Robert P. George, Super Genius, shares a complaint with K-Lo…
So people are calling you “intolerant” and an “anti-civil-rights bigot”? Well, for those who have absorbed the premises of sexual liberation and embraced its dogmas so fanatically that they can’t fathom the possibility that any reasonable person of goodwill could dissent from them, that’s what people like you and me seem to be. Like overly impassioned believers at all times and in all places, these folks suppose that anyone who doubts the tenets of their faith must have malign motives. Dissenters from what they regard as an unquestionable orthodoxy must be “haters” (the modern word for “heretics”). It’s ironic — and amusing — that these folks regard themselves as urbane, sophisticated people — critical thinkers — who are much smarter and better informed (not to mention more “tolerant” and “open-minded”) than their opponents. In truth, they rarely have the foggiest notion of what the arguments are in support of the view they reject or what the intellectual challenges are for the view they hold. They already know the truth, and that’s that! So what need is there for reflection, study, deliberation, and debate? Why argue with “intolerant, anti-civil-rights bigots”? To the barricades!
Of course, there is an astonishing degree of ignorance on display in all this…
You don’t say. Some of the votes for same-sex marriage last week came from republicans who have gay children or family members. You’re calling them ignorant? Here’s your problem genius: you are Groucho Marx saying to everyone who knows a gay person “Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”
Hateful? Bigoted? Intolerant? Oh for sure. Malign motives? Without a doubt. But there’s another more fitting word that describes your kind, and I’ll let the better man of knowledge say it…
“In the knowledge of man as in that of nature, the habit of truth to experienced fact will not let our concepts alone. This is what destroyed the empires of Himmler and of Warren Hastings. When Hastings stood his trial, William Wilberforce was rousing England to put an end to the trade in slaves. He had at bottom only one ground: that dark men are men. A century and more of scientific habit by then had made his fellows find that true, and find Hastings not so much a tyrant as a cheat.”
-Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? Reflect, study and deliberate on this genius: Some of the votes for same-sex marriage last week came from republicans who have gay children or family members and you’re calling them ignorant.
