Rainbow Tyranny
June 7, 2014
DOUGLAS writes:
While I was exiting my building at the end of the workday yesterday, I saw this sign on the door. I went back in the building and saw these signs posted on all the bathroom doors and all the exit doors. I retired from the military in 2000. Despite Clinton’s best attempts, he did not get close to the destruction this anti-American president has caused. It sickens me. I can’t even bring myself to say the pledge of allegiance or stand for the National Anthem. I am leaving my good job with the government because I can no longer work in support of something that disgusts me.
Laura writes:
General Mills is also celebrating LGBT Pride Month with this ad for its Lucky Charms cereal, which is popular with children. A video ad states:
“We don’t all look the same, believe the same things or love the same people. And that’s a good thing. It makes our world more interesting, special, beautiful [and] magical.”
Terry Morris writes:
Douglas wrote: “I can’t even bring myself to say the pledge of allegiance, or stand for the national anthem.”
It’s regrettable, I suppose, but I’m with you, Douglas. Have been for awhile now.
As I recall Lawrence Auster covered this very topic (of whether or not traditionalists should continue to recite the pledge and honor the flag under the new regime) at VFR maybe two years ago now. If memory serves I commented that during the playing of the national anthem (at ballgames and such) I stand and remove my hat (if I’m wearing one), out of respect for the patriotic people around me. I do not, however, face the flag, nor place my hand (or hat) over my heart. I usually say a silent prayer asking that the eyes and hearts of those around me will be opened; that they will begin to realize that America has become a godless cesspit, and that its government is almost wholly illegitimate.
Laura writes:
We are morally obligated to love our country and honor it.
I have no problem saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Being loyal to America, and pledging allegiance to it, does not entail assent to its current government (except the mere fact that America is a republic) or all of its laws.
When we say the Pledge of Allegiance, we are pledging loyalty to past and future generations too.
Mr. Morris writes:
Wow! I’d read your reply to Douglas earlier, but it just now occured to me the duplicitous nature of the General Mills video ad.
If liberals really believed all that nonsense about it being a ‘good thing’ that we don’t all “love the same people” in the sense they’re stating it, they wouldn’t have a problem with our moral stand against illicit, immoral sexual behaviorisms and those who engage in the practice. In fact, they’d probably be celebrating that too. But as we all know, they do have a big problem with people like us. To their (reprobate) minds the world would be a better place without all of us intolerant homophobes. They certainly don’t believe the indiscriminate rhetoric stating that our existences contribute to making the world more interesting and “magical” and all that. What a load of horse manure!
‘Course General Mills is just trying to stay in good with the LGBT community, since at the first whisper that the company is somehow “anti-gay,” the LGBT community would launch an all-out assault on the company, demanding the heads of its CEO and Board of Directors, and God only knows what else.
Laura writes:
I think it is safe to say, Mr. Morris, that General Mills does not believe you make the world more special and magical. But it will be happy to take your business if you like Lucky Charms. If you don’t like Lucky Charms, so what? Lots of people do.
A reader writes:
Sick Disney will also celebrate GLBTPZ pride in June and July this year!!
Douglas writes:
I understand we still have many things to be grateful for in this country. I still stand with the people out of respect. But I feel a country that kills as many babies as this country legally kills and promotes evil, is not something I can pledge to support. Maybe if i thought about it differently and looked at my pledge as simply a pledge to an once wonderful country and one that may yet be saved I could still do it. I am a person that would tear up at the singing of the National Anthem because of the all the men and women who went before us giving all they had to make and keep this nation great.
I also remember Mr. Auster writing regarding this subject. I always appreciated his well thought out analysis.
I can’t help but be reminded of Jesus saying, “Woe unto those who call evil good and good evil.”
Laura writes:
I entirely agree that it is a country in the grip of great evil and I respect your reasoning. Whatever we have to be grateful for is dwarfed by the government’s concessions to evil. I think of the pledge as a commitment to fight and resist all that, as a pledge to God to hate these concessions and to bring about a new order that recognizes his rights. Anything less would not be love of one’s country.
James N. writes:
It’s interesting that, in the linked article, the Director of Converge Orlando refers to the GLBT market as “growing exponentially.” Obviously, this is not true.
It makes me wonder how stupid the Disney management is (or how evil). Of course, if you are a manager, “exponential growth” is to be desired. That is, if that growth does not cause reciprocal shrinkage elsewhere.
The gay Disney market must be almost saturated, if it isn’t already. The few extra shekels they can squeeze out of these people will almost surely be more than offset by people who decide to go elsewhere.
How silly.
Josh F. writes:
At the bottom of this abyss seems to be the total rejection of the First Commandment. All the West now holds as its “highest principle” the “right” to “love” whomever one pleases. Of course, such a bold statement is really a declaration of war on Man. I still believe that Liberalism should be conceived as the homosexual “nature” politically manifested. No more “spiritual” or “intellectual” creation myths for this barbarian and self-annihilating “nature.” To “love” whomever you please is really to hate all of humanity.
