With Chick-fil-a appreciation day a resounding success yesterday with lines reported across the country and here locally needing police to direct traffic because of the queues it is clear that the Gay/Liberal/Progressive/Democrat community has clearly misjudged the public mood.
It is clear that having made Gay marriage a key reform platform of the left they are about to commit electoral suicide this coming November in the Presidential and other elections. No amount of spin can possibly help them. The Dems will be stuck supporting an issue that the majority did not ask for or want. Even among their own hard core vote such as the African American community there are now a lot of people such as pastors telling their congregations not to vote for Obama. This is unheard of, likewise the Hispanic community will be unhappy about this issue. The only group outside of the LGBT community remaining loyal to the idea will be the Jewish community but even they as a group seem to be cracking as a monolithic voting block with maybe 30% abstaining from voting or coming over to the dark side and the Republican party.
This will only leave them with a hardcore vote that would vote for bestiality if Nancy Pelosi recommended it because they have zero common sense and quite frankly are retarded. So I expect the media to keep plugging the idea as well as the entire entertainment industry and activist judges pulling rights out of their bottoms to try and over ride the will of the people. However the people are clearly upset and will show it at the ballot box.
All I can do is thank the Liberals for creating an issue that has galvanized millions to hate you and everything you stand for. Now all we can hope that the people of the UK do the same and reject any party that supports this issue (Libdems/Conservatives/Labour) and boycotts any newspaper (take note Daily Telegraph) or TV station or any other organization or company that does. Use the power that you still have your wallet/purse and vote. To the LGBT community you can not legislate people liking you and issues like this will have the opposite effect to what you intended.
I like many other people have decided to tell the progressives it’s time to get the hell out of Dodge.
Knotted prop Blog 
Whatever happened to ‘this is a free country’?
It isn’t anymore unfortunately, it could however be again.
“The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.”
Ludwig von Mises, Theory and History, pp 66 -67
I will get around to the gay marriage issue at LG eventually.
One of the issues being put up against gay marriage is the “slippery slope” argument, which has some merit. Already on the fringe of the LGBTXYZ (placeholders added for future additions) movement down here is something calling itself the “poly community”, meaning polyamorous. Essentially, they are saying that if a man and two women, or for that matter, six men and six women, want to set up house and share love equally then they should not be unfairly discriminated against by being excluded from the institution of marriage. Although seen by some as a stalking horse for the Muslims, the “poly” community actually goes much further in its demand for what it regards as equality under the law.
Then there’s paedophilia. Now, no paedo activist is ever going to come straight out and demand the right to have sex with children and even marry them. What they will do instead is gradually push for a lowering of the age of consent. “If sixteen is OK, then why not fifteen? If fifteen, then why not fourteen?” And so on. If they play their cards right (and they have), they can make it appear as though this push is actually coming from children themselves! Seeing as the prophet Mohammed married a nine-year old, the paedos have long-range and far-reaching plans in this area. One former politician in this country is widely rumoured to have told friends he wants the age of male homosexual consent lowered to ten. Which sums it up.
After that, the floodgates open. Already respected academic Peter Singer, who I have referred to at my place several times, has written approvingly about what he calls “zoophilia”, which you and I know as bestiality. How unjust is it to forbid a pop star and a chimpanzee who truly love one another to become married? Incestuous marriages are the next step after that; once you start breaking taboos so old that we have almost forgotton why we have them in the first place, it’s impossible to know when to stop breaking.
In all of this, those agitating for liberalization of the law are counting on the unwillingness of lawmakers and the public to draw a definite line, and ridicule anyone who suggests they should. As a Libertarian, I’m all for less laws that are not specifically connected to property rights and the protection of life and limb. But there’s an issue of responsibility here as well. The institution of marriage is a societal bargain; rights are conferred on those who enter into it, in exchange for responsibilities; primarily, fidelity and the good upbringing of children. Marriage in its traditional definition gives a woman a secure material environment, beyond her years of reproductivity and physical attractiveness; a man gains exclusive sexual access to his wife, and a guarantee of paternity of the children he works to raise. Rights and responsibilities, the same mantra I’ve been repeating for years.
