Are the Quiet People awakening?
Excellent article.
Great piece, thanks for posting.
Take note of the closing sections:
“Remarkable is the change in society we have witnessed. It was not 10 years ago that the Supreme Court declared that states could no longer outlaw private sexual behavior between consenting adults and tossed out the anti-sodomy laws of 17 states.
In his dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the court had “taken sides in the culture war” and “largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda.” This decision “effectively decrees the end of all morals legislation” and makes same-sex marriage a logical result, said the justice.
Scalia was right. Consider how far we have come since.
While homosexual marriage has been rejected by voters in all 31 states where it has been on a ballot, it is being imposed by state legislatures and judges. Now we have the spectacle of a public caning of a private citizen for expressing religious beliefs held by perhaps 100 million American adults.
What is behind the rage, other than a hatred of Cathy’s Christian beliefs and a determination to see them stamped out?
As the individuals attacking Cathy obviously reject his biblical beliefs and consider them absurd, what are they afraid of? Mr. Cathy is not some fascist about to seize power, but a socially conservative businessman.
Indeed, not until this year has a timid Democratic Party decided to endorse homosexual marriage in its platform.
In 2008, Barack Obama was still for traditional marriage.
If the Republican Party has not gone wobbly in the culture war, it will take up the challenge of that Democratic platform and make homosexual marriage the social issue of the fall election.”
Mitt Romney is in favor of gay couples and gay adoption. We’ve heard nothing from his on Chick-fil-A, and we won’t.
There is no way the republicans will take up the cause of traditional marriage as a campaign issue with Romney in charge.
Answer: Nothing. This is the whole of it.
If you want people to be punished for their quiet personal beliefs, it is YOU who is intolerant. You wanted gays to not be killed or discriminated against. Now you want to hurt another group as badly as you were ever hurt. Your lack of fairness and decency is showing.
Can't wait to try it out when they open the store.
This particular incident was a test of the boundaries of the envelope, Alinsky in action. Activists picked a target - what else could we call plumbing the text of a Baptist magazine for a suitable class enemy? They froze it, deliberately misrepresenting Cathy's words, personalized it - how many Americans even knew who this guy was prior to last week? And they polarized it, imbuing Cathy and his restaurant with every accusation imaginable, even the patently false. They used their media sympathizers to frame the issue, to shout down opponents, to see that their message was the only one heard. This is truly Rules for Radicals in action, a classic case.
The ground assumption behind all this is that free men and women need to be "transformed" into something less free, by those who insist on reserving freedom for themselves. Health care, homosexual marriage, gun control - that is by no means a complete list, and it's all about the power.
Meanwhile... There are still those naive people out there who stamp their feet and claim we should ignore these issues and focus on the economy.