/Are we not a nation of laws?/
Yes, but we are also a nation of RIGHTS. Besides, laws aren't always perfect or just, which is why many of them have been altered or completely overruled in the past.
/Dare we relive the McCarthy era, where Americans were harassed and threatened with the loss of their jobs for believing in a certain way?/
Homosexual Americans can be, and have been, harassed and threatened with the loss of their jobs for just BEING a certain way. Besides, the McCarthy era was essentially an era of the modern witchhunt, when hundreds of people were accused of being communists and punished for it, even though most of them were falsely accused. No dice, Rabbi.
/If the Gay radicals should have their way, untold numbers of Americans would live under the threat of the Gay-Lesbian "thought police," where individuals that reject the Gay lifestyle would be sought out and have sanctions brought against them./
Yeah, because, you know, when the black "radicals" had their way, untold numbers of Americans lived under the threat of the African-Negro-Colored thought-police that arrested people for not embracing African culture - oh, WAIT.
Has it ever occurred to you, Rabbi, that homosexuals just want to live their lives in peace? With the rights that should have been theirs from the very beginning?
/It's bad enough for those working in the entertainment industry here in Los Angeles, where a fog of political correctness and a bending over backwards to accommodate, even promote Gay lifestyle is in full gear./
Ah, yes, "political correctness." The term that bigots regularly invoke whenever someone dares to bring diversity into the picture or - the horror! - is sympathetic to people who are different from them and wants to help them. Because we all know that we should just stick to our self-imposed ghetto and never care about anyone beyond its borders, eh, Rabbi?
/Let none dare say that this type of activity is anathema to our country, our morality, and the debauchery of our young people./
1. How is it bad for our country? Did you forget about a little thing called the Bill of RIGHTS? Rights that were specifically laid out and NOT subjected to majority rule? The Founding Fathers were smarter than you give them credit for. They knew that the majority wasn't always right and often made bad decisions, so they included individual rights as a way to protect the minorities that would, by virtue of number, be otherwise trampled on by mob rule. Giving homosexual Americans their full rights as American citizens is no more treasonous to our country than giving Jewish Americans full rights.
2. Ah, yes, your morality. Where the sight of two men holding guns is more palatable and reassuring than two men holding hands. Where a love that comes in a different form than the norm, but still is as valuable and true as the love that exists worldwide is believed to be disgusting and inappropriate. Where the only right morality is your morality, where the only opinions that matter are YOUR opinions. Tell you what, Rabbi. Why don't you focus on the hundreds of rapists and predators of children, that live and thrive in this country and that ARE an actual threat to their victims and their communities, instead and maybe then I can take your words about decaying morality more seriously.
3. This little fact may have slipped your mind, Rabbi, but those young people whom you've mentioned? Some of them ARE homosexual. That's not going to change any time soon. And I doubt their sexual orienations have anything to do with their peers abusing drugs and/or alcohol, sleeping around like rabbits, or any other wrongheaded behavior.
/Let it be stated unequivocally: The radical Gay attack on the Mormons is the shot over the bow against the United States of America./
Ah, I see. So, the Mormon churches can raise hundreds of dollars in campaigning for Prop. 8 in order to essentially strip homosexuals of their rights, grossly insult and defame them in their ads, be absolute moral hypocrites when it comes to dealing with homosexuals and dealing with the Texan polygamist LDS scandal, but when homosexuals dare to stand up for themselves, dare to call the Mormon churches out on their behavior, suddenly THEY'RE the radical ones. Uh-huh.
/There was a time when what a man did in his bedroom was sanctified between himself and G-d./
Uh...what about his wife? Doesn't she get a say in the matter?
And besides, if you long for the days where what a man did in his bedroom was private...then why all the fuss about homosexuals? Why do you care about what they do in their bedrooms? Why does it offend you?
/Now we are being served an "in-your-face" smorgasbord of smut and licentiousness as being between people who only "want their civil rights."/
You condescending pond scum. Homosexuals DO only want their rights. They want the right to be treated like human beings and not dirty little secrets to be hushed up. And as for the "smorgasbord of smut and licentiousness," where the heck were you when Paris Hilton's sex tape came out? Where the heck were you when "The Girls Next Door" premiered, in which several young women competed for the attentions of an elderly man who is old enough to be their father and, in some cases, grandfather? Homosexuals do not have a monopoly on "smut and licentiousness." If you're not prepared to call out heterosexuals for clearly flaunting their behavior, then you have no right to critcize homosexuals for the same thing.
