Thought Quotient

Marriage Mayhem

CNN: As same-sex couples celebrate, opponents plan counterattack

Geez, you gotta love unbiased meda! “Gay couples celebrate” (absolutely gushing with positivity) “, opponents” (read “negative people”) “plan counterattack” (war terminology to portray all people of conservative and/or judeo-christian morals as war-mongering, vengeful, aggressors against the peaceful gay community).

I need to put on my hip-waders.

Before I begin, let us dispense with all the assumptions, accusations, and absurdity hurled in the general direction of “the religious right”. I am, however, a Christian. And that belief does define my worldview and morality. I admit it. However, those who are not of a Judeo-Christian morality must admit that their beliefs also define their worldview and morality. And according to their own laws of tolerance, their beliefs are no better than mine.

But, of course, they don’t. Instead, they portray their own beliefs and morals as superior and far more “civilized” because they are not condemning anyone. Ahem… well, except those who disagree with them. And those people are uncultured, brutish, neanderthals who really deserve to be condemned.

Why? Simply because we disagree with them. That’s the only excuse they need.

You see, it really is all about morality. They condemn the “moral regulations” being imposed on them and demand that they be removed because, they say, those regulations don’t apply to them. However, at the same time, they are insisting on imposing a completely different set of moral values on the rest of us: “tolerance”, “sexual freedom”, “abortion rights”, “materialism”, “humanism”, “atheism”.

As articles like the one above prove, it’s all about the packaging. Portray someone as a hero, fighting for truth and goodness - and people will buy into it. It doesn’really matter whether it’s true or not… just make sure the marketing campaign is good.

There is no inherent goodness in this. These are no fighters for freedom and truth. They are merely another group of people who want to force their morals off on someone else. Take a good look at reality and decide which set of morals you would rather have. Ultimately, I guess it’s up to you to decide.

It’s a lot like when you were a kid and you bought that cereal you didn’t like just for the prize inside the cereal box. I mean, it looked really attractive on the outside of the box. But once you payed for it, brought it home, and took it out of the box… it was almost always a lot less than you expected. And on top of that… you had to eat that nasty cereal anyway.

I’v got a hunch that the prize at the bottom of this box of cereal isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And I’m afraid the cereal itself might be poisonous.