Jason Collins, The Media, And The Gay Agenda

By now almost everyone has learned of the incredible news, a saga of almost unprecedented courage and triumph, high character and moral rectitude.  And across the media and political firmament, there has been an outpouring of praise, plaudits, and acclaim for this singular achievement, for surely this moment must rank with the great milestones of history: the Ten Commandments, the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, and even the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama.  Yes, the world has been renewed, somehow made better, and, perhaps, now, after this epoch-making revelation, we can move forward into a brave and glorious future, emboldened by the historic announcement by NBA player Jason Collins... that he is gay.

With the event and its aftermath now over, including the hysterical performance of the media, not to mention a misguided but entirely predictable Presidential phone call, one must ask - other than for the obvious misfits - who really cares?  Of what significance is it to anyone what kind of sex Collins enjoys?  And how does such an announcement come to be equated with audacity and heroism, a breakthrough for civil rights, even a Jackie Robinson moment? 

Such over-the-top comparisons are in fact insulting to the memory of Jackie Robinson, an authentic American hero who faced institutionalized and rampant racism when he singlehandedly broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers, paving the way for a deluge of talented black athletes and later Hispanics who would come to dominate much of American sports.  Robinson’s efforts opened the doors not just for black athletes, but for blacks in all walks of life, leading today to our first black President, a man, I suspect Robinson, a Republican, would not have favored.  

Gays today face nothing of the systemic and unchecked bigotry that Robinson confronted.  Such hapless and trite comparisons are, in fact, a complete perversion of reality.  There is nothing particularly intrepid today in declaring that one is a homosexual; to be gay is “cool” by current lights; homosexuals are accepted in American society, showcased in a multitude of cultural venues and programs, in the media, the academy, and Hollywood, treated as members of an enlightened vanguard, given every advantage and protection, and extolled as paragons of virtue and sobriety, heroic even, as we have seen with the bizarre obsession and carnival celebration over Collins’s unremarkable admission.  This was hardly the treatment afforded Robinson in his time, as the recent movie about his life, “42,” amply demonstrates. 

The far more difficult (but infinitely more beneficial) admission by a prominent black athlete (and, truth be told, Collins is a back-bencher), who was, say, happily married and with children, particularly as the black community has been devastated by soaring rates of illegitimacy, would have been to have declared that he was heterosexual, devoted to wife and children, and believed deeply in the institution of marriage as the union of a man and woman, and the single greatest model for raising children known to man, far better than any government program; an institution so critical to the health of a society that it must not be diminished in anyway through the common acceptance of such alternative templates as “gay marriage.” 

Had such an individual spoken thusly, why the gates of hell themselves would have opened upon him and engulfed him and his beloved family in searing flames of calumny and scorn, an inferno of contempt and sneering opprobrium, with hateful accusations of bigotry visited upon him, and from the very likes as we have seen so smitten by their beloved gay athlete and his “courageous” statement.  Now that would have been courageous.

Nor does the Collin’s provocation and the media bacchanal do anything but distract from the moribund state of the nation, its flat line economy, exploding debt, collapsing welfare state, and the inundation of the nation with third world illegals possessing little education or skills and no English. 

But with the left and its media appendage, it is always about narratives and long-term goals, which, beneath the smiling patina of the charming news host or glib politician, the facade of tolerance and broad mindedness, they pursue with ardor and intensity.  Indeed, the homosexual agenda (along with its counterpart, “feminism”) is but another arrow in its quiver by which to undermine society, to fracture and uproot its time-honored institutions, and, particularly, to chip away at that great bulwark against collectivism, the traditional family.

Indeed, it is the traditional family, that critical but now crumbling edifice that stands in the way of the left’s efforts to level society into one vast, gray Soviet tapestry.  By weakening the traditional family, the “patriarchal,” “heteronormative” family, as many on the left see it, an oppressive institution, which degrades women, indoctrinates children, and creates autonomous domestic units ("families") that resist, through their independence and functionality, the encroaching state, the left can more fully dominate the public square. 

The media “celebration” over Collins’s announcement, a bizarre festival endorsing homosexuality, advocating and promoting it as something gallant and redemptive, even to be emulated, served to mock and humiliate those who hew to their traditions and religious beliefs, to undermine their values, to disable our vital institutions, and to, finally, prepare the ground for the collapse of the “heteronormative,” of a society based not on families with husbands, wives, fathers, and mothers, but centralized, authoritarian government. 

So, what, then, are we to make of a nation and its media that chirps and blathers like juveniles about a man declaring his sexual preferences, as if he had announced a cure for cancer?  Well, it reflects a nation in deep moral and cultural decline. 

It is time to challenge our liberal masters on every front including and, perhaps, most importantly, matters of culture.