By D.C. McAllister
Monday, March 07, 2016
Caitlyn Jenner’s support of GOP presidential candidate
Ted Cruz is sending the LGBT activist community into conniptions. True to form,
radical liberals prove they’re the truly bigoted ones by calling the
transgender reality star a “lunatic” for praising the most conservative
candidate in the race.
In an interview with The Advocate, Jenner boldly said, “I
like Ted Cruz. I think he’s very conservative and a great constitutionalist and
a very articulate man. I haven’t endorsed him or anything like that. But I also
think, he’s an evangelical Christian, and probably one of the worst ones when
it comes to trans issues.”
If Jenner thinks Cruz is weak on trans issues, then why
support him? With a commitment to constitutional principles that should make
establishment politicians bury their heads in shame, Jenner explains that while
Democrats are “better when it comes to these types of social issues,” if we
don’t have liberty, we don’t have anything. This position truly goes against
the liberal grain as identity politics takes a backseat to freedom.
“Number 1, if we don’t have a country, we don’t have
trans issues,” Jenner said. “We need jobs. We need a vibrant economy. I want
every trans person to have a job. With $19 trillion in debt and it keeps going
up, we’re spending money we don’t have. Eventually, it’s going to end. And I
don’t want to see that. Socialism did not build this country. Capitalism did.
Free enterprise. The people built it. And they need to be given the opportunity
to build it back up.”
“Let’s say he goes on to be president,” Jenner continued,
“and I have all my girls on a trans issues board to advise him on making decisions
when it comes to trans issues. Isn’t that a good idea?”
That Hit the
Worn-Out Outrage Button
Jenner’s comments stunned LGBT activists. One of the
costars of “I Am Cait,” Jennifer Boylan, lost it, yelling “That’s a lie,”
brandishing a rolled-up newspaper when Jenner indicated conservatives support
minorities’ rights. “You’re living in a dream world,” Boylan shouted, then took
to the blogosphere in a fit of hysteria, saying Boylan struck Jenner with the
newspaper and “not ironically either. I smack her like she is a basset hound
that just took a dump on the carpet,” the co-star and consultant to the show
wrote. Can anyone say “trans abuse”?
Boylan’s response to Jenner’s determined commitment to
conservatism was to quit the show. “Hanging out with her was infuriating. I
just can’t do this. I want to go home.” Boylan ended up not quitting, but the
anger still rages.
I wasn’t surprised by Caitlyn
Jenner’s expression of support for Ted Cruz. I heard her say as much hour after
hour this fall as I worked on her show. Everyone needs to get their mind around
the fact that politically she is, like half the country, a conservative, and
the sooner you get your mind around this, the angrier you can be.
The fact that she’s swooning over
Ted Cruz–a bigot, a hater, and an all around dunderhead–is galling, but no more
galling, to me, than a political philosophy that exclusively benefits the
wealthy and leaves the rest of us to struggle. Cruz’s policies on trans rights
are horrific, but not a whole lot more horrific than those of anyone else in
the GOP currently running for office.
Boylan ends the rant saying it’s regrettable there’s not
an operation to turn someone into a liberal. Yikes.
Other activists joined in, going after Jenner across
social media, including some nasty tweets saying Jenner is a clueless, bad
person who contributes to harassment and transphobic hate. Oh, the irony.
Trans Lobby Has No
Idea Why Anyone Likes Freedom
Monica Roberts of TransGriot piled on, writing, “Caitlyn,
while you have every right to support whoever you wish in this 2016
presidential contest, I would suggest that you not support a presidential
candidate who thinks it’s sound political strategy and policy to demonize our
trans younglings for political gain.” Zack Ford, an apologist for LGBT issues
at Think Progress, wrote, “Caitlyn Jenner simply cannot be taken seriously as
an advocate for the most disadvantaged transgender people if she’s lauding Ted
Cruz in the same breath.” What a stellar champion of diversity you are.
Rachel Kramer Bussel of Salon said “Jenner’s optimism
about Cruz is baffling.” She then sunk to firing personal attacks at the
reality star, asking, “Are Jenner’s musings wishful thinking? A ratings grab?
Her own version of lunacy? They certainly seem to have no basis in reality,
considering the platform Cruz has built and the followers he’s courting.”
Bussel continues her assault by accusing Jenner of
“wading into electoral politics without being clear with her viewers about
what’s truly at stake.” But Jenner makes it very clear what’s at stake and
grasps the truth better than anyone else on reality television: if you don’t
live in a free society, it doesn’t matter if you’re trans, straight, green, or
blue. Yet, according to Bussel, Jenner is the stupid one.
She also presumes to tell Jenner what to say, revealing
the little regard radical liberals have for free speech. “Jenner would be
better off using her voice to tell her own story and offer air time for those
who don’t have the privileges she’s been afforded.” Never mind that Jenner earned
many of those “privileges” (a.k.a. successes) through personal hard work and
perseverance. Olympics medals don’t come easy.
