{"id":2774,"date":"2012-02-08T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/02\/pro-gay-rights-advocate-roland-martin-suspended.html"},"modified":"2012-02-08T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T23:21:00","slug":"pro-gay-rights-advocate-roland-martin-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/02\/pro-gay-rights-advocate-roland-martin-suspended.html","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Gay Rights Advocate Roland Martin Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Over <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/02\/08\/10354257-cnn-suspends-commentator-roland-martin-over-beckham-ad-tweets\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201chomophobic\u201d comments<\/a> at the behest of\u00a0GLAAD (nobody enjoys raw censorship and thought control nowadays\u00a0more than GLAAD).\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m not a fan of Mr. Martin.\u00a0 But I have to admit, my first reaction to what he said was that it was petty, stupid, but nothing more.\u00a0 I had to have someone say it was homophobic, and then try to look at it that way, in order to see it that way \u2013 and I still don\u2019t see it that way.\u00a0 But such is life in the great post-Christian liberal paradise.\u00a0 All things sex, drugs, and bathroom humor are A-OK.\u00a0 Trashing religion is as good as always.\u00a0 But never, ever blaspheme the true (TM) gospel of the Left.\u00a0 This especially includes the celebration of all that is non-heterosexual.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The irony here is that Mr. Martin is a professional at being aggrieved over any one of a thousand comments or slights that involve homosexuality, women\u2019s rights, minority sensitives and the like.\u00a0 As so many on the Left are wont to do, he has always been happy to suggest that it\u2019s time to put an end to such \u201chate\u201d; a convenient way to call for censorship and oppression of diverse opinions. Now, he has fallen to his own sword.\u00a0 He who lives by the Glorious Censorship will inevitably die by the Glorious Censorship.\u00a0 Perhaps CNN will come around and bring him back to the fold.\u00a0We\u2019ll have to see.\u00a0 If it does, then perhaps Mr. Martin will return a wiser man for his troubles.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over \u201chomophobic\u201d comments at the behest of\u00a0GLAAD (nobody enjoys raw censorship and thought control nowadays\u00a0more than GLAAD).\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m not a fan of Mr. Martin.\u00a0 But I have to admit, my first reaction to what he said was that it was petty, stupid, but nothing more.\u00a0 I had to have someone say it was homophobic, and then 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