Liberal Hypocrisy

Ok, I just need to get something off my chest. This whole “Miss California” scandal angers me, but not for the reasons most of you would assume, coming from me.

If I had to choose between calling myself Liberal or Conservative, yes, I would say I am Liberal. But above all, I am RATIONAL and LOGICAL. As such, nothing angers me more than a hypocrite because a hypocrite is someone whose actions and/or words contradict each other—the antithesis of reason and logic.

It seems to have become vogue to associate conservatives with hypocrisy (or maybe that’s just because I live in a liberal social sphere?), but liberals can be just as hypocritical. And being that I associate myself with liberalism, it probably angers me more to see a liberal hypocrite than a conservative one; it undermines what liberals stand for.

As such, it really makes me mad that Liberal Media & Co. has crucified this Miss California woman FOR STATING HER OPINION! For the love of Darwin, do you not see the hypocrisy here?! No, I do not agree with her opinion. But it is her opinion. And if you listen to her response, she is fairly diplomatic about it. Here’s a link to the video of her response: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XMvviFbkf0

Now, I’m not saying it was the most intelligent of responses (“in my country…” xD), nor the most direct (she never specifically answered the question about whether or not other states should legalize gay marriage) but it was honest. She said that she was glad that Americans are able to choose one or the other but that she herself believes marriage should be between a man and a woman. This was actually quite bold, given that the question came from judge Perez Hilton, an openly gay man. She could have played it safer and given him the answer he wanted to hear, but instead she remained true to her beliefs.

Let me be clear: I do NOT agree with Miss California’s opinion; I think same-sex marriage should be legal throughout this country. I could come up with many arguments against her position and I could point out many inconsistencies in her beliefs (as further articulated in her recent press conference), but that is not my point here.

My message is to you, my fellow liberal friends: Please remember that freedom of speech is the cornerstone of liberal values. Do not censor your enemy; if you believe so strongly that they are wrong, then this should be apparent when they speak. And if so, present your counterargument and disprove your opponent. This is the only noble way to fight for your cause. Anything less will only work against you.

Meddlesome Mason

Human beings
are nothing but cookie jars
full of
frosted contradictions
and I just caught
God
red-handed,
trying to lick the frosting
off one of mine
and put it back
into the jar.

Conviction

I have faith in nothing.
I’ve lost trust in everything.
Things I once believed were true
are now just possible answers
to impossible questions.

And I question everything.

My intuition tells me yes
but my brain wonders
well why not no?
And then I’m left
without any convictions
except maybe the certainty
that I will never be certain.

Now most people do not need to be certain.
They jump on whims
and attach faith to the outcome.
But when I jump
I’m silently questioning all along
if I’m really going to land on solid ground.
Most of the time I don’t.
But sometimes I do.
And this inconsistency
is what stripped me of faith in the first place.

Or maybe it’s because
logic and faith
are mutually exclusive.
And I will always err toward the former.

In any case
I am lost in a world without answers
with a mind that demands them,
a heart that ignores them,
and a soul that suffers the consequences.

05-April-2006

We

We are a generation of thrill-seekers.
Of broken promise-keepers.
Of flesh-colored water-proof Neosporin bandages.

We are ten steps ahead
but nine lives behind.

We are the deaf
signing to the blind.

Torn between
finding ourselves
and healing the world.
Our only solution is
to medicate both.

It’s not about survival.
It’s about out-shining your rival.
Coveting your neighbor
as if money was your savior
and still finding the time
to polish your shoes every Sunday.

We dread Monday
for all its
paper-pushing petty politics
but come Friday
we go cashing our paychecks
just to throw it all
back into the system
with a round of Happy Hour margaritas
while we complain about
the way our bosses treat us.

Not realizing that we
are our own bosses
who have sold ourselves to slavery
in the most unrighteous
but perfectly legal
sale of souls.

We are more lost than we know.

…

University

One day
the history books will say,
“In a galaxy far, far away,
Homosapiens destroyed
their own Planet Earth.”

God Bless America

You speak of
freedom and democracy
but practice
pure hypocrisy.
Tell me,
What Would Jesus Do
if he heard your twisted words?
Have you confessed to him
each mortal sin
you’ve committed in his name?
By now your sacred Savior
should be overcome with shame.
Heathens cannot go to Heaven
and St. Peter won’t be fooled.
Blood and oil,
those are heavy stains
that cannot be removed.
Yet you preach on about purity
and all that you are not.
“Do unto others
as you would ask of them.”
Well… just tell Him you forgot.