August 21, 2004 by s.z.

"McGreevey is not 'gay'"!  That's the title of a WorldNet Daily column by one Linda Harvey.  And Linda has even more astounding information to impart: No one is gay. McGreevey may be participating in "gay" behavior, with all the risks attendant to anal and oral sex with other males – let's tell the truth here – but he isn't constitutionally a human different from the other males working in those New Jersey government offices or any place else in New Jersey. There you have it: All New Jerseyites are created equal.  And straight! Linda explains that nobody has discovered a "homosexual gene," and so McGreevey just chose to engage in "risky" sex with men.  Why?  Apparently because he followed this plan for creating homosexual desire: How is homosexual desire created? Start with a very self-focused person, maybe a young person who's growing up and trying to discover him or herself. It helps if this person is a bit of a loner. Add some troubled masculine or feminine identity issues and poor relationships with parents. Pour on a little self-pity and envy: "Why can't I be more like him or her?" Stir briskly while adding continuous school lessons, TV shows, church "dialogues" and news stories about homosexuality. Capture one's stirring emotions in an appropriate moral framework. (Hint: Choose one that won't challenge these emerging desires. New-Age spirituality or atheism are ideal, but traditional faiths won't work. If necessary, modify them radically to suit your needs.) Um, not to disparage Linda's recipe for gayness, but I happen to know several people whose "stirring emotions" were captured by traditional Christian faith, and yet they're still gay. That is, if people were gay -- which they're not, of course. Sprinkle in lots of feminist gobbledygook from NOW, Oprah and the DaVinci Code (this is important even if you are male). But The DaVinci Code only came out last year, right?  So nobody created homosexual desire until 2003?  (And while I'd like to know why Dan Brown's thriller is so important to the blue-print for creating homosexuals,  I'm afraid to ask.  I suspect, however, that it has something to do with the novel's contention that Jesus was married, since that might ruin the joy of celibacy for some people.)   Whip all this into a frenzy with some alcohol and/or drug use while spicing up the whole concoction with the final, essential ingredient: liberal amounts of ever-available pornography. It's an easy, foolproof recipe. Really – anyone can try it, including our children and grandchildren. If I read that right, Linda just gave permission for us -- and her children and grandchildren -- to try this recipe for homosexual desire.  Some might thank her for it. Linda Harvey is president of WWW.MissionAmerica, a pro-family organization which monitors homosexual activism in youth culture.  Because I found Linda's argument so compelling, I visited Mission America, and found its mission includes much more than just monitoring homosexuals.  It also involves fighting witchcraft, neo-paganism, and feminist theology. The "witchcraft" page provides this clarification: If you have landed here at our Mission America site by clicking on a link on the "Landover Baptist" web site, here's a little helpful information. We feel it necessary to say this, although it should be obvious, that the Landover Baptist site is a total farce, produced by people who hate Christ and hate Christians. Whenever you find a site that needs to tell people that Landover Baptist is a farce, then you know you've struck gold (or rather snark ore, if, like me, you are a snark miner).  So, we'll be revisting Mission America real soon.  I just need to get some sleep first, because the stuff about Pokemon leading kids to Satan kind of freaked me out. 4:06:59 AM

And Here's To You, Mr. Robinson As Frederick (of BeatBushBlog fame) reminded us, we should probably note that Vernon Robinson, the black Jesse helms, lost in the runoff to Virginia Foxx. Here's some interesting perspective on the race from the Scripps Howard News Service: He [David Bositis, senior political analyst at the Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies, "the leading black political think tank"] said the Republicans last best chance of sending a black to the House of Representatives ended Tuesday when Winston-Salem city councilman Vernon Robinson lost to state Sen. Virginia Foxx, 45 percent to 55 percent, in a runoff for the seat being vacated by Rep. Richard Burr, R-N. C., a U. S. Senate candidate. Robinson outspent Foxx 4 to 1, with 70 percent of his funds coming from outside North Carolina Robinson outspent Foxx 4 to !?  But I thought she was a millionaire who "can simply write another six-figure check to her campaign," and that, "We don't have to raise as much as she does, because we can spend it smarter."  In any case, I guess those NewsMax appeals for funds really do work -- P.T. Barnum has been proven right once again! Robinson bashed gays, Mexican immigrants and affirmative action programs and he was accused of spreading rumors about his opponents. He may have gone over the top when he called Foxx a "liberal feminist" like Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N. Y. Yes, that was really hitting below the belt.  Geez, calling someone a "liberal feminist" is slander, even without the reference to Hillary. The Wilmington Journal adds this coda: What Robinson’s future is beyond finishing out his City Council term is unclear. Now that the voters of Winston-Salem and the Piedmont see the angry politics he’s capable of, they may not elect Robinson to anything else again. One can only hope.  Let us now poder these lyrics, of which Frederick reminded us: Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon Going to the candidates debate Laugh about it, shout about it When you've got to choose Ev'ry way you look at it, you lose Yes, ev'ry way indeed. The WJ also updates us on the Alan Keyes/Barack Obama race, and provides evidence that Keyes is even more of a wingnut than you thought: “The very principles on the basis of which slavery was abolished have been abandoned by Barack Obama and others in the Democratic Party,” Keyes told CNN a week ago. “And I think that that abandonment betrays the heart of many Americans who are deeply committed to the American creed. And that is the reason I have stepped into this race.” On ABC-TV’s “This Week,” Keyes said, “I would still be picking cotton if the country’s moral principles had not been shaped by the Declaration of Independence,” adding that Obama “has broken and rejected those principles — he has taken the slaveholder’s position.” The slaveholder's position apparently being, "Abortions should be legally available in accordance with Roe v. Wade. "   “I don’t think [Obama is] a rising star. I think he’s actually a fading phony. I think that there’s no correspondence with what he said at the Democratic National Convention and his actual record. And the fact that he is somebody who totally rejects the founding principles of this country, who does not believe that we are all created equal, who takes stands on issues like abortion that are shocking to the conscience even of Democrats. He’s willing to allow living children who are fully born to be set aside to die like garbage—I mean, that kind of deep extremism, which didn’t come through in his DNC speech, is what characterizes him.” Keyes is referring to the fact that as a Senator, Obama voted against a bill banning late-term abortion  -- Obama said he did so because the legislation contained no exception to protect the life of the mother. Obama has been careful not to allow himself to be drawn into rhetorical warfare with Keyes, thus giving him a grander state to operate from. He’s hoping that some of Keyes’ own words will sink him. Ironically, so do some in the Republican Party, like GOP strategist Mike Murphy. “When voters listen to Alan Keyes, they get the perception, wow, this guy is stone-cold nuts,” CNN quoted Murphy as saying. “And they run home to hide their children. We Republicans are the free market party, so let’s look to Keyes’ prior history in elections and trust the market.”   Murphy is right!  At least, about the "stone-cold nuts" thing -- personally, I just hide the cats after hearing Keyes speak. 3:07:44 AM