There's an important new piece by influential conservative David
Horowitz on his frontpagemagazine.com website. Titled
Pride Before a Fall, Horowitz takes to task the homophobia of
the religious right, finding it both intolerant and divisive. He
writes:
In four Gospels - including the Sermon on the Mount - Jesus neglected to mention the subject of homosexuality. But that hasn't stopped a handful of self-appointed leaders of the so-called Religious Right from deciding that it is an issue worth the presidency of the United States. In what the Washington Times described as a "stormy session" last week, the Rev. Lou Sheldon, Paul Weyrich, Gary Bauer and eight other "social conservatives" read the riot act to RNC chairman Marc Racicot for meeting with the "Human Rights Campaign," a group promoting legal protections for homosexuals. This indiscretion, they said, "could put Bush's entire re-election campaign in jeopardy."
According to the Times" report by Ralph Hallow, the RNC chairman defended himself by saying, "You people don't want me to meet with other folks, but I meet with anybody and everybody." To this Gary Bauer retorted, "That can't be true because you surely would not meet with the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan."
Nice analogy Gary. Way to love thy neighbor.
There are a growing number of important conservative figures who
are not happy with the religious right's anti-gay antics,
especially their threats against the Bush administration over its
outreach toward gays. Increasingly, the religious right is being
marginalized by mainstream conservatives who know that the future
is an inclusive one, based on the core values of indivdiual liberty
and responsiblity, as opposed to the left's bureaucratic
collectivism and the religious right's bigotry (and big-goverment
support for bedroom police enforcing sodomy laws). This is a very
good sign.
--Stephen H. Miller
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