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Title: Tolerance Strikes Again
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The Reactionary Utopian
URL Source: http://www.sobran.com/columns/index.shtml
Published: Jul 4, 2006
Author: Joseph Sobran
Post Date: 2006-07-04 11:03:56 by Zoroaster
Keywords: None
Views: 387
Comments: 25
The Reactionary Utopian Tolerance Strikes Again June 15, 2006 Another media typhoon: “Metro Board Member Fired for Comment on Gays.” I’m glad I don’t have to unpack that headline for Grandpa Sobran, who went to his reward in 1959, when the world was more or less normal. Today you may lose your job for using the word normal. Grandpa Sobran deserves to be remembered for one priceless remark. When my father asked him, around 1938, why he thought there would be another war, he explained, “You can’t have two bulls in the same pasture.” That simple, pregnant comment contained a presumption about normality that is no longer acceptable: that bulls like cows better than they like other bulls. In the age of Brokeback Mountain, we must allow for the possibility that a pair of bulls may prefer an alternative lifestyle. So the Republican governor of Maryland fired the guy, one Robert Smith, for saying, “Homosexual behavior, in my view, is deviant.” Feeling a need to explain this quaint view, Smith added, “I’m a Roman Catholic.” Catholics still believe that bulls prefer cows. A dogma, I guess. The governor also felt a need to explain his action: “Robert Smith’s comments were highly inappropriate, insensitive, and unacceptable. They are in direct conflict to [sic] my administration’s commitment to inclusiveness, tolerance, and opportunity.” Such “tolerance” makes the blood run cold. Smith made his comment on an obscure cable show, where he was giving his own opinion (“in my view”), one unrelated to his office. Another Metro board member, speaking as “an openly gay elected official,” said he was “deeply offended,” called for Smith’s head, and got it. Such is tolerance in the year of Our Lord 2006. Admittedly, Smith made a poor choice of words. He should have said, “Sodomy is a perversion.” My old friend Ann Coulter has made the remarkable discovery that when you say obvious things that everyone knows to be true, people listen gratefully. She realizes that polite argument with liberals, couched in timid euphemism, gets you exactly nowhere. Their “tolerance” extends only to people who accept their dubious and even absurd premises. Yes, I’d rather not hurt people’s feelings. But there are so many people nowadays who are positively eager to be “deeply offended” that you’re a sucker if you try to avoid offending them. We’re dealing with aggressors who pose as victims. The current vocabulary of hypocrisy includes such words as gay, lifestyle, and the ludicrous homophobia, which systematically deny the obvious. We’re talking about an ugly and unsanitary perversion as well as an immoral way of living, the sadness of which should excite our pity as well as our censure. Why should we pretend otherwise? Only because of new taboos — social pressures against candor — that are as perverse as sodomy itself. We are to make believe that “marriage” can mean something it has never meant before, that the rectum is as suitable a receptacle for the male seed as the womb, that a filthy and fruitless union is equal in dignity to one that produces human life? And all this with a straight face? Oh, Lord. Victorian hypocrisy had nothing on the liberal kind, which insists that all the generations before us were wrong. Overnight we must repudiate what everyone always knew and still knows. We have seen the same obligatory amnesia with fornication and abortion; evils have suddenly become “rights.” And this is what our children grow up being taught in state schools and the mass media. Democratic values, you know. Equality. Tolerance. Constitutional rights. Raising public awareness. But the lies, being lies, don’t work too well. For some reason, kids still love real love — the fruitful mutual love of men and women. They refuse to accept gay as something positive; they use it as a term of abuse and ridicule. They recognize it as a joke, no matter what their elders try to tell them. Reality is insistent. Humor remains, as ever, the final revenge of the normal on the official. The enormous official effort to normalize the abnormal is doomed. Note the root word norm: G.K. Chesterton long ago observed “the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.” But normality seems to be the one thing liberalism’s inclusiveness excludes and its tolerance can’t tolerate. Joseph Sobran
