Glenn Beck’s #LGBT Agenda?

Posted on | January 22, 2014 | 91 Comments

My brother Kirby called this afternoon and began the conversation by saying, “You know if that kid in Florida kills himself . . .”

Yeah, they’ll blame me.

Volunteer Official Scapegoat™ of the Hate Olympics.

Someone has to be the conservative who notices things you’re not supposed to notice and says things you’re not supposed to say.

The chief qualifications for this gig are (a) scorn for popularity and (b) disregard for the short-term goals of the Republican Party. If your goal is to become the Popular Person Embraced by the Official GOP, you can never speak the kind of truth that makes people uncomfortable, you can never risk anything in a fight, and you are ultimately doomed to a defensive strategy of retreat.

Glenn Beck said on his Monday show that anti-gay people “have no place in this country.” . . .
“Anybody within the sound of my voice that hates a gay person because they’re gay, you have no place calling yourself a fan of mine,” Beck said. “You have no place in this country.”
Beck has spoken out in support of gay marriage several times before. Earlier in January, he voiced his opposition against Russia’s anti-gay laws and announced that he would stand by the LGBT advocacy group GLAAD in their fight against “hetero-fascism.”
“You are not a fan of mine — you have no friendship here — if you hate people because they’re gay,” Beck also added. “You have no place claiming that you’re a fan of this show. . . . If that’s who you are, I don’t want to have anything to do with you.”

Of course, the problem with Beck’s rhetoric here is that it conflates political opposition to a certain policy agenda (or religious objections to homosexual behavior) with “hate,” which is an assertion so absurd that I hesitate to dignify it with a response.

Look, my religious beliefs condemn premarital sex and re-marriage after divorce. Do I “hate” people who don’t live up to those biblical standards of behavior? No one has ever accused me of such a hate, because there is no recognized Promiscuity Lobby trying to mobilize an identity politics constituency to vote Democrat by labeling Republicans a hate group on such a basis. Once you get past the irrational bullying tactics of the Left and look at the actual data, you recognize that the gay agenda represents an effort to re-order social norms on behalf of an extremely small (but quite vocal and well-funded) minority:

The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, a gay and lesbian think tank, released a study in April 2011 estimating based on its research that just 1.7 percent of Americans between 18 and 44 identify as gay or lesbian, while another 1.8 percent — predominantly women — identify as bisexual. Far from underestimating the ranks of gay people because of homophobia, these figures included a substantial number of people who remained deeply closeted, such as a quarter of the bisexuals. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey of women between 22 and 44 that questioned more than 13,500 respondents between 2006 and 2008 found very similar numbers: Only 1 percent of the women identified themselves as gay, while 4 percent identified as bisexual.

So the LGBT coalition encompasses 3.5 percent of the population, max, to whom the other 96.5 percent are expected to kowtow?

Never has such a large majority dog been so easily wagged by such a small minority tail, led by radicals who habitually impugn all opposition in the most vituperative language imaginable. Dana Pico at First Street Journal notes the implicit insistence “that homosexual relationships are just as good, just as wholesome, just as normal, as heterosexual ones,” i.e., compulsory approval. As I explained more than five years ago (“Gay Rights, Gay Rage,” The American Spectator, Nov. 17, 2008), those who speak of homosexuality in the language of “rights” are not about liberty, but rather about equality in the most radical sense and, as Richard Weaver famously warned, Ideas Have Consequences.

This is how we reach the point at which people believe they have the “right” to make you bake them a lesbian wedding cake. This is how we reach the point where no one is supposed to object to teenage boys getting paid for a six-way “bareback orgy” on video.

Do you think this kind of stuff is worth discussing? “You have no place in this country.” Ace says Glenn Beck is now “all about attempting to get TimeWarner and ComCast to pick up his cable channel.”

Yeah, because MSNBC needs more competition.

