VP Joe Biden talks with NPR on gun control and his plan to continue pushing for an “assault” weapons ban.
Biden Not Giving Up On Assault Weapons Ban
March 21, 2013 by 7 Comments
WASHINGTON— The White House is still pushing for an assault weapons ban, Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday, even though Senate Democrats all but sealed its fate by dropping it from the gun-control package they plan to consider next month.
Although the ban’s sponsor still plans to offer it as an amendment, it is almost certain to fall victim to opposition from Republicans and likely some Democrats, too. In jettisoning the ban Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said it fell far short of the amount of support it would need to survive a vote and said including the assault weapons ban could sink the whole bill.
“Attitudes are changing,” Biden said in an interview with NPR News. “The president and I are going to continue to push, and we haven’t given up on it.”
Biden and President Barack Obama have walked a fine line on the assault weapons ban, widely considered the most politically challenging element of the gun-control proposals the administration is pushing. While fully embracing the ban as a matter of policy, the administration has avoided describing it as a must-have, wary of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Instead, they’ve argued that at the very least the ban deserves a vote, even if political considerations ultimately place its passage out of reach.
Read More at OfficialWire . By Josh Lederman.
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Gore Compares Global Warming Skeptics To “An Alcoholic Father”
March 13, 2013 by 7 Comments
Former vice president and perpetual blowhard Al Gore was permitted to spew his increasingly absurd ecological advice during a recent NPR interview.
He was primarily doing what he does best, engaging in braggadocio about what he considers a major accomplishment on his part. In the case of this interview, it happened to be his latest book, which I will not give any undue promotion in mentioning by name.
Overall, Gore touched on the talking points he and his ilk repeat ad nauseam, such as blaming Republicans for the financial crisis and bad intelligence concerning the Sept. 11 attacks.
Returning to the subject at hand, though, he actually contended the mainstream media is scared to report the truth (as he sees it) about global warming.
The “forces of denial, which are lavishly funded by the large carbon polluters and some ideological groups, have intimidated many in the news media into remaining silent and not speaking out,” he claimed.
If this nearly constant drumbeat of global warming rhetoric is evidence of an intimidated media, I’d seriously hate to see them unfettered by such restraint.
Doubling down on his idiocy, Gore shared his obtuse comparison of global warming critics to “an alcoholic father who flies into a rage if alcohol is mentioned,” leading the “rest of the family … to keep the peace by never discussing the elephant in the middle of the room.”
Other “highlights” of the interview included Gore gushing over singer Jason Mraz (“I was with him over the weekend …. I think he’s the real thing.”) and declaring that the U.S. Constitution has “been hacked by big money.”
In explaining his opinion, the inventor of the Internet explained to the uneducated masses that “hack” is “a computer term.” Thanks for breaking it down for us, Al.
It’s telling that, almost coinciding with Gore’s remarks, Navy Admiral Samuel Locklear III declared that global warming is the “most likely” threat “that will cripple the security environment” despite the fact he is in charge of monitoring hotbeds of violence such as North Korea and China.
Liberals permit other liberals to make the most outlandish, misleading, and flat-out untrue statements imaginable as long as it furthers their agenda. Should conservatives dare open their mouths to say anything, though, no matter how reasoned and informed, we are declared either evil, stupid, or, more commonly, an amalgam of both.
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Obama’s License To Kill A Handy Item For Would-be Dictators
February 9, 2013 by 5 Comments
The “Nobel Peace Prize Winner” Obama and Mr. John Brennan issued themselves a license to kill anyone, anywhere, at any time in the name of national security. Unlike the most famous figure–007–Mr. Obama and Mr. Brennan feel they answer to no one for their actions. They randomly identify anyone as a terrorist without any proof, even Americans without due process. The most controversial target of the Obama regime was an American born teenage son of Nassar al-Awlaki, a known American-born terrorist. Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki had no ties to terrorist organizations yet was killed by a drone on Oct 14, 2011. He was targeted by the Obama White House while the Eric “The Cleaner” Holder Justice Department shields the Chicago good-fellas by justifying the assassination.
Memo
Despite the efforts of Congress and the courts to force the Obama Family-controlled White House to release a DOJ memo concerning Drone killings, it was leaked to the Obama-friendly NBC news. The 16 Page memo provided details for the justification of the Obama hit squad to select “enemies of the state” for execution. If they happen to be Americans, so be it, even if they are not indicted and represent no actual threat to Americans. But of course, these are not the unfortunate results of collateral damage. They are deliberate hits! The lap dog media of Don Obama would never dare report this unless they want to risk a visit by the goombas from justice.