Besides, I suspect that the "flaunting" that you accuse homosexuals doing consists of no more than hand-holding, embraces, or chaste kisses, which I am quite sure you would not describe as "flaunting," were they to be done by heterosexual couples. In other words, you're a bigoted jerk with unfair double standards.
/Hogwash./
I agree, but not in the way you think.
/We are dealing with the equivalent of a moral takeover of the country that has as its bedrock a belief in G-d and His promise for humanity./
Hate to break it to you, Rabbi, but our Founding Fathers weren't Jewish. Nor were many of them Christian. And not everyone in this country is Jewish or Christian or even believes in God at all. America is NOT a Judeo-Christian country. It is a secular country for a reason.
/They don't want civil rights./
Who the heck are you to presume what homosexuals want, you unbelievably arrogant, condescending scumbag? Have you even spoken to any homosexuals? Known any personally? Well, I guess that the thousands of African-Americans who protested for their rights didn't REALLY want them. I guess that the thousands of women who protested for their civil rights didn't want them either. For shame.
/What they desire is quasi Gay/Lesbian hegemony, where a huge "bookburning," reminiscent of the Nazis, will purge any remnants of the "Christian, White, mainstream America" that has given ALL AMERICANS the most profound scope of freedom, liberty, and justice that Mankind has yet to experience./
*Stares at the screen. Looks back at it and stares some more.*
You did not just say that. You seriously...cannot...ARGH! Are you seriously trying to suck up to the fundie Christians with this ridiculous nonsense, as LadyJafaria said? Here's a newsflash: THEY HATE JEWS! The only reason that they're so concerned about Israel is about the prophecy that will benefit THEM, NOT you! They couldn't care less about Jews and some are in serious denial about Jesus being a Jew.
All right, let me demolish this utterly despicable last sentence one by one. First of all, WHAT hegemony? Gays and lesbians are a minority in this country. And besides, they don't want to dominate heterosexuals. They just want to live their lives uninhibited by their sexuality. And newsflash, many homosexuals ARE white and ARE Christian.
And you know what, since you, a Jew no less, has brought up the Nazi comparisons, then nothing is holding me back from making some rather unsavory comparisons of my own. Your rants about some imaginary gay conspiracy are no different from the words of Adolf Hitler when he described the need to combat the Jewish threat to all that Germany held dear. Your rants and ravings are no different than the average anti-Semite who claims that the Jews are behind everything.
And "book-burning?" WHAT book-burning? Do African-Americans advocate the burning of books written by KKK members, slavery apologists, or any book that has anti-black racism in it? Did they advocate the burning of copies of "Birth of a Nation?" Do YOU advocate the burning of "Mein Kampf" or any other anti-Semitic tracts? No? Then what the heck makes you think that homosexuals would? Your sheer paranoia and stupidity know no bounds.
And here's another note, your people weren't the only ones who suffered and/or died in the concentration camps. Homosexuals were sent there as well; only, they weren't labeled with a yellow Star of David, they were labeled with a pink triangle. Yes, I can certainly see how homosexuals would want to emulate Hitler. *snort*
And are you seriously suggesting that the "Christian, White, mainstream American" has given ALL Americans freedom, liberty, and justice? Homosexuals are Americans. They do not have the same rights that you and I have by virtue of being heterosexual. For most of this country's history, white Christians denied African-Americans their freedom and liberty. For most of this country's history, white Christians denied Native Americans their freedom and liberty. For most of this country's history, white male Christians denied women their freedom and liberty. It was the "Christian, White, mainstream America" that eagerly threw Japanese-Americans and other Americans of East Asian descent into internment camps during WWII and stripped them of their homes and businesses. And yes, despite fighting against Nazis, many Americans were also prejudiced against Jews. Yes, Rabbi, JEWS. So much so that there were even extreme right-wing organizations in America that SYMPATHIZED with Nazi Germany. Who STILL sympathize with Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler. What the heck do you think Neo-Nazis believe in? What the heck do you think the KKK stood for? They weren't only against blacks, they were against ANYONE who wasn't white, Anglo-American and Protestant and conformed to their despicable ideas of racial purity. The Know-Nothing Party couldn't stand Jews either. They couldn't stand any immigrants who came to their shores, any "hyphenated Americans."
Either you are a shameless sycophant or a hypocritical liar. "Thou shalt not bear false witness," Rabbi. You are not doing yourself any favors by joining the fundie Christian nutjobs in their bigotry. Remember that.