Category: Gays, Glenn Beck

Comments

91 Responses to “Glenn Beck’s #LGBT Agenda?”

Bob Belvedere
January 22nd, 2014 @ 11:24 pm

Well…Beck has well and truly gone over to the enemy.
BobBelvedere
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:26 am

RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Glenn Beck’s #LGBT Agenda? http://t.co/y2n3SBQ1bY #TCOT
Political Rift » Glenn Beck’s #LGBT Agenda?
January 22nd, 2014 @ 11:29 pm

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midwestconservative
January 22nd, 2014 @ 11:30 pm

I hope he enjoys being the media’s favorite Republican for a while. Maybe it will last longer then Christie’s time in the sun.
Jeanette Victoria
January 22nd, 2014 @ 11:39 pm

I admit I used to like Beck, but I stopped listening to him few years ago
robertstacymccain
January 22nd, 2014 @ 11:43 pm

Everyone must bow before the idol of Equality.
Wraith
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:03 am

Advocating leaving people alone to live their lives as they will, whether you agree with their choices or not, is quite far from being a dupe of the “LBGTQXYZEIEIO agenda.”
You fail. In Technicolor, stereophonic sound, THX and HD.
Art Deco
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:13 am

I thought his stock-in-trade was gold buggery.
xbox361
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:13 am

Believing in tolerance and forcing acceptance are very different.
GB has been going off on Putin’s anti-gay stuff heavily.
I am anti-gay. It is unnatural. Not God’s law, not natural law, not Categorical Imperative Law. But, let ’em do what they want.
BUT, don’t tell me two guys are married, that they should adopt,etc.
I tolerate but do not accept.
I may lose this battle in the culture war but I get to believe what I want. I treat people the same in my interactions.
I have treated drunk drivers who killed innocents and bad guy rapists. I did my best for them because that is what I swore to do as a doctor.
But don’t tell me what they do is fine. I can tolerate a lot even if I don’t accept much. It’s called standards.
robertstacymccain
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:15 am

His political beliefs have always been shallow, unmoored by any really deep commitments.
xbox361
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:17 am

I don’t get his latest shows talking about this. He loves all the gays working for him. Fine.
Public policy is different. Gay “marriage” isn’t. Ooooh, I am such a hater.
Maybe if Gov Cuomo requires video evidence of gay sex to stay in NY, Glenn will move all his employees out?
I am confused by him, too. And not in a gay confuse teen way.
xbox361
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:17 am

that is a good one.
i think now it is buying 1791 jeans.
Trevor
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:23 am

When someone in Russia says that they want to kill gays at the Olympics for just being gay that is when you become pro-gay. Not pro-gay in full acceptance of the lifestyle against your religious believes but pro-human decency to stand up for gays right to live.
robertstacymccain
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:27 am

Here’s a crazy idea: Let Russia worry about Russia’s problems and we worry about our problems. But liberals have been getting this so wrong for so long, I don’t expect them to get it right now.
Zohydro
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:31 am

They didn’t sack sack Rome… Well, not really… It was Art, Literature, Music—culture, they were seeking… They’re real sorry if they broke some stuff or hurt anyone—they were just looking for poems!
Adjoran
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:32 am

He started out on the radio as a talk show host who relentlessly poked fun at leftists and conspiracy nuts. He was funny. The theme song went “All the freaks pick up their phone When Glenn Beck turns on a microphone!”

But then later he started reading the Founding documents and behaved as if he were the first to discover a hidden secret. And he did the very worst thing a man can do to himself: he began taking himself too seriously.
JRose1965
January 23rd, 2014 @ 1:37 am

RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Glenn Beck’s #LGBT Agenda? http://t.co/y2n3SBQ1bY #TCOT
Colorado Alex
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:44 am

“No one has ever accused me of such a hate, because there is no
recognized Promiscuity Lobby trying to mobilize an identity politics
constituency to vote Democrat by labeling Republicans a hate group on
such a basis. ”

Slutwalk, anyone? Normalizing and in fact encouraging promiscuity is a vital part of the progressive agenda. Undermining shared morals, community standards of decency, and social institutions and traditions that promote self-restraint is necessary for progressives to move people to government dependence.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:44 am

Very few people “hate” homosexuals. You work with them, you are related to them, you have some as friends. What people do hate is a double standard of behavior and labeling anyone who disagrees with their radical fringe as bigots. They are a gay mafia.

As for Beck, he is pandering. Sorry dude, that is the same thing Kristiekreme did in Jersey. Did his Democrat pals come help him? Beck is just doing the same and will find the same fate as Christie. Because his gay pals will turn out to be gay scorpions. And Beck is a frog.
storibund
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:48 am

Glenn Beck is about Glenn Beck, and now he’s all about positioning himself to be a Major Media Playah.

Man’s gotta do what he’s gotta do.
Adjoran
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:54 am

I don’t hate anybody except communists and their sympathizers.