The actual memo is scary and vague, even though the targets are represented as al-Qaeda leadership and associates. The meaning of “associates” is unclear and could mean just about anyone. According to U.S. Judge Colleen McMahon, the Obama administration “had engaged in public discussion of the legality of targeted killing, even of citizens.” But, she wrote, they have done so “in cryptic and imprecise ways, generally without citing … any statute or court decision that justifies its conclusions.” It’s the Harvard way, as Obama and his minions believe themselves to be above the law. Obama must have skipped the class explaining due process.
Bizarre
White House jester Jay Carney didn’t want to discuss the memo but justified the strikes as being ““legal, ethical and wise” and added that they were constitutional and used to save lives.” In 2007, Obama condemned the Bush administration for their handling of the war on terrorism and promised to“restore proper legislative and judicial oversight to counterterrorism operations.” It never happened, and the lame steam media has short-term memory problems when it comes to Democrats. So it will never be asked. However, in a rare moment of clarity, a NPR reporter dared to asked ““Why does the government believe it’s legal to kill Americans abroad, but not inside the US?…There’s no Constitutional distinction — it’s just that capture is not feasible [inside the US]? If imminence is one of the major tests, a plot in the United States would be more imminent than something abroad?” The jester just danced with useless rhetoric.
If this doesn’t concern you, what will?
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Women, Discrimination, And A Free Society
January 3, 2013 by 1 Comment
For the first time in its history, South Korea has elevated a woman to the office of president. Newly elected Park Geun-hye is the daughter of the president and dictator Park Chung-hee, who ruled the country from 1961 until his assassination in 1979.
During her presidential campaign, she pledged to increase government aid to single parents, expand maternity and paternity benefits, and promote flexible work arrangements in order to get more women in the work force.
In an interview with NPR, Kim Eun-Ju, director of the Center for Korean Women and Politics, noted that the South Korean presidential campaign ignored what she sees as two big problems: “One is that Korean women get paid nearly 40 percent less than their male counterparts — the biggest such disparity among the world’s developed economies. The other is that Korean women’s representation in politics ranks 108th out of 132 countries.”
Also interviewed was Kim Wan-hung, a researcher with the Korean Women’s Development Institute. She spoke of how difficult it is for any government policy to undo centuries of cultural tradition: “Men work. Women stay at home. This idea is ingrained in people’s minds. The salary differential has not been considered important. And less has been done to solve this problem in Korea than in other developed countries.”
I suppose it might be the case in traditional male-dominated Korean society that women would be deliberately paid less than men for the same job. But such is certainly not the case in the United States, where record numbers of women hold political office, are on police forces, and work in what used to be considered male occupations.
Read more at The Future of Freedom Foundation. By Laurence Vance.
Liberal Compares Obama’s Push For Tax Hikes To Lincoln Wanting To End Slavery
December 3, 2012 by 5 Comments
On an NPR broadcast, E. J. Dionne and David Brooks were discussing the “fiscal cliff” that we may or may not go over. Dionne, an op-ed writer for the uber-liberal Washington Post, compared President Obama’s resolve in pushing for more taxes to Abraham Lincoln who “stood his ground on the fundamental principle that we needed the 13th Amendment and needed to ban slavery.”
In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln stated that every person has the natural right “to eat the bread which he has earned by the sweat of his brow.”
While this phrase was not unique to Lincoln[1], nevertheless, he was right.
Income is the result of people working or investing. Taxation takes some of that hard-earned money.
Some taxes are necessary and equitable; most are not. For example, the gasoline tax is equitable and does not violate the 13th Amendment since the money (supposedly) goes to build roads and bridges that we travel on. If we don’t drive, we don’t pay the tax that’s levied on every gallon of gasoline sold. Of course, the tax is paid by people who don’t drive but in an indirect way. Goods and services that travel over roads have the cost of fuel built into the price of those goods or services (e.g., repairmen, UPS and FedEx deliveries, etc.). No involuntary servitude is in view.
Read More at godfatherpolitics.com . By Gary DeMar.
