The America Our Grandparents Built Is Gone

How Gay Marriage Succeeded
The Gay Media (New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, etc.) likes to say that Americans have evolved on the issue of gay marriage and now a majority support it. They cite polls (taken in places like San Francisco and Fire Island) to make the case. But we doubt that the support is anywhere near the levels talked about. What the gay marriage movement has done is not to engage in a fair dialog with the public on the issue. Instead, it has undertaken a campaign of fear and intimidation. Have doubts about gay marriage? Homophobe! Bigot! You are attacked publicly and your livelihood is threatened. In the face of such attacks you may not change your mind, but you certainly go silent. We like to quote the brave gay man from several years ago who said: "We used to be bullied, now we are the bullies."

We also loved the following analysis describing what gay marriage advocates accomplished:

... convinced a critical mass of the public that there is only one side in this debate, despite the fact that the side claiming the monopoly had only existed in any meaningful form for perhaps 20 years.

... convinced a critical mass of the public that race and sexual orientation are directly analogous.

... branded opponents as simple “bigots” for daring to hold a different view on a live political issue, going so far as to take punitive action against those who did not adopt the “correct” viewpoint.

... portrayed the battle as, literally, love versus hate. 
(Tom Garrett, theaxisofego.com, 6/27/2015)

A reminder...RedStateVT's creed: Love whoever you love, stop talking about your sexuality.


Rightful
Ever notice how Liberals keep making up new "rights" but taking away ones they don't like?

Abortion is a right. Health care is a right. Gay marriage is a right.

Drinking a large soda is not a right.


Say So
Mr. Obama himself says: “When you talk to people who actually are enrolled in a new marketplace plan, the vast majority of them like their coverage. The vast majority are satisfied.”

And the polls indeed show that 74% of ObamaCare’s eight million enrollees are “satisfied” with their plans, because the polls fail to count the 12 million who are eligible but decline to enroll.

Of the eight million who have signed up, some 87% are receiving taxpayer subsidies. In other words, they are getting health care partly or wholly at someone else’s expense. (Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., Wall Street Journal, 6/24/2015)

We've mused about this very point many times. Obamacare is working! People are getting health care paid for by someone else! And they like it!


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