Boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is guilty -- of being true
to his Catholic faith. The gay-marriage mob is guilty -- of the very ugly
bigotry it claims to abhor. And left-wing media outlets are guilty -- of
stoking false narratives that shamelessly demonize religion in the name of
compassion.
The attempted crucifixion of Pacquiao this week was
fueled by an online army of cultural shakedown artists, generously funded by
billionaire George Soros and other so-called progressive philanthropists.
On Tuesday, a freelance writer for the Examiner.com
published an interview with Pacquiao conducted at his Los Angeles residence.
Journalist Granville Ampong asked the pugilist his views on gay marriage in
light of President Obama's flip-flop-flip on the issue. "God's words
first," Pacquiao said. "Obey God's law first before considering the
laws of man."
After suggesting that Obama should consult the Bible as
his "manual for life," Pacquiao added in earnest: "It should not
be of the same sex so as to adulterate the altar of matrimony, like in the days
of Sodom and Gomorrah of Old."
The interview then included a scriptural reference to
Leviticus 20:13, which states: "If a man lies with a man as one lies with
a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death;
their blood will be on their own heads."
Publications including USA Today, LA Weekly and Village
Voice all ran outraged pieces on Pacquiao's "homophobic" calls for
violence. But it was the interviewer, not Pacquiao, who made the citation.
Ampong demanded apologies on behalf of Pacquiao. Feckless professional
journalists blamed Ampong for their own biased reading and then grudgingly
"clarified" the truth in buried updates.
"I didn't say that, that's a lie," Pacquiao
told anyone who would listen. "I didn't know that quote from Leviticus
because I haven't read the Book of Leviticus yet." Too late. The
politically correct bloodhounds were in full hunting mode.
The Courage Campaign, a community-organizing outfit that
claims to have 750,000 members and is funded by the radical Tides Foundation,
immediately called on Pacquiao-sponsor Nike to drop him over his "hate
speech against gays." The group took to Twitter to demand that the
athletic shoe company "Drop Manny," the "homophobic boxer."
The call was amplified by Think Progress, an online character assassination
squad backed by George Soros.
L.A. bigwig developer Rick Caruso, who has mayoral
aspirations, squeezed himself into the Catholic-bashing clown car. He announced
on Twitter that Pacquiao would be banned from his trendy shopping complex, The
Grove. The mall, Caruso wrote, "is a gathering place for all Angelenos,
not a place for intolerance."
Except for intolerance of completely mainstream views on
gay marriage held by millions of practicing people of faith.
While L.A. media outlets reported that The Grove has
retracted its ban, Caruso had failed as of late Thursday evening to apologize
on Twitter or acknowledge the false smears against Pacquiao that prompted the
Soros goon squad's boycott demands. Caruso also refused to answer questions
about his own rancid double standards:
Did he ban President Obama from his retail developments
for publicly opposing gay marriage before he supported it?
Would Caruso be banning devout anti-gay Muslims from The
Grove?
What kind of similarly selective tolerance litmus tests
would Caruso support if elected to public office?
And how does Caruso square his vehement condemnation of
Catholic Pacquiao with his funding of the University of Southern California
Caruso Catholic Center? As Breitbart.com editor Ben Shapiro noted, the center's
director, Father Lawrence Seyer, opposes gay marriage and voted for
California's Proposition 8 upholding the traditional definition of marriage.
The Courage Campaign was also mum on its hit job late
Thursday and was instead touting its "online organizing" to
"change (Pacquiao's native) Philippines and USA."
This bigoted anti-bigot brigade mimics a wave of similar
campaigns against both social and fiscal heretics who refuse to conform to
"progressive" values. Targets include Rush Limbaugh, the American
Legislative Exchange Council, Mitt Romney donors, Wisconsin's union-reforming
governor, lieutenant governor and GOP state legislators, Catholic health care
providers, and now black church leaders and boxers who dare to state their
religious views publicly.
Let this be a teachable moment on pernicious
"community organizing" and brazen liberal hypocrisy. There is nothing
more intolerant and chilling than the self-appointed, self-unaware tolerance
police.
No comments:
Post a Comment