Nat’l GOP Gives $1m To Gay Activist Candidate For Congress
October 17, 2012 by 8 Comments
The Republican establishment in Washington is pouring enormous amounts of money — over a million dollars — into Massachusetts to elect an aggressive, anti-family homosexual activist to Congress.
In Massachusetts, Richard Tisei is known as an openly “gay” liberal Republican politician who ran for Lt. Governor in 2010. Prior to that as a State Senator, among other things he worked to successfully block the people’s right to vote on the Marriage Amendment.
Tisei is the only Republican Congressional candidate in Massachusetts to receive such support from the national Republican Congressional campaign!
Flood of expensive TV ads
Anyone watching TV in Massachusetts has undoubtedly seen a flood of television ads which support just one particular Republican challenger, Richard Tisei, mostly through attacks on the Democratic incumbent, Rep. John Tierney (6th District). The ads are impossible to miss, and easily dwarf all the TV spending in all the other Congressional districts in the state.
The Republican National Congressional Committee (RNCC) has picked Tisei to be one of their so-called “Young Guns,” an elite group of 30 US House challengers being touted as “the new generation of right-wing House Republicans who are looking to put their conservative stamp on Washington.” (We’re not making this up.)
The RNCC and its super PAC Young Guns Action Fund have already spent nearly a million dollars for hundreds of 30-second ads on behalf of Tisei, and many more are planned.
How radical is Richard Tisei?
Tisei is both fiscally and socially liberal. His political views and record in the Massachusetts Legislature include:
- High taxes. Has refused to sign Grover Norquist’s pledge that he would not raise taxes if elected to Congress. In Mass. Legislature, Tisei voted against several bills to reduce taxes, earning him the wrath of Citizens for Limited Taxation. Tisei was the only State Senate Republican who voted against the tax rollback in May 2000.
- Abortion. Strongly supports abortion. Rated 100% by NARAL and 100% by Planned Parenthood.
- Abortion buffer zone. Co-sponsored the bill that expanded the buffer zone around abortion clinics.
- Hostile to religious faith. Co-sponsored the “emergency contraception bill” in 2005 (vetoed by Gov. Mitt Romney because it would force Catholic hospital workers to act against their faith).
- Gay activist. “Came out” as a homosexual in 2010 and has proudly and publicly embraced the homosexual lifestyle. Prior to that he pushed its agenda supporting a range of bills and legislative actions, working with activists and the homosexual lobby. Has since appeared in numerous homosexual newspapers and magazines. Marched in 2010 Gay Pride parade (see news video).
- Gay marriage. Passionately supports same-sex “marriage”. He brags that he fought to make it “legal” in Massachusetts. Believes it’s a civil right that must be granted across America. (See excerpt from radio interview, below.) Tisei may “marry” his male partner after Election Day, reports the Washington Post.
- Stopped Marriage Amendment vote in Massachusetts in 2007. As part of the leadership in the legislature, fought successfully NOT to let the people of Massachusetts vote on the Marriage Amendment. Bragged in homosexual magazine that “The margin of victory [to deny the vote] was provided by Republicans,” and he took the lead in pressuring and persuading them.
- Helped to spread “gay marriage” across the U.S. with his vote to repeal “1913 Law” (in 2008). That law had barred out-of-state same-sex couples from “marrying” in Massachusetts if those “marriages” were not recognized as legal in their home states.
- Gay propagandist. Appeared in slick pro-homosexual “marriage” propaganda video produced by the homosexual lobby group MassEquality to persuade legislators to block the Marriage Amendment. Includes a number of questionable (i.e., phony) statistics.
- Actively works to move the Republican party leftward on “gay rights.” Told homosexual newspaper “”What I would say to people is that we will never have true equality unless we have strong voices and allies speaking out for fairness from both sides of the aisle.” As the Washington Post reported: “Tisei takes an evolutionary rather than revolutionary approach to gay rights and the congressional agenda. ‘If I’m in the [Republican] caucus, people are going to see me, they’re going to get to know me. Just the fact that I’m there, is going to make a lot of people question, or think about the issue differently. Rather than poking somebody in the eye, the best way to deal with it is to let them evolve. I’ve seen all kinds of people, Democrats and Republicans, change their opinions of it over time.’”
