Left and Right agree: Gay "marriage" brings in "choking," "authoritarian" social "conforming"

[quiet52]

commentary: Left and Right agree: Gay “marriage” brings in “choking,” “authoritarian” social “conforming”

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…Left-libertarian British journalist Brendan O’Neill warned … that in 20 years of writing on political issues, “I have never encountered an issue like gay marriage, an issue in which the space for dissent has shrunk so rapidly, and in which the consensus is not only stifling but choking.”

The change in public opinion, O’Neill added, can best be described as a “conformism, the slow but sure sacrifice of critical thinking and dissenting opinion under pressure to accept that which has been defined as a good by the upper echelons of society: gay marriage.”

…Christopher Caldwell: “The most troubling aspect of the gay-marriage movement is that, more than any social movement in living memory, more than feminism at its bra-burning peak in the 1970s, it aims not to engage in lively debate but to shut it down.”

…“Grassroots public protesting for the right of homosexuals to marry was notable by its absence. Instead, this has been a movement led by lawyers and professional activists, backed by the CEOs of hedge-fund corporations and newspapers of record such as The Times.”

So are you noticing that your friends and family are becoming more reluctant to even discuss this issue, afraid of being condemned for wanting traditional marriage?

 

[livingwordunity]

So-called “gay marriage” is one of the new dogmas of the dictatorship of relativism. The doctrine of “tolerance” has no tolerance for any who would disagree.

 

[fix]

The change in public opinion, O’Neill added, can best be described as a “conformism, the slow but sure sacrifice of critical thinking and dissenting opinion under pressure to accept that which has been defined as a good by the upper echelons of society: gay marriage.”

Says it all very well.

 

[qui_est_ce]

commentary: Left and Right agree: Gay “marriage” brings in “choking,” “authoritarian” social “conforming”

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So are you noticing that your friends and family are becoming more reluctant to even discuss this issue, afraid of being condemned for wanting traditional marriage?

The change in public opinion, O’Neill added, can best be described as a “conformism, the slow but sure sacrifice of **critical thinking **and dissenting opinion under pressure to accept that which has been defined as a good by the upper echelons of society: gay marriage.”

This is the most troubling part to me. I have noticed that “marriage equality” proponents set up strawmen and shoot them down. They couch arguments in euphemisms and confusion. There is no real definition of traditional marriage they claim. They will not address the problem of “REDEFINING” marriage and where that logic leads.

 

[Viki63]

If I were to speak my opinion about it at work, I might lose my job. I think that’s true for a lot of people. So we avoid the issue.

 

[Contra_Mundum_1]

I wonder if this kind of manufactured consent is sustainable. When ideas are forced onto people in such manner things tend to backfire eventually. I really hope this will be the case with gay marriage as well.

 

[vames]

And this is not enough. Get ready for the “trans dogma”, which is basically hating all people who seem to be happy with their own gender, accusing them of “transphobia” and pushing for the “rights” of children to change their gender. It’s funny (and sad) that this “trans dogma” is so aggressive and twisted that it ends up by being perceived as oppressive even towards gays and lesbians, if one can imagine that. “The right to be trans” seems to trump everything else when it comes to sexual identity and gender equality. From a feminist blog:

Trans dogma says that nobody’s ‘gender identity’ can ever be questioned, making it easy for male sexual predators to use ‘gender identity’ as an tool for accessing women’s and girls’ safe spaces (toilets, changing rooms, homeless shelters).

Trans dogma says that any gender non-conforming child should be given powerful medication to block puberty and cause sterility (in preparation for a life-time of ‘sex change’ surgeries and drugs), even though there are no studies on the long-term effects of such drugs, and even though most gender non-conforming children do not grow up to be ‘trans’.

antipornfeminists.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/nailing-my-colours-to-the-mast-a-little-bit-late/

 

[qui_est_ce]

And this is not enough. Get ready for the “trans dogma”, which is basically hating all people who seem to be happy with their own gender, accusing them of “transphobia” and pushing for the “rights” of children to change their gender. It’s funny (and sad) that this “trans dogma” is so aggressive and twisted that it ends up by being perceived as oppressive even towards gays and lesbians, if one can imagine that. “The right to be trans” seems to trump everything else when it comes to sexual identity and gender equality. From a feminist blog:

antipornfeminists.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/nailing-my-colours-to-the-mast-a-little-bit-late/

Why am I not surprised? Along with the push for lowering the age of consent, pedophilia will soon be recognized as a legitimate lifestyle choice.

Why can a 15 year old girl get the morning after pill when she hasn’t even reached the age of consent?

Pro-choice adherents really are protecting child predators. View Lila Rose’s videos.

People are burying their heads in the sand.

 

[CHRISTINE77]

commentary: Left and Right agree: Gay “marriage” brings in “choking,” “authoritarian” social “conforming”

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So are you noticing that your friends and family are becoming more reluctant to even discuss this issue, afraid of being condemned for wanting traditional marriage?

This is so true. It is impossible to have a dialog about this except on places like CAF. You are looked upon as being intolerant if you suggest that gay people shouldn’t be having sex, marrying or adopting children. The lunatics are running the asylum now.