Several events last week show just how fast certain cultural forces are working to separate us from one another, always, of course, in the name of “equality.” Fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana spoke about how important it is for children to have both a mother and a father, and also criticized the use of artificial reproductive technologies in order to deliberately deprive a child of a mother or a father. Rock star Elton John who with his same sex partner has two such children, immediately called for a boycott of Dolce and Gabbana.
Patricia Jannuzzi, a Catholic who has taught for over 30 years in a Catholic school expressed her support for traditional marriage — in line with Catholic teaching — on her personal Facebook page. She is now the target of an LGBT-supported petition campaign to have her fired, as well as for the school to promote “anti hate speech.” The Catholic Church itself has not defended her, to put it mildly.
Another adult child raised by lesbians has come out in opposition to same sex marriage. Heather Barwick’s article in The Federalist, “Dear Gay Community: Your Kids are Hurting” has so far garnered over 42,000 social media shares and thousands of comments. She has become an object of vitriol and scorn by the militant LGBT lobby for voicing her opinion. She and other adult children from same sex households – including Katy Faust, Robert Oscar Lopez, Dawn Stefanowicz, Denise Shick, and Rivka Edelman – will be earning more wrath from LGBT shock brigades as they file amicus curiae briefs to the Supreme Court voicing their opposition to same sex marriage.
What do all these cases have in common? Well, I could state the obvious, which is that the critical issue for kids is not so much having a gay parent, but yearning for a missing mother or father. And whether or not a parent is missing because of divorce, adoption, or other conditions is not the point. The inherent issue with same sex parenting is that it absolutely requires that one parent be missing from the family. It also requires that the law implicitly deny all children this right.
But there is another common thread that runs through all of these stories. It’s the brutal silencing of any voice of dissent. Political correctness is just too cute a term for the sort of fascism that’s running rampant through society today, particularly on the marriage issue. I commend you to again read “Gay Marriage: A Case Study in Conformism,” by Brendan O’Neill. PC has become the sort of extremism that ramps itself up to a level that invites savagery.
Which brings us to the topic of tongue cutting. TC for short. If we had a spectrum of free speech with civil society on one end and tongue cutting on the other, I would say we have definitely crossed the halfway point and are proceeding in the direction of tongue cutting. Saddam Hussein used to literally have critics’ tongues cut out. Tongue cutting is also standard operating procedure in the world of Islamic fascism and sharia law. That’s because whenever you are dealing with totalitarians, the very idea of freedom of expression cramps their style. Of course we’re not at the literal reality of TC, but I think it’s fair to say that TC is now a virtual reality.
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