- “Transgender Rights” bill. Was lone Republican co-sponsor of radical Transgender Rights and Hate Crimes Law when first filed. The bill (passed in 2011) forces businesses, schools, and government to accept cross-dressing and transsexuality or face punishment. Was a strong proponent and helped develop the strategy (i.e., “this is an anti-discrimination bill”) to get it passed.
- Supports homosexual agenda in schools. Told homosexual newspaper that if elected to Lt. Governor he would “work very closely with” the dreaded state-funded Commission on GLBT Youth — which spends public money implementing homosexual programs in the public schools and supports gay-bisexual-transgender clubs for kids both on and off campus.
- Turncoat Republican. Tisei told National Public Radio: “When Gov. Romney was here, I voted with him half the time, and I voted against him half the time. … I have no problem working with Nancy Pelosi. Just because she’s in the opposition, I’m not gonna poke her in the eye.
Tisei believes that “gay marriage” is inevitable in America, and he plans to fight hard to make that happen as sooner rather than later. He compares it to interracial marriage, and that court decisions and laws are necessary — not allowing people to vote on it. In May, Tisei and national homosexual activist Jarrett Barrios were interviewed on Boston’s National Public Radio affiliate.
Here’s what Tisei told NPR about gay marriage taking over America:
I look at this as more in a historical perspective. This is the same situation that popped up with interracial marriage in 1948 in California; a very controversial court decision there and California became the first state to legalize interracial marriage. It took a while for the rest of the country to catch up. State by state you saw a change, until finally the Supreme Court some 20-something years later with a decision that banning interracial marriage in the United States was unconstitutional.
I kind of look at this situation we’re on as pretty much on the same track…I think you need both the legislature. . . AND you need the courts. This isn’t going to happen overnight, but look at the progress that’s been made already since Massachusetts became the first state in the country to legalize gay marriage.
Link to the entire NPR broadcast HERE.
You can be sure that Tisei will vote to repeal DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) if he’s elected to Congress.
And the Republican establishment considers him a “conservative”? Most Republicans would see a Richard Tisei as the exact opposite of anyone they would support, much less someone the Republican establishment would spend enormous funds to elect to Congress. He does not appear to agree much with the Republican Party Platform, to say the least.
What is the Republican “Young Guns” program?
The “Young Guns” program was by started by Congressman Paul Ryan (the current GOP VP Candidate) along with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia and Republican House Whip Kevin McCarthy of California. It was basically sold as a strategy to raise money to support a select group of aggressive, conservative challengers in winnable Congressional races, and nurture them to victory. In 2009 it became part of the National Republican Congressional Committee and helped in the 2010 GOP takeover of the House.
The term “Young Guns” originally came from an October 2007 article in The Weekly Standard. In 2010 Ryan, Cantor, and McCarthy wrote a book about the idea.
Their media image of the “Young Guns” has been well crafted. As pointed out above, the group is regularly described as “a new generation of right-wing House Republicans who are looking to put their conservative stamp on Washington.”
But behind the scenes, it’s another picture entirely. As the Washington Post reports:
Republican leaders are actively helping Tisei’s campaign, and they promise that his sexual orientation and his liberal views on gay marriage and abortion rights would not make him an outcast in their conservative caucus.
“We all came here from somewhere. It is the opportunity that drew us here, and he will have every bit of opportunity, as an openly gay Republican, as any other Republican,” House Majority Leader Eric I. Cantor (R-Va.) said. “I told him, we’re fully behind him. I’m supportive of his candidacy and look forward to serving with him.”
Super PAC is formed
In 2011, the Young Guns Action Fund super PAC (YG Action Fund) was formed to raise the big money for the 2012 election and take some of the burden off the RNCC. This past April, billionaire Sheldon Adelson (who had earlier given millions to the Gingrich campaign) gave $5 million to the YG Action Fund and they were off and running, and raising more money from other wealthy Republican donors. This year there are 30 “young gun” candidates selected for their hardcore support, including Tisei, who has already received over a million dollars from the YG Action Fund, and thus appears to be getting a particularly large share of the money.
Why are Congressional leaders supporting Tisei? Strange answers.
Of all the Congressional races across the country (and across Massachusetts) why pick this one? And why Tisei of all candidates, who is loathed by the conservative base and is running against an entrenched incumbent? Why not pick a race like the 4th District that’s an open seat (with Barney Frank retiring)? How did these decisions get made?
It’s very difficult to get any answers on this. Nobody at the RNCC would talk to us, despite numerous attempts by telephone and email.
