Can you believe this Anti-Christian bigot?

A huffpo blogger asks a loaded question: "Is Every Christian Who's Against Gay Marriage Necessarily a Bigot?"

Rhetorically, of course. He and every Huffpo reader (but one, I read the post too) already knows that anyone who doesn't swoon at Ellen Degeneris' bravery and demand "gay marriage" and all the rest is ipso facto, a bigot. But must all Christians be bigots?

Actually, he lies. He says, "You, anti-gay Christian, have the God-given freedom and the American right to believe whatever you want, and to worship and congregate with anyone and everyone who shares your beliefs. What sane person would argue against that?

For all practical purposes (and for such concerns, what else matters?) it is not beliefs that make a bigot. It's actions."

Well, except for a group of Christians, if there was one outside of Westboro Baptist, who refused to congregate with homosexuals (or should I say LBGTQ...). Or, more realistically, a Christian baker, photographer or florist who declined to participate in a "gay wedding." Nope, I'm pretty sure our bigoted blogger would argue with that.

But I suppose Christians should be grateful that he permits them to believe, worship and congregate.... so far. Insofar as the worship might entail reading the Bible (Cf. Gen 191-29; Rom 124-27; ⇒ 1 Cor 6:10; ⇒ 1 Tim 1:10) or giving a sermon, I suspect Mr. Blogger may become a bit less generous with his tolerance. Don't even try to go beyond the limits he has set by perhaps obeying the precepts of your faith outside of your church building, by offering charity, adoption services or education to those in need - or even whispering in the dark ("If, in private, you intimate to your dearest friend that you don't think gay people should be allowed to get married, you are a bigot.")  Nope! Once you step outside the Church, you are a bigot unless you sign-on to the entire ''gay rights'' agenda. Just ask Catholic Charities and more than a couple Catholic schools.

So, basically, this guy hates anyone who doesn't act exactly like he wants them to act. What a bigot!

I Don't Usually Read Paul Krugman.....

.... but when I do, I wonder how he can hold such illogical thoughts.

And this article is no exception.

Krugman says, "I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the power of doctrines — how support for a false dogma can become politically mandatory, and how overwhelming contrary evidence only makes such dogmas stronger and more extreme. For the most part, I’ve been focusing on economic issues, but the same story applies with even greater force to climate."

Of course, Republicans and anyone else who disagrees with Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman and his fellow NYT elect are victims of this syndrome on the issue of, well, everything.

While Krugman and his fellow travellers have no false doctrines or dogmas but rather bask in the hard light of Reason and Science.

Except not.

In fact, if you were to take Krugman's column into a word processing program and do global find-and-replace for a few words; find Republican and replace it with Democrat, find climate change (or cooling or disruption, whichever is the sophistry du jour) and replace it with marriage equality, abortion rights or well, global warming, you'd discover that one of the doctrines that most bests the Left is that their doctrines are always right and that conservative principles are always wrong.

Let's give it a try:

Krugman: " And truly crazy positions are becoming the norm. A decade ago, only the G.O.P.’s extremist fringe asserted that global warming was a hoax concocted by a vast global conspiracy of scientists (although even then that fringe included some powerful politicians). Today, such conspiracy theorizing is mainstream within the party, and rapidly becoming mandatory; witch hunts against scientists reporting evidence of warming have become standard operating procedure, and skepticism about climate science is turning into hostility toward science in general."

Krugman corrected: "And truly crazy positions are becoming the norm. A decade ago, only the Democratic Party's extremist fringe asserted that the idea that Christians who opposed "gay marriage" should lose their civil rights. Today, such theorizing is mainstream within the party, and rapidly becoming mandatory; witch hunts against Christians acting according to their religious faith have become standard operating procedure, and skepticism about religious liberty is turning into hostility toward Christianity in general."