Gay "Acceptance and Inclusion"

Gay "Acceptance and Inclusion"

Sally Green, vice-president and COO of the Richmond (VA) Federal Reserve Bank says the bank wanted to make a statement demonstrating its “commitment” by flying the rainbow flag emblematic of the homosexual movement underneath Old Glory. More specifically, Ms. Green stated, “We are flying the pride flag as an example of our commitment to the values of acceptance and inclusion” during gay-proclaimed “Gay Pride Month.”

Aside from the propriety of the Federal Reserve making commitments other than those related to banking, money, or the United States of America, the gay flag raises another another salient issue: Does the gay pride movement merit “acceptance and inclusion”?

I’m aware that posing such a query will immediately evoke accusations of intolerance, bigotry, and, my favorite taunt, homophobia, which in turn leads us to a second question, namely, should not those accepted and included abide by basic norms of conduct and behavior, norms which are not patently offensive to the vast majority of Americans?

And, no, I don’t refer there to what homosexuals do in the privacy of their boudoirs, in the back seats of their vehicles, or in back alleys, or whether they do them swinging from the rafters. Rather, I refer to what they do in public, in front of mixed audiences, and whom they are trying most to influence by their activities.

Virginia State Delegate Robert G. Marshall directed a letter to Richmond Fed President Jeffrey M. Lacker in which he pointed out that the homosexual behavior “celebrated” by the bank is a class six felony in Virginia, which should have been reason enough not to have flown the gay flag.

Marshall’s contention that the bank’s action “undermines the American economy” is debatable but his view that, “You want the American people to trust your [judgment] in economic matters when your spokesperson celebrates an attack on public morals?” (http://bit.ly/lT07vY) is well-taken but largely irrelevant.

Invoking morality and, by inference, religion, merely clouds the issues of “acceptance and inclusion” of the homosexual community since morality is open to interpretation and Americans profess a variety of religious beliefs. Even though most people would agree with Marshall and the other flag protestors and most religions condemn homosexual conduct, there are more fundamental reasons to oppose the flag, chiefly the physical and emotionally corruptive influence of gay activists on America’s youth.

I have often–too often–written about this subject and, frankly, it gets tedious. Fortunately, MassResistance.com never gets tired monitoring and exposing legislative and private corruption in the Bay State where activities of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgendered, and “questioning” groups are not only condoned by the government but facilitated and financially sponsored by the commonwealth.

The latest gay news from Massachusetts is all good, for gays in Massachusetts, not so good for anyone else, especially if Massachusetts is a bellwether for other states in the union.

MassResistance.com reports that this year’s annual Youth Pride Day “celebration” in Boston outdid itself in exhibitionist gay seduction of young people. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4731)

American Grafitti, aka the American Flag

American Grafitti, aka the American Flag

Shortly after 9/11, Eric Noda roller-painted a 35 foot mural of the American flag on a retaining wall overlooking busy Route 680 in Alameda County, near Silicon Valley, California.

Over the nearly nine years since the tragedy of September 11th, 2001, that flag became an inspiration to drivers on 680, a reminder of the events of that day and an inspirational display of patriotism during a dark period in America’s history.

Days before the 234th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, some schlep in the employ of the California Department of Transportation, CALTRANS, decided it was time to remove it and it was painted over with gray paint so as not to offend motorists on Route 680.

Said schlep apparently decided the American flag was just another piece of grafitti in a class with “Joanie Loves Chachi” or an obscene expression of anti-societal vulgarity.

Austrian-born, naturalized American and governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger “called the flag patriotic and meaningful. He said that to remove the flag, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1767)

How Proudly It Waves

How Proudly It Waves

Leftists, liberals, “progressives” are all fond of Dr. Samuel Johnson’s definition of patriotism, that it’s the last refuge of scoundrels, and use it to attack conservatives, flag wavers, anyone with great pride in our country.

According to Thomas Boswell, Johnson’s biographer, the lexicographer never meant to impugn true patriotism but rather false, phony, insubstantial love of country, all of which adjectives perfectly describe the sentiments of leftists, liberals, and “progressives.”

Flags and patriotism have been very much in the news of late, principally relating to the uproar that has arisen on both sides of the issue of Arizona’s new immigration law recently signed by that state’s governor, Jan Brewer.

More so now than at any other period in the past six decades, a sense of true patriotism is a requisite for these times that are trying men’s souls and there is no better time to demonstrate that love of country and no better way than by displaying, waving, and defending the symbol of the nation, the flag of the United States of America.

The stars and stripes are currently under attack by a wide assortment of foreign and domestic enemies. We can and will defend the country against foreign foes which in some sense are more easily defeated than those already on our shores.

Homegrown enemies and the forces of foreign enemies who have invaded our land by the millions are more challenging and insidious since they eat at the very soul of America from within our borders, leeches who suck the life blood from America even as they show contempt for our values and our symbols. . .
(Read more at http://genelalor.com)

Whose Country Is This, Anyway?

Whose Country Is This, Anyway?

Whose country is this, anyway?

The passage of the Arizona illegal immigration bill may have been the greatest thing to happen in this country in years. It ignited firestorms on both sides of the issue, firestorms that have been burning more brightly on the anti-American, pro-illegal aliens side but that same light just may be awakening the sleeping giant that is the pro-America side.

In apparent reaction to the liberal fury over the Arizona law, students in the West and Southwest have been causing a nationwide commotion by daring to wear tee shirts emblazoned with the American flag and have been disciplined for doing so.

One California school district realized the error of its ways in suspending students for wearing “incendiary” emblems on their tees, namely representations of American flags, but didn’t see that error until parents protested: http://tiny.cc/p285d

How the American flag could ever be incendiary is beyond me, except when it is burned by America-haters, but District Superintendent Wesley Smith covered for the administrators of Live Oak High School by issuing a statement. It wasn’t an apology for administrative wrongdoing or ignorance but rather a policy clarification. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1669)