First Rush, then Coulter, and Now Glenn Beck ... What’s Happening?

Life Site News ^ | NEW YORK, August 12, 2010 | Commentary by John-Henry Westen

[GonzoII]

Friday August 13, 2010

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First Rush, then Coulter, and Now Glenn Beck ... What’s Happening?

Commentary by John-Henry Westen

NEW YORK, August 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Appearing on The O’Reilly Factor yesterday, famed conservative Fox News host Glenn Beck may have shocked many Americans by noting that he was not very concerned about homosexual 'marriage.'

O’Reilly asked Beck, “Do you believe that gay marriage is a threat to the country in any way?” Beck replied, “No, I don't,” adding sarcastically, “Will the gays come and get us?” 

After being pressed again on the question, Beck said, “I believe -- I believe what Thomas Jefferson said. If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?”  Showing his own surprise, O’Reilly remarked, “Okay, so you don't. That's interesting. Because I don't think a lot of people understand that about you.”

The Glenn Beck revelation comes on the heels of two other startling announcements by conservative celebrity pundits in the last couple of weeks.  Earlier this week it was announced that conservative pundit Ann Coulter would headline a fundraiser for the homosexual activist group within the Republican Party, GOProud.  And on July 29, although his position had been revealed before, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh again came out in favor of homosexual civil unions, while being opposed to same-sex ‘marriage.’

To be fair, it must be pointed out that Beck said he was looking at the ‘big picture’ and promoting faith, the answer to all such things.  Moreover, he added that he was okay with gay ‘marriage’ with a caveat.  “As long as we are not going down the road of Canada, where it now is a problem for churches to have free speech. If they can still say, hey, we oppose it,” he said.

But even to have suggested, as strongly as he did, that he was not opposed to gay ‘marriage’ is detrimental and demonstrates a ‘small picture’ approach.

Beck seems like a good guy. He’s thoughtful.  He’s right on many matters in the culture war.  For instance, when O’Reilly followed up and asked if Beck thought abortion threatened the United States, Beck replied dramatically in the affirmative.  “Abortion is killing, it’s killing, you’re killing someone,” he said.

So I thought it’d be worth it to calmly and persuasively share concerns with Beck on his approach.  He may not read my email, but I’m sure if enough pro-family folks were to get the message to him, he’d reconsider his outlook.

Here’s Beck’s email:

And here’s the gist of what I wrote:

Laws teach people what is right and wrong and thus homosexual acts will implicitly be given the stamp of approval where such legal recognition is granted.  The young will be given the false impression that this behavior is safe and acceptable, or even good.

Society has a duty to legally recognize and support married couples since they are, through procreation, the source for the continuation of human life and thus society itself.  Homosexual couples cannot properly procreate and thus have no such claim to societal recognition.

The question is not so much about marriage, but about homosexual acts.  The acts are harmful to the individuals who engage in them. They are harmful physically, emotionally and spiritually. 

With regard to persons engaged in such behavior or identifying with it, there must never be unjust discrimination.  All gay bashing, name-calling and the like should be condemned.  However, there must be discrimination on this front, a just discrimination, to preserve societal recognition for marriage between one man and one woman. 

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[nmh]

“I heard a sermon once where the preacher said “What if everyone that you knew was marching toward a cliff and they didn't see it but you did? What would you do? What lengths would you go to to help them see? Those that are unsaved have the next footfall over that edge.” That has stuck with me over 20 years later. “

Yeah, I heard a similar one about someone wanting to commit suicide by drowning and one person insisted on saving them. The outcome there was the suicidal person was eternally grateful. Yes, we must at least try.

[little jeremiah]

Calling it marriage is not going to make the child molestors more aggressive.

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It will make homosexual child molesters more aggressive in the sense that they can adopt and foster children much more easily, or use surrogate mothers or fathers. Children growing up with homosexuals are much more likely to be molested/seduced and very, very confused. Homosexual child molestation is about 1/3 of all child molestation and they are less than 2% of the population.

So, you are wrong.

