October 28, 2004

Close-mindedness about certain issues and the inability to see the truth

My friend John pointed to a post, statin':

If a person can say that they recommend the death penalty for two adults who aren't harming anyone, then we really need to consider what kind of moonbats there are attempting to run the country. - SilverBlue
Now I have a great understandin' of John's viewpoint and can understand why the guy bothers him. However, the man never said he recommended the death penalty in such a case.
Finberg was asked: "If there was a law that supported the execution of people found guilty of performing homosexual acts, would you support that law?"

After stating "Unfortunately, nearly 300,000 Americans have suffered the death penalty as a result of homosexual activity," Finberg answered, "Yes, if it were the law of the land. Yes." Scott-Daily Kos [emphasis: boldin' present in original text, italics supplied]

Scott, of course, as one could expect from anyone associated with the Daily Kos only made such mention so as throw suspicion upon said Finberg in an effort to assist in the election of his Democratic opponent. In fact, as is often the case in most of what one finds on The Daily Kos, Scott blatantly misstated the truth about those statements when he said:
In this video, Finberg actually says that he would support a law for the execution of people found guilty of performing homosexual acts. -Id [emphasis supplied]
He actually said no such thing. Scott linked the video, and, for the sake of utter truthfulness, I watched it to confirm he had also correctly transcribed the actual content thereof. As such, the statement made by Rev. Finberg was that if the law of the land mandated that people were to executed for the commission of homosexual acts, he would support such law. In essence, he simply said that he would support the law of the land. Although those who oppose him would urge that this is an outrageous viewpoint, for his to have answered otherwise would have been a statement that he, a candidate runnin' for office would not be willin' to follow the law of the land. From my view of the video, this whole scenario was a nicely laid trap by his detractors in an attempt to make his say somethin' other than what he said, and when he didn't make that statement, they are workin' hard to put the words in his mouth they had hoped he would say.

I am sorry, John, but first of all, this guy is an avowed fundamental Christian, and, as such, is likely gonna be anti-gay. I would expect you to neither support nor applaud anythin' he does. Thankfully, in accordance with the recent SCOTUS rulin', homosexual activity, in and of itself, is not illegal. I 'spect ol' Rev. Finberg, despite his abhorrence of homosexuality and disbelief that such is a true sexual preference will follow the law of the land that says ya can't arrest people for such acts, therefore, ya really can't execute them for it. John, ya are my friend, and like I say, I appreciate your viewpoint and ain't even against ya makin' a stand against this certain individual. Please, please, jes' don't follow the Kos truth-twistin' example and accuse the man of sayin' somethin' that he really didn't say.

OTBTJTB

Posted by Tiger at October 28, 2004 04:53 PM
Comments

Tiger...some things don't have to be twisted too far to take them to extremes -- consider anything that comes out of the "Reverend" Fred Phelps and his Church of Hate.

The proper thing that this moonbat could have said would have been that he would work for justice -- death is an extreme penalty to be paid in any case (of course, living in Texas, you realize this), but even so... laws are created by man, and can be changed. Just my take.

I did put an Ed. Note on my blog regarding this item.

Thanks for your input! :-)

Posted by: John at October 28, 2004 05:08 PM