Commentator Deroy Murdock wrote an op-ed for Scripps Howard, reminding heterosexuals that their non-monogamous straight peers — not homosexuals — are the ones with a track record of undermining marriage.
In the Jan. 16 edition of Spotlights, spokesman Randy Thomas responded.
Thomas said:
While conservatives should continue work against the constant undermining of marriage in public policy by homosexual activists, they should also increase vigilance toward broken heterosexual attempts to redefine marriage.
But this isn’t about an either/or focus as Murdock and some gay leaders would like. Conservatives should actually increase opposition to gay marriage because in that front of the culture war public policy is being altered and will carry with it far reaching public policy implications. The heterosexually broken are undermining marriage from another standpoint: the moral conscience of our society. I will be so bold to say that it is the heterosexual community’s compromise and moral disintegration that is the bedrock of advancement in the gay agenda.
Exodus executive director Alan Chambers proceeds to call Democrats and liberals “hypocritical” if they vote for anyone except Howard Dean as an alternative to George Bush. Chambers happily envisions of an America divided between two “either/or” camps of political extremists, and places Exodus firmly on the side of one extreme.
A strange vision, indeed, Mr. Chambers: Howard Dean is seen by many liberals as a moderate, not a true liberal in the mold of Dennis Kucinich, the Green Party, or the Democratic Socialists of America.
By endorsing Dean as the candidate for liberals, Chambers may have endorsed a compromiser — in Chambers’ language, a “hypocrite.”
Spot on!!! Dean is not in favor of gay marriage — he supports the Jim Crow compromise of civil union. True progressives support those who favor true equality — and that is legal marriage for all, nothing less.
Oh, that clueless Alan Chambers…
“While conservatives should continue work against the constant undermining of marriage in public policy by homosexual activists…”
This is political doubletalk, which Randy Thomas is starting to get very good at. He pretends to be a minister while at the same time he is waging war as a soldier against “homosexual activists.” That’s coded language. There are many people who feel, as a matter of conscience that gay people should not be discriminated against, but if he told the TRUTH of his position, that he is trying to interfere in the lives of those who are NOT part of his religion, that wouldn’t sound as defensible. So, he’s using this coded doubletalk to make it all sound moral. HYPOCRITE.
>Conservative African-American gay commentator Deroy Murdock wrote an op-ed for Scripps Howard, reminding heterosexuals that their non-monogamous straight peers — not homosexuals — are the ones with a track record of undermining marriage.
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Dear ex-Gay Watch:
For the record, I am an American who happens to be black. You may call me a black American. Or just a black man. I am NOT an “African-American.” I am as American as, say, NBC News anchor Brian Williams, although considerably darker than he is. I have been to Africa twice. Then I came home — to America.
Thank you.
Deroy Murdock,
American
So noted, and corrected — though a politely written e-mail reminder to me from a legitimate e-mail address would have been preferable.
Also duly noted Deroy. We don’t use the term, ourselves.Most of the hideousness is about the colour of someone’s skin, afterall, and we prefer to be straight-up about what racists are really banging on about. It isn’t the fact someone has an African heritage — it’s the colour of their skin. The fact that it’s black. And they’re not.Perhaps you may wish to also alert Project 21 about your concerns (I assume you’re still an advisory board member — no, I see you’re now a Distinguished Fellow.) I see they use “African-American” a great deal. Actually, constantly.(BTW — we do read your columns, and appreciate them. Perhaps you may wish to explore “this issue” at NRO in more depth as I know they also use the term. Perhaps? Why, when and by whom is the term used, and not used.)