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#8. To: Zoroaster, ALL, jethro tull, lodwick (#0)
June is recognized as Gay Pride month for American and American Eagle's gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered (GLBT) employees. The multi-colored Rainbow Flag, a symbol of GLBT pride, will be displayed in the atrium at HDQ1, HDQ2 and FSU. The flag, designed by [REDACTED], debuted at the 1978 San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day parade. It is comprised of six colors, representing life, healing, sun, nature, harmony and spirit. It represents the diversity and the unity of GLBT persons everywhere. Historical Perspective In June of 1969, a group of gays and lesbians resisted harassment and mistreatment, setting in motion a chain of events that would become known as the Stonewall Uprising. This marked the birth of the modern gay and lesbian equal rights movement. Historians writing about New York City in the 1960s describe how law enforcement officers frequently raided bars known to serve gay and lesbian patrons. Employees of these establishments and others were often arrested without legitimate charges. One night, something different happened. When police raided the Stonewall Inn, the patrons decided to fight back. For several nights, crowds grew outside the Stonewall Inn. The event became known as the Stonewall Uprising. Since that day, the GLBT community commemorates Stonewall as a way to reaffirm a commitment to achieving equal rights. Today What began as a gay pride movement is beginning to evolve into a broadly humanist movement protective of all people. This encompasses a central idea: All intolerance is unacceptable. Beyond tolerance lies full acceptance of each other as human beings - a celebration of the diversity of that comprises the human experience. Ending intolerance starts with eradicating hate crimes. "Hate crimes rend the fabric of our society and fragment communities because they target a whole group and not just the individual victim. Hate crimes are committed to cause fear to a whole community. A violent hate crime is intended to "send a message" that an individual and "their kind" will not be tolerated, many times leaving the victim and others in their group feeling isolated, vulnerable and unprotected." The AMR Diversity Advisory Council is hosting "Erase Hate" at the [REDACTED] on [REDACTED]. The mother of [REDACTED], a young gay man who was killed in a violent hate crime in Wyoming in 1998, will be the keynote speaker. The DAC invites you to attend. Please register at erasehate@gmail.com GLEAM -- A Winning Tradition GLBT employees take pride in working for a company that fosters respect for all employees. One of the ways AMR Corporation has reached that level of awareness and sensitivity for its diverse workforce is through its Employee Resource Groups. GLEAM (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Employees of AMR), one of the original ERGS, continues to assist AMR in its commitment to becoming more inclusive of all types of employees. "In existence for 13 years, GLEAM continues to help GLBT employees with workplace issues and find innovative ways to pull together," said [REDACTED]. As GLEAM Co-Chairs and Diversity Advisory Council Representatives the offer this comments: "We are proud to serve all AMR stakeholders through GLEAM while partnering with other ERGs to promote a safe work environment and a solid financial foundation for all employees." GLEAM works closely with the Rainbow Sales Team. Established in 1993, American is the only major airline to have a sales team dedicated to the GLBT community. The relationship with this community has generated significant revenue from additional group travel, corporate accounts and travel agencies. Ain't corporate family values wonderful?????
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestTitle: June is Gay Pride Month [For AA] Source: company insider URL Source: http://aacompanynewspaper Published: Jun 19, 2006 Author: american airlines newspaper staff Post Date: 2006-06-19 02:19:54 by IndieTX Keywords: GAY, PRIDE, RAINBOW Views: 29
#16. To: IndieTX, lodwick, Jethro Tull (#8)
GLEAM works closely with the Rainbow Sales Team. Established in 1993, American is the only major airline to have a sales team dedicated to the GLBT community. The relationship with this community has generated significant revenue from additional group travel, corporate accounts and travel agencies.
#21. To: Dakmar (#16)
We need our own awards.
#22. To: Jethro Tull (#21)
I offer you a pair of Buster Ballz.
#23. To: lodwick (#22)
Those suckers look like premium, get-off quick, ben-wah models.
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