Amateur Megalomania

CNN.com – Christians issue gay warning on SpongeBob video – Jan 20, 2005

We are being rightfully mocked on sites like this one, and this one.

This is one of the reasons I consider myself more of a Conservative than a Republican. I understand that the evangelical right is a voting block with considerable power, and maybe they do lay awake at night worrying about what SpongeBob is doing inside of that pineapple, but this kind of garbage doesn’t serve the conservative movement. At best, it confirms an existing stereotype of religious conservatives, and at worst, it harms the electoral potential of the conservative cause.

The GOP is on the cusp of being the dominant party for the next twenty years, but so long as they embrace this kind of embarrassment, I can’t personally subscribe to the party as part of my political identity.

Unfortunately, the Libertarians have their own problems.

The evangelicals are free to hold on to their beliefs about gays, but I still don’t quite understand how you can reconcile the hatred when the tenants of your faith demand universal love. But then again, I don’t quite understand a religion of peace preaching death to the infidel. Behold the corrosive power of a meme on the ability to reason.

While I still have significant problems with the GOP, it is our last hope for bringing a real conservative movement to power some day. George Bush is NOT that man on domestic policy, and some might argue that he isn’t that man on foreign policy. But the GOP, as a viable party, is closer to the ideas of limited government than any other viable political party.

Welcoming gays into the conservative cause isn’t a matter of cold political calculus (but make no mistake it would help the movement), but rather a matter of common human decency. While I am repelled by a faction of the gay movement that wishes to introduce the lifestyle to as many people as possible, I don’t believe this represents the majority of gays. Your bedroom activities are a private matter, and a conservative movement that harbors judgment of people based on private matters is unworthy of power. Responsible conservatives have a duty to speak out against this kind of bigotry whenever it is encountered.

If gays are outlawed, only Leftists will have gays.

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