Update (12:12 p.m.): I’ve gotten e-mails, Facebook comments, and tweets about why I’ve closed comments on the blog. Life is just easier without them, and I can focus on other things during the day. When I get three comments on a long post, I spend too much time wondering why. When a post brings out the trolls, I kick myself for opening comments. (It is liberating to say what you’ve got to say “soapbox” style and not wonder about or even expect feedback.) But this topic is worth it, so I’ll open the post up for discussion.
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God, did you bring me all the way to California so I could join the front line of the battle to protect traditional marriage?
Wow. I might be on to something. I was seething last night when I read about a pro-homosexual “marriage” crowd blocking traffic in the Westwood area of Los Angeles near the Mormon temple. Allow me to digress for a moment. I’ve never blogged my view of Mormonism, but here goes: Mormonism is not historic Christianity. [The rest I deleted. Too distracting, and it belongs in a different post.]
With that out of the way, I wholly support Mormons’ decision to support Proposition 8, a measure that amends California’s constitution to define marriage as between only a man and a woman. I will defend and stand with Mormons on this issue.
Back to the point of the post. Last night my sister and I watched a live camera feed on CBS2 of a group of homosexual “marriage” supporters holding up traffic as they “protested” their way to the gate of the Mormon Temple. They claim Mormons spent millions on “deceptive” ads supporting Prop 8, which a spokesman denies. The man wasn’t denying that his church supported the measure. He said the church as an institution didn’t pay for any ads.
The details aren’t overly important. As I watched people blocking traffic, protesting for their so-called right to make a mockery of marriage, my mind flashed to that grainy black-and-white footage from the 1960s. You know what I’m talking about, right? Blacks were fighting to be treated as first class citizens – to be allowed to vote in peace, to sit wherever they wanted to sit on a bus or train, to live where they wanted to live, to take advantage of all the rights and protections everyone else enjoyed. Legal segregation and discrimination were so demeaning that people were willing to pay with their lives, so their children and grandchildren could be FREE.
And to think some homosexuals compare themselves to civil rights-era blacks! It burns me up, man. To calm myself down, I came up with this idea. Let homosexuals experience an authentic “civil rights movement” moment, complete with billy clubs upside the head, firehoses in the face, and attack dogs at the rear. I don’t condone violence for the sake of violence, but if these people want to co-opt a legitimate movement, they ought to experience it in full.
Let’s spit on them and shout nasty things as they march by. Let’s throw things and push and shove. Let’s pour stuff on their heads (the wrath of God?) and pelt them with rocks. Let’s run them off the road, pull them out of cars and do mock-lynchings to scare the…out of them.
But that would be ridiculous, just as ridiculous as homosexuals comparing their so-called plight to what black Americans went through.
As I’ve said before (and I’ll quote myself), homosexuals hear this:
“Two people, three people, four or more people of any sex can do whatever they want to do to each other. I don’t care! And no one is stopping you from marrying. You just can’t marry a person of the same sex. You also can’t marry your sister or your father or a minor or more than one person at a time. You have the same civil rights as the rest of us, but marriage is not a civil right. The civil rights movement was about giving blacks what had been withheld from them for a long time: the right to the same constitutional protections enjoyed by everyone else. Homosexuals, heterosexuals, asexuals, or whatever, are under those same protections. But what homosexuals want are special rights, one of which involves overhauling the institution of marriage. You have no civil right to do that.
Trying to turn your desire for acceptance into a right is clever. We’re big on rights in this country. In California, homosexuals can register as domestic partners, and they’ll have rights, protections, and benefits. But that’s not enough! People warned that once we relented on the domestic partnership issue, homosexuals would be clamoring for marriage. That’s exactly what they’re doing, and they’re willing to nullify the votes of millions of people to do it.
Here’s a slope slippery enough to sicken even the unreasonable: You know the old sayings…give a man a rope, and he wants to be a cowboy…Give them an inch, they take a yard? Just as allowing “civil unions” has given way to a demand for marriage, allowing marriage will give way to such horrors as men “marrying” boys. I can clearly see nutso parents consenting to allow their sons to “marry” some pervert. With homosexual marriage on one end and a lowered age of consent on the other, the kid wouldn’t even need his parents’ permission! Think I’m crazy? You better believe it can and will happen.
Isn’t it ironic that homosexuals, once rebels in a culture that shut them away in a closet, now want to encroach on heterosexuals and make a mockery of the institution of marriage? That’s revenge, my friends. It was nothing to do with so-called rights and “being with my partner forever” and “the right to love who I want to love” and the rest of that nonsense. They seek acceptance for something that appalls most people, something that God calls sin. If you think my opposing homosexual “marriage” means I hate homosexuals, you’re wrong. I hate the sin. I will never accept what is perverse in God’s eyes as normal, and I will continue to speak out against homosexual “marriage” and do what I can to prevent it.
You have to pick your battles in life. Where are my sword and shield?
