Philosophy of Science, Religion, Politics, and Ethics with Soul

I think we actually learned some things from the interesting case of NBA player Jason Collins. I can’t think of anything good that we learned, but it was hardly surprising the way things are going. And just to think, a President who could not recollect simple facts eight months later about a terrorist attack and four dead Americans in Benghazi, Libya, took time out of his obviously not so busy day to call Collins for announcing something as inconsequential and boring as this man’s sexual preference. As always, however, there is more to the story. We find out that Jason Collins was dating a woman for eight years to whom he had become engaged. But he couldn’t bring himself to tell this woman who had put her hopes and dreams in him the truth about himself. He lived a lie and wasted many precious years of this woman’s time, but of course once the media and the President fell all over themselves to celebrate his sexuality, we didn’t hear a peep about his questionable character traits.

Our first lesson we learned is that the LGBT lobby and the media have somehow decided that being gay is not about equal rights, but about being a protected class that is beyond scrutiny. Had this been a heterosexual man who was engaged to a woman but out philandering with other women having made a lifelong commitment to his fiancée, society would still heap some degree of derision and scorn on this man (unless, of course, he happened to be a famous liberal, but I digress). Yet because this man is gay he is “courageous’ and “a hero” for “coming out” about his sexuality having nothing to do with his other (not so courageous) human qualities, and at the same time it is absolutely fine and not further news for him to cheat on his former fiancée, even though he exposes her to the risk of HIV based on his chosen lifestyle. If that’s not a double standard, I don’t know what is.

I think the second lesson we continue to learn is that the media’s continued clarion call for “tolerance” is totally fake and phony. It’s not about tolerance. It is about foisting a worldview on you such that if you don’t accept their view, then you are a bigot or homophobe. My understanding of tolerance is that both sides will be respectful of the other’s views and will accept that people can simply disagree on moral matters. That’s not how the media or LGBT lobby see it. Their morality counts, and yours doesn’t. Their morality is correct, and yours is false. Even though you are not discriminating against anyone, treating both gay and straight people with dignity and respect, but simply believe homosexuality is morally wrong, you are still told that you don’t believe in “gay rights.” Well I, and I believe you reading this, don’t distinguish between “gay” and “straight” rights.

The few natural rights we have are afforded to all people, both homosexual and heterosexual with no distinction other than the obvious case that marriage is afforded to the heterosexual couple for obvious reasons (hint, they can naturally procreate). And just as someone who believes premarital sex is morally wrong is not discriminating against heterosexual people and denying their “heterosexual rights,” someone who believes that homosexual sex is morally wrong is not discriminating against gay people either. It is just common sense, but the media and the LGBT lobby aren’t operating within the bounds of common sense or fairness. They have an agenda and a platform, and if making false accusations allows them to accomplish the ends they seek, so be it. I think that is the greatest tragedy. Here we have people crying out for “tolerance” (where there is no intolerance), yet they refuse to be truthful and, further, extend the very thing to others that they seek from them.

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