Charles Pierce: David Brooks Would Like Gay People to Lower Their Voices

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/29370-focus-david-brooks-would-like-gay-people-to-lower-their-voices

Which brings us to David Brooks, who would like all those hysterical gay people to start using their inside voices and to understand that their desire for equal protection under the law would be better served if they understood the feelings of the people who think they are sodomite insects who are all going to hell. No link because fk him, that's why.

As a matter of principle, it is simply the case that religious liberty is a value deserving our deepest respect, even in cases where it leads to disagreements as fundamental as the definition of marriage. Morality is a politeness of the soul. Deep politeness means we make accommodations. Certain basic truths are inalienable. Discrimination is always wrong. In cases of actual bigotry, the hammer comes down. But as neighbors in a pluralistic society we try to turn philosophic clashes (about right and wrong) into neighborly problems in which different people are given space to have different lanes to lead lives. In cases where people with different values disagree, we seek a creative accommodation.

"Morality is a politeness of the soul"? What kind of dog's breakfast is that? Jesus His Own Self said he brought not peace, but a sword. If Brooks wants to stand with religious-based bigotry, with the Micah Clarks of the world, he should just do so and stop wasting all of our time as a sewage-treatment plant for the worst instincts in our politics. "Neighborly problems"? If Brooks wants to say that discrimination against LGBT citizens is not really discrimination worthy of the law's attention, he should just say so, and stop wasting all our time putting Bull Connor in a $500 suit. Here's a "creative accommodation" for you. Don't be a bigot.

I have to go now. Moral Hazard, the Irish setter owned by David Brooks for photo-op purposes, is laying on his back out in the yard, without even the energy or inspiration to lick his own balls. I'm worried about him, frankly.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Was waiting for one of them to tell the gays to shush up. Like the blacks are supposed to shush up

about Darren Wilson executing Michael Brown or Gardner being strangled, etc.

[niyad]

2. hmm, gays supposed to shut up, women supposed to shut up, blacks supposed to shut up,

first nation people supposed to shut up--I guess only old white guys allowed to talk.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Oh say what you really mean David

Will you homos STFU?

[Avalux]

4. Creative accommodation = segregation. No matter how you dress it up. n/t