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April 2, 2002
WITH THIS RING I THEE SODOMIZE by Thomas Fleming
Kudos to Jonathan Rauch for his letter-perfect
parody of liberal smugness. Writing in the latest Atlantic, Rauch waxes
Polonian as he blames conservatives for undermining marriage:
Those who worry about the example gays would set by
marrying should be much more worried about the example gays are already setting
by not marrying . . . At a time when marriage needs all the support and
participation it can get, homosexuals are pleading to move beyond
cohabitation. We want the licenses, the vows, the rings, the honeymoons,
the anniversaries, the benefits, and, yes, the responsibilities and the
routines. And who is telling us just to shack up instead?
Self-styled friends of matrimony.
Ironic, isn’t it? The very words he
uses--“ironic” and “sad.” How ironic that people who are revolted by
homosexuality are so short sighted not to apply the sacred term “marriage” to
practices that they regard as obscene.
Robert Frost once described the liberal as someone
“unwilling to take his own side in an argument.” Some of this reluctance
to defend their own point of view stems from the liberals’ insistence upon
appropriating other people’s positions. Liberals are always telling
conservatives what a “real conservative” should believe, but Rauch has gone all
the way, instructing “social conservatives,” who are for the most part
practicing Christians and Jews that to be true to their values they must endorse
homosexual marriage and set aside the traditional Christian (and conservative)
view of homosexuality as an unnatural vice. Because, you see, to be really
conservative, you have to be--what else?--liberal. The same goes for being
really Christian or really old-fashioned. And if you think this makes
sense, you are really dumb.
The policies promoted by stupid liberals destroyed
marriage, and now another set of stupid liberals want to take the next
step. Let them. Let them redefine marriage to cover significant
relationships between lesbians and their cocker spaniels. All they will do
is to teach Christians and conservatives not to look to the government for moral
support. If I were a young “social conservative” contemplating marriage, I
think I would forego the usual government dog license and content myself with
the vows exchanged in church. These people have nothing to say to us
about anything, and I would not believe them if they told me the right time
while I was staring at my own watch.
If conservatives could ever get over the idea that
they are running the country, if they could wake up to the fact that their
enemies are destroying everything good, decent, and true, they might begin to
understand that there is no point to compromising with the left. If we are
true to our principles, they will attack us, and they will continue to attack
until we cry uncle--as most conservatives do, fairly early in the game.
We don’t have to be rude or call them names.
We can tell them, ever so politely, that ours is the party of Christ and theirs
is the party of Anti-Christ. We create; they destroy; we remember; they
forget. We speak truth; they lie--all the time and about everything.
Once you are clear in your own mind, you are free to go about your business with
the same cheerful spirit as the Christians displayed in the days of Diocletian.
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