{"id":3223,"date":"2011-06-25T00:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/06\/a-note-about-the-recent-posts-on-gay-rights.html"},"modified":"2011-06-25T00:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T00:35:00","slug":"a-note-about-the-recent-posts-on-gay-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/06\/a-note-about-the-recent-posts-on-gay-rights.html","title":{"rendered":"A note about the recent posts on gay rights"},"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>It might appear that I have been spending an inordinate amount of time on this issue.\u00a0 Some might think it\u2019s because of some latent sexual identity problem I have.\u00a0 Not really.\u00a0 First, it\u2019s because I don\u2019t have time to blog much due to various reasons.\u00a0 Second, when I sit down it seems as if the latest gay rights story is what everyone is talking about.\u00a0 Third, the Gay Rights Movement is about the only thing getting what it wants right now.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Our rather dull and incompetent president, who is no doubt a good family man and decent fellow, continues to fail on almost every front.\u00a0 I mean it.\u00a0 The guy is a joke at this point.\u00a0 If everything was equal and he was a Republican, (and be honest, a white Republican), why there probably would\u00a0be calls to remove him from office.\u00a0 As it stands, the liberal propaganda machine in our educational, media, and entertainment industries are bending over backwards to find something \u2013 anything \u2013 for which\u00a0they can praise him.\u00a0 And in 2012, woe be to him who dares criticize him.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>But in fairness, he has done well for gay rights.\u00a0 He may be accomplishing nothing overseas.\u00a0 He may be plunging into one non-war war after another.\u00a0 He may be playing with our military for purely political reasons, promising to reduce our troop numbers to twice what they were when he took office.\u00a0 He may be assuring us that the economy is better since gas is all the way down to only about a 1.50 over what it was two years ago.\u00a0 He may be looking desperate as he can\u2019t figure out how to fix the debt, the unemployment, and our soon to collapse entitlement system.\u00a0 But by goodness, he has gone in there and given his all to gay rights supporters, and for that we Americans thank him.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been the dual sides of this that has hit me when I\u2019ve had time to sit and blog.\u00a0 On one hand, while everything is floundering, while wars, genocides, pandemics, economic collapse, and hopelessness continue to grip\u00a0America, the West, and the World, the GRM continues to have such disproportionate power to see to it that its desires are addressed if nothing else is given the time of day.\u00a0 And on the other hand, the very movement born under \u2018there\u2019s no absolute moral truths, nobody has a right to legislate morality, we should all live in peace and agree to disagree\u2019 continues to use the crushing iron gauntlet of censorship, oppression, ostracizing, and general eradication of those who refuse to go along with the demand for conformity and group think.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a strange brew.\u00a0 When all else is falling apart, the only thing making headway is a movement founded on diversity and peopled and supported by among the highest income earners who are increasingly demanding society punish all who fail to conform to its dogmatic demands.\u00a0 Again, a thousand years from now I can\u2019t imagine what people will think when they look at this, the twilight of Western Civilization.\u00a0 But 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