I have quoted little from Exodus leaders Randy Thomas and Alan Chambers recently, because they repeat the same ludicrous, unimaginative, thoughtless, unresearched mantra that has been playing, like a scratched vinyl record, for several years now:
According to Exodus HQ, gay people are, without exception, "liberal," intolerant, and "elitist." What Chambers, Thomas and the Exodus media blog don’t say explicitly, but clearly intend, is that they support intolerance and elitism when either one is antigay. And they seem to define "liberal" to mean, conveniently, almost anything that they happen to disagree with.
Exodus and Focus on the Family are open about their desire to drive "homosexuals" out of the churches, out of the media, out of government, out of the schools, and out of "moral" workplaces. If those goals do not constitute intolerance and elitism, then frankly I don’t know what does.
But I have digressed from the purpose of this message.
Gay libertarian Jason Kuznicki conveniently brings together numerous links to gay libertarian bloggers and other writers: Proof that, unlike Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas, many gay writers value free enterprise, freedom of speech, freedom of opportunity, freedom of religion, and freedom from oppressive government.
Kuznicki unfortunately did not link to the Independent Gay Forum, where I volunteer as the lead techie. But IGF is not uniformly libertarian (nor even uniformly conservative) so I forgive the oversight.
Forgive me for indulging your OT post about Focus. However, you missed pointing out their true objective: they want to use the police power of the state to put all gay people in prison (or worse)! This is not a hysterical ranting; it’s based on the fact that they radically oppose Lawrence v. TX and want homosexual behavior CRIMINALIZED. And, I believe it would not just be misdemeanor style charges, it would be felony charges.
Their stealth-agenda goes WAY beyond forcing people back into the closet, way beyond. It’s really sad that most of their ex-gay creatures play into their agenda.
I’m not sure I can agree with the idea that Libertarians support “freedom of opportunity” and “freedom from oppressive government”.
Any government that stops protecting that average citizen from corporate crimes like fraud, false advertising, monopoly/oligopoly, unsafe products, dangerous foods, pollution, etc… neither protects it’s citizens from opression, nor truly provides them with opportunity.
I’m quite proud to be a liberal, and since I do believe that makes be a better person that someone that wishes for their intelligence to give them a chance to “get over” on other people in a world free of regulation, I guess that makes me an elitist, too.
So, yes, some homosexuals are just as evil according to the true Christian faith as the Ex-Gays, and fundamentalist wackos are. I’m not sure that’s something to be proud of.
There are many types of libertarians, Glen. None of those that I linked to are of the anarchist variety you mention. Yes, we would decrease government regulation, but fraud, false advertising, unsafe products, and pollution would all be subject to punishment even if the gay libertarians I mentioned somehow ended up running the government.
As to monopolies, perhaps we can talk one day, but preferably not here.
I can’t say that I follow the logic of your last two sentences, but I deeply resent the (possible?) implication that my views are evil–if that’s what you are saying. Perhaps you should know what my views are before you make such a sweeping conclusion?