Here's a little insight on GLAAD

[easymoney]

GLAAD: Lethal Enforcers of the Left’s Tolerance Mob

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 20, 2013 08:59 AM

GLAAD: Lethal Enforcers of the Left’s Tolerance Mob
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2013

“Duck Dynasty’s” Phil Robertson is not alone. He’s the latest in a long, long lineup of politically incorrect targets of the left’s sensitivity mob. Founded in 1985, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) gangstas won’t stop until both the cultural and legal enforcement of their agenda are the norm.

The A&E network (Atheists & Elitists) suspended the reality TV patriarch and self-made businessman on Wednesday for the Biblical views he expressed in an interview with GQ. Robertson was asked by the liberal magazine what he viewed as sinful. Drawing on the condemnation of sexual immorality in Corinthians 6:9, he cited “adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers — they won’t inherit the kingdom of God.”

Robertson’s punishable transgressions? Responding honestly to a question posed to him (this was not an unsolicited “anti-gay rant”; it was a response) and abiding by his Christian faith. GLAAD’s P.C. Praetorian Guard sprung into repressive action. The same group that initially gave f-word-spouting, homophobic liberal Alec Baldwin a pass accused Robertson of uttering “some of the vilest and most extreme statements” against “LGBT people” ever. (They should listen to the Koran-inspired executioners’ rants of gay-hanging and gay-stoning Iranian mullahs sometime.) GLAAD also railed against Robertson’s “vile” preference for female anatomy over male as if it were an international human rights violation.

A&E folded faster than a stadium seat, immediately disavowing Robertson and suspending him from his family’s show indefinitely. Meanwhile, network execs continued to cash in on the lucrative “Duck Dynasty” empire with a marathon of program reruns on the very day they threw Robertson under the bus. The network is free to do that, of course. And I am free to tell you all about the radical thugs that A&E indulged.

GLAAD has worked tirelessly to marginalize and suppress the free speech of Christian leaders, Christian businesses and conservative talk-radio hosts dating back to their infamous Dr. Laura boycott 13 years ago. The group’s mission is not about equality or defending against “defamation.” It’s about silencing critics, making open debate radioactive, demonizing people of faith and making even the slightest perceived slight a hate crime.

Last year, GLAAD speech-squelchers issued a blacklist of 34 Christian commentators they wanted networks to ban from their air for “extreme” views (read: opposing gay marriage). Earlier this year, GLAAD attacked the National Geographic Channel for partnering with the traditional values-promoting Boy Scouts on a reality TV program. GLAAD is free to start its own Gay Scouts, but instead chose to harangue NatGeo for refusing to run a “disclaimer” at the beginning of each show condemning the Boy Scouts’ leadership policies.

It’s not enough to live and let live. You must repent and genuflect before the self-serving gods of selective progressivism. That’s why GLAAD forgave Hollywood director Brett Ratner for using the word “fag.” He was allowed back into the protected Hollywood club after submitting to GLAAD reeducation camp and appearing in GLAAD public service announcements. Bill Clinton, who authored both the Defense of Marriage Act and the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policies so reviled by the homosexual lobby, ended up receiving a GLAAD “Advocate for Change” award earlier this year — for changing his mind when politically expedient.

For the civility police, the operational motto is always: “Do as we say, not as we do, in the name of social justice. Amen.”

In the 1960s, radical philosopher Herbert Marcuse popularized the “repressive tolerance” theory of modern progressives. “Liberating tolerance would mean intolerance against movements from the right and toleration of movements from the left,” Marcuse pontificated. “Certain things cannot be said, certain ideas cannot be expressed, certain policies cannot be proposed.”

The tolerance mob’s insatiable quest for power and control has led to such unhinged witch-hunting that many of its own erstwhile allies are balking. Novelist Bret Easton Ellis called GLAAD the “gatekeepers of politically correct gayness.” He was attacked as a “self-loathing gay man,” but unlike A&E, he didn’t give in. “An organization holding an awards ceremony that they think represents all gays and also feels they can choose which gays can and cannot be a member of the party is, on the face of it, ridiculous.”

The liberal The Atlantic magazine recounted how GLAAD invited Fox News anchors Kimberly Guilfoyle and Jamie Colby to a New York event and then issued a press release condemning them and their employer after the network failed to cough up big donations for gala tables. Wrote the Atlantic’s James Kirchick: “Aside from raising money to perpetuate its own existence and throwing swanky parties (the event feting Bill Clinton was one of three different media-award ceremonies, with others in New York and San Francisco), GLAAD has no purpose. That is, unless one views it not as a gay-rights organization but rather a partisan liberal one.”

Nail, meet head. GLAAD’s counterculture warriors know full well: It’s a small leap from forcing Phil Robertson, the Boy Scouts and Rush Limbaugh out of the public square to forcing wedding photographers and cake bakers to serve gay customers against their will and mandating that Catholic medical providers and Hobby Lobby violate their religious conscience and cover abortion pills in order to stay in business.

These GLAAD tidings have everything to do with repression and nothing to do with rights

[XLFD]

One of the more ridiculous things I've heard during this is the left somehow comparing the speech Marty Bashir used against Sarah Palin on his mostly unwatched network news cast with the words Phil Robertson allegedly used in an informal interview with a leftist magazine writer.  Particularly since Palin has come to Robertson's defense in this case.  If you can call Bashir's outburst on his editorial equivalent to someone putting homosexuals on a biblical list of sinners and other harmless rhetoric, then you have a better imagination than me. 

Don't get me wrong, I believe Bashir had the right to say Palin should be tortured in an old-style barbaric way, but the forum it was done in, and the malice behind it, his link to the network, means he was right to apologize profusely and suffer consequences for inappropriate speech.

[easymoney]

These people will never apologize for anything. Their goal is to make all of us accept them and their way of life.

Years ago I heard on the radio where some Calif. school systems were teaching educational classes on Alternative Life Styles, and I dam near wrecked my truck. You can see where this is all leading  to.

[Willy]

GLAAD and the liberals have done a good job of muffling those apposed to the gay life style. I've noticed a change in how straight people talk about gays. The first thing people say is " now I'm not judging but" or "it's none of my business but" or " I have nothing against gays but"  or "not that there's anything wrong with it but " ect. ect. People always seem to be apologizing for their beliefs regarding gay life styles  before they present them. I just came from a family Christmas party hosted at a gay family members house. They and their partner live together and  have told everyone they will not embrace or act romantically in front of the kids because they know how difficult it would be to explain their life style to little ones. A mutual respect is in place which makes our relationship work. That person knows how I feel about their life style but we respect each other and still care about each other. We just see the situation from different angles and beliefs.

[easymoney]

I have a cousin who is gay, and he's one of the funniest people I know. And, we both laugh at the fact that when we were growing up, gay meant being happy. Times sure have changed.

[NYC]

Do the heterosexuals refrain from embracing or acting romantically in front of the children also?
If this situation works for your family, more power to you. My personal thoughts are if someone is gracious enough to invite you to their home, no one should dictate to them how they should behave, that being said I also don't think it's appropriate for couples whatever their orientation to be making out at a family dinner - but to each his own.

[Willy]

Hetrosexual romance is not a perversion. You can't teach kids to believe in the Bible if you approve of and condone acts that are contrary to it and allow the kids to be present when it happens and act like it's OK. It's up to my gay relative whether they want family members with children over for Christmas or anytime for the matter. If they decide to be romantic in front of kids then the relatives aren't going to show. The only  ones dictating are those that insist that people who do not condone gay life style must except it.