A&E indefinitely suspended Phil Robertson, the patriarch of the Duck Dynasty family, after intolerant left-wing bullies went into an uproar over his comments about homosexuality to GQ magazine. What are the real motives behind G.L.A.A.D. and their left-wing allies, who try to marginalize traditional Christian values?
According the media, the vitriol response was merely a warranted response to Phil’s actual comments, which they claim implicitly compare bestiality and homosexuality, and nothing less superficial. But is that really the case, or is it perhaps something even more cynical?
When the writer asked Phil Robertson what he considered to be sinful behavior, he answered, “Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men.”
I suspect that part of this made-up controversy has a great deal to do with ignorance toward Christianity, or more plainly God and how He expects the faithful to behave. G.L.A.A.D., if they would’ve read the Bible, would know that Phil Robertson was right, homosexuality is as bad as bestiality. But then again, so is stealing, lying, swindling, adultery, drunkenness, and so on, because all sin is displeasing to God; no sin is less displeasing to God than another, because all sin separates us from Him (Note: Christ and His apostles qualified sin against the Spirit, or commission vs. omission, and frequency of sin).
While, on its face, it may be hard for some who aren’t believers or devout Christians to understand, particularly since manmade societal norms tend to overly qualify right and wrong to varying degrees. However, the laws of God are not manmade laws, and it must be understood that all sin is equally damning to our inheritance of eternal life, because all sinners can return to God for salvation without feeling afraid or ashamed that their sins are too great for His forgiveness.
Ironically, for those who understand the Christian belief system, it is G.L.A.A.D. and others who pretend to be “progressive” in thought who are truly ignorant. With that in mind to sit and boil, let’s examine the real problem with what Phil Robertson said.
We have heard many instances of traditional American Christian values being assaulted by intolerant, secular left-wing groups under the tenure of this administration, with left-wing hypocrisy emboldened by the victory of a president whose party removed God from their party platform during their national convention.
However, history tells us that none of this has to do with equality for homosexuals, as the assault on the traditional American identity has been cowardly hiding underneath the political surface for years. It began as a minority sentiment in the Progressive Movement, ultimately growing before finding a voice in Lyndon B. Johnson, who needed to reinvent the definition of “separation of church and state” in order to survive politically and pass “Great Society” reforms.
Faith-based social welfare became the enemy of the “Great Society” movement, which I’ve chronicled in my book and made available in an article published on TeaPartyTribune.com.
Proponents of big government will use any ‘useful idiot’ — or, in this case a group of them — in order to purge any and all remaining aspects of the traditional American mainstream Protestant ethic, which is not just empowering to the individual and family unit (as you can see from the success of Phil Robertson and the Duck Dynasty family), but professes a belief in absolute truth.
Truth, itself, is the enemy of all proponents of big government, statist regimes and ideologies, as the needs of the state are ever-changing — they “progress.”
For instance, it is for the benefit of big government to push dependency on government social welfare that is not faith-based social welfare, but it is also very expensive. Whether it sounds overly cynical or not, the policy of financing fetal fatalities through groups like Planned Parenthood is conveniently cost-saving to their mission. Thus, a citizenry that feels obliged to follow a moral law that also prohibits abortion is inconvenient to their bottom line interest.
As for the empowering American identity forged in large measure by the Protestant ethic, it must be eliminated for the role of big government to remain “necessary and proper.” According to the ethic, we are all obliged to live by the Spirit, and virtuously care for the well-being of our fellow-citizens in need, who in turn feel obliged to ensure that our generosity will not be in vain, and will answer the calling to labor and carry out other civic duties. I’ve spent years disproving the backward stigma attached to traditionalism, providing overwhelming evidence that the Protestant ethic and virtue were the secrets to our political prosperity.
The Muslim faith, for instance, doesn’t require such civic virtue, which limits government by limiting government’s necessity. This is the simple reason there isn’t left-wing outrage when Louis Farrakhan, whom Obama referred to as a hero, calls for the beheading of homosexuals. The Muslim faith, much like the Catholic faith, relies upon centralized power to corral and influence the behavior of their followers, while the traditional mainstream Protestant ethic is unwavering in their belief in what they know to be true.
Father Jonathan Morris made comments on a panel appearing with Sean Hannity last night demonstrating that the Catholic Church is a power structure that is more interested in self-preservation than whether or not their followers are living by the Spirit. He said, “being homosexual is not a sin, but homosexual acts are,” concluding that Phil Robertson made remarks that were vicious in nature.
Father Morris either didn’t read the article or is sadly following the marching orders of a church that cares more about public perception and their outlook of public sentiment. It is an odd stance from a man who serves under a church that supposedly follows the teachings of Jesus, who told us to “rejoice in our persecution, for they persecuted me first.”
Those of you who may be inclined to take offense with the comments made by Phil Robertson, I would encourage all of you to actually read the GQ article, rather than listen to pundits and talking heads who conspire to perpetuate lies beforehand. Then really think about which conflicting interests the left cares more about. Is it equality or the fundamental credibility of their ideology?
Lies and relativism for the big government cause are the real motivations behind this persecution, not truth and equality.
(Read more about the evidence and argument: Our Virtuous Republic is on sale for Christmas)
