Posted by
David Hart on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 2:50:35 PM
This nitwit has only one idea; Gay is bad -
I mean really, really bad!
In an article today that appears on AFA's OneNewsNow titled:
Homosexuality & the laws of moral physics, Barber shares with us:
Again, it's fundamental. Homosexual behavior, like adultery,
fornication, incest and bestiality is, under no uncertain terms,
classified as sexual immorality in both the Old and New Testaments. The
historical and biblical records are unequivocal. In order to reach a
contrary conclusion, people like President Obama, who rationalize that
the Bible somehow affirms homosexual behavior -- or at least remains
neutral on the subject -- are forced to cast aside any pretense of
intellectual honesty and engage in gold-medal mental gymnastics.
So, for the sake of national unity, let's clear up any confusion about
marriage and sexual immorality once and for all, shall we? And
afterward, I expect all you leftists who've been badmouthing us
"fundamentalists" to apologize, 'kay?
First of all it was God, not Jerry Falwell, who both created and defined the institution of marriage.
I confess that I do not know what "moral physics" is nor was I aware that it had laws. Once again, Matt groups sexual orientation with bestiality and incest so
Hart's Corollary prevails.
Barber goes on to espouse the proforma ignorance:
Despite fairly successful attempts by self-described "gay" activists to
equate behaviorally driven "gayness" to immutable and neutrally defined
qualities such as race and gender, the reality is that being "gay" has
absolutely nothing to do with what someone is, and has everything to do
with what someone does.
There is a segment of our society that considers stupidity a virtue.
In contrast, people who are smart, well educated or accomplished are
“elites.” This construction serves to excuse those who worship
imbecility. Exhibit "A" is Joe Da Plumber. Among those idolaters is surely J. Matt Barber who would have us disregard the body of evidence supplied by published and peer reviewed science in order to support a position based upon his interpretation of scripture.
I am surprised that he did not go off on his "there is no gay gene" rant. Of course, there is no race gene either. What is coming down the pike from the religious right is the acceptance that sexual orientation is, indeed, biological in origin but "it's all about behavior." Should gays be "hornier than though?" Then we'll be asked to endure comparisons to incest and pedophilia without considering that those are not lawful activities by consenting adults.
However, what is most offensive about all of this is that it is in the context of civil law. This is not exactly what our deist founding fathers had in mind. Ultimately, people need to understand that the religious right wants to control far more than just who we can marry. They would like to control what we can read; what TV shows we can watch; what music we can listen to and what movies we can watch. There is, indeed, a very fine line between the Iranian theocracy and the imposition of the Barber crowd's idea of morality. The oppression of a minority due to the fact that they were born with different sexuality is immoral. Moreover, it represents a simplistic expression of prejudice and bigotry born of ignorance.