Yet Again…

… I pose the question: who is choosing hate and who is choosing love? There was a mild controversy surrounding my last post on the fallout of Proposition 8 and the musical (inaccurately) dramatizing the two sides, Proposition 8: The Musical.  I said that it wasn’t the supposedly inconsistent Christians who voted against the dilution of marriage, but it was in fact those same gay activists crying foul over the vote whose activities can only be described as hateful.

And now we are presented with yet another example of such: one of the American Idol contestants (whom many believed to be gay) lost.  I pride myself on rarely watching “American Idol,” so I cannot address the question of who was actually a better performer, but it is just another example of the insanity of those bloggers and columnists who attacked proponents of Propisition 8 as being hateful.  Because this particular contestant, Lambert, lost, we have people across the nation bemoaning the affect of “red-staters” and Christians on the American idol vote.

Coupled with the vehemence of opposition to Miss California, the verdict is in: whether they like it or not, these gay activists are choosing hate, not love. There can be a genuine debate about gay “marriage.”  There should be; the definition of marriage gets to the heart of morality and how individuals should act. But this debate cannot be held when opponents of gay “marriage” are immediately characterized as hateful or when unrelated events that do not go liberals’ way are immediately attributed to the hatefulness of gay “marriage” opponents. These are merely attempts to write off the entire opposition and have their way without protest; or, in the words of Mark Steyn,”The aim of a large swathe of the Left is not to win the debate but to get it canceled before it starts.”