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March 27, 2006

Stick a needle in their eye

The teen fundy rally in Frisco was already covered here by Becky. But its had me thinking about the expectations of the individuals that participated in it.

Becky notes that Ron Luce, the organizer and leader, considers the entire rally part of the culture war. In Luce's view, Hollywood wants to corrupt the world, presumably in an effort to make money and gain power.

Also presumably, Luce deliberately placed his charges in the belly of the San Francisco beast--the modern day Sodom, I'd imagine--SF being one of the more liberal and gay populated cities in America.

Its deliberately provocative on Luce's part. He got just the reaction he wanted: a strident retort on the part of SF's elected officials. More mannah to feed the notion that the whole liberal world is one giant homo loving, Christian hating, seething sinpot.

In the meantime, hardcore rightwing assholes pony up ridiculous pigeonholing of liberals. I honestly don't know if this is intellectual laziness or a deliberate effort to nod to their masses in a simplistic, easy to chew fashion. Maybe its both. Maybe you have to be intellectually lazy to accept that kind of cud.

Bottom line: Its a big set up by the fundies. They need to be persecuted. They need to be martyrs. Otherwise Fantasy Island doesn't turn out to be quite the neato endgame that Mr. Roark promised. The only way to ensure it is to push themselves on a bunch of people who don't want them and don't believe the way they do.

Posted by Carla at March 27, 2006 02:30 PM