Something Inside of Them

One Stephen Baldwin (a person not really known to me) is quoted (by Andy at Towleroad) as saying:

It doesn’t mean that I think personally that making that [gay] lifestyle choice is wrong. The Bible says it's wrong and I believe in the Bible and I stand for that.

Misdirection + indirection. Cool! This is the neatest thing about modern gay lib and campaign wedge issues and California's Proposition 8: finding out who really, really hates homosexuality but really, really, really loves homosexuals.

And now, apparently, even more ways to have both ways. Not long ago we had Sarah Palin* who explained that she would never, ever personally judge anyone who might make, you know, that lifestyle choice, she feels that an anti-gay national constitutional amendment would be a good thing–but not personally judgmental or anything.

And so, the newest clever idea for indirectly expressing one's homophobia: oh, I don't care at all if people make that lifestyle choice, but I support the bible and my book doesn't like it.

I still remember, from decades ago now, a tiny newspaper article in which the reporter was talking to then president Ronald Reagan (remember him?), who had just had an operation to remove some cancer. The reporter referred to Reagan's cancer, and the president responded with "Oh no, I didn't have cancer. Something inside of me had cancer and it was taken out."

It was scary then; it's scary now.
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* I feel that I should explain, for people who might be reading this blog posting, say, a couple of months after the 2008 election, that Sarah Palin was the vice-presidential candidate of the Republican party, chosen by the now-forgotten John McCain for reasons that no one could fathom. At the time she was the governor of Alaska, a state where people evidently feel that the governor is not an important position in government.

Posted on October 27, 2008 at 13.52 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Current Events, Feeling Peevish

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Tuesday, 28 October 2008 at 04.25
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    That's right up there with using "mistakes were made" as a replacement for, "I really screwed up."

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