The Patriot Post - Alexander's Essay 4-4-2013

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The Patriot Post - Alexander's Essay 4-4-2013
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A Java Jerk Jolt for "Gay Marriage"
The Latest from the Cultural Entropy Files

By Mark Alexander

April 4, 2013

"Marriage is ... in its origin a contract of natural law. ... It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic." --Justice Joseph Story (Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws)

There's never a dull moment when it comes to Leftist miscreants endeavoring to dismantle Liberty and the very culture that has sustained it since our Founding. This week was no different, especially in regard to the disoriented gender crowd1.

First, there was news that the somewhat Reverend Luis Leon used his "Easter sermon" pulpit as a political soapbox for the Obama clan attending St. John's Episcopal Church. "It drives me crazy," Leon lamented, "when the captains of the religious right are always calling people back, never forward, forgetting that we are called to be a pilgrim's people. The captains of the religious right are always calling us back, back, back. For blacks to be back in the back of the bus, for women to be back in the kitchen, for gays to be in the closet and for immigrants to be on their side of the border." (Somebody call the IRS and have them revoke St. John's non-profit status!)

For that remark, Leon received our Non Compos Mentis Award2 Monday. Of course, Leon is no Jeremiah "G-d Damn America3" Wright, who spewed the sort of awful, divisive, America-hating sermons that now largely inform Obama's worldview.

Next came the news that another lynch mob was gathering to hang Dr. Ben Carson4, who was already under fire for having delivered a bold and unapologetic defense of Christian morality at the National Prayer Breakfast5 -- with Obama scowling a few feet away at the head table. (So much for the Left's support of those who speak truth to power.)

Typical of the assault on Carson, who is black, was this observation from one of MSNBC's talkingheads, who claimed Dr. Carson is an Uncle Tom for conservatives, their "new black friend" who is "helpful in assuaging their guilt."

The Leftmedia6 is quick to brand any black citizen who departs the ObamaNation Plantations7 similarly. (See Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, Allen West, Tim Scott, Ward Connerly et al.) Of liberals, Carson says, "They're the most racist people there are because they put you in a little category, a box. 'How could you dare come off the plantation?'"

Apparently Dr. Carson, a brilliant neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins, offended a minuscule but very vocal minority this week when he defended the traditional Judeo-Christian context for marriage -- a historic definition consistent with every religion on the planet. Carson said, "Well, my thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman. It's a well-established, fundamental pillar of society, and no group -- be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn't matter what they are -- they don't get to change the definition."

How dare he mention homosexuals in the same sentence with pedophiles and other sexual miscreants -- even though NAMBLA is, by its very definition, a homosexual group which predates on young boys.

Students at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine are protesting a scheduled speech by Dr. Carson at this year's commencement, claiming his views are "deeply offensive to a large proportion of our student body."

(Sidebar: In other news from Hopkins, the Student Government Association has declined to allow the formation of a pro-life group, Voice for Life, but has approved a Students for Justice in Palestine group. An SGA memo, leaked to the media, compared Voice for Life with a white-supremacist group.)

I have met Dr. Carson, the subject of the TV movie, Gifted Hands8, about his rise from abject material poverty to the pinnacle of the neurosurgical profession. His character and devotion to fellow Americans is unimpeachable.

Responding to the protests, Carson said, "They want to shut us up completely, and that's why the attacks against me have been so vicious. I represent an existential threat to them. They need to shut me up, they need to get rid of me. They can't find anything else to delegitimize me, so they take my words, misinterpret them, and try to make it seem that I'm a bigot."

Next came news that a Salt Lake City School Board9 is booting Cub Scouts out of elementary schools because of the Boy Scouts of America policy10 prohibiting "avowed homosexuals" from holding Scout leadership positions.

Responding to the assault on the BSA, Texas Governor Rick Perry, an Eagle Scout, said at a rally11, "There is this very vocal, very litigious minority of Americans willing to legally attack anybody who dares utter a phrase or even a name that they don't agree with. In a twisting of logic, they insist on silencing the religious in the cause of tolerance. Now I ask you, where is the tolerance in that?"

Next came news that Howard Schultz, who heralds over the Starbucks java empire, was confronted at the company's annual meeting by a shareholder who objected to Schultz's imposition of his Leftist politics on the entire company and its shareholders by way of a formal memorandum12 supporting "gay marriage."

Schultz told the stockholder, "You can sell your shares of Starbucks and buy shares in another company ... thank you very much."

OK, that last item wasn't "news," because virtually nobody reported it.

Of course, that wasn't the case last July when the MSM went into hysterics because Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy humbly professed his support for the traditional family: "We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that. ... We want to do anything we possibly can to strengthen families. We are very much committed to that. ... We know that it might not be popular with everyone, but thank the Lord, we live in a country where we can share our values and operate on biblical principles."