The New Blacklist

[Danno 1,228]

The New Blacklist

By Patrick J. Buchanan

“There is a gay mafia,” said Bill Maher, “if you cross them you do get whacked.”

Maher, the host of HBO’s “Real Time,” was talking about the gay activists and their comrades who drove Brendan Eich out as CEO of Mozilla. Eich, who invented JavaScript and co-founded Mozilla in 1998, had been named chief executive in late March.

Instantly, he came under attack for having contributed $1,000 to Proposition 8, whereby a majority of Californians voted in 2008 to reinstate a ban on same-sex marriage. Prop 8 was backed by the Catholic Church, the Mormon Church and the black churches, and carried 70 percent of the African-American vote.

Though Eich apologized for any “pain” he had caused and pledged to promote equality for gays and lesbians at Mozilla, his plea for clemency failed to move his accusers. Too late. According to The Guardian, he quit after it was revealed that he had also contributed — “The horror, the horror!” — to the Buchanan campaign of 1992.

That cooked it. What further need was there of proof of the irredeemably malevolent character of Brendan Eich?

Observing the mob run this accomplished man out of a company he helped create, Andrew Sullivan blogged that Eich “has just been scalped” by gay activists. Sullivan went on:

“Will he now be forced to walk through the streets in shame? Why not the stocks? The whole thing disgusts me, as it should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant and diverse society.”

Yet, the purge of Eich, who, from his contributions — he also gave to Ron Paul — appears to be a traditionalist and libertarian — is being defended as a triumph of the First Amendment.

James Ball of The Guardian writes that far from being “a defeat for freedom of expression,” Eich’s removal is a “victory — the ouster of a founder and CEO by his own people, at a foundation based on open and equal expression.”

Eich’s forced resignation, writes Ball, “should be the textbook example of the system working exactly as it should.”

Ball seems to be saying that what the gay mob did to Eich at Mozilla is what the heroes of Maidan Square did in driving President Viktor Yanukovych out of power and out of his country.

This is how the democracy works now.

Mitchell Baker, the executive chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation, who escorted Eich out, said in her statement: “Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech.

Equality is necessary for meaningful speech. And you need free speech to fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard.”

George Orwell, thou shouldst be living at this hour.

What Baker is saying is that you have freedom of speech, so long as you use your speech to advocate equality.

And what do we do with those who use their freedom of speech to express their view, rooted in religion and history, that traditional marriage is not only superior to same-sex marriage, the latter is a contradiction of the natural and moral law.

And what of those institutions that teach and preach that outside traditional marriage sexual relations are wrong?

One such is the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church whose 1976 catechism, “The Teaching of Christ,” describes homosexual acts as “sexual vices” and “sexual perversions.”

Is that just yesterday’s church and yesterday’s belief?

Well, one of the compilers of that catechism was Donald W. Wuerl of Angelicum University in Rome, who would appear to be the same cleric as Cardinal Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C., who is now one of the inner circle advising Pope Francis I.

Yet, it is not only Catholic, Mormon, Evangelical and Protestant churches that believe this, but the Islamic faith, perhaps a majority of Americans, and more than a majority of the world’s peoples.

Up until last year, Barack Obama opposed same-sex marriage.

What the Brendan Eich episode teaches us, where a man was driven from a position he had earned, because of his beliefs, and was abandoned and left undefended by false friends and gutless peers in Silicon Valley, is this:

In the new dispensation, opposition to same-sex marriage disqualifies you from leadership and may legitimately be used to bring about the ruin of your career.

This is the new blacklist.

The old blacklist declared that if you were a member of the Communist Party that toadied to Stalin, and you refused to recant and took the Fifth Amendment, you would not be permitted to work in Hollywood. We are Americans, said that Hollywood, and we believe in American values.

Now, nearly seven decades later, the Stalinists of the ’40s are martyr-heroes in Hollywood. And in Silicon Valley conservatives and traditionalists who oppose same-sex marriage are to be denied top jobs and driven into social exile.

The new blacklist means that while diversity of races, genders and sexual orientations is mandatory, diversity of thought and opinion is restricted. In Silicon Valley, they burn heretics.

http://buchanan.org/blog/new-blacklist-6346

[mota bhai 2,675]

Yeah, there's a powerful group of extremists in the gay lobby. No denying it.

But you know what? That happens any time you marginalize a group. It's an inevitable byproduct of the way we treat them.

Like the black nationalists of many decades ago, this too shall pass.. once we give them the dignity they deserve.

[Danno 1,228]

Yeah, there's a powerful group of extremists in the gay lobby. No denying it.

But you know what? That happens any time you marginalize a group. It's an inevitable byproduct of the way we treat them.

Like the black nationalists of many decades ago, this too shall pass.. once we give them the dignity they deserve.

You might have a point however in some ways

I'm not so sure the Black nationalist have passed.

Sure they are not in leather coats with fists in the air but even our own president spent two decades in a Church more focused on race than anything else.

http://www.trinitychicago.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=114

His attorny Gen are intimidating schools all across the country to implement suspension quotas for students by race.

(which will only hurt Blacks in the end)

I think we are mistaken to associate the Black experience with gay rights.

"The church" was the leader in bringing about the Rights of minorities, not just here but in Europe too.

Asking the Church to abandon a core understanding of human sexuality is going to be a tuff nut to crack.