What we are witnessing today, however, is a push for rights, without a corresponding guarantee of increased responsibilities: irresponsible rights. As much as we regard “love” as fundamental to marriage, the institution and societal bargain of marriage isn’t predicated on love at all. Nor is it designed for the purpose of “inclusiveness”, or to otherwise make people feel better (or at least, less worse) about themselves. Marriage is designed for the purpose of rearing children, and socializing them so they will enter adulthood as functioning, positive members of society and not asocial menaces. Which is exactly what we are seeing in society today, not uncoincidentally a generation after the institution of marriage first began to weaken in the West.
As to individual choices, who are we to judge if two sentient adults (or three, or six) who love each other want to set up house together? Good luck to them. And God knows, there are enough terrible conventional marriages around, and enough healthy gay relationships, to take seriously those who want to at least look at the marriage law as it stands. If it leads to a reduction of some of the more silly traditional bigotries, so much the better. But when you start tinkering with ancient institutions, it’s worth remembering exactly why they are ancient, and why they have stood the test of time.
My thoughts as well but this weakening of morality and ancient custom is driven by the upper strata of society the people who like to indulge themselves in strange peccadilloes. They want a society that will allow them to carry on with their sick perversions without the threat of punishment. Without limits even murder becomes acceptable.
I don’t care if they fuck rabbits, as long as the RSPCA is cool with it.
i just don’t need to hear about it, incessantly. Why don’t they just accept themselves and stop asking everyone else to provide the reassurance they so desperately seek?
Because they assume they can make people love them by passing laws. Pretty damned sad really.
Self- loathing makes a person insensitive to caring attitudes from others.
If you’re not comfortable in your own skin, there is only one way out.
I think the “Silence of the Lambs” proved that wrong.
“I don’t care if they fuck rabbits”
So that’s what “Bug’s” is short for.
Excellent points, Farmer. However, I wonder what the rabbits would think about it.
Wrap them up in adhesive tape first
it even stops hamsters from splitting, although their eyes still pop out
* allegedly 😉
Right on cue:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/the_climategate_and_jerry_sandusky_scandals_a_common_thread.html
Would you employ anyone with a degree from Penn state I know I wouldn’t and if I had gone there I was a student would be suing them for my money back.
Beautifully said as always, Oz. To say nothing of the fact that true love can only include two people, no more.
That is how we are hardwired.
Basis of the family.
Exactly.
You’ve got mail.
Jeff at Alphecca, who Identifies himself as a politically independant gun nut (who also happens to be gay)
Supports Chick-fil-A to the thugs
http://www.alphecca.com/?p=1506
All the extreme militant gay lobby is doing is creating a tidal wave of hatred that they will come to regret, toleration has limits and the people are now officially fed up. They have over reached or more likely over reached around themselves.
On the subject of less than straight things falling flat,
I heard something this morning about Gore Vidal croking.
Followed by a supposed quote from him
“there is nothing in the world which wouldn’t be improved by people doing as I tell them” or words to that effect.
The radio presenter seemed to think that was a good idea.
I didn’t.
That only applies to me because when I become supreme leader the trains will run on time.
That gets pretty much back to the aim of encouraging the corruption of institutions and conventions, whether “marriage”, “rights” “equality” masturbatory style or whatever;
The creation of such chaos and disillusioned nihilism, that ordinary people will support “strong leadership” to “Put things right”
enter the competing strong leaders in post WWi Italy – which was already a basket case of “national debt” from interventionist and spendthrift politicians before the war.
The international Marxian socialists, and the nationalist socialists of one time marxist pamphleteer/”journalist” Benny and his then mistress Margherita Sarfatti (who happened to be of Jewish origin, that one really riles lefties who try to paint anti-Semitism as a core definition of fascism ).
Anyway;
The marxian commies were still trying to cause a chaotic breakdown of society with their thugs, while Benny and his thugs, were presenting themselves as “The New Order” (a friend had a travel book from the very early 1920s, and it described a celebration day of the 1860 war of Italian unification, in one of the lakeside villages of the north, and it spoke in glowing terms of the smartly dressed and disciplined column of Fascisti, marching in the parade, and helping the ailing veterans of the war of unification – innocent times).
The Marxians launched their party piece; the “General Strike”.
