Star Parker on the “gay agenda”
Star Parker’s diatribe against the “gay agenda” over at TownHall trots out the usual “behavior” boilerplate and wastes ink complaining about increasing social acceptance of the LGBT community: “although the majority of Americans are still opposed to legalization, they are a lot less opposed than they were in the a decade ago.” [sic] Parker then supposes that “Americans are increasingly confusing entitlement and political power with freedom and tolerance.” As much fun as it would be to tear this tissue-thin argument to shreds, Pam Spaulding has already done so here.
This section is the heart of Spaulding’s excellent rebuttal:
Your movement has embraced the bigots, the religious intolerants and socially backward misfits while demonizing gays for political gain and access to power. […]It doesn’t mean that school choice or private social security accounts don’t hold appeal to gays as issues, they simply cannot be issues of primacy when gays:
can’t serve openly in the military
are threatened with legislation to prevent them from adopting or fostering children
cannot have the same partnership and legal benefits as married couples
can be fired from a job simply for being gay. You’re not fighting to end that discrimination, Star — you believe in it. When you step up and truly believe gays and lesbians are equal citizens, then we’ll talk. Until then, stop whining about any group seeking political power when your goons on the right have plotted and planned for years to take control. They are not only attempting to legislate rights of gay citizens away, they are attempting to control the reproductive rights of women (from contraception to abortion), and obliterate the privacy rights of everyone.
The social conservatives have had a stranglehold on government, and it’s clear that you feel the folks you have placed your trust in have squandered it because the public has not bought into the social control agenda. That isn’t our problem, that’s your problem. [emphasis added]