Posted on 02/22/2004 3:50:51 AM PST by backhoe
Forthcoming Attractions ( Gay Marriage, or "You have been conned, once again, suckers..." )
See ? It’s always the new guy who gets the Jan 1 slot of death – and, indeed, that is exactly how I feel right now. Still, the show must go on.
It’s an article of faith on Fantasy Island that Britain is five hours ahead of America and also twenty years behind. That’s true for technology but, as far as social issues go, it’s the UK that’s the canary in the mine .So read on, and see what’s coming next.
OK, so you guys have so far managed to resist the blandishments of gay marriage, but over here the government has swallowed it wholesale, which at least means the Pink Wedge don’t have to lie about it anymore. Here’s actor John Barrowman on what it really means:
It’s been a long wait but we legitimised our relationship to each other a long time ago when we signed our mortgages together and this is just something that forces people who don’t want to recognise it that they have to.
No room for misquote there then. Yes, indeed. It was never about folks solemnly waiting for the State to endorse their lifestyles, it was always about using the power of Big Government to impose their lifestyle on third parties. Or, to put it another way, that’s what’s facing you if you break like Britain’s social conservatives did. But that’s not the end of it. The New Order is making its presence felt in the most bizarre of contexts:
The Royal Air Force has called in a gay pressure group to help solve its recruitment crisis. The Service will take advice from Stonewall on how to make itself more attractive to homosexual and bisexual men and women, and is aiming to spend tens of thousands of pounds on advertising in the “pink” media.
Because, you know, Britain doesn’t have anything else to spend the money on.
Ditto, British education. We might have 70% literacy rates, but at least the government knows what’s really important:
Schools that fail to show enthusiasm in rooting out prejudice against homosexuals should be reported to the police by pupils and parents, a Home Office report recommended yesterday.
Ah yes: block watchers as the guardians of tolerance – now, remind me again why people think Liberalism is a mental illness ? And don’t think you can avoid it all by working in the private sector. New employment regulations supposedly designed to clamp down on ‘harassment’ go a little further, requiring employers with ambitions to avoid a lawsuit to, well, it speaks for itself:
Businesses have been warned by a Government watchdog they must individually quiz every member of staff on gay rights - or risk being sued for discrimination…
Questions range from knowing how many gays live in the UK, to whether the business displays a ‘rainbow flag’ - a symbol of homosexual rights - on the premises.
Not that the La-Las have it all their own way. Lancashire County Council’s decision to plaster the walls of their offices with paraphernalia celebrating gay marriage civil partnership was par for the Liberal course, but when they sent round a police officer to threaten an elderly couple who asked for equal prominence to be given to Christian literature, that was a bridge too far even for British courts. Still, rising to the occasion Liberals have decided that the answer is to redraft the law so that just about everybody in the whole world is guilty:
(3) A person (‘A’) subjects another person (‘B’) to harassment in any circumstances relevant for the purposes of any provision referred to in these Regulations where, on the grounds of sexual orientation, A engages in unwanted conduct which has the purpose or effect of
(a) violating B’s dignity; or
(b) creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for B.
Ah yes. Let me spell this out for you. Whether or not something is offensive is not only judged solely on the basis of whether or not Big Gay Al Sharpton judges it so, but to be found ‘not guilty’ you will be required to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Big Gay Al doesn’t believe it’s offensive.
An impossible standard ?
Now you’re getting it. Yes, there might be a theoretical exemption for those with religious objections, but for those who simply believe that a society which treats folks with kids the same as folks without, deserves to disappear down the demographic plughole ? You’re under arrest!
There’s probably some profound truth there. But right now, let me sum it up for you: gay rights activists have spent years singing ‘I gotta be free, I gotta be me…’ but now it turns out that their view of freedom involves the arrest of anyone who advocates the moral views held by just about every major religion. After all, if people promoting lifestyles Liberals disagree with aren’t legally harassed, why, that might lead to intolerance.
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