The newspapers have been abuzz recently with polls citing a small majority of Americans against gay marriage (something like 55%). I'm amazed that, with the relentless persecution and pillorying of gays that many Christian churches engage it that it's not higher. The Catholic Church regards it as an unfortunate occurrence that the people of Iraq are free. But, God FORBID that gays should marry. That's 'evil' you understand.
Protestants are little better. Some of the most vile vituperation is directed at gays. Some Episcopal church's' assertion that homophobia is biblical sends one scrambling to remind the august church fathers that so is slavery. Amazing how they forgot their scriptures sanctioned the most evil practice in history, and now use those same scriptures against another group. You can almost hear the church fathers screaming "BRING US BARRABAS!"
I love the resolute hard headedness of the far left to be wrong. Day after day, year after year, nothing phases the far left. Collapse of the USSR? A minor detail. Stalin's purges? Gee...what's on TV tonite.
And so it is with today's editorial in the British "Guardian". Here we read, regarding the recent Libyan decision to renounce WMD's(http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/comment/0,11538,1111575,00.html):
"This was not achieved by military power, by invasion, by shredding inter national law, by enforced regime change or by large-scale bloodshed. Nor, in fact, despite Mr Bush's eagerness for plaudits, was it primarily achieved by his administration at all. It was achieved by discussion - by endless talk, mostly in London, latterly in Libya, and finally in a London gentlemen's club.
It could yet produce results in Syria, another low-grade WMD state, and in North Korea, if only senior US officials would stop threatening them."
One wonders if the beknighted boffins at the "Guardian" have forgotten who was president when N. Korea decided to cheat on its programs. It was Bill Clinton. Clinton DID try diplomacy, DID try talking to the N. Koreans, DID try incentives, and didn't threaten. The N. Koreans, amazingly enough, took the money and ran.
But, I guess if you're a "Guardian" editorial writer, it's more fun to be fashionable than it is to be right.