Even after 7 decades of State Atheism and gulags in Russia, people still snuck their children into the church.

I predict (another Danno prediction) that this will lead to an even greater Balkanization of groups of people.

More people will remove kids from Public schools, these groups grow more isolated (left and right) and

history is full of such examples of what it leads to.

Keep in mind this is not Russia, 300 million guns are floating around out there, I think peace by finding common ground is the better more wise path to take.

[mota bhai 2,675]

If you think black nationalism is anywhere nearly as potent a political and cultural force today as it was in the days of your youth, then you're clearly wedded to the battles of your youth. Does that make you feel young again? Is that why?

The world has moved on. You should too.

There are new extremists to deal with today. Some of them wear keffiyehs. Some of them wear weird colorful gay stuff.

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

It was not the gay mafia in this case.. It was google. Google was responsible for just over 90% of the revenues for Mozilla last year (which is a competitor to chrome) and the contract renegotiation is coming up. The heads of Google were militant in their opposition to prop 8. Mozilla was nervous about giving Google any reason to stop the money flowing... Activists may have played a role in exposing him and keeping him fresh in everyone minds but the opinion of Google was all that really mattered.

As Chick-Fil-A and the Duck Dynasty proved - The effect is short lived and the power they yield is limited. Each time they choose to "out' someone they become less and less of a threat.

Edited April 8, 2014 by OnMyWayID

[Danno 1,228]

If you think black nationalism is anywhere nearly as potent a political and cultural force today as it was in the days of your youth, then you're clearly wedded to the battles of your youth. Does that make you feel young again? Is that why?

The world has moved on. You should too.

There are new extremists to deal with today. Some of them wear keffiyehs. Some of them wear weird colorful gay stuff.

Are you kidding, we heard the same thing about Abortion.

It';s the law now learn to accept it because everyone else will.

The mood to restrict Abortions is growing not shrinking, people who call themselves pro-life is growing.

Maybe I am wrong but if I were you, I would not bet on it.

There is a reason the Gays rarely use the Ballot box to further their agenda... in fact they try to stop it every time.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Are you kidding, we heard the same thing about Abortion.

It';s the law now learn to accept it because everyone else will.

The mood to restrict Abortions is growing not shrinking, people who call themselves pro-life is growing.

Maybe I am wrong but if I were you, I would not bet on it.

There is a reason the Gays rarely use the Ballot box to further their agenda... in fact they try to stop it every time.

The reason is really quite simple. The issue of human and civil rights is not one to be voted. I am sure a vote on Jim Crow laws, back in the 60s would have perpetuated segregation.

Prop H8 should have never been on a ballot and it would never be were it not for the money the Mormon church poured into their misinformation campaign - the California Supremes had already ruled on the constitutionality of same-sex in the state. In a roundabout way the Mormon church and other zealots did us all a favor with Prop H8. Were it not for it going all the way to the SCOTUS we would not have had the repeal of DOMA and the domino effect it has had on the other states.

Incidentally the same is true of abortion. It has been ruled over 40 years ago.

What is really fascinating is the obsession some show with the private lives of others.

If you are against abortions, don't have one. If you are against marriage, stay single. Let others decide on their own. It is quite simple, really. Everyone wins.

Edited April 8, 2014 by Gegel

[Danno 1,228]

The reason is really quite simple. The issue of human and civil rights is not one to be voted. I am sure a vote on Jim Crow laws, back in the 60s would have perpetuated segregation.

Prop H8 should have never been on a ballot and it would never be were it not for the money the Mormon church poured into their misinformation campaign - the California Supremes had already ruled on the constitutionality of same-sex in the state. In a roundabout way the Mormon church and other zealots did us all a favor with Prop H8. Were it not for it going all the way to the SCOTUS we would not have had the repeal of DOMA and the domino effect it has had on the other states.

Incidentally the same is true of abortion. It has been ruled over 40 years ago.

What is really fascinating is the obsession some show with the private lives of others.

If you are against abortions, don't have one. If you are against marriage, stay single. Let others decide on their own. It is quite simple, really. Everyone wins.

You make the same mistake as those in Kiev..... near sightedness.

They too won, drove out the opposition took control and threw a party.

Now they are loosing not just land mass but their industry.

Sometimes we light fires that grow bigger than we intended..

[mota bhai 2,675]

[JohnR! 5,495]

You make the same mistake as those in Kiev..... near sightedness.

They too won, drove out the opposition took control and threw a party.

Now they are loosing not just land mass but their industry.

Sometimes we light fires that grow bigger than we intended..

Thanks for the articulate non-sequitur.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

The mood to restrict Abortions is growing not shrinking, people who call themselves pro-life is growing.

Source, please.

[Danno 1,228]

Thanks for the articulate non-sequitur.

non what?

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

I love that show, The Blacklist! I am glad Pat Buchanan agrees.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Source, please.

Any moment now.

[Karee 4,191]

What is really fascinating is the obsession some show with the private lives of others.

If you are against abortions, don't have one. If you are against marriage, stay single. Let others decide on their own. It is quite simple, really. Everyone wins.

I always find it odd that the party that is supposed to be for smaller government, wants to stick their nose in people's private business when it comes to these two issues. I suspect it has something to do with religious nuts taking over the Republican party. I guess they can pray on it when the libs take over the country and they become irrelevant.