Update: DADT for Heterosexuals

When I opined seven months ago on the Ever Red State Network YouTube channel that the day will come when American heterosexuals, particularly religious and/or conservative ones, will live under a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, many of you laughed. Here is my prediction in December 2010.

Some time ago on the Knightly Show, I also provided you with a fine example of the circumstances under which this policy would begin to take effect.

A pair of kite-flying swishy boys sued a heterosexual English couple running a hotel in Cornwall, UK because they refused to let them stay there overnight.

The psychotic British judge agreed with the gays and fined the hotel owners.

But still, you shrugged off my warnings as “anti-gay hysteria” and believed the liberals when they said they would institute laws that fully protected the rights of heterosexuals not to be forced to accept, tolerate or endorse homosexuality.

You probably still believe them now, despite what I’m about to show you.

Not surprisingly, the American Communist Lawsuit Union has taken up the case of a lesbian couple denied hosting of a wedding reception by a hotel in Lyndonville, Vermont, run by a conservative Catholic couple.

Jim and Mary O’Reilly have protested their innocence, sadly, with the half-hearted outrage and helplessness so common to Americans who live blissfully unaware of how endangered their liberties are.

“We have never refused rooms or dining or employment to gays or lesbians,” they wrote. “Many of our guests have been same-sex couples. We welcome and treat all people with respect and dignity. We do not however, feel that we can offer our personal services wholeheartedly to celebrate the marriage between same-sex couples because it goes against everything that we as Catholics believe in.”

Too late.

Now the egalitarian/libertarian crowd in the Ever Red State Network is quick to argue, “So? Just because they’ve filed a lawsuit doesn’t mean they’re going to win. The innkeepers might win. You don’t know that.”

But it’s hardly the point, especially to a libertarian, who ordinarily advocates that government that governs best governs least, and the state should be kept out of our bedrooms.

The point is that Christians and conservatives should not have to be sued because they hold views opposed to homosexuality. To borrow a leftist expression, “Government needs to keep its hands off our hearts and minds.”

And also remember, as I’ve argued elsewhere, that the rights of religious and conservative Americans to disagree and act accordingly when it comes to homosexuality no longer depend on the Constitution. They are now the roving targets of political laws instead of natural ones; to be decided by human judges and not God.

All it has taken, as this story shows, are a couple of militant left-wing homosexuals crazy enough to file suit.

And all it will take, in the final analysis, is a dopey activist judge – and Vermont has a plethora of them – to suddenly decide that this couple are in violation of the law, and punish them accordingly.

Just sit back and watch. But don’t ask me how I knew, and don’t tell me I didn’t call it.

 

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