Playboy founder Hugh Hefner criticizes conservatives in an editorial in the September issue, accusing them of continuing “to assault the right of gays.”
“The fight for gay marriage is, in reality, a fight for all of our rights. Without it, we will turn back the sexual revolution and return to an earlier, puritanical time,” he writes. “Today, in every instance of sexual rights falling under attack, you’ll find legislation forced into place by people who practice discrimination disguised as religious freedom. Their goal is to dehumanize everyone’s sexuality and reduce us to using sex for the sole purpose of perpetuating our species. To that end, they will criminalize your entire sex life.”
Conservatives continue “to assault the right of gays, whether by denying them to right to marry or, as in Kansas, by attempting to empower landlords, business owners and employers to discriminate against gays on religious grounds,” Hefner adds.
He identifies several laws that particularly spark his ire.
“In Arizona, under a proposal bill women who hoped to have their health insurer cover birth control would have been forced to provide their employer with proof they were taking the pill for a medical condition — not just for the purpose of avoiding pregnancy. A new Kansas law allows a pharmacist to refuse to sell someone contraception on the grounds that such a sale could violate the pharmacist’s religious beliefs. Similar laws already exist in Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and South Dakota.”
Hefner concludes: “This is a religious nation, but it is also a secular one. … No one should have to subjugate their religious freedom, and no one should have their personal freedoms infringed. This is America and we must protect the rights of all Americans.”
Gays rights are not under assualt, but freedom of speech and freedom of expression along with freedom of religion.
ReplyDeleteMost people don't care who is gay or not? It is the gay activst on the one hand who say stay out of our bedroom. But all the while don't want to stay there themselves.
If you say anything at all like express a view based on your religious convictions that a certain lifestyle is immoral then you are guilty of hate, say you believe in traditonal marriage? Your guilty of hate speech.
The same people who preach tolerance don't practice what they they preach.
They say don't force your morals on us, but tell us we have to accept thing that might be offensive to us.
Like I said if your gay or someone else is so be it, you have the right to live your life as you want. You can have a right to your own beliefs. But don't tell the rest of us what we should believe and don't force your views on us either.
No one is forcing any views on your boxed mind. We are only fighting for what we deserve as Americans. After looking at your sight, it is rather obvious that you are behind as the others who look at the "this is your issue" - as if gays and lesbians were looked upon fairly and not discriminated against.
ReplyDeleteYou may choose to act like were are forcing our views on you - don't listen. But read the news and you will see how homosexuals are treated and rights questioned. But that may be what you are doing now - looking the other way. It may not be your issue and that is fine - but TRUTH is truth. And you are wrong in your word. Wrong.
Suppose the civil rights movement and their oppressors said there is nothing wrong? No focus - no gain.
Sorry you are plain wrong - and blocked - I do not tolerate your views nor feel I have to educate you.