It's amazing to me that the city which fought so hard against McCarthyism would be so quickly embracing it:
The restaurant in the report is owned by a Mormon who employs gays and who has donated to LGBT charities and organizations and even promised to donate even more just to avoid a strike. She only donated a hundred dollars and now the new McCarthyites are ready to string her up for her religious conviction.
Of course I see the similarities here between gays boycotting restaurants that contributed to Prop. 8 organizations and the Christians boycotting McDonald's but there is one huge difference since there is a clear intent to suppress political speech of individuals going on here (political contributions are political speech), clearly the New McCarthyites want to intimidate their opponents into silence and acquiescence. That should concern all fair minded Americans regardless of what side of the issue they're on.
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The use of the term "McCarthyism" is fallacious and it is demeaning to the memory of a valiant and patriotic senator who was driven to despair and an early death simply because of his dedication to exposing Soviet intelligence agents that had been allowed by Democrats in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations to burrow into the U.S. government. Please read "Blacklisted by History" by Staunton Evans for the truth regarding those times.
Even our factually challenged friend Bob Dodge here would agree McCarthyism is an ideology of the right, by the right and for the right.
Because gay rights activists are fighting from a social justice, left perspective, you can call them a lot of things -- but NOT McCarthyite.
"Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" -- Joseph Welch to McCarthy, June 9, 1954
Thanks for the ad hominem Larry. I fear your ideology has blinded you to the facts. Read Evans book then get back to us.
Thanks for the ad hominem Larry.
McCarthyism is not an ideology it is a leftist construct used to attack those who get a little too close for comfort. In the case of Senator McCarthy a little too close was exposing homegrown leftist shills for Comrade Stalin.
Gay rights are anything but about social justice, they are about imposing on the rest of us their demands for acceptance of wickedness, through the force of government.
Read Evan's book, especially the part where he describes in greater detail the leftist buffoon and windbag darling of the liberal press that Joseph Welch was.
I think the video showed what happened very well. If you disagree, you will be targeted. Plain and simple. It was a form of intimidation, and I have seen a lot of the left using Hate Speech, such as Rosie and Kathy Griffin.
The want to impress upon us that we are intolerant and force us to become validators through silence. We will not be quiet.
Excellent that speech is still free, but for how long?
I don't see it getting better in the coming years, even with the elitist media forcing the public to see opposing views as bigotry. I, for one, am not buying it.
BTW: I know a lot of white Christians who are not bigots to me or other ethnics groups. Stop the real hate and intolerance!
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