I try to stay out of other people’s private lives (and expect them to stay out of mine). But demanding approval is over the top. I can’t offer sanction of behaviors which a) are against my religious beliefs and b) are frankly abnormal and usually self-destructive of those who engage.

To pretend, as one commenter here did on an earlier post, that a high school boy doing multiple-partner gay porn is just another after-school job, is in fact destructive in itself – of honest discussion, of morality, and of truth.

But Glenn understands that getting approval from the powers that be in media involves checking a few mandatory boxes and he is willing to pay the price. That’s on him.
Adjoran
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:58 am

But isn’t that being less “pro-gay” and more “anti-murder”?
ndmike12
January 23rd, 2014 @ 1:00 am

Anyone who hates gay people for being gay is a bad person. I don’t see where Beck equated opposition to gay marriage with hating gay people for being gay.
storibund
January 23rd, 2014 @ 1:08 am

Yep. I started listening to him around 2000/2001. He was funny as hell, and honest about himself and the way he saw the world.

But since then, he’s just been adding these odd layers of doom shilling (check out his sponsors) and prophet complex – and now he’s started adding political correctness as well.

I can’t even listen to the guy anymore.
Zohydro
January 23rd, 2014 @ 1:09 am

He’s not “paying the price”… Yet anyway…

He’s gambling and he very well might lose—big time!

He used to be good… When he was real…
RKae
January 23rd, 2014 @ 1:15 am

The American left was certainly in the mode of “leave Russian culture to Russians” back during the Soviet era and millions upon millions of people were being killed. They even went so far as to cover for the commies and lie about what was going on there.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
January 23rd, 2014 @ 1:54 am

It is a false argument ndmike12. Did Beck phrase or qualify it that way?
MrPaulRevere
January 23rd, 2014 @ 2:13 am

Wonderfully stated and I could not agree more.
Dana
January 23rd, 2014 @ 6:51 am

Thanks for the link!

Perhaps Mr Beck might have understood this missive better — you know that he’ll see it — if you had said that you condemn alcoholism, and the behavior which leads to alcohol addiction, but that doesn’t mean you hate alcoholics as people.

I remember a time when the homosexual lobby told us that what people did in their bedrooms was nobody else’s business, and, as long as it involves only consenting adults, I absolutely agree. Why, then, are they so insistent about telling us what they do in their bedrooms?
Dana
January 23rd, 2014 @ 6:57 am

One thing that you will notice is that I always use the term “homosexual,” and never the word “gay” to refer to them. The word “gay” means bright, lively, colorful, happy and carefree, which is what the homosexual lobby would like you to think that they are, but it’s a total misapprehension of the word, for propagandistic purposes.
Bob Belvedere
January 23rd, 2014 @ 7:51 am

I’m not so sure that he is pandering, Evi.

Beck is now claiming, as I understand it, that he is a Libertarian. Well, being an Ideological one would cause him to speak such nonsense and drivel.
tlk244182
January 23rd, 2014 @ 8:07 am

Yes, the frog and scorpion thing. The gay men I know are, for the most part, funny, charming, cultured, friendly, compassionate, and all-around good company. I have to force myself to remember that they are scorpions, will vote for abortion, will destroy marriage; they hate God and his Church, and will denounce me to the regime at some point in the not-too-distant future. I enjoy their company at my peril.
tlk244182
January 23rd, 2014 @ 8:16 am

Rolling on the floor, laughing my focking ass off!
tlk244182
January 23rd, 2014 @ 8:30 am

Yes, but where are these hordes of people who hate gays merely for being gay? They’re as scarce as Klansmen. BTW, there is an important difference between being gay and being merely homosexual. ‘Gay’ is a homosexual who refuses to accept that sodomy is sinful (out and proud.) One can be homosexual w/o being gay, IOW can struggle against his disordered temptation, e.g. Courage.

