... When Obama “evolved” on the issue just over a year ago, he insisted that the debate about marriage was legitimate. He said there are people of goodwill on both sides.
Supporters of marriage as we’ve always understood it (a male-female union) “are not coming at it from a mean-spirited perspective,” Obama explained. “They’re coming at it because they care about families.”
And “a bunch of ‘em are friends of mine,” the president added. “… you know, people who I deeply respect.”
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For the left tolerance is just a rhetorical tactic on the way to totalitarian thought control.
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Yet disrespect and intolerance seem increasingly to be the norm. For the forces that have worked for 20 years to redefine marriage to include same-sex unions, a principal strategy has been cultural intimidation—bullying others by threatening the stigma of being “haters” and “bigots.”
Unwilling to acknowledge this as a significant question on which reasonable people of goodwill can disagree, some advocates of redefining marriage increasingly characterize those with whom they disagree as “ enemies of the human race.” They’ve sent a clear message: If you stand up for marriage, we will demonize and marginalize you.
In a series of instances we have seen the gatekeepers of civil society attack those who hold the view that marriage is between a man and a woman — Chick-fil-A, Barilla Pasta, Craig James (who was fired from ESPN), and “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson.
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Christian adoption agencies already have been forced out of serving children because they believe orphans deserve a mom and a dad. Forcing out these agencies doesn’t help those orphans, and it doesn’t help our society. We need as many adoption agencies as possible.
Other cases include a photographer, a baker, a florist, a bed-and-breakfast, a T-shirt company, a student counselor, the Salvation Army, and more. In each of these instances, there were plenty of other businesses available that were willing to provide similar services.
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http://blog.heritage.org/2014/04/03/eich-tolerance/
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Moving on to why this is so important: Why would gay people WANT to force people who don't agree with SSM to take part in the wedding? Why the injection of SSM's into awards shows and parades which never had any kind of wedding ceremonies to begin with? Why does there need to be gay floats in parades with no connection to anything gay, like St Patricks parades? It's almost like the real point of all this is to make everyone approve of them.
So what drives it? I think it's guilt. Deep inside, they don't feel right. And the compulsion to enforce everyone else to accept them, even celebrate them, is all about an attempt to deal with the guilt and shame in their hearts. If they can just twist the arm of every one in society' and make them say it's okay, they can finally feel okay. |
