Conservative Media Refuse to Cover New Book on Gay Movement
Robert Reilly is one of the more respected men in Washington, DC. As a very young man, he was a special adviser to President Reagan. He is a longtime music critic, specializing in teaching the emergence …More
Robert Reilly is one of the more respected men in Washington, DC. As a very young man, he was a special adviser to President Reagan. He is a longtime music critic, specializing in teaching the emergence of amazing new orchestral music. He was a spokesman behind the green line during the Iraq war, reporting directly to Paul Bremer, head of the occupational authority. He led the Voice of America.
Reilly's new book cannot get a hearing; there is a media blackout, a stonewall even among the conservative press who, according to a high-ranking think tank scholar at the Hudson Institute, owe him at least a hearing on his controversial new book Making Gay Okay, out now several weeks from the Catholic publisher Ignatius Press.
But so far, silence—or the sound of slamming doors.
Nothing in National Review, not even National Review Online. Nothing in Weekly Standard, even though Reilly reached out personally to his old friend Bill Kristol. Nothing in the American Spectator, which has already rejected …More
Reilly's new book cannot get a hearing; there is a media blackout, a stonewall even among the conservative press who, according to a high-ranking think tank scholar at the Hudson Institute, owe him at least a hearing on his controversial new book Making Gay Okay, out now several weeks from the Catholic publisher Ignatius Press.
But so far, silence—or the sound of slamming doors.
Nothing in National Review, not even National Review Online. Nothing in Weekly Standard, even though Reilly reached out personally to his old friend Bill Kristol. Nothing in the American Spectator, which has already rejected …More
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I suggest a couple of almost contradictory suggestions:
1. Perhaps the libertarian side of conservatism is ascending. What do I mean? Libertarians tend (not all) to follow the maxism: If it does not hurt any one, all is allowed (in private at least). Applied to pansexualism (= all forms of sexual activity are socially permissable), this means a shift from "conservative" family values to "libertarian …More
I suggest a couple of almost contradictory suggestions:
1. Perhaps the libertarian side of conservatism is ascending. What do I mean? Libertarians tend (not all) to follow the maxism: If it does not hurt any one, all is allowed (in private at least). Applied to pansexualism (= all forms of sexual activity are socially permissable), this means a shift from "conservative" family values to "libertarian" (atomistic) individual values. Thus homosexuality or the LGBT movement is no longer a question of interest as it is a "private" matter.
2. The affirmative action program of the LGBT movement with its aggressivity has freighten the conservatives into acquiesence.
I have heard a couple of conservatives (e.g., an ex-patriot Englander at NR) simply say that he has no problem with homosexual marriage, though he does understand that some people do.
I am just guessing. If the conservative movement goes silent on the LGBT issue, resistance will become difficult, limited to religious oriented journals, papers, blogs, etc. of no wide circulation to object. If that analysis is correct (and I hope not), things will change rapidly. Once LGBT types become accepted into the mainstream conservative press into the Republican Party, those who object will become outcasts.
I stress again that I am only fishing about for an explanation. I am confounded.
1. Perhaps the libertarian side of conservatism is ascending. What do I mean? Libertarians tend (not all) to follow the maxism: If it does not hurt any one, all is allowed (in private at least). Applied to pansexualism (= all forms of sexual activity are socially permissable), this means a shift from "conservative" family values to "libertarian" (atomistic) individual values. Thus homosexuality or the LGBT movement is no longer a question of interest as it is a "private" matter.
2. The affirmative action program of the LGBT movement with its aggressivity has freighten the conservatives into acquiesence.
I have heard a couple of conservatives (e.g., an ex-patriot Englander at NR) simply say that he has no problem with homosexual marriage, though he does understand that some people do.
I am just guessing. If the conservative movement goes silent on the LGBT issue, resistance will become difficult, limited to religious oriented journals, papers, blogs, etc. of no wide circulation to object. If that analysis is correct (and I hope not), things will change rapidly. Once LGBT types become accepted into the mainstream conservative press into the Republican Party, those who object will become outcasts.
I stress again that I am only fishing about for an explanation. I am confounded.