we are theirs. We all have the right to freedom of speech but that right crosses the line when it turns violent — On both sides. We must turn our anger into activism and stand for what is right. The right to be treated as equals under all aspects of the law. I don’t want special treatment no more than anyone else. That means I don’t like the idea of special laws created just for me. I absolutely hate the idea of being lumped into a minority. There should be no minorities. There should just be people who are all equal regardless of the race, ethnic background, gender, handicap or sexual orientation. Unfortunately it is through legislation, that we will ever achieve full equality.
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