How much for a copy of the book?
David
"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it
costs when it's free
"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it
costs when it's free."*---P. J. O'Rourke*
On 4/5/2014 9:08 AM, [email protected] wrote:
This is all pathetic. My recent short book, the final section, features
a powerful empirical argument that would, if made good use of,
defeat each and every case that homosexuals and their supporters
care to make. Instead*:*
(1) people are too disinterested to actually read the material
and
(2) they prefer to go down in flames while making use of arguments
that are guaranteed to fail.
I am anti-Left on this issue, for many solid reasons, but also count me
as disgusted with the wimpy milquetoast conservative Right and the
ridiculously uninformed and obsolete Religious Right.
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
Billy
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*The American Conservative*
Gay-Rights McCarthyism Takes Brendan Eich Scalp
By Rod Dreher
<http://www.theamericanconservative.com/author/rod-dreher> âEUR¢ April
3, 2014, 3:39 PM
<http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/brendan-eich-gay-rights-mccarthyism/>
Are you now or have you ever been against gay marriage? Shoot one
Brendan Eich, teach 1,000:
<https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/>
Mozilla <http://www.mozilla.org/mission/> prides itself on being
held to a different standard and, this past week, we
didnâEUR^(TM)t live up to it. We know why people are hurt and
angry, and they are right: itâEUR^(TM)s because we havenâEUR^(TM)t
stayed true to ourselves.
We didnâEUR^(TM)t act like youâEUR^(TM)d expect Mozilla to act. We
didnâEUR^(TM)t move fast enough to engage with people once the
controversy started. WeâEUR^(TM)re sorry. We must do better.
Brendan Eich has chosen to step down from his role as CEO.
HeâEUR^(TM)s made this decision for Mozilla and our community.
Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech. Equality
is necessary for meaningful speech. And you need free speech to
fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same
time can be hard.
Our organizational culture reflects diversity and inclusiveness.
We welcome contributions from everyone regardless of age, culture,
ethnicity, gender, gender-identity, language, race, sexual
orientation, geographical location and religious views. Mozilla
supports equality for all.
No you donâEUR^(TM)t, you liars. You donâEUR^(TM)t want contributions
from anyone who doesnâEUR^(TM)t subscribe to gay-rights orthodoxy. You
donâEUR^(TM)t care how they behave, or how they treat others. All you
care about is what they think âEUR" or how they once thought, even
after they have long since ceased being a threat to you and your
political goals. You donâEUR^(TM)t want them in your workplace. No
traditional Christians, Jews, or Muslims need apply âEUR" or if they
do, they had better stay deeply closeted.
Is this really the world you fought for?
Meanwhile, a Google board member of the poverty relief charity World
Vision today resigned under pressure
<http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/world-vision-board-member-resigns-gay-uproar-23167301>
from gay rights activists. [*UPDATE:* That's a badly written sentence.
I meant to say that a Google director who is a board member of the
poverty relief charity World Vision resigned under pressure from gay
rights activists.]
This is the emerging face of gay-rights activism: hateful, intolerant,
illiberal, persecutorial. TheyâEUR^(TM)re not going to stop at Brendan
Eich. Because error has no rights, nor do people who hold to it.
Remember the Law of Merited Impossibility: What happened to Brendan
Eich is not going to happen to you, and when it does, boy, will you
deserve it.
*UPDATE:* Yeah, itâEUR^(TM)s personal for me. The same principle that
made Brendan Eich unemployable at Mozilla, despite his incredible
achievements in his field, and his public pledge to treat gay people
fairly, makes me and many of my friends and colleagues unemployable. I
do not want to live in a world in which gay people get fired for their
sexuality, when their sexuality has nothing to do with their ability
to do their job. But the kind of people who ousted Brendan Eich want
to live in a world in which expressing the âEURoewrongâEUR? opinion
about same-sex marriage makes one unemployable, even if that opinion
has nothing to do with their ability to execute their professional
responsibilities. This is not going to end well.
*UPDATE.2:* Michelle Goldberg, writing at /The Nation/, slams the
anti-liberal left
<http://www.thenation.com/blog/179160/cancelcolbert-and-return-anti-liberal-left#>:
Call it left-wing anti-liberalism: the idea, captured by Herbert
Marcuse in his 1965 essay
<http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetolerance.htm>âEURoeRepressive
Tolerance,âEUR? that social justice demands curbs on freedom of
expression. âEURoe[I]t is possible to define the direction in
which prevailing institutions, policies, opinions would have to be
changed in order to improve the chance of a peace which is not
identical with cold war and a little hot war, and a satisfaction
of needs which does not feed on poverty, oppression, and
exploitation,âEUR? he wrote. âEURoeConsequently, it is also
possible to identify policies, opinions, movements which would
promote this chance, and those which would do the opposite.
Suppression of the regressive ones is a prerequisite for the
strengthening of the progressive ones.âEUR?
Note here both the belief that correct opinions can be
dispassionately identified, and the blithe confidence in the
wisdom of those empowered to do the suppressing. This kind of
thinking is only possible at certain moments: when liberalism
seems to have failed but the right is not yet in charge. At such
times, old-fashioned liberal values like free speech and robust,
open debate seem like tainted adjuncts of an oppressive system,
and itâEUR^(TM)s still possible for radicals to believe that the
ideas suppressed as hateful wonâEUR^(TM)t be their own.
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