Utterly Frustrated

I am right now utterly frustrated with the gay lobby, practically actions recently taken by the Human Rights Campaign.

This passed week there was a documentary called Speechless-Silencing the Christians was supposed to air in Michigan. This apparently has been an ongoing documentary series that talks about how Christians are being silenced in America. This passed week the documentary was to focus on the “Homosexual Agenda” and how Homosexuals work to stop Christians from stating their beliefs about homosexuality.

Upon finding out about the plan to air the documentary The Human Rights Campaign sent out and e-mail action alert to their constituency and asked them to speak out against the airing of the program. The Michigan TV station has since pulled the program from its queue.

This action taken by the Human Rights Campaign amounts to no less than censorship, and the censorship of ideas that you do not agree with is not a tactic that I approve of. All the more ironic is that in taking the action that the Human Rights Campaign did they became guilty of what the very premise of the documentary accused the gay lobby of.

Freedom of speech is one of the pillars our American Civilization, and is fundamental to maintaining the other ideals that uphold our democratic republic. Moreover Ideology is not defeated by censorship, but it is only truly defeated by Ideology. Any platform that can only stand while apposing views are censored is a weak platform.

The worst part is that after having viewed the documentary myself I realized that most of the rhetoric used in it is easily put down and refuted. I believe more would have been gained by the gay lobby if the show had aired, because then we would have had the ability to enter into the debate and deconstruct their arguments and allow both our views and theirs to fall under the proper public scrutiny.

In the end not only have we given the people who maid the documentary more ammunition to use against our cause, but we have lost this opportunity to combat their views intellectually; and when we fail to meet an intellectual challenge to our views what does that say about our intellect or our the validity of our opinions?

All I have to say to the Human Rights Campaign and the larger gay lobby is: DUH! What were you thinking.

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