{"id":4625,"date":"2010-08-31T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/08\/and-end-to-the-bigotry.html"},"modified":"2010-08-31T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T09:56:00","slug":"and-end-to-the-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/08\/and-end-to-the-bigotry.html","title":{"rendered":"And end to the bigotry?"},"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><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/files\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_J1G_DOabPa0\/TH0TuS6MTYI\/AAAAAAAAAPM\/U50wgUgBHB0\/s1600\/dna_strand.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Mark Shea, over at Catholic and Enjoying It, is <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/markshea.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/were-out-and-were-stout.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-size:85%\">having fun jabbing the modern gay rights movement.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%\"> Yet behind the jabs are valid points. Modern gay rights, like so many things in the post-modern age, relies on sound and fury and \u2018I dare you to question us\u2019 in debating the issues at hand. Like the right wingers of old, who threw anti-American, heretic, or Communist at anyone who dared question the status <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">quo<\/span>, the modern Progressives take their cues from the same playbook. Never mind stopping to ask some pretty fundamental questions and being able to discuss them:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Are we sure there is overwhelming scientific consensus on just why people are homosexual? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Does a physiological tendency toward a behavior make that behavior no longer subject to moral examination? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Does the physiological tendency toward a behavior mean that any negative results of that behavior are to be ignored?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Just how much actual proof do we have regarding homosexuality, and how much of it is based on biases, interpretation of data, and personal perspectives?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">All of these are fair, but try asking them. Mark Shea is having fun pointing out that being overweight is not looked upon well in our society today. In fact, a growing backlash and increasing tolerance toward shaming and stigmatizing overweight people is on the rise. We know that some folks are just going to be heavier, but that hasn\u2019t stopped the growing social scorn, the increased demands from the medical community to change lifestyles, and even possible penalties for being heavy.<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size:85%\"><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size:85%\">So the question, rhetorical as it may seem, still stands: why this treatment for heavy people, many of whom may be physiologically and biologically predisposed toward being heavy, while folks who follow another particular lifestyle on the single platform of it being physiological\/biological are given a free pass, a \u2018don\u2019t touch this\u2019, a conform or else message? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">My answer to that will follow someday. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Shea, over at Catholic and Enjoying It, is having fun jabbing the modern gay rights movement. Yet behind the jabs are valid points. 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