It’s a bit strange that two ConWeb editors issued columns on the same day defending New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino’s anti-gay remarks — remarks for which he has apologized.
CNSNews.com editor-in-chief Terry Jeffrey proclaimed that “Paladino spoke the truth about homosexual behavior,” insisting that “For modern American liberals, there is no greater sin than to publicly express the view that there may be something wrong with homosexual activity and that children should not be taught to consider homosexual behavior morally equal to chastity and marriage.” Jeffrey continues:
No prominent politician who questions the wholesomeness of same-sex sex can escape a vicious beating by the liberal elite—because these beatings serve a strategic purpose. They are designed to intimidate good people out of seeking political office and sticking up for the truth. They are designed to uproot the laws and norms of our society from the immutable natural law that is the true foundation of our freedom. They are designed to destroy truth and promote a lie.
[…]To permanently establish their new society, the liberal elite must teach other peoples’ children that killing unborn children and same-sex marriages are morally correct and that the natural law, Biblical morality and more than 2,000 years of Western tradition are wrong.
That is why the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has ruled that parents cannot opt their kindergarteners out of Massachusetts public-schools classes that teach 5-year-olds that same-sex marriage is a good thing. That is why a federal judge in San Francisco—in ruling that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right—declared that children do not need both mothers and fathers and do just as well being raised by same-sex couples.
And that is why Carl Paladino needed to be pummeled for defending the traditional family in an Orthodox synagogue.
WorldNetDaily’s Joseph Farah, meanwhile, was just as hateful in asserting that Paladino’s remarks were “perfectly reasonable” (italics his):
Paladino doesn’t want kids “brainwashed,” he said. Most people don’t realize that is exactly what happens in many or most public schools when it comes to homosexuality. Kids are taught values that would be anathema to their parents if they only knew what was happening. That’s what Paladino was saying. He said there is an ugly, revolting side to the “gay rights” movement. That is undeniably true. When candidates boast about taking their kids to “gay pride parades,” you have to wonder about their sanity. These are spectacles that could never be aired in their entirety on television because of obscenity laws.
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The overwhelming number of Americans reject special privileges for people based on their sexual proclivities. That’s a fact. The overwhelming number of Americans reject same-sex marriage. That’s a fact.
But the overwhelming number of media people do not. And, the overwhelming number of Democratic politicians, whether they admit it or not, do support those things. And both seek to portray the majority opinion as fringe.Do you want your children to be indoctrinated into believing that homosexuality is just as right as heterosexuality? Do you want them to believe they cannot resist the temptations of homosexuality? Do you want them to believe God doesn’t care how they behave sexually – or worse yet that God wants them to do whatever feels right to them?
That’s what is at stake in this debate.
Right and wrong.
Both CNS and WND are not exactly gay-friendly, so this was sadly predictable.