Morality & Ethics
Human Rights Campaign Leader Caught Up in Cuomo Scandal
Update:
According to reports, the law firm hired to conduct the probe by @HRC donated over $547,000 to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. https://t.co/Y3Gf9tIuLJ
— Outspoken (@GetOutspokenUSA) August 11, 2021
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But of course …
The @HRC praised their embattled president’s “extraordinary leadership during extremely challenging times,” after a damning report from the New York attorney general’s office. https://t.co/IpJVC1AVh3
— Outspoken (@GetOutspokenUSA) August 5, 2021
Captain Renault: I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
After reading the AG’s devastating report that concluded Gov. Cuomo engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment, in violation of both federal and state law, he should resign.
— Alphonso David (@AlphonsoDavid) August 3, 2021
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Olympic Grandstanding
Hard to disagree with Richard Grenell …
American Lesbians should be the loudest ones at the @Olympics for Team USA.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) July 27, 2021
69 countries competing criminalize homosexuality. @mPinoe is extremely lucky to be living in the US. @SUBWAY https://t.co/tTpNq4k6Ar
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The Authoritarian Impulse
He adds:
More than any other value, the brave men and women who started the American gay rights movement in the middle part of the last century advocated freedom—the freedom of sexual expression, the freedom to hold a job, the freedom to publish, the freedom to associate (whether at a bar free from police harassment or in a political meeting free from FBI surveillance), the freedom to serve openly in the military, and the freedom to marry. Now that it has achieved those freedoms and a cultural influence once thought impossible, much of what passes for gay activism today is driven by an impulse which is the very opposite of freedom: control.
As I’ve written before, the pagans bloodily persecuted the Christians, and then the Christians came to power and bloodily persecuted the pagans. Communists began as a small, radical movement for workers’ rights, but everywhere they’ve attained power they’ve been ruthless, murderous totalitarians. Those who were formerly outlawed and subject to arrest and worse, once the tide turns and they have the power of government to force others to bend knee, are totally assured of their own moral superiority in doing so.
Along related lines, but about woke-ism generally:
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Buttigieg, Faith and Abortion
Timothy P. Carney writes:
Democrats such as Buttigieg could reach socially conservative Christian voters, argues Kathy Winter, chairwoman of the Osceola County Democratic Party, by preaching “kindness, compassion, and caring about all of your friends and neighbors — to the born as well as the unborn too.”
Such a message “could reach a lot of conservative voters here,” Arnett argued. Pro-lifers could come to term with pro-choice Democrats who pursue policies that curb abortion while not banning the procedure. “Saying, ‘Hey, I’m just as committed as you are. Just we have different policies.’”
But no national Democrats push that line. No national Democrat will preach “compassion and caring about … the unborn,” as Winter puts it. Buttigieg doesn’t want abortion curtailed. In his stump speech, Buttigieg describes abortion as “reproductive healthcare” and refers to legal abortion as a crucial “freedom.”
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Gender Transitioning as Conversion Therapy for Self-Loathing Gay People?
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Chick-fil-A Targeted
Today Uganda announced a bill to legalize murdering gay people. National Christian Organization paid a preacher to go to Uganda and help their lawmakers with the bill. Chick-fil-a funds National Christian Org.
— slop (@sloppyposts) October 12, 2019
If you eat at Chick-fil-a, this is what your money goes to.
Brad Polumbo writes:The UK’s first Chick-fil-A is already set to close after immense pressure from LGBT rights groups. It’s been open just over a week https://t.co/gFvmJb5PR2
— PinkNews (@PinkNews) October 19, 2019
Chick-fil-A’s only connection to any of this is that its owners — not the company — through their separate foundation donate to the National Christian Foundation, the 8th-largest nonprofit in the U.S. That foundation works with Christian charitable groups. And there’s a weak connection between a tiny percentage of the groups NCF works with and anti-LGBT ministers in Uganda. Yet connecting those groups to ministers does not connect them to this legislation. Even Snopes admits “it’s not clear to what extent National Christian Foundation-funded entities were involved in the creation or promotion of a bill to make homosexuality punishable by death.”
A better way to response to Uganda:Another disgrace for @snopes
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) October 18, 2019
Viral liberal hoax claims Chick-fil-A backed a law to execute gay people https://t.co/lcJir0WP6O
This violates the UN Declaration on Human Rights. The UN must act against this. And the business community must react now too https://t.co/NjPgq6L8yu
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) October 15, 2019
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No Specific Gay Gene a Good Thing
‘Abortion hope’! Here’s how a national newspaper wrote about ‘gay genes’ in 1993. The article repulsed me so much I cut it out and have kept it to this date. It reminds me to be proud about who I am! #LGBT #LoveIsLove ?️??️??️? pic.twitter.com/UZaQG9dVUp
— Antony Tiernan (@AntonyTiernan) August 30, 2019
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Our Times
Also of interest as regards culture watching:
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Hate Is Not a Virtue Because You’re a Progressive
I hope that sharing power in a divided government will make Democrats less likely to continue inciting mob hatred of anyone who dares commit the heresy of disagreeing publicly with progressive and identitarian dogmas. But I’m not hopeful.
Via Tucker Carlson:
Last month one of my children was attacked by a stranger at dinner. For her sake, I was hoping to keep the incident private. It’s now being politicized by the Left. Here’s what happened: pic.twitter.com/rwNoFYxMFv
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 11, 2018