HYPOCRITE: Writer for Salon Thinks Gay Marriage is Okay, but Not Polygamy
HYPOCRITE: Writer for Salon Thinks Gay Marriage is Okay, but Not Polygamy
We all know the majority of lefties are big hypocrites, often saying one thing while doing another, or inconsistently applying their beliefs and worldview across the spectrum, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a clear, out-in-the-open example of this until today.
Apparently, a writer for that wonderful progressive “publication’ Salon, penned a piece about how she doesn’t think polygamists shouldn’t be allowed to get married.
Oh and she’s a big gay marriage proponent.
Hypocrite, much?
From NewsBusters:
Less than a week after liberals flooded the airways and social media with rainbows and declarations of “Love Wins,” liberal media outlets like Salon are already narrowing that message. Last week the argument was that you have a right to marry whoever makes you happy- only a narrow-minded .
This week it must fit the agenda. And if you’re a conservative who doesn’t fit that agenda, then you’ll not only be denied the same access newly allowed to gays, you’ll also be subject to harsh opinions like this from liberal activists:
“Well, conservatives, here it is, just as you predicted. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria… And on cue, here comes Nathan Collier — a man who describes himself on Facebook as “an American, conservative, Constitutionalist, capitalist, (formerly) Christian, heterosexual middle aged white male of Southern heritage” — and his lovely two brides Victoria and Christine, asking for official recognition of their union. Coming soon: Cat ladies applying for marriage licenses!”
“If you want to argue that polygamy and marriage equality are the same thing, well, they’re not. If you want respect for how consenting adults arrange their households, though, you’ve got it. That does not however mean that because one group that has fought for friggin’ decades for basic recognition and respect finally has achieved something, that every fringe group — and yeah, sister wife families, you are fringe — gets a piece of the action too.”
I wonder if this woman actually hears the bull that comes out of her mouth or if she has some sort of special “genius filter” her words pour through before they enter her ears, making her think she’s smarter than she actually is.
Obviously Williams is using extremely flawed logic because if “fringe groups” shouldn’t be allowed to have marriage equality, then neither should same-sex couples.
After all, aren’t they a fringe group? Less than three percent of the population is homosexual and their lifestyle is still considered taboo in many respects, so why are they different from polygamists?
Homosexuality was once viewed with the same level of disdain as polygamy is now and that changed, right?
Doesn’t Williams opposition to a group who is having a similar fight to be accepted by the culture as that of homosexuals, make her a bigot?
I’m not saying I want polygamy made legal. I don’t. Never will.
The point I’m making is the denial of this group of people’s right to get married by the same folks who championed same-sex marriage is the height of hypocrisy.
It’s a glaring inconsistency in the application of the so-called principles leftists claim to believe in.
So here’s the bottom line. Either abandon your support of same-sex marriage for the same reasons you won’t support polygamy, or, to use one of their pet phrases, be “inclusive” of polygamists and their desire to be legally wedded to multiple spouses.
Those of us with common sense don’t think either of them should be supported, and most of us as conservatives have stood firm in that belief.
Doesn’t look like Williams can say the same about her own views on the issue.
http://www.youngcons.com/hypocrite-writer-for-salon-thinks-gay-marriage-is-okay-but-not-polygamy/