Wehrwolfen
04-28-2015, 10:57 PM
(http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/04/conservatives-and-christians-more-inclusive-tolerant-than-progressives/)
by Fuzzy Slippers (http://legalinsurrection.com/author/fuzzy/)
April 26, 2015
It certainly seems so
This week has been very revealing in terms of what conservatives actually think and what progressives imagine we think. The “big” question that kicked it all off was “would you attend a gay wedding?” This was, apparently, supposed to separate the knuckle-dragging haters on the right from the sophisticated and pious leftists. John Nolte writes (http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/04/25/gay-panic-jenner-rubio-cruz-shock-parochial-mainstream-media/):
Another Republican presidential hopeful, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, made all kinds of headlines when he said something that would not surprise anyone who has spent any amount of time with a conservative Christian — that he would attend a same sex wedding. Out here in the real world this is a dog-bites-man story. Nevertheless, our media considered it as newsworthy as the sinking of the Titanic.
And that’s the problem. As surreal as it seems to most of us on the right, the leftist media and progressive groups actually believe that we have such hate in our hearts that we wouldn’t support our own friends and family members should they be gay. This is, after all, a very different question than whether or not gay “marriage” should be legal. At least it is to us.
This fundamental misunderstanding of conservatives seems more than a simple political weapon designed to rally progressives against those (supposedly) intolerant, nasty Republicans. The conviction with which they approach such topics–so certain that some candidate’s willingness to attend a gay friend’s wedding will instill in the base a violent disgust–suggests that they really believe their own myths about us.
(Excerpt)
Read more:
http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/04/conservatives-and-christians-more-inclusive-tolerant-than-progressives/
The startling thing was not that Bruce Jenner id a pre-op transgender person but that he’s a conservative. The Progressive National Socialists as you can imagine, were not happy. “Tolerance? Not so much. Prior to the interview airing, the PNS's on Twitter offered lots of support for Jenner, and plenty of predictions about how conservatives would heap scorn on Jenner. After Jenner truly came out, their tone changed considerably. Now Bruce Jenner is 'personna non-grata' in their eyes, he uttered the blasphemous words, "I'm a Republican".
by Fuzzy Slippers (http://legalinsurrection.com/author/fuzzy/)
April 26, 2015
It certainly seems so
This week has been very revealing in terms of what conservatives actually think and what progressives imagine we think. The “big” question that kicked it all off was “would you attend a gay wedding?” This was, apparently, supposed to separate the knuckle-dragging haters on the right from the sophisticated and pious leftists. John Nolte writes (http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/04/25/gay-panic-jenner-rubio-cruz-shock-parochial-mainstream-media/):
Another Republican presidential hopeful, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, made all kinds of headlines when he said something that would not surprise anyone who has spent any amount of time with a conservative Christian — that he would attend a same sex wedding. Out here in the real world this is a dog-bites-man story. Nevertheless, our media considered it as newsworthy as the sinking of the Titanic.
And that’s the problem. As surreal as it seems to most of us on the right, the leftist media and progressive groups actually believe that we have such hate in our hearts that we wouldn’t support our own friends and family members should they be gay. This is, after all, a very different question than whether or not gay “marriage” should be legal. At least it is to us.
This fundamental misunderstanding of conservatives seems more than a simple political weapon designed to rally progressives against those (supposedly) intolerant, nasty Republicans. The conviction with which they approach such topics–so certain that some candidate’s willingness to attend a gay friend’s wedding will instill in the base a violent disgust–suggests that they really believe their own myths about us.
(Excerpt)
Read more:
http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/04/conservatives-and-christians-more-inclusive-tolerant-than-progressives/
The startling thing was not that Bruce Jenner id a pre-op transgender person but that he’s a conservative. The Progressive National Socialists as you can imagine, were not happy. “Tolerance? Not so much. Prior to the interview airing, the PNS's on Twitter offered lots of support for Jenner, and plenty of predictions about how conservatives would heap scorn on Jenner. After Jenner truly came out, their tone changed considerably. Now Bruce Jenner is 'personna non-grata' in their eyes, he uttered the blasphemous words, "I'm a Republican".