Gay Marriage, Bigots, and Joe Paterno

Afternoon everyone. I had an entirely different post about my son in mind for my first real post but events of the last few days have changed that. Now knowing me you know how I feel about the Jerry Sandusky (not PSU or Paterno) scandal, but ironically that topic is not what triggered this blog post despite the title. What triggered this blog post is this week's Supreme Court decisions revolving around gay marriage and this hysterical article. Yes you read that correctly. The "real bigots" in the world are the people who are supporting the extension of homosexual rights to include marriage, a "right" (yup, the SC has held so since Chief Justice Earl Warren) already given to heterosexuals.

This story led me to debate Mr. Pollak on twitter. Mr. Pollak did some equivocating: "Prefer civil unions but ok with gay marriage"; and did some twisting wordplay: "marriage is not a right it's a social convention with benefits". Of course his understanding of what a right really is goes lacking as it would invalidate many other rights we enjoy. I have seen these tactics before. Use legalese and drape your argument in terms that attempt to obfuscate what your real intent is, to keep those "others" from having the same opportunities you already do.

Now what had to be the most hysterical part of the debate, occurring early, is that he went immediately to the issue of Joe Paterno. It's a clear attempt at an ad hominem argument to attempt to discredit any point I might make. It bears no relevance to the topic at hand, and if I were a betting man I would certainly bet he has most of the major items of the Sandusky story wrong in the first place.

Then this morning I was directed to a new story by Mr. Pollak, titled "Debating a Joe Paterno Fan on Gay Marriage" . Once again Mr. Pollak uses an ad hominem attack in his title to deflect the conversation from the facts (you know, the people who deny classes of people rights being the bigots). That man over there shouldn't be taken seriously on any topic because he supports Paterno!!! I suppose this is some attempt by Mr. Pollak to shame me? Well nice try sir. I stand proudly and strongly behind a man with more moral fiber than you could dream of.

So once again we have a man who posits that it is not he, the one supporting a denial of basic rights to an entire class of humans, who is the bigot but rather the people on the opposing side. However you see, it is always the other people who are bigots, plus they support someone who did everything legally required, demanded the truth from day one, and led an exemplary life!

Granted, this guy writes for Breitbart.com so I knew there wouldn't be much there there, but the levels of absurdity and idiocy he took it to shocked even me. 

P.S. Mr. Pollak even a conservative court disagreed with you, but I know facts are irrelevant to you so carry on.

Welcome to The Lion Roars for my initial blog post. Up to now I have used Facebook and Twitter mostly for my rantings but wanted to get a place where I can put some more advanced thoughts and posts down. They will be my thoughts, my visions, some pictures hopefully, and just anything coming out of my head. A lot of it will revolve around "IT", and if you know me you know what that will be. Some of it won't. Maybe it will be book reviews, movie reviews, or lots of other stuff. I hope you join me for the ride. Maybe you will enjoy it!

-John