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5.18.2004
The more things change, the louder you howl Answering 20 Frequently Asked Questions About Conservatism - Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views) For all the explaining I couldn't help but think that my definition, scroll down to the left, is so much more elegant and less complicated and serves very well in understanding the sometimes baffling motives of conservatives. Just remember that change is always going to lead to doom. Note the complete lack of irony as conservatives argue with passion to "preserve" things like the constitution. A constitutional government, no doubt being one of the evils conservatives of old warned us would lead to the downfall of civilization. Civilization is sure taking a long time to fall isn't it guys? Without a king, the aristocracy and the church what would keep men from turning to savagery? Modern conservatives will proudly proclaim their support for women's and minority rights. Both were to have been nails in the coffin of life as we know it. So how many times must we bury her boys? Now we see that gays are finally getting a chance to participate in the institution of marriage. And once again we hear the dire warnings that the walls of society will come crumbling down around our ears. Today in Massachusetts, gay marriage became the law of the land. Even though Massachusetts is one of the most liberal states in the union, gay marriage couldn't win at the ballot box or in the legislature. No, it won in the courts, where four Massachusetts Supreme Court Justices overrode the will of the people and ignored thousands and thousands of years worth of human history and tradition that says marriage is between a man and a woman. yaaawwwwwnnnn!!! yes, guys we've heard it all before. But I thought the dominance of rich old white men was the building block of our society? I must have gotten ahold of an old copy of the Conservative Manifesto. It changes every generation as the new and dangerous becomes the old and cherished. This time though we have gone too far in respecting the rights of individuals to engage in consenting activities. This time we have finally pulled the keystone from the arch of human civilization. Duck! Why is gay marriage so very wrong? Well, because its not the way things have always been done. Isn't that reason enough you ask? Why were segregated schools so bitterly opposed? You already know the answer to that question. But doesn't it seem silly to ask that question now? Fifty years later we all seem united in our support for the Brown v. Board decision. Funny though, I seem to recall lots of people being all bent out of shape about that back then as well. Though there has been no constitutional amendment or act of Congress changing this established legal principle almost a century old, the Supreme Court of the United States, with no legal basis for such action, undertook to exercise their naked judicial power and substituted their personal political and social ideas for the established law of the land. Sounds a lot like that evil demon Judicial Activism? Scroll back up and read the first quote again if you thought I accidentally cut and pasted the same text again. This unwarranted exercise of power by the Court, contrary to the Constitution, is creating chaos and confusion in the States principally affected. It is destroying the amicable relations between the white and Negro races that have been created through 90 years of patient effort by the good people of both races. It has planted hatred and suspicion where there has been heretofore friendship and understanding. yes yes yes... walls, crumbling, civilization... falling... end .. of the ... world.... Fifty years and counting since the world ended for the umpteenth time. I wonder how blacks felt about their segregated lives being described in terms of "friendship and understanding"? from comments on Right Wing News: It's sad that today traditional values are now synonymous with bigotry, and hatred. Conservatives in their own words. Isn't it sad that we can no longer force women to stay in abusive relationships? Isn't it crying freaking shame that blacks can live as free people? Its just the biggest god-forsaken-crime that we can no longer hang people by trees because they are different than the norm? Those who do not learn from history are doomed... to be a conservative? The world we live in, the things we take for granted as "truths" were not always accepted as such. Even as recent as fifty years ago (was it really that recent?) the accepted wisdom was that white and black children should attend separate schools. Years before that it was accepted that blacks were inferior to whites and incapable of living as free people. Years from now such ideas will be regarded with incredulity. Much like the idea that gay people should be denied the right to engage in a married relationship. |
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