Posted by
Tracey O'Donnell on Saturday, October 27, 2007 6:26:14 PM
To object to California’s latest legislative attack on individual conscience
(SB 777, AB 394 and AB 14) on the grounds that homosexuals are “perverts” is a position that is neither properly conservative, nor properly Christian. Conservatives empower people and not government, and Christians abhor sin but not sinners.
That said, there are plenty of solid reasons to oppose such in-your-face legislation. Whether my image of a family looks like Ozzie and Harriet or Ozzie and Harry is entirely between me and my maker. What I believe, and what I wish to teach my children to believe, is of no concern to a conservative government. The State legitimately seeks to limit acceptable behavior, but should never seek to limit acceptable thought, which is precisely what this legislation aims to do.
Its promoters would have us believe that its purpose is to protect a vulnerable minority from aggression by the majority – an aim that may reasonably be undertaken by government, and which is in fact already insured by existing law. But it oversteps this goal by leaps and bounds.
Rather than protecting actual individuals from specific discrimination or aggression, it prescribes the promulgation of hypothetical “lifestyle choices” to the point that to neglect to equally represent every conceivable permutation of such a “choice” is tantamount to discriminating against it.
The same logic leads us inevitably to the conclusion that the government discriminates against Christians, but we have yet to see any such legislation designed to protect their lifestyle choices or their sensibilities.
In their quest to reconfigure society according to anyone’s whim, liberals will foist upon us by law what they cannot convince us of by argument. George Orwell’s Thought Police had nothing on State Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica) or Assemblymembers
Lloyd Levine (D-Van Nuys) and John Laird (D-Santa Cruz).