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What’s all this about Homophobia?

jimbob — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:17:20 +0000

Dear Jim Bob,

I read the other day that US Congressman Barney Frank referred to Supreme Court Justice Antony Scalia as a homophobe. Isn’t a ‘phobia’ some kind of condition that involves being afraid of something? Why would Rep Frank say that a Supreme Court Justice is afraid of gay people or “gayness”. Come to think of it, I hear lots of people called homophobes. What’s this about Jim Bob?

Latisimus J. Forscan

Fern Park, Florida

Dear Latisimus,

You ask a legitimate question Latisimus. To explain this I first need to give you the definition of “Homophobe”. By the way…did you know there is a ‘Gay Dictionary’? If you don’t believe me, just Google it. There is some real interesting reading in the thing. Anyway, according to the Gay Dictionary, homophobe is a term that originated in the 1970’s.

Here’s the definition: “homophobia: Irrational fear or hatred of gay people and of homosexuality.

Latisimus, the first thing you have to understand is that there are two camps of people when it comes to the subject of homosexuality. There are people who believe there is nothing morally wrong with people of the same sex playing around with each other’s private parts. Then, there is another camp of people who believe that same sex activity is a form of sin and a form of sexual perversion.

The people who believe that homosexuality is morally ‘wrong’ base their opinions on common sense about what is normal and what isn’t normal. Their opinions are supported by various descriptions of homosexuality in the Bible. Since the vast majority of human beings are not homosexual, they find the acts homosexuals perform on each other to be repugnant and offensive, just on the basis of common sense. If you want to understand some of those acts, just go browse through the homosexual dictionary for a couple of hours and you’ll get the picture pretty quick.

The people who believe there is nothing morally wrong with homosexual activity are mostly people who are gay, along with ‘straight’ people they have persuaded to agree with them from a political perspective. Homophobia is the term the people who like homosexuality use to demonize anyone who disagrees with them.

When you see that the definition of homophobia paints people who do not approve of homosexuality as being “irrational”, you can understand why it is used. When people are trying to defend something that is pretty hard to defend on the basis of common sense and right and wrong, they usually resort to name calling to marginalize their opponents. The way the homosexual lobby does it is by painting all people who disagree with them as being “irrational”. In other words, if their opponents can be made to appear as unreasonable, hateful, crazy people, then they don’t have to debate them on the basis of fact, or common sense.

So, Latisimus, Rep Barney Frank, who is gay, accused Supreme Court Justice Scalia of being ‘homophobic’ because Scalia believes homosexuality is a sexual perversion and a sin. I’m pretty sure Justice Scalia doesn’t hate gay people. He just has an opinion that is different from Rep Frank. It is an opinion that Rep Frank is unwilling to debate on the basis of morality, so he chooses to paint Scalia as “irrational”.

Hope that clears it up for you.

What Kind of Government?

jimbob — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:43:28 +0000

Lot’s of folks watched and/or participated in the over-the-top “Obamathon” this week. The optimism meter with many Americans is off the charts. Even some people who might be considered conservative in their views are beginning to think that maybe “Obama is not as liberal as we thought!” I would just say that rhetoric is not the proper measurement of reality. A good salesman can sell anything and you don’t know what you really have until you start using and experiencing the product.

The product offered by politicians is government! Each side has a different view of what the product should look like and how it should function. The government “product” we experience is determined by the people we elect. In that sense, certain elections can have major consequences. I believe history will prove the Presidential election of 2008 to have been one of those kinds of elections. I also believe the consequences will be quite severe.

Since our schools have failed to teach our younger generations much about American history there is a high degree of ignorance across our land about what type of government was given to us by our founding fathers and what it really means. The following links present an audio/slide presentation that is excellent and should be seen by every American as we move forward with this new administration. It clearly presents what is at stake. These multiple links all go to the same video in case it is pulled down by one or more of them.

The American Form of Government:

http://www.wimp.com/thegovernment/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7M-7LkvcVw
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=36590912
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bee_1219809172&p=1

Love,

What Can We Expect Now?

jimbob — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:24:22 +0000

Dear Jim Bob,

Well, Obama got elected Jim Bob! Lot’s of folks seem to be excited and enthused about what he’s gonna do. I was watching him give his victory speech and the TV cameras kept showing all the teary eyed people with rapturous expressions on their faces out in the crowd. I even saw Oprah out there bawling. What can we actually expect to happen Jim Bob? What is it they think he’s going to do that makes them so happy?

Parmella Pensive

Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania

Dear Parmella,

What he is going to do and what people think he is going to do are two different things. America has just elected a man who is committed to producing “fundamental change” in America. For those who made an effort to really understand what Mr. Obama means by fundamental change it’s pretty obvious what he will try to do. Here’s a short list of the most significant things he has actually admitted to:

1. He will lead the way for a massive “global warming tax system” that will place a huge competitive burden on our economy.

2. He will impose an income tax burden guaranteed to stifle personal initiative and de-motivate people who actually produce value in the economy. The result will be economic stagnation, unemployment and other serous problems. Government tax revenues will actually shrink and the perceived solution will be to impose even higher taxes.

3. American sovereignty and our strategic interests will be surrendered in the name of improving our international relationships. The United Nations will become our global political master.

4. The greatest medical/healthcare system in the world will be shifted toward a government takeover.

5. Unions will be given the power to terrorize American businesses and employees.

6. The Constitution will become a document to be undermined by judicial tyranny.

There’s probably a lot more, but these items are probably enough to do us in.

Love,