Now here's a point of view from a well known, long time gay activist, whom I can agree with.

[easymoney]

Paglia: Duck Dynasty uproar ‘utterly fascist, utterly Stalinist’

5:42 PM 12/19/2013

The suspension of Phil Robertson from A&E’s Duck Dynasty is outrageous in a nation that values freedom, according to social critic and openly gay, dissident feminist Camille Paglia.

“I speak with authority here, because I was openly gay before the ‘Stonewall rebellion,’ when it cost you something to be so. And I personally feel as a libertarian that people have the right to free thought and free speech,” Paglia, a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, said on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Thursday.

“In a democratic country, people have the right to be homophobic as well as they have the right to support homosexuality — as I one hundred percent do. If people are basing their views against gays on the Bible, again they have a right of religious freedom there,” she added.

Robertson has been suspended from Duck Dynasty due to comments he made to GQ that have been deemed “anti-gay.” According to Paglia, the culture has become too politically correct.

“To express yourself in a magazine in an interview — this is the level of punitive PC, utterly fascist, utterly Stalinist, OK, that my liberal colleagues in the Democratic Party and on college campuses have supported and promoted over the last several decades,” Paglia said. “This is the whole legacy of free speech 1960’s that have been lost by my own party.”

Paglia went on to point out that while she is an atheist she respects religion and has been frustrated by the intolerance of gay activists.

“I think that this intolerance by gay activists toward the full spectrum of human beliefs is a sign of immaturity, juvenility,” Paglia said. “This is not the mark of a true intellectual life. This is why there is no cultural life now in the U.S. Why nothing is of interest coming from the major media in terms of cultural criticism. Why the graduates of the Ivy League with their A, A, A+ grades are complete cultural illiterates, etc. is because they are not being educated in any way to give respect to opposing view points.”

“There is a dialogue going on human civilization, for heaven sakes. It’s not just this monologue coming from fanatics who have displaced the religious beliefs of their parents into a political movement,” she added. “And that is what happened to feminism, and that is what happened to gay activism, a fanaticism.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/19/paglia-duck-dynasty-uproar-utterl...

[easymoney]

Wouldn't this be a much better world if all of the liberals felt this way ? I, for one, always felt that your life style choices are yours, and, who am I to judge. But, when almost every TV program is pushing alternate life styles, and this stuff is being forced on me, I tend to want to revolt, or at least be able to voice my opinion, and, when I do , I'm either homophobic, or a racist.

 I'm old enough now that I really don't care what other people think. I'll stand up for what I believe in.

[Willy]

I heard this on Laura's show and agree with much of what Paglia says but I do take exception to one particular word I hear often which has nothing to do with the issue. I'm talking about the word homophobic which is improperly used and misinterpreted most of the time. The vast majority of people who have issues with the gay life style are not "homophobic" . Resistance comes mostly from the belief in the teachings of the Bible not from fear of gays or contempt for them.

[XLFD]

If you actually read the GQ article about the Duck patriarch, you will find few things objectionable that he says beyond stating his beliefs, where he paraphrases the Bible's passages, and says one or two enticing things such as this: 

“It seems like, to me, a vagina—as a man—would be more desirable than a man’s anus. That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! She’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying? But hey, sin: It’s not logical, my man. It’s just not logical.”

Which is not judgmental, more of an observation on biology and efficiency.  The thing which offends me concerning the article above, is the author's regular use of swearing for this article.  Perhaps this is what goes for blue state journalism nowadays, but the author uses the following words in the article where he's describing his outing with someone who would probably not use such terms, Phil Robertson, and is offensive to many people in their own right:  "goddamn", "dammit", "ass", "piss", "fucking", "fuck", "shit", "chickenshit"-twice, "holy shit"-twice.

Pardon my use of those terms, but those are exactly the words the author in GQ uses, and the editors allowed, without putting them in parentheses.  And perhaps other outtakes like this:

"... Phil is conveniently ignoring centuries upon centuries of war, bloodshed, and human enslavement committed in the name of Christ. But I doubt any of that would sway Phil. And anyway, I’m a guest in his house and he is my welcoming host, so I smile politely and nod like the milquetoast suburban WASP that I am. If you can’t reconcile some of the things Phil says with his otherwise friendly demeanor—perhaps because you are gay, or a duck—I don’t blame you."

Ask yourself which of the two are being punished for abusing other groups in their speech, and why that is even fair.

[Willy]

Progressives, be they journalist or janitors do not think in terms of fairness. You can't be a true Progressive and be fair. It's like mixing oil and water. How can you be fair when the basis for Progressive politics requires the stealing of one persons property and giving it to another. Even though I can agree on some of the ideals of the progressive movement, I disagree with  the main tenets of the movement which support the ideals that embrace socialism, redistribution of wealth and a large federal bureaucracy.