| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Culture Wars |
| Speech Police, Riding High In Oakland |
| 2007-06-25 |
| By George F. Will Sunday, June 24, 2007; Page B07 Marriage is the foundation of the natural family and sustains family values. That sentence is inflammatory, perhaps even a hate crime. At least it is in Oakland, Calif. That city's government says those words, italicized here, constitute something akin to hate speech and can be proscribed from the government's open e-mail system and employee bulletin board. When the McCain-Feingold law empowered government to regulate the quantity, content and timing of political campaign speech about government, it was predictable that the right of free speech would increasingly be sacrificed to various social objectives that free speech supposedly impedes. And it was predictable that speech suppression would become an instrument of cultural combat, used to settle ideological scores and advance political agendas by silencing adversaries. That has happened in Oakland. And, predictably, the ineffable U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has ratified this abridgement of First Amendment protections. Fortunately, overturning the 9th Circuit is steady work for the U.S. Supreme Court. Some African American Christian women working for Oakland's government organized the Good News Employee Association (GNEA), which they announced with a flier describing their group as "a forum for people of Faith to express their views on the contemporary issues of the day. With respect for the Natural Family, Marriage and Family Values." Read the rest at the link. |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #5 JohnQC: Oakland is right next to Berkeley, and a lot cheaper (in a relative sense). So, you get the moonbat "B" team. |
| Posted by: Gary and the Samoyeds 2007-06-25 23:35 |
| #4 I'm ashamed to admit it, but I'm a Bay Area pilgrim. And to the native population there, those are fightin' words! |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-06-25 19:36 |
| #3 The vast majority of people who came to this country from wherever left those places. Family is really what's important. The Liberals don't want or have many children. The few children they do have are either only child or have one sibling. When parents, granparents, uncles etc. die off there is no Fmily left. I have family all over the US. I think the same thing can be said about most homosexuals. They don't have "Family" and envy and hate those of us who do. That's why they (liberals and homosexuals) feel threatened when Conservatives and other Family oriented groups talk about "Family Values". They really have no idea what the term means so it's threatening. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2007-06-25 19:26 |
| #2 This is where things really start to slide over the edge. As America's homosexual population increasingly insults and infringes upon the tolerant sensibilities of its heterosexual majority, they become a burden upon society. Every single living homosexual is the product of a heterosexual union. For homosexuals to feign ignorance of this simple fact is an affront to reason and all those who have labored so hard to build this tolerant society. I don't give a damn if a child is conceived by artificial insemination it is still a form of heterosexual union. While marriage may not be the absolute foundation of the natural family, responsible conduct and spousal fidelity certainly are. The natural family is without question the very bedrock of civilization itself. By almost unanimous definition, it is the heterosexual nuclear family that describes this sociological component. Regardless of what gay women have to say about men folk, parthenogenesis is not an option. Even if cloning were to become available, it would still be the byproduct of endeavors largely made by heterosexual people. While homosexuals like Leonardo da Vinci, Oscar Wilde and many others have made significant historical contributions to human progress, this world is largely the byproduct of heterosexual society shedding its blood, sweat and tears in the name of advancing civilization and its inherent liberties. A time has come for homosexuals to begin showing a lot more respect towards those who are responsible for their corporeal existence. The tolerance shown for what is sometimes incredibly offensive public appearance or behavior is a thing that homosexuals had better stop taking for granted. A convergence of liberal and multicultural agendas is gaining popularity in the homosexual community that places it directly at odds with both national security and the continued well-being of America's tolerant Christian community. Insistence upon politically correct newspeak that purposefully erodes freedom of expression within the majority's domain solely for the sake of protecting the actions of those who intentionally flaunt and offend that tolerant majority represents ingratitude on a massive scale. This vocal, overt and aberrant faction of homosexuals that is laboring to overturn the world built by its heterosexual majority are fast wearing out what little welcome there ever might have been for them in the first place. A case in point is Rosie O'Donnell and her unreasoning adherence to patently false viewpoints that only serve to undermine American morale and spirit. This is homosexual activism at its absolute worst and a slap in the face to a public that has struggled to accept those who are different from them. Homosexuals had best begin showing some real appreciation for those who are different from them or they can brace themselves for a substantial and well-deserved backlash in the near future. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-06-25 14:40 |
| #1 Oakland must be "whack job central" where nutiness is held on a pedestal and institutionalized. Always thought SF was the center of crackpotdom prior to this. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-06-25 14:31 |