The Fight Against Love
If there’s something I personally hate, it’s when people abuse their power to accomplish their own personal vendettas. When TV hosts, politicians and famous people use their social standing to attack topics they have no right or basis to speak about. Especially when that topic is love.
This is why it makes my blood boil when discrimination about marriage or sexuality comes into play. When someone beats their definition of marriage as ‘it was in the bible’ into law, knowing this because they are religious and white, it undermines the progress towards unity that we’ve made over the past 50 years.
Frankly, some of these people know about as much about ‘traditional marriage’ as Falcon “Balloon Boy” Heene knows about flying – basically nothing.
Nevertheless, bigots pushing their own dated views are nothing new. Let’s take a look at a Justice of the Peace who denies marriage licenses for interracial couples and a bunch of politicians who are calling for a Department of Education appointee to be kicked out because he is.. wait for it.. gay. Stay tuned, after the jump.
Keith Bardwell, a justice of the peace in Louisiana, has repeatedly broken the law by refusing to marry interracial couples. His argument: we have to save the children!
“There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage…” Bardwell said, “I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way.” But it’s okay, settle down folks! He’s not a racist – he invites people of all races into his house! “I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else.”
Yes, that’s right. Even his bathroom.
But as if that story didn’t make you eerily uncomfortable, here’s something that might: politicians in the house are calling for the firing of Kevin Jennings – the “safe schools czar” – because he “lacks ethical standards.” Oh, and cause he’s gay.
I repeat: politicians are calling for Kevin Jennings’ firing because he is gay.
Here’s the reasoning for it:
As the founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Mr. Jennings has played an integral role in promoting homosexuality and pushing a pro-homosexual agenda in America’s schools-an agenda that runs counter to the values that many parents desire to instill in their children. As evidence of this, Mr. Jennings wrote the foreword for a book titled Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue About Sexualities and Schooling. Throughout his career, Mr. Jennings has made it his mission to establish special protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students to the exclusion of all other students. The totality of Mr. Jennings’ career has been to advocate for public affirmation of homosexuality. There is more to safe and drug free schools than can be accomplished from the narrow view of Mr. Jennings who has, for more than 20 years, almost exclusively focused on promoting the homosexual agenda.
People who spread hate like this make my blood boil.
Let me be clear: I have no problem with personal or spiritual viewpoints, but when people start to force their undeniably internal positions on others’ clear rights, they start to damage the fabric of our country. Even as someone who was raised in a religious household, I see the obvious and glaring error in defending this sort of posturing by hiding behind God.
But again, maybe I have as much right to talk about these things as ol’ Falcon Heene. What do you think?