I ‘hate’ gays because they hate God, and would kill Him if they could. I don’t ‘hate’ mere homosexuals, since they are struggling against concupiscence just as I am. And I confess that my ‘hatred’ for gays is tepid at best. I’m too lazy and self-centered to work up much of a righteous condemnation of sodomites, and I was warned by Jesus about throwing stones, etc., and I think that’s how most straights feel.
tlk244182
January 23rd, 2014 @ 8:38 am

Yeah, you cant just go around killing sinners. There’d be no one left to bury the bodies. John 8:7
paulzummo
January 23rd, 2014 @ 8:46 am

Glenn Beck can be so frustrating because he does have a unique take, and he seems to recognize more than most the importance of culture in shaping politics. He also can be quite funny, especially on the radio. Then he’ll get into rants like this, or on some conspiracy kick, or he’ll do the over-dramatic, hushed voice weepy monologue. In the end, the negatives slightly outweigh the positives, which is a shame because he does have a tremendous reach.
RS
January 23rd, 2014 @ 9:11 am

If Beck is now confessing a unbridled libertarianism, he’s completely missed the fact that the radical homosexual “rights” agenda, of which marriage is a part, is designed to destroy the only thing which stands between government intrusion upon our personal liberty and autonomy is the traditional family. Destroy marriage and the family and the only thing left is the all-powerful state. Beck has sold his soul for 30 pieces of silver. I hope he find it worth it.
richard mcenroe
January 23rd, 2014 @ 10:34 am

Promiscuity Lobby…well, at least the fundraising galas should be a hoot.

As for Beck, look, he’s trying to get his show into more cable systems and the Revealed Word in the urbancentric media is Gays are This Huge Market That Must Be Appealed To, particularly given the seemingly disproprtionate number of gays employed in that field.
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January 23rd, 2014 @ 10:44 am

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Quartermaster
January 23rd, 2014 @ 10:47 am

In the end he will find, as so many before him, that he sold his soul too cheaply, no matter what the price was.
Supposedly he’s a Mormon these days and he needs to take a look at what his religion teaches about homosexuality. Christianity condemns it as an abomination and I seem to recall that Mormonism teaches the same.
Quartermaster
January 23rd, 2014 @ 10:51 am

That was different. Uncle Joe was really just a nice guy those freedom loving zealots maligned.
Joseph Dooley
January 23rd, 2014 @ 10:52 am

Welcome to the libertarian wing of the GOP, where liberty is viewed as an end in itself. Marijuana, same-sex marriage, prostitution, they favor it all. In freedom’s name they fight for these. Moral proscription & stewardship in the law is “statist” and the treaty lines in the culture war are renegotiated periodically. THIS is the path to electoral victory! TOLERANCE!!
Quartermaster
January 23rd, 2014 @ 10:52 am

God will not lose the culture war. he’s rather intolerant of sin and will banish unrepentant sinners from his presence eternally. At the moment, however, he does allow people to go their own way.
Socialism: Organized Evil
January 23rd, 2014 @ 11:02 am

Forget homosexual, the word “sodomite” is even more to the point regarding those who somehow view the insertion of a male’s penis into the hairy anus of another male as somehow a natural, normal, and healthy endeavour.
Socialism: Organized Evil
January 23rd, 2014 @ 11:05 am

Their definition of “freedom” seems to be similar to Karl Marx’s.

It’s truly amazing how far the perverted ideology of Marx has thoroughly infiltrated and taken over Western civilization.

Even his words – capitalism, for example – are blithely used without even the slightest idea regarding their origins or implications.

At the very least we could replace the word “capitalism” with “free enterprise” and “free markets”.
Eric Ashley
January 23rd, 2014 @ 11:10 am

tarians need to be beaten daily to be reminded what reality looks like.
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CrustyB
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:01 pm

I’ve always believed this about him, especially since he said that the Tea Party is racist for supporting Newt Gingrich. With that, he instantly became the biggest friend the left has ever known. He’s dead to me.
Bozikek
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:17 pm

Beck’s silly comments showcase the death of conservatism in the GOP. Embracing “Beckish” republicanism fully and you find yourself as a small government Liberal.
Stogie Chomper
January 23rd, 2014 @ 12:31 pm

I haven’t taken Glenn Beck seriously for several years now. His understanding of some things (like American history) is shallow and superficial. I believe in tolerance for gays, but do not endorse their lifestyle and will not be a cheerleader for gays as Beck apparently has become. As Taki Magazine recently noted, homosexuality is a defect like asthma, and though we shouldn’t persecute people with defects, we do not need to have asthma-pride parades either.

My feeling is that the right should leave gays alone. Don’t persecute them, don’t insult them, don’t quote scripture at them, and don’t single out individual gays for ridicule in public forums. It is self defeating. It accomplishes nothing. It hurts us rather than helping us.