Plunging Towards Gomorrah
Posts tagged homophobia
I’m a Homophobe
Jan 27th
Very true, because I oppose gay marriage. When I use the phrase “gay marriage” I mean the type sanctioned by the state. Maybe the state shouldn’t be involved in marriage at all, but that’s a different topic for a different time.
Fact is, homosexuals can get married. Just march yourself down to the local Unitarian, Episcopal or mainline Protestant church and do it. I don’t care. I’m certainly not in the minority here. Most people are like me; live and let live and don’t tell me about your sexual idiosyncrasies.
I’m neither scared of nor angry at homosexuals, so give me a break. I’m so freaking tolerant it’s ridiculous. But I am not tolerant of the state endorsing homosexual marriage as somehow equal to marriage between a man and a woman.
The foundational issue here is the family and what properly constitutes a functional family. The left would have us believe that any family arrangement is fine as long as everyone “loves” each other. Here again, the left takes us into the realm of unverifiable emotion devoid of facts or logic.
The fact is that children thrive in a household with a husband and wife. Single-parent homes are a statistical disaster, especially in homes where men are absent, yet the left is constantly cheerleading for this harmful construct. I don’t know what the results are of homosexual couples raising children, probably because it’s too early in the game and the data is spotty at best.
Still, society should encourage what is obviously and quantifiably the ideal, rather than constantly trying to destroy it. Some will argue that heterosexuals haven’t done much to strengthen the family, what with all the divorce and dysfunction manifest in the modern family. But this is the typical leftist “two wrongs make a right” argument. So if I understand this argument properly, we should make something bad worse. That’s a great idea! It’s so brilliant that the left has adopted this approach to the current administration’s spending spree. “The Bush administration started this by getting us so heavily into debt,” they say with a straight face. So, once again, let’s make it worse!
Anyway, I’m going off topic here and probably belabored the point, but it should be crystal clear that we need to shore up the family for a health society and a strong nation rather than look for ways to undermine it.
What you’ve just read was written by Club Soda, a semi-regular contributor to The Daily Plunge. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of its host, Henshaw.
I’m a Racist
Jan 21st
Let’s make one thing very clear right away. What you’re about to read, if you haven’t given up already, is written by Club Soda, a semi-regular contributor to The Daily Plunge. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of its host, Henshaw. Though I’m not fond of disclaimers or prefaces like this, it’s a necessary evil since many regular readers have blamed Henshaw for some of Club Soda’s most outrageous posts.
But let’s get to the core issue here; that Club Soda is a racist, misogynist homophobe. Guilty on all counts, at least according to people like Keith Olbermann and similar ilk. But I’ll leave it to you, loyal Daily Plunge readers, to decide whether or not the accusations are true. I’ll start with my racism in this post and move on to my misogyny and homophobia in subsequent posts…
There are two primary reasons I’m racist: One is that I’m against affirmative action and the other is that I’m not an Obama supporter.
To paraphrase Martin Luther King, Jr., people should be judged based on the content of their character, not the color of their skin. To single out specific minority groups for preferential treatment is inherently unfair to everyone. Plus, it dehumanizes those singled out. It says, in effect, you’re not smart or good enough to make it on your own merits or abilities because you have none. It creates a parent-child relationship between the state and certain classes of citizens, here based purely on external factors. If that’s not “racism straight up,” to quote the ever-tolerant Janeane Garofolo, I don’t know what is.
As mentioned in a Club Soda post last year, Star Parker, a black woman who herself was enslaved by the state in a cycle of welfare and abortion, calls it Uncle Sam’s Plantation. Parker is living proof of how the state has usurped the dignity of the individual just because that individual has dark skin. She is also living proof that the individual trumps the state in an America that lives up to its founding principles, not those espoused by America’s left.
I understand and sympathize with the argument that blacks were treated as second-class citizens and much worse for most of America’s history. However, Jim Crow is dead and buried along with the systemic racism it represented.
It’s long past time to move on, embrace a colorblind society and finally live out the truth that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Unfortunately, the Olbermanns, Maddows, Garofolos, Pelosis, Boxers, Sharptons, Jacksons and Rev. Wrights of the world would rather we didn’t, and continue to play racial politics in order to maintain their power and fill their coffers with the ill-gotten gain of continued racial division. If we weren’t divided by race these people wouldn’t have a job and they know it. In fact, we probably wouldn’t be divided by race if it wasn’t for this group of charlatans and others like them.
As for Mr. Obama, I disagree almost entirely with his ideology. It’s that simple. I don’t care if he’s black, white, orange or purple; his race has nothing to do with it. If race played a part in my logic, Thomas Sowell wouldn’t be my favorite economist and Clarence Thomas wouldn’t be my favorite Supreme Court justice. Oh, but I forgot! They’re Uncle Toms, according to the race-baiting left, so they don’t count! Let’s see, so I’m not supposed to take race into account when judging people and their ideas, just as long as they hold certain beliefs. Typical leftist paradox.