Benny’s thugs were ready and waiting, and by 10am on the first day of the General strike, it was already broken, “The trains were running on time”
Benny was the man.
condemned to failure of course, by the calculation problem and the knowledge problem – as is all central planning / socialism (same thing).
He did build some nice roads though.
Yep,
The motorway from Milan to Como was the World’s first, and there’s still some fascists sculpture where you get onto the Motorway at Bergamo for Milan.
It’s probable that neither road reached its design capacity until the 1970s or 1980s, but efficeint use of scarce resources in order to satisfy individuals highest ranked wants, was never the purpose.
Glorifying il duce’s ego was the sole purpose – as it is with any central planning.
Just to bring that up to date, the base relief artwork cast into the bridge which takes the Kilkenny ring road over the River Nore, is in the same style as the stuff at Bergamo. I ‘m not sure whether Charlie Haughey or Albert Reynolds was Taoiseach at the time it was built.
Unlike todays leaders though, Benny paid off the state’s (massive) debts within two years of coming to power
I guess that even Pol Pot’s record isn’t entirely negative, though I haven’t a clue what the positive might be.
Pol Pot did wonders to relieve the traffic congestion in Phnom Penh, it was murder before he took over.
Benny also did drainage and reclamation works up and down the Po valley, draining malarial marshes and irrigating rice paddies. Lots and lots of shovel ready make work schemes.
Your commi in chief has a lot in common with Benny – apart from apostasy from the one true church of Marx.
Except without the shovel ready jobs unless you count none government jobs creating reams of mindless rules to destroy private enterprise with.
Benny the bar man in Hell’s inner circle, did that too.
The current problems in Italy are based on a massive state system. Berlusconi did put some manners on them, making it a disciplinary offence for bureaucrats to be less than polite to plebs
Before that, they were atrociously arrogant – because they could.
but he was either unable or unwilling to do anything about numbers.
Benny’s shop opening hour rules are still rigorously enforced. these are nothing to do with convenience for customers wanting to buy a loaf of bread, some flowers for their beloved(s) of a newspaper.
They are to ensure that shop employees are not subject to “unfair” competition from shops willing to remain open at times more convenient to customers.
Somewhere there’s a photo of me, standing in the driveway up Lake Como, where benny and his mistress’ bodies were dumped.
Local stories in that area, maintain that it was a British agent, who, on churchill’s orders, sealed their lips.
Before benny spoiled his reputation with the invasion of Abyssinia, he was a welcome and popular guest around the world.
again, Italian conspiracy theories have it that Benny and Winston had been in contact and horse trading throughout the war – Win didn’t want any of that coming out.
There was a lot of behind the scenes horse trading between the West and the Axis usually through Switzerland. Which is why they didn’t bomb Swiss industry during the war costing the allies 6 more months of fighting.
and I bet the present day greens are rightly envious of that achievement and would love to emulate it, and roll it out around the world.
You know, I think he also reduced bureaucracy, and the size of the civil service – and that from a supposed lefty 😉
Now watch the Stupid Party, propose something even more unpopular.
I’m guessing a good 40% of the electorate would vote for a third party – any third party at all – if one were available.
They just have racial quotas for punishment at schools…
The clear implication is that black school students are inherently incapable of living up to the same behavioural standards as whites and Asians and should therefore be treated differently. Any thinking black American would be justly outraged.
They used to be before LBJ’s war on poverty began now they are all safely back on the Democrat plantation and doing what Massa wants them to do. As for thinking black Americans they represent 5% of the total population the rest want someone to take care of them and do the heavy thinking and decision making for them, sad but true.
OMG!
That is straight out of the pages of
Kozak; “and not a shot is fired”
and
Bezmenov; “Love letter to America”
Take a look at Ingushetia and Chechenia, to see how minorities are treated, once the strong leader’s position is secure;
the process consists of helping along naturally occurring disagreements and squabbles until they become threatening, then offering your strong leadership to restore security…
once leadership is secure, it has gained powers which it will use.
due to the calculation problem and the knowledge problem, those powers cannot ever be used for the benefit of the general populace (only freedom and a free market can do that)
and due to the nature of the characters who rise to the top in politics, no one will even try to use those powers for the benefit of the general population (not that they’d work for that purpose anyway)