Rocky Mountain Stye

The RMN is reporting (1 DEC 2004) (2 DEC 2004) on the religious powder keg, the Denver Parade of Lights. It's OK to have spiritual homosexuals, but not spiritual heterosexuals.

The left is enjoying this battle since they view it as just desserts. The Christians co-opted a pagan holiday and now the Christian holiday is being co-opted. Har, har, har. A Clintonian Christmas.

I suspect when they see things like this and Denver Mayor Hickenlooper's decision to remove "Merry Christmas" from the annual City/County building's display, that there is a feeling of 'we lost the battle (2004 election) but are winning the (cultural) war.'

In Michael Krikorian's [Downtown Partnership spokesman] way of thinking, a float loaded with porn stars would be ok. No disrespect to any religions in the area or "disrespectful to other people who enjoy a parade each year" with that. Or how about NAMBLA? KKK? Or, worse than those for the left (cue the spooky music), the NRA?

One can only hope that Krikorian's concern extends to the other other people enjoying the parade as well (AKA those not there to get schooled on two spiriting and what that may entail). Assuming that, I suppose he gave thought to how mom might explain to little Timmy what the Two Spirit float is all about.

Timmy: Mommy, what do those happy people do?

Mom: Well Timmy, they identify themselves as a group based on the gender of their sex partner.

Timmy: But mommy, there are only men on that float.

A discussion may then follow with mom telling Timmy that their religion teaches that men ought not to have sex with men.

If the porn float is admitted, we might get a similar conversation.

And when the McDonald's float rolls by, mom could discuss her feelings about the effects of eating fast food, Jered’s experience notwithstanding.

What is amazing to me is that the left – the self appointed keepers of intellectual discourse (see anything James Carville has ever said) – is comfortable with the idea that viewing a Christian display may inflict great harm whilst these other types of displays can be discussed and understood. Are non-Christian children so fragile that they can't discuss Christianity while Christian children, being apparently more robust, are able to participate in intellectual discourse - or at least the left is asking them to do what they seem incapable of asking their own to do.

They use another argument (often when confronted with the filth on TV) that if the viewer doesn't like it they can turn away. In Denver, I presume, they feel that I should just turn away when a float that doesn't confirm my narrow-minded worldview rolls by.

Why doesn't this technique apply to them? Can't they avert their gaze when the wacky right-wing lunatic Christian float goes by with the snake-handlers and the swarthy hillbillies chug-a-lugging poisons aboard? Couldn't they have a conversation with their kids after taking in the specter of carolers?

Timmy: Mommy, what do those happy people do?

Mom: Well Timmy, they identify themselves as a group based on who they think God is.

Timmy: Do we believe in that God?

Mom: No. But we live in a country where many people do.

What trauma would come to the child? Would Timmy's response be to cut himself with razors while mom tears her clothes because of the carol singing sirenes that used the “G” word?

Lefties need to come to a realization that some of us are just going to believe that there is a God, no matter how ignorant that seems. Instead of trying to eradicate all vestiges from public life, they need to be a bit more tolerant. I've had to get used to the soft porn that is used daily to sell me everything from underwear to beer and have had to explain it to my son in light of my Christian belief system.

This 'f-you' attitude of the left that they can do whatever they desire in public and I should just put a sack over my head is the thinking of simpletons. If I applied this kind of thinking to my driving, I should be able to drive as fast as I want as long as I don’t infringe the rights of another driver. If, per chance, an officer should pull me over, I tell him that the law is unconstitutional and violates my civil rights. I argue that the guy driving slow in the passing lane is a greater hazard than I since he is affecting others. Additionally, since I have discovered worse behavior, my bad behavior is nullified. I get the ACLU on board and we set out to have the courts determine that those offensive signs on the side of the road that limit my freedom of expression be declared unconstitutional.

Pastor George Morrison didn't ask that the Two Spirit float be removed; he was merely asking to enter the Single Spirit float.

In the spirit of tolerance, of course.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin wants us all to send a lump to Mayor Hickenlooper.
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