{"id":74101,"date":"2019-10-27T19:43:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T23:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=74101"},"modified":"2019-10-27T19:45:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T23:45:18","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-october-25th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=74101","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, October 25th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday, October 25th, 2019…but before we begin, like Jethro Bodine cipherin’, some things Stilton Jarlsberg wrote in his last entry at\u00a0Stilton’s Place<\/em> got us a thinkin’:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Right up front, we want to go on record as being very sincerely supportive of gay folks and gay marriage.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span> But we can’t help commenting on the fact that Pete Buttigieg might benefit from a little more tailoring of the image he’s presenting on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

Although “Mayor Pete” is enjoying a nice rise in recent polls, an in-depth study of black voters in South Carolina showed that\u00a0many of them found his sexual orientation to be problematic<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0– enough so that most weren’t even considering voting for him.<\/p>\n

Part of the problem, as expressed by those polled, is that they don’t mind Buttigieg being gay<\/em><\/span>, but\u00a0do<\/i><\/span>\u00a0have a problem with how vocal he is about it<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> So surely it isn’t helping matters when Buttigieg announces a contest in which the grand prize is a trip to San Francisco (more or less the gay mecca) to enjoy<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0an evening of musical theater with his husband, Chasten<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We’re sure it will be an absolutely lovely evening, but still – isn’t the whole event just a little\u00a0too<\/span>\u00a0<\/i>“on the nose” for those voters who were already feeling uncomfortable<\/em><\/span>?<\/span> Why not make the grand prize a visit to Buttigieg’s actual home, South Bend, Indiana, where Chasten can take the lucky winners on a tour of all the positive things Mayor Pete has accomplished?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, that’s right – he\u00a0hasn’t actually done such a great job<\/span><\/em>\u00a0of being a small town Mayor. So maybe<\/em><\/span> the fabulous distractions<\/span> aren’t such a bad idea after all<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>“<\/p>\n

First, as usual, The Great Jarlsberg is dead on, balls-accurate in his conclusion.\u00a0 This is PRECISELY why Pete’s publicizing his present perversion rather than promoting his past performance: he’s the prototypical counterproductive Progressive politician.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Second, while we fully understand and appreciate Stilt’s opening statement, we would phrase the same thought in a slightly different fashion: we view gays with the same love God showed us, in that, as Romans 5:8 records, “While we yet sinners, Christ died for us.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>We’re commanded to love the sinner, yet still hate the sin; the same as we hate Donald Trump’s adultery or our own innumerable transgressions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fact is, we don’t hate Pete Buttigieg because he’s gay; we simply despise the Progressive policies he peddles.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As for supporting gay marriage, we just don’t<\/em><\/span>, as the Bible clearly states<\/em><\/span> marriage is to be between a man and a woman.\u00a0 \u00a0Almost as importantly, unlike<\/em><\/span> “gun control”, which has nothing to do with guns<\/em><\/span>, but is all about control<\/em><\/span>, “gay marriage” has nothing to do with either<\/em><\/span>, and is rather only about control<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s the juice: civil unions would have served to secure gay couples any legal rights available to their heterosexual counterparts<\/em><\/span>, which would have been<\/em><\/span> fine by us<\/em><\/span>, and certainly served the purported purpose<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 But legal recognition of gay unions isn’t<\/em><\/span> what the radicals behind the gay marriage movement EVER\u00a0<\/em>ULTIMATELY WANTED<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 THIS<\/em><\/span> is their goal, or at least the first step towards it:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beto threatens tax-exempt status of churches if they don’t support gay marriage<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

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And if the last ten years<\/em><\/span> have taught us anything<\/em><\/span>, it’s\u00a0what was in the past as an outlier in Progressive policie<\/em><\/span>s will rapidly<\/em><\/span> become an integral plank<\/em><\/span>…an unholy writ as it were…in future Progressive platforms.\u00a0 Because, as King recognized in Platoon<\/em>…<\/strong><\/p>\n