Can We Still Make the Case that Mothers and Fathers Matter?
And her image at the head of her article is this:
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Who sticks to their guns anymore? Perhaps Donald Trump. He has nothing to lose. He doesn't need any money from the corrupting "Big Business," he doesn't have to worry about a job post-politics, and he knows what it takes to start a project and work it through to its completion, unlike the many "career" politicians that are the rank-and-file of Washington. He can always start and finish another project, including a trade embargo against Chinese goods in the name of "Made in America."
So, what is Charen's problem? That she won't have a job as a "journalist" if she writes, God forbid, the Truth?
She minces and parses her words, in the end falling right into the laps of those she feigns to critisize.
In her post "Can We Still Make the Case that Mothers and Fathers Matter" she cushions her words with:
That the court has struck a blow for gay rights is true enough (and treating homosexuals with respect is long overdue).Why even add that bracketed apology? And why use the words "struck a blow for gay rights?" as though we are unfairly attacking, striking against, those sorrowful gays who need our sympathy? If she wishes to sympathize with her gay friends, than do so in private. Better yet, as a journalist, and as someone opposed to gay marriage, cut off ties with those gays. Then she can be honest in her articles and op-eds.
I did. I liked my two gay friends tremendously. James was (is) kind, baked cakes for my birthday, discussed the nuances of French New Wave cinema with me, and better yet, ran a quirky, interesting cinema studio where he showed all the international films of the time (from France to Iran to Korea, and of course those "underground" American films).
I was the usual "liberal" college student when I knew him and his boyfriend (I think they later got "married") professor friend. I got so close to James that his "partner" would get jealous of our time together, not that anything was ever likely to happen (but who know, gays have been known to reform and change their ways).
When I graduated, and I had the wisdom of time and distance, I realized that what they were expecting me to accept was actually unacceptable. I simply cut off all ties, stopped emailing them, and stopped calling them. In a short while, it didn't even bother me anymore.
But I think Charen really does think that gays should be treated like regular citizens, and those who espouse (pardon the pun) marriage between man and woman, who believe that the Bible, and especially the Ten Commandments, are the directions we should follow. Not the directions of a guilt-ridden/compassionate/ideological/militant conscience are callous and inhuman.
Charen, or the NRO, cleverly used the above photo to present a bi-racial couple. (I assume Charen has some say in what images are used with her articles, and if not, she should write a follow-up denouncing this image.) The subliminal, or not-so-subliminal, message is that "Well, we went through the racist period of segregation, and the illegality of marriage between blacks and whites. We've overcome that sin. Let's not repeat it with this one.
Gay lives matter too!"
The reality is that blacks and whites voluntarily segregate, marry their own kind, live with their own race as the majority of their neighbors, and find ways to send their children to schools in which their particular race predominates. So, "integration" is one of the biggest American myths out there (excuse the pun, yet again!).
The other insidious element about this image is that the woman looks Arab. So, now, not only have we introduced a racial element to this "gay marriage debate," we have also put a religious element.
And the majority of plebians, those simple folk, do not support gay marriage, although when pushed will say something like: "Well, they cad do what they want," although they would silently add "But not around me."
Charen forces the issue with: Christians and Muslims (an average reader of NRO, with no special psychological skills at image deciphering, would most likely conclude that the woman in the image is Muslim and Arab, given all the current news on the Middle East - and if not Iranian, and I'm sure Charen, in all her sophistication, would concur) can marry each other, no problem. In fact, let's build up on the harmony of this world by putting them together! We need this multi-culti-feel-good mood to counteract all that negativity!
Muslim Lives Matter!
And look who agreed with me!
The Intellectually Mediocre Mona Charen