Piers Morgan seems to be making a name for himself by exposing the homophobic nature of famous people.
Fresh from the Kirk Cameron controversy, he begins a new one with former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann:
Bachmann, like Cameron before her, is obviously playing the victim. I really wish Morgan had asked her about the following comments she made in 2004:
Transcript:
It's like a friend of mine said. You have every right to say what you want, but if you publicly call out a group of people as "disordered" or "sinful," you simply cannot expect those people to be silent and allow you to do it.
Sooner or later, people like Bachmann (and Cameron) are going to have to understand that they can't hide their ugliness behind their so-called religious beliefs.
Fresh from the Kirk Cameron controversy, he begins a new one with former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann:
MORGAN: Yes. But you see, I was also taught to respect and be tolerant towards people who didn’t agree with those beliefs. And I think that America, with this movement on gay marriage and so on, just has to come a time when people who have strong religious beliefs, like you, like Kirk Cameron, actually show people like the gay community tolerance and a bit of slack, and say, I don’t agree with it, but nor am I going to demonize you. That’s all I’m getting at.
BACHMANN: I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It’s overtime. That’s where you see the demonization of people who stand on their beliefs.
MORGAN: So respect on both sides is what we need to get to?
BACHMANN: Of course.
Bachmann, like Cameron before her, is obviously playing the victim. I really wish Morgan had asked her about the following comments she made in 2004:
Transcript:
And again, don't misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgendered. We need to have profound compassion for the people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life, and sexual identity disorders. This is a very real issue. It's not funny, it's sad.
Any of you who have members of your family that are in the lifestyle—we have a member of our family that is. This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, to say this is gay. It's anything but gay. "
It's profoundly sad to recognize that almost all, if not all, individuals who have gone into the lifestyle have been abused at one time in their life, either by a male or by a female. There's been profound hurt and profound things that have happened in almost all of their lives.
This new legal enforcement of a new status—homosexuality, lesbianism, bringing it into the mainstream, if you will, giving it a legitimacy if you will, that will impact not only the gay community, but every man, woman and child, particularly the schools.
It's like a friend of mine said. You have every right to say what you want, but if you publicly call out a group of people as "disordered" or "sinful," you simply cannot expect those people to be silent and allow you to do it.
Sooner or later, people like Bachmann (and Cameron) are going to have to understand that they can't hide their ugliness behind their so-called religious beliefs.
I agree that they need to be called out on what they said. But when the attacks on them turn personal, then we are no better than they are. And that's what we CAN'T do, otherwise we lose all our legitimacy. It's a true fact that some of those against us become for us when they are shown that we are about love, that we're the same as they are. Are we showing that when we call Michelle Bachmann names or say that about Kirk Cameron? Call them out for their words, not names against them personally. We HAVE to be better than they are, otherwise, we are the SAME as they are. And we are definitely not that.
ReplyDeleteFree speech is not free. Free speech is responsible speech. Free speech may be criticized.
ReplyDeleteThis is not a first amendment issue. No government agency is trying to silence anybody.
When you say something controversial, expect controversy. And don't whine about the blowback.