A warning to anyone who is not on board with the militant gay agenda: lay very low or suffer the consequences. John Leo drives home this point on Townhall.com by citing the example that has been made of Robert Smith, a member of the Washington Metro transit authority board who was fired by Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich for publicly voicing this forbidden opinion:
Homosexual behavior, in my view, is deviant.
This thought crime, committed on a talk show panel devoted to gay “marriage,” was denounced by the Republican Ehrlich as “highly inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable.”
Since no reasonable person could dispute that homosexuality is deviant, Smith’s crime consists of saying something that the gay lobby would rather people didn’t hear. The Supreme Court has ruled that public employees and appointees have a First Amendment right to speak out on matters of public concern. But no one’s going to let a piece of paper written by dead white guys get in the way of imposing the progressive agenda.
Smith isn’t the first to get slapped for stepping out of line on the gay issue. As is usually the case when it comes to moonbattery, Europe and Canada are out ahead of the USA, even if we are catching up all too fast.
British writer on children’s rights Lynette Burrows was investigated by Scotland Yard for daring to disapprove of homosexuals adopting little boys and for asking the highly sensible question, “Would you give a small girl to two (heterosexual) men?”
Also in Britain, police investigated Anglican Bishop Peter Forster for saying, “Some people who are primarily homosexual can reorientate themselves.”
In Canada, it’s gone even farther. A guy who ran an ad in a Saskatchewan newspaper listing biblical citations against homosexuality was ordered to pay $1,500 apiece to some gays who were offended. He was determined to have committed a human rights offense by quoting the Bible.
Quite apart from the highly destructive consequences of homosexuality in terms of health and society, the idea that merely disapproving of it is a punishable thought crime should terrify anyone who understands the importance of free expression.
Cross-posted @ Moonbattery.
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The sexual deviates have pushed about all they dare push. It won’t be long until the backlash starts and there’s not enough police officer in the country to save their a**es. Mark it down, it will come and the government will be powerless to stop it. What are they going to do, shoot several million people for hanging a few thousand? Won’t happen but the hanging’s will.
Comment by Scrapiron — 6/19/2006 @ 6:48 pm
I have been warned but I refuse to cow to a bunch of fruitcakes. They live a sexual deviant lifestyle and want us to accept this? Next we will be told that being a child molester is just normal behavior! Wake up and smell the coffee. They are nothing more than sick and twisted deviants who need help.
Comment by Madhatter1878 — 6/22/2006 @ 5:39 am
Bob Erhlich, not the “homosexuals,” is responsible for Robert Smith’s removal. Erhlich took this action to further his own political career-pure politics and not because he was forced to do it by homosexuals. This is not the first time Erhlich fired people for political reasons yet I don’t recall any protest from this blogsite when he fired hundreds of state employees because they were Democrats. Most of these employees were mid to low level management or technicians. Some were close to retirement but that is what happens when you are employed at will. You can be dismissed at any time even if you are doing an outstanding job. Don’t blame the homosexuals because Erhlich is an a##.
By the way Madhatter just how would you help those whose sexual orientation is homosexual? Hormones? Brain surgery? The difference between a homosexual and a child molester is that homosexuals are not taking advantage of their consenting adult partners. They aren’t raping their partners. Since a child cannot give consent and usually hasn’t given consent child molestation it cannot be compared to homosexuality.
Comment by Carol — 6/22/2006 @ 7:43 pm