The most prominent “Young Guns” staffer quoted in the media is Brad Dayspring, a former deputy chief of staff to Eric Cantor. Dayspring recently told Commonwealth Magazine, “Richard Tisei is a next generation, live-and-let-live Republican and someone that the people of Massachusetts can be proud of.”
We finally reached by Dayspring by phone this week. This was our conversation with him:
We started out listing the multitude of problems with Tisei and asked Dayspring why they were supporting him. “He is the most conservative candidate running in the 6th District,” he told us.
But Tisei the only Republican in that race, we said. Dayspring simply repeated: “He is the most conservative candidate running in the 6th District.”
But what about the other districts, we asked? What about the 4th District, with Sean Bielat. It’s an open seat and Bielat got 45% last time against Barney Frank. What about the 5th District, with Jon Golnik polling very well against Nikki Tsongas? Why not support them? Dayspring simply repeated, “Tisei is the most conservative candidate running in the 6th District.”
Then he added, “There are no other competitive districts in Massachusetts.” With the Obama voters coming out in force, he said, “to support anyone else in Massachusetts would be a fool’s errand.” When we started to rebut that, he interrupted, “Have you seen any Republican prognosticators that say any other races in Massachusetts are competitive?” We admitted we hadn’t consulted prognosticators.
“We are not in the business of throwing away money,” Dayspring stated. And that was that. His attitude had become quite condescending. And it’s a bit maddening to try to argue with that kind of logic, so we thanked him for his time and ended the call.
Pushing hard for Tisei
Besides the flood of lavish, expensive television ads, Tisei gets other red-carpet treatment from the “Young Guns” group. He gets lots of PR publicity, including TV interviews on major networks and media outlets. And in Tisei’s case, it works like a charm. It’s the only time you’ll ever see ABC, CNN, and the Huffington Post gush over a Republican.
And of course, there have been various swank DC fundraising events. This past Tuesday, Oct. 9, House Speaker John Boehner personally spent the morning raising money for Tisei. The average GOP Congressional candidate can only dream of that.
The push for Tisei, of course, includes the cooperation of the Massachusetts State Republican Party, which cleared the way for him to get the early money without the distraction and delay of a primary. In 2010, Bill Hudak, a charismatic local attorney, ran in that district and got 43% of the vote against Tierney. Hudak planned to run again this time and thus would have been in a primary against Tisei. But the state party establishment pressured Hudak to drop out before the primary so Tisei could have a clear run. In our opinion, that was pretty low.
(Finally, this is sadly not the first time this has happened. In 2010, Tisei was running for Lt. Governor as running mate to Charlie Baker, who described himself as “to the left of Obama on social issues.” Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, who claims to be a conservative, used his Republican Governor’s Association group to pour over $2 million for attack ads against Baker and Tisei’s opponents. It didn’t work; Baker and Tisei still lost.)
A gush of major “gay Republican” money for Tisei
If that’s not enough, the Republican “gay money machine” is gearing up for Tisei. As the Washington Post reported on Sept. 29:
The Tisei campaign has also become a rallying point for a cluster of wealthy Republican donors who support gay rights and would like to see the party move away from some of its recent harsh rhetoric on the issue.
Tisei has the financial backing of some of the most prominent gay conservatives, including Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, and Ken Mehlman, the former Republican National Committee chairman. Mehlman, now a private-equity executive, hosted a New York fundraiser for Tisei. A new super PAC supporting Republicans who approve of gay marriage — with financial backing from billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer — may enter the Tisei race in a few weeks.
Conclusion
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your 2012 National Republican party. Diversity is much more important than conservative principles. Maybe they think that if unprincipled Republicans get elected, the liberals and the media (and their mushy RINO donors) will like them all better. The bottom line is that it’s down to the same old thing: money and power. They can pretend to be conservative for the hoi polloi, but they’re much too “refined” to actually hold to those principles. The YG Action Fund spokesman made that pretty clear to us. And this will only be exacerbated among the Republicans under a Romney administration, we fear.
Unfortunately, in the long run everybody on the right suffers from this kind of strategy. It’s very shortsighted. Without principles and real fortitude, nothing else in politics works for very long. That’s pretty much what happened back in 2006, isn’t it?
