Miami Herald Alexandra Alter June 15, 2006
A Florida church launched a campaign this week to identify supporters of a proposed state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage by publishing the names and addresses of 400,000 Florida residents in 60 counties.
The Internet campaign by Christ Church of Peace, a nondenominational church in Jacksonville, has been denounced by groups that support a state ballot initiative that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
Gary Debusk, pastor of Christ Church of Peace, said the church began the ”Know Thy Neighbor” effort Monday to encourage dialogue and prevent voter-signature fraud. As the head of a congregation that supports same-sex marriage, Debusk said he also wanted to add a new perspective to a debate that he said has been dominated largely by religious conservatives. ”It’s time for another voice that is Christian to be heard,” he said.
As someone once said: “That’s the mild form of the vilification that is the reflexive tool of intimidation for the Left when it doesn’t control the state. When it does, you get the gulag and the firing squad.”
One further thing is that the modern-day leftist uses these tactics to humliate, not to convince or to argue a point. The fact is that most cultural conservatives are reluctant warriors. They don’t want to be in the spotlight and shun it when they find it shining their way. So…leftists put you on the spot and use it to humiliate you into silence. In that regard, PC is communist propagand writ small (to quote Theodore Dalrymple).
‘Prejudiced’. ‘Backward’. ‘Ignorant’. Is there anything more loathsome? We’ve been trained to think there is not, and thus, we don’t say anything to the contrary from fear of being judged on a personal level. We don’t defend our beliefs, and we don’t define the parameters of the debate. It’s always an uphill battle when that happens.