One may reasonably wonder whether the militant left in this country is solely dedicated to manufacturing issues to keep the nation in a constant state of uproar, angst and disharmony. We're seeing lots of negativity and intolerance from those so concerned that we all love one another.
Their most recent cause for hysterical urgency is Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The left has gone absolutely bonkers attempting to paint that legislation as a license for Christians to discriminate against gays for sport and is smearing anyone who supports it as a reactionary bigot.
Don't you long for those days when words had meaning? Now we have propagandists whose principal job is to deceitfully distort word meanings to promote their causes.
A few examples in the context of the issue at hand are "hate," "homophobe," "discrimination" and "anti-." People who oppose same-sex marriage do not fear or hate people who are gay. They are not advocating discrimination against them, and they are not against them.
These calculated distortions have had an enormous impact on our culture, infecting even people who should know better. Now enshrined in our popular culture, these misrepresentations affect the way people think (which is the whole point, of course) and lead to imputed motives with no basis in fact.
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I'm not as concerned that the "RFRA" will cause widespread discrimination and unpleasantness towards gay people, as I am about the "unintended consequences". I don't want to give CAIR or their ilk, (Council on American Islamic Relations, a known Hamas supporter) any legal standing whatsoever, to invoke "sharia" when discriminating against women, gays, Jews, non-muslims, and other "undesirables". Any religious ideology that formally declares a woman to be worth half that of a man (if she's accorded even that much worth) will gladly jump on the "RFRA" to legitimately scoff at equal rights laws.
"Because Muhammad says so."
I would urge everyone to stay calm and whenever anyone starts spewing hate and accusing the other of intolerance we should look them in the eye and ask who exactly is being intolerant.
"Facts do not cease to exist simply because they are ignored."
This is a good illustration of one of the biggest problems conservatives have.. we have continually allowed the left to frame the debate.
They throw out terms such as 'homophobe' and soon they become the common vocabulary of even the conservative media.
We need to immediately and forcefully challenge these inaccurate portrayals and mis-representations.
Call it a 'truth squad'. Whatever. But we'd best get on it if we want to win the next election, because lies and distortion is the left's game plan.
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