As a Congressman, Tisei will do exactly what he did in the Massachusetts Legislature: be an aggressive fifth columnist for the radical homosexual and abortion movement, terrible on taxes, and work tirelessly to move the party to the left. None of that seems to matter to the establishment Republicans.
We remember hearing how hard it was to get conservative principles into the National Republican Party Platform at the convention in Tampa this year. It was only through sheer perseverance by conservatives that it worked out. The RINOs there had tried to stack the deck, we were told, to create a much more watered down document. Tisei shows us exactly where the RINOs hope to take the party.
But we’ll say one thing for Richard Tisei. He doesn’t hide what he believes or what his goals are. From that perspective, he’s probably the only honest one in the whole bunch. Maybe the only one there with “principles.”
What you can do
Although the “Citizens United” Supreme Court decision has given much more influence to wealthy donors, the Party elite still cannot ignore the average person.
We think it would be useful to contact the Republican National Congressional Committee either by phone or email and let them know why you will never give them a penny. We believe it’s very important for them to hear that from a lot of angry people.
Beyond that, give generously to individual CANDIDATES. But don’t give any money the Republican Party or PACs connected with them. This is a widespread problem, trust us. In any case, you’ll never be able to compete with the millionaires who seem to control things within the Party establishment.
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Two Smothered Stories: Vets Running Away From Obama; Even NPR Fans Not Happy With Illegal Aliens
September 28, 2012 by 11 Comments
The battleground states that the media’s fake polls are assigning to Barack Obama are populated by a large number of military veterans. Florida alone has 1.6 million; and Ohio, Virginia, and North Carolina have nearly 1 million each. These numbers are extremely important because at least one Left wing media outlet, Reuters, is reporting that Mitt Romney has an insurmountable 20 point lead over Barack Obama among veterans.
While insisting that their Democrat-skewed survey “results” are showing a growing overall lead for Obama, Reuters has been forced to acknowledge that veterans are less supportive of Obama now than they were four years ago. This lead (whether it is being accurately reported or shorted) holds across all veteran age groups. This will be a major factor in the election because 49% of veterans are 65+, a group that intends to vote at 86%.
Obama’s problem with veterans is that they are aware of his policies and hostility toward the military.
A second item that has not been reported is a recent survey of attitudes about immigration conducted by the Leftists at Latino Decisions for the National Hispanic Media Coalition. That survey didn’t find the data they hoped it would. On a scale of three positions (“cold”, “neutral”, or “warm”) toward illegal aliens, the liberals who listen to National Public Radio (NPR) were 46% “cold” toward illegals (versus 32% “warm” toward these uninvited guests.)
Overall, the survey found support for many of the polices conservatives have been demanding for years. Those policies include “show me your papers” powers for those arrested by our police, deportation of arrested illegals, reliance on E-Verify cards to be hired, and forcing the Social Security and IRS agencies to cooperate in investigations of illegals and legal status for driver’s licenses. All of these are hated by the Left.
Why have you not heard about these attitudes toward illegal aliens? In the words of Janet Murguia of the National Council of La Raza, who is now in charge of all domestic policy issues for Barack Obama: “We have to draw the line on freedom of speech, when freedom of speech becomes hate speech.”
So remember, your opinion is hate speech if you disagree with any benefit for illegal aliens.
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Team Obama Talks Down To Women
September 27, 2012 by 9 Comments
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Gay Marriage And The Media: A Match Made In America
While unelected U.S. Supreme Court Justices debated the issue of same-sex marriage in America on Tuesday, NBC’s Today featured a panel promoting gay marriage. Co-host Matt Lauer parroted a controversial ABC/Washington Post poll that supposedly shows a majority of Americans now support same-sex marriage. Carson Daly (The Voice) chimed in, saying “There is a new normal out there. We gotta move on.”
NBC’s Nancy Snyderman even went so far as to say same-sex marriage will be accepted by all people “once it’s institutionalized” and even compared gay marriage activists to the civil rights movement! (Juan Williams did the same thing Tuesday night on Fox News while debating ACLJ’s Jay Sekulow.) Attorney Star Jones also chimed in and compared gay marriage to interracial marriage.
On National Public Radio’s (NPR) Morning Edition, Carrie Johnson had four liberal and/or homosexual activists as guests and not one conservative or Christian view represented. NPR gladly receives our tax dollars and has a history of left-wing and anti-Christian bias, especially when it comes to the same-sex “marriage” issue. It should be called National Progressive Radio.
