I recently sparked some criticism when I took NOM's side over Daniel Dromm's remarks about Chick-fil-A coming to New York, agreeing with them that he should apologize.
Don't worry. I'm very against them again here.
After recapping what Dromm said, Brian Brown writes:
I shudder to think I've lived to see the day when a public official in our great nation can make such an outrageously intolerant statement and not be taken to task in every quarter for such an un-American and uncivil position. These remarks should have stirred public outcry and a flurry of media attention: but instead we hear deafening silence from the media, which is tantamount to a tacit approval.
Brian, this is a city councilor who I had never even heard of before now. He's not a famous or well-known politician. He's a little-known city councilor who made a silly comment. The media has more to worry about. They can't cover absolutely everything.
He continues:
What does this say about our media culture? When Brendan Eich was appointed as the new CEO of Mozilla, and it came to light that years before he had given a donation to Proposition 8, a few activists on Twitter expressed disapproval. But the media eagerly leapt to the task of fanning that flame and ignited a true firestorm in the press that eventually ended with Eich's being forced to step down from his position.
But when the shoe is on the other foot, we don't hear a peep from the press. Where is the national outcry over the news coming last week from Portland, Oregon, about Chauncy Childs and the new business she's trying to start?
You haven't heard of her? I'm not surprised. That's because she's not a gay activist. She's not a radical leftist trying to redefine marriage and family to suit her own personal desires. Instead, she's a pro-marriage individual who posted on her private Facebook page some expressions of her beliefs.
Wait, what? You want media coverage? You
criticized the media coverage of Brendan Eich. You said the media eagerly fanned the flames and created a firestorm. Basically, covering the issue put pressure on him to resign. And in the case of the businesses in Portland, the result would likely be the same. It would be pressure to close the businesses.
Brian, I can't believe you haven't realized this, but those who are boycotting the businesses in Portland would love media coverage. It would bring attention to their cause and catch the attention of the people who would join them in their boycotts if they knew about them. That they are not getting it works in your favor. But you and NOM twist everything to make it seem that the entire world is against you, just so you can further your own victim complexes.
He continues:
So you probably haven't heard how gay activists are trying to force her business closed before it even opens its doors. They've even been posting lists of vendors that trade with her small shop, Moreland Farmers Pantry, and calling for a boycott of those other businesses until they sever ties with Mrs. Childs. One local restaurant owner, a man who actually supports same-sex ‘marriage,' spoke up against the bullying targeted at Mrs. Childs — and now his restaurant has been targeted by a separate boycott!
Oh my god. Brian, just a couple of weeks ago,
you were calling for boycotts of Mozilla over Brendan Eich's resignation. But now you're criticizing LGBT rights activists for their boycotts?
I understand that a big company like Mozilla is not the same as these small businesses in Oregon. But the principle is the same: we all have the right to boycott. We have the right to boycott these businesses in Oregon. You have the right to boycott Mozilla. That's just the right of the consumer to buy the products that they want to buy. It's the free market. Considering your slam of "radical leftist[s]" earlier, you should be entirely in favor of this principle.
He continues (emphasis original):
Is this the environment we want to pass on to our children and grandchildren? An environment where belief in marriage as God designed it is made into a "thought crime" and the sole criterion by which one can be excluded from a company position, a business relationship, or even a whole city community?
Brian, it's not a "thought crime" if you write what you think on a public forum. When she did that, she became an activist, and she should have expected attention.
And I'm sick of hearing about how "belief in marriage as God designed it" all of a sudden makes your bigotry okay. From the opinion of the judge who sentenced Mildred and Richard Loving:
Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And, but for the interference with his arrangement, there would be no cause for such marriage. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.
If someone said that today, it would be their "belief in marriage as God designed it". And they would get boycotted worse than these businesses in Portland and rightly so. In 40 years, your views will look a lot like that judge's views.
Just face it: you're falling further and further out of the mainstream and the only way to get back in is to realize that love is blind to gender.