“CONSERVATIVE” columnist Ross Douthat writes in The New York Times that those who risk financial ruin if they refuse to approve of same-sex unions should not complain of persecution:

Christians had plenty of opportunities — thousands of years’ worth — to treat gay people with real charity, and far too often chose intolerance. (And still do, in many instances and places.) So being marginalized, being sued, losing tax-exempt status — this will be uncomfortable, but we should keep perspective and remember our sins, and nobody should call it persecution.

Since homosexuality is objectively immoral and harmful, this is similar to saying that people who refuse to be accomplices to embezzlement or burglary should accept government coercion because the Church has always condemned embezzlement and theft. To rephrase his statement:

Christians had plenty of opportunities — thousands of years’ worth — to treat burglars with real charity, and far too often chose intolerance. (And still do, in many instances and places.) So being marginalized, being sued, losing tax-exempt status — this will be uncomfortable, but we should keep perspective and remember our sins, and nobody should call it persecution.

Douthat is a useful idiot for the liars, moral imbeciles and propaganda artists at the Times.

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Dan R. writes:

And so, Arizona is now being pronounced as our Waterloo, with Douthat’s column entitled “The Terms of Our Surrender.”  Perhaps we should feel grateful that this young eminence, who seems to have gained his conservative reputation writing at Harvard and The Atlantic, is sparing us the embarrassment of acknowledging an unpleasant reality.  The mainstream media, meanwhile, is joyfully triumphant, with Cokie Roberts this morning declaring that she wondered why it took the Governor so long to veto the bill after the entire Fortune 500 had arisen en masse in opposition to discrimination and in favor of “gay rights.”  In today’s context who can fail to recall the laughable “family values” Republican Convention of 2000, as the Republican Party has now scrambled as far away as possible from the “gay marriage” issue.  The events of this past week have borne out that there truly was “no there, there.”  To underscore that, both John McCain and Mitt Romney had urged Brewer to veto the bill.

And so here we are, in the year 2014, a mere 30 years past the title of Orwell’s greatest work, just one of many comparisons that come to mind to mark the moment.  With thousands of years of religious and civilizational views blithely discarded, do we really have anything over the Jacobins and Year Zero?  We still have a ways to go (one hopes) before we find parents wishing homosexuality upon their offspring, but basically we’re living in a mind-boggling moment of social insanity, capsulized well by a classic title from the 19th century: “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.”

Jonah Goldberg, oddly enough, had some strong words about this fiasco, but later in his column reassures us that he supports “gay marriage.”  How thoroughly neocon.

Future historians will likely be flummoxed by the moment we’re living in. In what amounts to less than a blink of an eye in the history of Western civilization, homosexuality has gone from a diagnosed mental disorder to something to be celebrated — or else. Indeed, the rush to mandatory celebration is so intense, refusal is now considered tantamount to a crime. And, in some rare instances, an actual crime if the right constable or bureaucrat concludes that you have uttered “hate speech.”   

How much longer before we get the knock on our door to go to Room 101?

Josh F. writes:

It’s well past time to treat Liberalism as the political manifestation of the homosexual “nature,” ie., the self-annihilating “nature.”

And until our normal everyday healthy-minded American is willing to treat the homosexual as the self-annihilator that he is then there is no chance in turning this catastrophe back.

The exaltation of homosexuality is the exaltation of the self-annihilating “nature.” Only total rejection will do.

Laura writes:

The homosexual issue is the latest manifestation of a more serious problem — the belief that every individual should be free to establish his moral code and that government should not interfere with his right to do so. The problem is not so much the approval of homosexuality as the deification of man.

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