But this isn’t new, and NBC is not alone. The point is that today’s entertainers in the mainstream media, formerly known as “journalists,” used to care at least a little about what the people thought.
On ABC’s Good Morning America, Terry Moran reported from outside the Supreme Court: “this issue is changing in the American mind so fast…” The show featured four voices in support of the high court affirming gay marriage and just one against. ABC’s Josh Elliot spoke at a Gay and Lesbian Alliance Defamation (GLAAD) dinner and declared “I’m proud to work at a place that believes in advocacy journalism!”
It has been proven that the media are generally opposed to the Bible and generally favor laws to redefine marriage. Three out of four ‘journalists’ believe that homosexuality is acceptable and no different a lifestyle than heterosexuality.
The same media that resisted George W. Bush’s stances on social issues has gladly kept in step with the Obama White House’s marching orders to bring about progressive social change to America. Shortly after being elected president, Barack Obama gave a speech to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) advocacy group and political lobbying organization in the United States. He told the audience they will “see a time in which we as a nation finally recognize relationships between two men or two women as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman.”
When it came time to make a 2012 campaign statement, non-practicing Catholic Joe Biden happily endorsed same-sex marriage and homosexuality. The party of abortion, big government, and irresponsible spending openly added same-sex marriage to its platform, and the mainstream media has gleefully followed suit.
Not many of us can forget the vitriol of those who oppose traditional marriage and Christian values when Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy was attacked for his beliefs and free speech. Cathy simply said marriage should be between one man and one woman and that he chooses to operate his company with Christian values. Network news and the cable shows provided a platform for homosexual activists, Hollywood liberals, and plenty of progressive Democrats to rail against Dan Cathy and others who supported biblical values.
Remember the result? Chick-Fil-A enjoyed record sales last August when millions of people across the country responded by eating at their restaurants. Just because activists have the loudest voices doesn’t mean they’re right. Though liberals have the megaphone of the media, they are a malignant minority.
Most Americans oppose redefining marriage; and according to the 2010 census, same-sex couples comprise less than one-half of 1 percent of the population. Faith, family, and marriage are foundational to this Republic under God.
Marriage is a religious civil liberty. The Constitution does not support or invite government to define the precious covenant of marriage. Instead of blaming the media and government for their hostility toward Christianity, we must pray for their souls before it’s too late. They need to be saved by the very God they’re opposing. We cannot expect unbelievers to act differently – they don’t submit to the same moral authority or code by which we strive to live.
In a Red State article this week, Dana Loesch wrote:
In the article, Loesch gave many examples where homosexual activists and those pushing the gay agenda sued Christians, conservatives, and others who disagreed with their lifestyle. Victims of intolerance and lawsuits include:
A Christian woman, owner of a bed and breakfast in Hawaii, for not allowing a gay couple to rent a room;
A Kentucky company that politely declined printing t-shirts for a gay and lesbian organization;
A Methodist church in NJ that didn’t want its building used for same-sex weddings;
Christian photographers in New Mexico who turned down a client because it was a same-sex wedding;
Christian bed and breakfast owners in PA for not hosting a same sex civil union ceremony
Earlier this year, due to the uproar of activists on the left over a past sermon on homosexuality, the Obama administration forced Christian pastor Louie Giglio to resign from speaking at the inauguration ceremony.
While the media cheers, God is being blotted out of America; and discrimination against Christians will increase. Threats will continue against churches, Christian businesses, schools, and private individuals. God is not surprised by these attacks, but the bottom line is they will eventually refuse to ‘coexist’ with us because they cannot allow Christians to preach the gospel and quote the Bible.
Truth is hate to those who hate the truth.
The broadcast outlets also ignored the March for Marriage event this week, choosing not to cover a march of thousands of people on the Supreme Court because it didn’t fit their narrative.
The primary objectives of the Left are to eradicate Christianity in America and, in an effort to remove the Bible’s influence, take down the church. The good news is that more people are paying attention, distrust of the media is at an all-time high, and approximately 92% of Americans use multiple platforms to get their news.
Jesus said that we’d be hated because of Him, and that those who endure will be saved. (Matthew 10:22) God’s forgiveness through Christ is available to everyone, including those who hate Him. All we can do is keep seeking, speaking, and standing for the truth. God is gracious and slow to anger, but His patience won’t last forever.
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