Posted by
Patrick Henry on Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:04:29 PM
"No justice, no peace" -- that's the slogan of militants everywhere these days. It is in
reality a lame excuse for the thuggish behavior of a group of neo-fascists looking for
an escuse to vandalize, assault, maim and slander.
Take for example the roaming mobs of gays wandering the streets of California cities,
vandalizing churches and attacking blacks after the black and Christian communities
voted overwhelmingly for California's Proposition Eight banning gay marriage. Add
this week's horrendous verbal attack on the president-elect for having the temerity to
invite Rick Warren, anti-gay marriage pastor, to give the invocation at his upcoming
inauguration, and you have perfect examples of what happens in America when
wild-eyed radicals don't get their way.
Legally, they haven't a leg to stand on. The tactic they count on is assuming the
right to re-define justice as whatever they want. But justice is formally what is
required by the law, and just now the law in California requires that marriage be
heterosexual only. But that's not what the gays want, so it is de facto unjust, and,
according to them, gives them the right to conduct violent rampages aginst those
who disagree with them. By that same logic, if the vote on Proposition Eight had
gone the other way, those who considered gay marriage a miscarriage of justice
would have been justified in attacking gays and vandalizing their gathering places.
But it doesn't work that way. Duly elected legislative bodies and ultimately, the
electorate decide the law -- what is just. "No justice, no peace" is nothing but a
declaration of war on democracy.
A second and even more effective tactic is ascribing to those with contrarian
points of view hatred, bigotry, racism or homophobia. The group known as La
Raza has used the tactic mercilessly to brand those who oppose illegal immigration
as anti-Hispanic racists and hatemongers. Once again, this is a willful perversion of
truth to serve a one-sided cause. Just because I believe that persons should not be
allowed to cross our borders, falsify documents and live in this country illegally,
and that they should be forthwith departed, doesn't mean I hate anybody. What it
does mean is that I believe this is a nation of laws and I don't think you have the
right to break them willy-nilly just because you want to. And that applies no
matter what your race or ethnicity. Gays argue that those who voted for Proposition
Eight, including Pastor Rick Warren, the Mormons and most of the black community
hate gays. Sensible people should not sit still for such slander. Just because I disagree
with you doesn't imply that I hate you -- just that I disagree with you. If my child wants
the keys to the family car and I don't think he's ready, does that mean I hate him? Of
course not. Yet the tactic persists. "Give me what I want or you hate me and others
like me." It's hogwash and drivel.
Homophobia is the favorite word of gay activists as applied to those who oppose
the gay lifestyle and gay marriage. It's really a curious word, and generally a complete
misnomer. Literally, it describe one who fears homosexuals or homosexuality. Why,
if you disagree with a lifestyle and reject a lifestyle must you be "afraid" of it? I
know a number of gay people -- some of them very pleasant an unassuming -- but
there is not a single one of them I fear in any way. What I do fear is a tolerance of
those who re-write justice after their own whims and claim license to ignore laws
that burden them.
Obama has made some very shrewd political choices in picking his cabinet and
yes, in asking Rick Warren to participate in the inauguration. If the gay activists
think that under his administration they can have whatever they want, they need
to go home and sober up. He will only be the president. He doesn't get to make
laws and in four years he has to stand for re-election. Whether the gays like it or
not, a solid majority in this country still beieve that the only legitimate definition
of marriage is a union between one man and one woman. In a democracy, the
majority rules. And if, in the name of their unholy cause, gays should commit
criminal acts, they should ho straight to jail. That's what would happen to the rest
of us if we behaved as they are behaving now. Justice isn't whatever I want. It's
a conseunsus codified in law. Change that, and you had might as well burn the
Constitution.