FRC Responding to Newsweek Bias
by Timothy Dailey
December 19, 2008
The day after Newsweek published it’s inaccurate article called “Our Mutual Joy,” FRC sent the following letter to the editor for their exclusive use to provide some small balance to their highly biased article. As it does not appear you will be reading it in the pages of Newsweek, you can see it here for yourself:
Having years ago completed my doctoral dissertation on the subject of the Bible and homosexuality, I found “Our Mutual Joy” to be breathtaking in its summary dismissal of thousands of years of Judeo/Christian belief and teaching regarding homosexual behavior – not to mention the virtually unanimous judgment of societies throughout history in defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
That fundamental understanding regarding marriage is reflected by the 29 states that have passed constitutional amendments and the additional 15 states that have passed laws defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
But this overwhelming conviction is evidently of little consequence to Newsweek, which cobbled together a list of specious pro-homosexuality arguments similar to what I encountered a quarter of a century ago. They were unconvincing then, and have not improved with age. For those interested in the other side of this issue – which Newsweek inexcusably failed to provide – an outstanding treatment of the subject is Prof. Robert A. J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics, which makes short work of the tendentious pabulum served up by “Our Mutual Joy.”
Timothy J. Dailey
Senior Fellow for Policy
Family Research Council
Washington, DC
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Comments
“That fundamental understanding regarding marriage is reflected by the 29 states that have passed constitutional amendments and the additional 15 states that have passed laws defining marriage as between a man and a woman.”
This is not a “fundamental understanding”, it is the bleeding edge of the gay-bashing society we live in. The proof that it’s not fundamental are the three state Supreme Courts who have found gays have the right to marry: Massachusetts, Connecticut and California. (CA citizens will have to re-establish that right after they expose the outside influences, e.g., Mormon church, that contributed to Prop 8) New Jersey may be next.
The first truth you need to accept is that gay people are born that way, they are a product of nature just like left handed people or twins, and they have little choice in the matter.
Gay bashing is this century’s equivalent of racism in the last century. It took a long time to make racism obvious and abhorrent, and the same will happen to gay bashing. In another hundred years gay marriage will be common and of no concern to any but the most ignorant or narrow-minded.
Sam
By: Secular Heretic | December 19, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Good letter.
I doubt that they would publish it. Only biblicly illiterate people would buy into their article anyway and those who want to change its message.