[manc]

since ACORN Beck seems to be losing it and now I find myself watching him only once or twice a week.
He picks and chooses on what the founding fathers say or past presidents.

It’s frigging obvious that the founding fathers would not have tolerated homosexuals and certainly not their sham marriage.
Yes Beck they will come after you , look around and see people being told they cannot pass a bar exam because they do not accept homo marriage, or people being told they are not being given a position because of their objection.
Even kids being told about it and then when a parents says no they are told to shut up and then harassed at all hours at his home.

You bet they will come after you so stop the crap and get a grip and stop their agenda now once and for all instead of saying well will they come after me with a dumb face on

[manc]

gay you mean homosexual right, let us now play their name word game and lets call them what they are.
Homosexuals

[little jeremiah]

Thank you sir.

[manc]

gay you mean homosexual right, let us not play their name word game and lets call them what they are.
Homosexuals

[nmh]

Thanks for the reminder.

Gal.6:9

[9] And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

[manc]

are you for real.

You sound like a homo troll [pretending to be a christian.

What about people like me who do nto go to church but find their agenda and what they do as sickening and totally unnaturally?

It is sick and yet they think because they get turned on by what they have sex with makes them get married and have rights like a normal couple .
NO CHANCE, every state can pass their sham marriage and that does not mean I will accept it and will tell any kook lefty or homo that they are not married and that they are sick

[manc]

that is why we have to teach our kids about their sick agenda as I have.

[sodpoodle]

Precisely. We are now expected to consider it *normal* for children to be adopted and IVFd into this strange *family* structure.

God gave every man & woman the tools to create progeny - with written instructions.

Apparently, some people cannot read or grasp that concept.

[Darksheare]

Yes, and it was the one saying that we are ‘oppressing’ the gays by not letting them marry.
*???? what the ????*
The other two that were cheering that on are still viable.

[manc]

THAT IS SICK AND I ONLY SAW A COUPLE OF PHOTOS, IT’S HIGH TIME THAT HANNITY AND SO CALLED CONSERVATIVES SAW THIS.
It’s high time the media showed this and let it be known to all those dopes which say I have a homo friend he is nice wake up.

This is what your homo friend really does when you aren not around.

Because of this mental sickness they think they should be married

[huldah1776]

The girls got papa drunk, so I would have to say there must be something wrong happening when you grow up in Sodom. The kids are not alright.

[little jeremiah]

Sandy has left the building just in case you hadn’t seen the “zot”.

[trisham]

I hear you.

[little jeremiah]

You have been in top form today.

I want zot graphics though - where are the zot graphic people?

[little jeremiah]

Exactly.

[DJ MacWoW]

It is a tough thing to do. We get shouted down and ridiculed. But we don’t stop.

[Darksheare]

Yes, but at post 159 a certain someone tried saying that those are God Loving people.
They got gob-smacked by the truth as seen in the link and didn’t like it.
Yet they kept pushing that agenda.

[B-Chan]

LOL It's so funny to watch you guys as one by one your "conservative" idols are revealed as liberals who like capitalism. Seeing your little faces fall as you finally realize you've been had is indescribably amusing. "Say it ain't so, Glenn Beck! Say it ain't so!" Oh, my sides will never stop aching.

Maybe now you folks will realize that "American conservatism" as you have known it is a farce and a fraud — liberalism wrapped in a red-white-and-blue bathrobe. Maybe now you will see that the Constitution, Statue of Liberty, and Wall Street are part of the same monstrous history-spanning project that brought us the French Revolution, the Soviet Union, and Lady Gaga. Perhaps now you will see that real capital-C Conservatism has nothing to do with individual Liberty and everything to do with individual Duty; that real Conservatism is not and cannot be divorced from the Christian religion and the historic Christian culture of the West prior to the so-called "Enlightenment".

"Do what thou wilt shall the the whole of the law". That's the credo of the liberal, the libertarian, the capitalist, and Satan. The motto of the conservative is "Who is like God?" We are about to find out the hard way what happens when liberty and reason are unshackled from the reins of true Religion and left to run wild.