GOODY TWO SHOES: Gays Do Not Tolerate Dissent
Columnist Jennifer Roback Morse, who admits to "libertarian inclinations" used to practice a live and let live attitude towards gay rights: If it isn’t hurting any one else, it is no business of the government’s. But now, she says, "Those days are over." Here’s why:
The gay caucus of the California State Assembly … is an aggressive, intrusive movement that brooks no disagreement. …
The CA State Assembly passed legislation banning discrimination in state operated or funded programs on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. The bill, SB 1441, makes no provision for religious exceptions. Religious universities and schools will be required to take no notice of same sex conduct, or risk losing any student financial assistance from the state. This legislation was sponsored by Democratic state senator, Sheila Kuehl. …
The State Assembly recently approved a bill (SB 840) granting universal health insurance, and designating the state as the single-payer for health care. If the governor signs this bill into law, the state will have increased leverage for regulating doctors and hospitals. Every religious hospital and clinic will be receiving, not just part of their income, but all their income, from the state.
Even now, a lesbian is suing a Southern California doctor because the doctor refused perform an artificial insemination on unmarried women, citing religious objections to inseminating a woman whose child would have no father. …
There is evidently no room for Christian doctors in the "live and let live" utopia contemplated by the LBGT caucus. …
This same Sheila Kuehl also wants the state to micro-manage the content of school textbooks so that gender non-conforming children don’t feel bad. (SB 1437) The terms "husband" and "wife," "mother" and "father" could well be among the forbidden language that adversely affects homosexual self-esteem. …
Sheila Kuehl and her allies are not going to be satisfied until they wipe out every religious group that teaches that being straight is preferable to being gay. Or until they shove religion safely into the closet.
The combination of anti-discrimination laws covering sexual orientation and expansive provision of state services adds up to increasing state-imposed ideological conformity. …
[T]he LBGT caucus of the California State Assembly … is an aggressive, intolerant bunch of bullies. No libertarian, no one who values freedom, can align themselves with such people.
Ohhh, the poor little tolerant LBGTs. O silent conservative majority, what will it take to WAKE YOU UP?
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