We Love
Diversity—That’s Why We Squash It
Instead, Jenner is dismissed and ridiculed because the
star’s opinions don’t conform to a radical LGBT agenda. Unless Jenner shifts
Left, the attacks will keep coming, shutting down Jenner’s freedom to speak and
to support candidates based on deeply held principles, not peer pressure.
Jenner responded to the criticism, saying people “think
that now that I’ve transitioned that everything has to change. You can’t be
conservative anymore. You have to be a liberal. No, I don’t believe that. I
think I can keep all of my views the same ’cause I feel in my heart that’s the
best way to go.”
LGBT activists aren’t tolerating that (but I thought
conservatives were the intolerant ones!). They’ll support Jenner and anyone
else who believes in their hearts that their sex needs to change, but watch out
if your heart tells you conservatism is what’s best. That can’t be stomached.
If you cling to the delusion of conservatism, you must a lunatic! The hypocrisy
dripping from the pens of these people is astounding.
Not only are those who are pressuring Jenner to reject
conservatism in the name of the LGBT agenda working by a double standard, they
are simply wrong about Cruz being “anti-gay.” If you search all the
frothing-at-the-mouth posts about how hateful, anti-gay, and homophobic Cruz
is, you’ll find nothing to back up their claims. What you’ll find is someone
who faithfully and consistently supports the constitutional rights of every
American, whether he or she is straight, L, G, B, T, or Q.
Protecting
Everyone’s Rights Isn’t Anti-Gay
What liberal activists call “anti-gay” are Cruz’s
opposition to same-sex marriage based on legal arguments about the public
interest of marriage as it relates to family and children in particular (a
complicated argument, but hardly anti-gay) and the undeniable threat to a
fundamental constitutional right—freedom of religion—that is the result of
judicial activism.
Primarily, however, Cruz is consistent in his belief that
issues such as same-sex marriage should be handled at the state level, and that
it’s unconstitutional for the federal government to be involved despite what an
activist court says. The same is true for the Employment Non-Discrimination
Act, which the states should also handle.
The “New Civil Rights Movement” calls such views hateful
and anti-gay, but this is really just complying with the Constitution and
keeping the federal government from expanding its power—which is ultimately a
threat to the freedom of us all. There’s no homophobia here. No hate. Are we
not free to disagree without being slandered and maligned? Where is the
compassion, the tolerance, the kumbaya of liberalism?
Finally, Cruz’s stance on transgender bathrooms (he’s
against letting men who identify as women into women’s restrooms) is focused on
protecting women—not because there is necessarily a threat from men who are
transitioning, but because this would allow male predators to violate a woman’s
and girl’s safe space. Again, you can disagree with this, but it is hardly
“anti-gay.” In fact, it is decidedly pro-woman. Isn’t this a liberal value?
I’ve always thought so, but evidently not. It seems the pro-LGBT agenda has
transformed into a war on women.
Cruz Hates Gays So
Much He Hangs Out With Them
Yet Cruz is somehow the bad guy? Nothing shows how
ridiculous the claim that Cruz is “notoriously anti-gay” better than the
criticism he received last year for going to a reception in New York given on
his behalf by two prominent gay hoteliers. During the visit, it was reported
that Cruz said he would love his daughters just as much if one of them were
gay. He also said that same-sex marriage should be handled at the state level.
Painfully aware that the Manhattan reception hosted by a
gay couple went against the “he’s a nasty bigot” meme, The New York Times looked for any angle it could find to get the
narrative back on track. The only criticism they could come up with was he
never mentioned at the reception that he was against same-sex marriage.
“It speaks volumes that The New York Times considers it newsworthy that a Republican who
believes marriage is between a man and a woman would meet with people who hold
a different view,” Cruz responded in a statement. The senator added that
attending the Manhattan reception, which was focused on national security,
proves he’s a “big tent Republican.”
Included in that big tent are gay conservatives, many of
whom think marriage should remain between a man and a woman. They support civil
unions, but they don’t believe in same-sex marriage. Are these gay people
anti-gay?
You’re Not a
Person If You Disagree With Us
Clearly, some LGBT activists think so. They don’t
tolerate gays who reject same-sex marriage, just as they reject anyone in the
LGBT community who embraces conservatives. Here’s what one critic of the gay
hoteliers who hosted Cruz had to say about them:
Just like what happened with Jenner, if you depart from
the radical LGBT agenda, you’re called a sociopath or lunatic. You’re pressured
through bullying to conform; otherwise you’re rejected from the “in-group” and
isolated until you learn your lesson. Since most people don’t want to be alone
and identified with the cursed “out-group,” they give up their principles and
beliefs—their freedom—and comply.
This reaction against gay and trans conservatives shows
that LGBT activists don’t care a whit about liberty, free speech, or truly
being yourself. It’s about power and their militant agenda, and anyone who
deviates from it will be attacked, rejected, and publicly humiliated until he
or she assimilates. “Resistance is futile.”
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