Is gay the new black?
Dec 1st, 2008 | By Larry | Category: Domestic IssuesLet me state, as clearly as I can, that I am against giving homosexual couples the right to marry. Marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman and homosexual couples have no business encroaching upon that union. At the same time, what two consenting adults do between themselves is none of my business, unless their actions endanger someone else. They can get a civil union and get the same rights as married couples, without actually being married.
On December 16, The Advocate Magazine, the leading homosexual magazine in the country, is going to have a cover story entitled “Gay Is The New Black”. The subtitle is “The Last Great Civil Rights Struggle” and in the article, the case is being made that being a homosexual is akin to the struggles African Americans have went through to gain their civil rights. A lot of the article deals with the let down the homosexual movement suffered on November 4, with the passage of Proposition 8 in California and it does it’s best to portray homosexuals as having suffered greatly from the lack of civil rights, just as African Americans have suffered. From The Advocate:
History compounds the insult and suggests hypothetical scenarios rendering the mixed result of this election even more absurd. If the California supreme court and the U.S. Supreme Court decisions overturning anti miscegenation laws — Perez v. Sharp and Loving v. Virginia — had been blocked by popular vote, Barack Obama might never have been born. His parents would not have been able to marry in several states (although Hawaii, where they were married, had never enacted a law against interracial marriage).
It’s quite a stretch to equate interracial marriage with homosexual marriage. It is also quite a stretch to equate the homosexual struggle for the right to marry with the African American struggle for their civil rights.
African Americans have certainly been treated badly in our country’s history. The fact that our country ever allowed slavery is a disgrace; calling another human being property and buying and selling entire families is a travesty. African Americans have been discriminated against throughout the history of America. Even after slavery was abolished, these people had to fight every step of the way, just to be recognized as normal people, just to be recognized as free. They were not served in a lot of restaurants, they even had separate bathrooms. If someone even thought a black man looked at a white woman, he was subject to beatings and/or sudden death. It didn’t matter if he was guilty or not, there would be no trial. The homosexual marriage fight pales in comparison.
In the south, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), with their white robes and crosses, terrorized black people and white people, who were deemed to be sympathetic to the African American cause. People were killed and their houses burned to the ground, all because they were either black or too friendly with a black person. I say again, the fight for homosexual marriage doesn’t even come close to that kind of treatment.
Several years ago, a young homosexual man by the name of Matthew Shepard, was brutally attacked and killed near Laramie, Wyoming. There is no way he deserved what happened to him, no matter what his sexual preference was. It was never proven that the murder was a hate crime towards homosexuals, but some of the facts suggest it was. This kind of act would be equatable to some of the treatment African Americans have received in our country. It should be classified as discrimination and a hate crime. Being denied access to eHarmony because Dr. Neil Clark Warren doesn’t know enough about homosexual relationships to match two people up is not.
The entire issue about homosexual marriage is not about discrimination or civil rights. The majority of Americans do not believe they or our government should interfere with the acts of two consenting adults, as long as no one is harmed in the process. Most of us do not agree with those acts, but in reality, it is their right to do as they please. However, the fight for homosexual marriage is not about that. Instead, it is a fight to prevent homosexuals from intruding upon what most Americans consider a sacred union between one man and one woman. Civil rights does not and should not even enter into the discussion. To do so is a slap in the face of African Americans and any other ethnic groups who have had to fight every step of the way, just to gain access to basic rights. In some cases, it has been a fight to just be considered a person and not property. That’s real discrimination; the denial of homosexuals the right to marry is not.
There’s a long way between opposing gay marriage and thinking that what Mathew Shepard’s murder was right. Good post, Larry. I think you did a good job navigating a topic with lots of potential landmines.
Did you know that one of your top ads is for meetgaycouples.com? I got to your site, saw that on the header, and thought you might want to know … I don’t know if you have any control over that content, but there you are.
Wickle,
No, I didn’t realize that ad was there. I will speak to Bruce about that.
Larry, another great post; this time about a very sensitive subject. For the subject to still be a part of everyday discussions, is a real problem, though. Let me explain.
The homosexual agenda seems to be to not only have their rights brought to the forefront, but our Christian rights taken away. They want people to recognize them as mainstream people, while attacking Christian principals and those who live by them. In other words, the homosexual community wants us to accept them and do away with our belief system.
I don’t want to see homosexual couples openly displaying their affection to one another; if they are going to practice that lifestyle, then at least keep it private. I don’t want my grandchildren exposed to that immorality. Yes, I labeled it, because that’s what it is.
Should Christians now be made to pander to that community? Should we quit calling sin what it is in order to politically correct? In my opinion, political correctness is one of the major culprits ruining this country.
Ron,
I agree. The homosexuals really want us to accept them as being mainstream and they get pretty radical when faced with Christian principles. We should not have to cater to their every whim.
I wrote a piece on my blog called “Of Tolerance and Approval”. In it I discussed that tolerance is about accepting an opposing view or lifestyle while approval is about agreeing that the view or lifestyle in question is valid and good. The homosexual community does NOT want tolerance although that is their battle cry. What they want is approval. They want everyone to give up their own ideas of right and wrong, truth and lies, sin and righteousness and agree with them that what they practice is good, healthy, and proper.
I read lots of books (not nearly as many as I would like though) and I happen to be reading one now called “Open Marriage”. No I don’t want one but I read a lot of books that are about topics I don’t agree with because I am always curious to see how others arrive at some of the conclusion they do. I’m sharing this because the authors are discussing their view of the problems with traditional marriage.
Written in the late 60s early 70s they are discussing how the “sexual revolution” has changed the way the people view marriage. There is an interesting quote in it that speaks to the topic of this post. The authors write, “The only people, indeed, for whom the old-fashioned marriage seems to hold a real mystique are homosexuals…”. That is still the case. So many heterosexual couples have embraced co-habitation without marriage and married couples by and large don’t stay married. However, the gay community won’t be satisfied until they destroy every institution established by God.
It is very true that what adults choose to do is up to them as long as no one else is hurt. As a footnote on my own post mentioned above, I made clear that the remarks I made did not apply to situations where someone is being oppressed such as domestic violence, child abuse, and pedophilia. I made sure I included that because there are people involved in, for instance, pedophilia who consider it an “alternative lifestyle”. They have even created organizations in support of legalizing it (look up NAMBLA). They are now what homosexuals were 50 years ago. It’s a scary thought, but if the Lord prolongs His coming long enough we will see more of that too.
I for one pray that God will give me strength to continue to embrace the truth He has given and I pray that He give that same strength to you and believers everywhere. May we boldly reject sin in all it’s forms until our dying days.
Not so sure about this issue, for two reasons.
I think it’s difficult to say on the one hand that what two consenting adults do is none of our business, and then also say that you support restricting their right to marry. It seems contradictory. I understand the religious arguments-my own church has never sanctified gay marriage and never will. But some Christian denominations are fine with it. Why should the government restrict how they excercise their religion?
Then there’s the argument that somehow, two committed gay people who want to join in holy matrimony sully the sacred institution of marriage.The divorce rate hovers at 50% nationwide (and is around 70% if you look past 10 years of marriage). Only heterosexuals can be included in those stats (plus one gay couple from California as of last week). I find that an abomination, as does most of our population. Yet it continues to be legal for any two heterosexuals who want to enter into the contract, even those who do it over and over and over again with God as their witness.
And the NAMBLA comparison…Very weak. There are never two consenting adults in a man/child abuse situation, and there are existing laws governing that are fervently enforced.