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READERS WRITE: "Brokeback's" message worth considering [libertarian talking point]
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 1/17/06 | NORMAN RAVITCH

Posted on 01/17/2006 5:33:20 AM PST by madprof98

Theater officials in some communities are not showing the path-breaking "Brokeback Mountain," a movie rivaling in importance the post-World War II "Gentleman's Agreement," which took on polite but deadly anti-Semitism in the American elite.

It is not just about two gay cowboys. It is about how homophobia and hypocrisy force them to marry and have children instead of living the lives God and nature gave them. The results are tragic, not just for them but for those around them.

The target here is hypocrisy and self-appointed moralists who think they can tell us how to think, how to live, how to say happy holidays and how to interpret world events.

NORMAN RAVITCH, Savannah


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: faggotsuberalles; homosexualagenda; pudding
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To: Stepan12

If you look at the main libertarian talking points, they are for pushing the homosexual agenda and all of the other sexual perversions the left wants, keeping abortion legal, making sure that God is never mentioned anywhere in public, making dangerous drugs more available and making our military as small as possible so that we cannot defend against terrorism. This is all very much in line with the left.

They also want to lower taxes and preserve private property rights, and for this, many conservative jump on their bandwagon.


41 posted on 01/17/2006 6:05:03 AM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: madprof98
It is about how homophobia and hypocrisy force them to marry and have children instead of living the lives God and nature gave them.

Last I checked men have penises and women have vaginas. The primary 'natural' function of those organs is for reproduction of the species. That does not work with two penises.

42 posted on 01/17/2006 6:07:32 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: madprof98
force them to marry and have children instead of living the lives God and nature gave them.

Well, at least the author is open, honest, and straighforward.

Movies like this are made to reject Jewish, Islamic and Christian scripture and teaching about man, God, and God's creative wisdom and power.

The idea that male homosexuality is given by God is, for all followers of the monotheistic faiths, anathema - which is the point.

43 posted on 01/17/2006 6:17:17 AM PST by Jim Noble (Fiat justitia, ruat coelum)
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To: madprof98

**This was in Letters to the Editor in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution this morning. The author is a retired professor and self-described libertarian.**

...and homosexual...


44 posted on 01/17/2006 6:17:44 AM PST by Galveston Grl (Getting angry and abandoning power to the Democrats is not a choice.)
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To: Galveston Grl

And Christian-hating atheist.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/ravitch1.html


45 posted on 01/17/2006 6:22:21 AM PST by Mojave
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To: Blood of Tyrants
... instead of living the lives God and nature gave them

Just a nice way to say that some people are not suitable to reproduce.

46 posted on 01/17/2006 6:24:28 AM PST by myprecious
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To: Mojave

And Lew Rockwell contributor. That pretty much proves he's a moonbat.


47 posted on 01/17/2006 6:24:49 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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To: madprof98
This is nonsense. Making movies and screening them are business propositions. If a theater is being petitioned by its customers NOT to screen a movie because it is offensive then why in the world would they? Movies have to PAY a portion of each ticket sold to the movie maker and if no one or very few see the movie then they will not be able to cover their fixed expenses much less make a profit.

No movie house has a "moral obligation" to screen any movie. It's all about money and that is as it should be in this case.
48 posted on 01/17/2006 6:30:14 AM PST by Eagles Talon IV
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To: madprof98

Was this guy pitcher or catcher?


49 posted on 01/17/2006 6:30:39 AM PST by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: Mojave; Sloth
Is this the link you were looking for?

Libertarian Party Platform

(These folks are NUTS) Look at the section on Domestic Ills and the right of secession.

From the link above:

Sexual Rights The Issue: Government has presumed to decide acceptability over sexual practices in personal relationships, imposing a particular code of moral and social values and displacing personal choice in such matters.

The Principle: Adults have the right to private choice in consensual sexual activity.

Solutions: We advocate an end to all government attempts to dictate, prohibit, control or encourage any private lifestyle, living arrangement or contractual relationship.

Transitional Action: We would repeal existing laws and policies intended to condemn, affirm, encourage or deny sexual lifestyles, or any set of attitudes about such lifestyles.

50 posted on 01/17/2006 6:32:24 AM PST by ConservativeBamaFan
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To: OpusatFR
"This from the PC police. I don't think I care if someone is homosexual. What I despise is the constant push to tell ME what I have to think, live and interpret."

Exactly, it is not enough for queers to be accepted, they demand their twisted lifestyle be celebrated.

51 posted on 01/17/2006 6:32:41 AM PST by Eagles Talon IV
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To: Mojave

.... prostitution, gambling, suicide, abortion ....


52 posted on 01/17/2006 6:33:46 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: madprof98

I have considered the message, and rejected it.

Can I move on now?


53 posted on 01/17/2006 6:34:14 AM PST by relictele
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To: robertpaulsen

You're right. I failed to give them proper credit.


54 posted on 01/17/2006 6:37:46 AM PST by Mojave
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To: OpusatFR
"dispise (sic)"

Living in society means conforming to a certain amount of rules. Not so much of what you think as what you do. But telling people how to think, up to a certain age, is part of life. I really don't care how you think as an adult, I do care how you act. By the way, I'm sure you mean this sentiment for the p.c. busybodies on the left too...right?

55 posted on 01/17/2006 7:21:12 AM PST by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: ConservativeBamaFan; Mojave
The Principle: Adults have the right to private choice in consensual sexual activity.

Seems to undermine the pedophilia claim, huh?

56 posted on 01/17/2006 7:30:39 AM PST by Sloth (Macromelancholia -- The wistful desire to play those Flash games in advertising banners.)
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To: madprof98
Which message? Be Homosexual? Live a Lie? Destroy people who love you?

Or, Homosexuality is a lose-lose proposition and not like the funny-fags on TV?

57 posted on 01/17/2006 7:57:16 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: rwa265

Why aren't they just called "shepherds", because that's exactly the phrasing the word comes from?


58 posted on 01/17/2006 8:43:20 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: OpusatFR

ROFL! You mean I have to be careful when I go to Harborplace? I won't be walking w/my sister there - that would be an even bigger target for being "cute"!


59 posted on 01/17/2006 8:46:00 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: Redmen4ever

"Some people who refer to themselves as libertarian do so only in the sense of sexual behavior, and not in the sense of the full range of behavior to include working, saving and investment, gun ownership, the free exercise of religion, etc. A true libertarian wants the government out of our pocketbook as well as out of our bedroom."



Again, those are LIBERTINES, not "libertarians". They're confused - but I'm not surprised, since their vocabularies are usually poor.


60 posted on 01/17/2006 8:48:00 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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