Posted on 12/29/2010 3:15:36 AM PST by Scanian
So now openly gay soldiers get to fight and die in neocon-imperialist wars, too?
David Brooks saw such ironic progressive victories coming. In his book "Bobos in Paradise," he wrote that everything "transgressive" gets "digested by the mainstream bourgeois order, and all the cultural weapons that once were used to undermine middle-class morality . . . are drained of their subversive content."
Two decades ago, the gay left wanted to smash the bourgeois prisons of monogamy, capitalistic enterprise and patriotic values and bask in the warm sun of bohemian "free love" and avant-garde values. In this, they were simply picking up the torch from the straight left of the 1960s and 1970s, which had sought to throw off the sexual hang-ups of their parents' generation along with their gray-flannel suits.
As a sexual-lifestyle experiment, they failed pretty miserably, the greatest proof being that the affluent and educated children (and grandchildren) of the baby boomers have re-embraced the bourgeois notion of marriage as an essential part of a successful life. Sadly, it's the lower-middle class that increasingly sees marriage as an out-of-reach luxury. The irony is that such bourgeois values -- monogamy, hard work, etc. -- are the best guarantors of success and happiness.
Of course, the lunacy of the bohemian free-love shtick should have been obvious from the get-go. For instance, when Michael Lerner, a member of the anti-Vietnam War "Seattle Seven," did marry, in 1971, the couple exchanged rings made from the fuselage of a US aircraft downed over Vietnam and cut into a cake inscribed in icing with a Weatherman catchphrase, "Smash Monogamy."
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“Many of my conservative friends — who oppose both civil unions and gay marriage and object to rampant promiscuity — often act as if there’s some grand alternative lifestyle for gays.”
There is, Jonah...it’s called “keeping it in your pants.”
The mainstreaming of perversion is all part of the communist plan to destroy America. And it is right on schedule.
Gay = gag and yell
We are the New Roman Empire, homos and all.
This was never about homosexual men. This issue has always been about lesbians being allowed in the military.
Not that either. This is about gay marriage. You can’t deny universal recognition of marriage to people who are being allowed spousal rights in the military.
How many would want to treat a wounded gay soldier and get their blood on them.
explain please.
I can see the MSM soundbites...so and so died fighting for his country, but the government wouldn't let him marry his "life partner", etc, etc.
The dialectical sword has two edges.
Personally, I've always felt that gay marriage was an inevitability, for good or ill (most likely both). I don't think that the arguments against gay marriage are all grounded in bigotry, and I find some arguments persuasive. But I also find it cruel and absurd to tell gays that living the free-love lifestyle is abominable while at the same time telling them that their committed relationships are illegitimate, too.
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