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New Concept of ‘Rights’ in America: If You’re Not Gay, You Don’t Have Any

Posted on | August 22, 2013 | 113 Comments

Gosh, it seems like just a few years ago that allegedly serious people were warning about how the “christofascist godbags” of the Religious Right were an existential threat to freedom in America, and if you disagreed with these allegedly serious people, you were just a hateful bigot.

Now? Well, you’re still a hateful bigot, but freedom’s just another word for “nothing left to lose”:

New Mexico’s Supreme Court rules that people must set aside their religion in order to avoid creating the slightest inconvenience for gay people. . . .
No, by all means, let’s use the power of the state to reach as deeply as possible into people’s lives instead of just telling the gay couple to “Look online for ten minutes and find someone else.”

Ace of Spades is not a homophobe, not a hater of any kind. Everybody who knows Ace knows this: Ewoks don’t even have a word for “hate.” And yet we may notice that Ace has had it up to here with the New Normal of Compulsory Approval and Correct Thought:

The New Republic Headline in 20 Point
Font: “He Is Not Bradley Manning.
She Is Chelsea Manning. Deal With It.”

and also . . .

Salon, the Web Magazine for Dumb People:
Why Is the Media Referring to Bradley Manning,
Who is a Man Named Bradley Manning, as a
Man Whose Name Is Bradley Manning?

Do you see what this is really about? If not, let me tell you that this is really about, “We, who are Your Moral Superiors, have authority to dictate your behavior, your words and, indeed, your thoughts.”

The language of “rights” is not about freedom, but rather power. I tried to warn people about this in November 2008, but nobody listened, because Important Smart People (e.g., Nicolle Wallace) were telling Republicans to forget about that “social issues” stuff.

Things that almost no one predicted in 2003, when Justice Kennedy created the “emerging awareness” doctrine out of thin air to justify overturning the 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick decision, are now happening routinely. The truly weird thing is that so few people understand why it’s happening or what it means.

“The military . . . decided this guy was a Solid Citizen posing little-to-no security risk and could and should be trusted with our top secret military and diplomatic communications.”

Yeah, that’s kind of random and coincidental, like a high-school dropout with a background in anime Web sites getting a six-figure top-secret clearance job in an intelligence agency. But if you think this is not random and coincidental, you’re a paranoid kook.

 

Category: Gays

Comments

113 Responses to “New Concept of ‘Rights’ in America: If You’re Not Gay, You Don’t Have Any”

  1. rmnixondeceased
    August 23rd, 2013 @ 2:59 pm

    Amen to that. The Thugocracy in power are Hell bent on destroying our Liberty, our society and our Republic.

    I comment on this in my most recent post on the Dead Republican Party (DeRP) blog entitled “Thugocracy and Obama’s Sons”: http://wp.me/p37Eto-1Q

  2. RMNixonDeceased
    August 23rd, 2013 @ 2:59 pm

    “Amen to that. The Thugocracy in power are Hell bent on destroying our Liberty, our society and…” — rmnixondeceased http://t.co/rC65G9cH0T

  3. FilnerGropey
    August 23rd, 2013 @ 3:00 pm

    Unless your a Muslim then your religious rights trump public acommodation apparently in Bubba the fascist sponges mind.

  4. FilnerGropey
    August 23rd, 2013 @ 3:00 pm

    Uh uh shut up bigot

    /Bubba

  5. rmnixondeceased
    August 23rd, 2013 @ 3:03 pm

    Ah, the hermaphroditic troglodyte shows it’s level of sophistication and mastery of the English language.
    Go fuck yourself.

  6. rmnixondeceased
    August 23rd, 2013 @ 3:05 pm

    Among other things …

  7. Fareedi al Laayla al Kakhol
    August 23rd, 2013 @ 3:28 pm

    This is the second posting I’ve accidentally undone today — hit the wrong bleeding button and suddenly I’m irreversibly ‘Guest’…

  8. Rights? You want rights? Only if the Left approves you Homophobic Homphobes! | The Daley Gator
    August 23rd, 2013 @ 5:58 pm

    […] At times it seems that America has lost its mind, or at least that the concept of “rights” as our Founders understood and defined them is slipping away. RS McCain reports that the New Mexico Supreme Court has ruled that everyone in New Mexico must do anything that Gay couples looking to get married say because human rights you Homphobe! […]

  9. Rockon
    August 23rd, 2013 @ 8:09 pm

    If I provided wedding services, I would tell them I can only do it if they (the homosexual couple) agree in writing with signature that their money spent goes to one or more organizations that goes against their beliefs; like a counseling organization that offers therapy to help people overcome homosexual attractions and/or any pro-family ministry and activist group.

  10. xbox361
    August 24th, 2013 @ 12:20 am

    except hot blondes, them they notice. god bless the Y chromosome.

  11. ZION'S TRUMPET » Gays Now Have Special “Rights” – We Knew this was Coming
    August 24th, 2013 @ 7:51 pm

    […] At times it seems that America has lost its mind, or at least that the concept of “rights” as our Founders understood and defined them is slipping away. RS McCain reports that the New Mexico Supreme Court has ruled that everyone in New Mexico must do anything that Gay couples looking to get married say because human rights you Homphobe! […]

  12. RichFader
    August 25th, 2013 @ 10:15 pm

    Because sheep can hear zippers.

  13. RichFader
    August 25th, 2013 @ 10:21 pm

    Rights aside, any couple who sues a wedding photographer to force him/her to shoot their wedding deserves the results.