Taking a Stand Against the Big Ginger Agenda
Replacing references to gay people with redheads in 10 quotes from this week’s news.
Homosexuality is universally accepted in scientific circles as simply one of many harmless examples of biological variation. So what happens when you replace references to gay people in some prominent news items with references to another example of natural biological variation, specifically, being redheaded?
Read on.
“If a ginger couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no,” says Crystal O’Connor of Memories Pizza. “We’re not discriminating against anyone, that’s just our belief and anyone has the right to believe in anything.”
“What about the religious liberties of Americans who do not want to feel compelled by law to provide a catering service or a photography service to a marriage of redheads that their faith teaches is wrong? That’s a valid constitutional concern.” — Sen. Marco Rubio, TX
“I have also heard that this could be a capitulation that enshrines redheaded behavior as a special right in Indiana.” — Micah Clark, executive director of the American Family Association of Indiana
“Wal-mart prefers ginger rights to religious liberty. Is this to the culture war what the Cronkite Moment was to Vietnam?” — Rod Dreher, conservative journalist
“The bill Gov. Pence signed yesterday INCREASES the chance that redheads will be able to throw Christians in jail.” — Bryan Fischer, host of Focal Point, American Family Radio
“The Fortune 500 is running shamelessly to endorse the radical ginger marriage agenda over religious liberty, to say: ‘We will persecute a Christian pastor, a Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi.’” — Ted Cruz, Texas Senator, Republican Presidential candidate.
“The ginger lobby as it stands has become probably the most organized and powerful way to force America down this kind of destructive path.” — Rev. C.J. Conner, Christ the King Lutheran Church, Dodge City, Kansas
“I was opposed to allowing openly ginger men and boys in Scouts. If you’re going to allow self-identified redheaded youth to be scouts, what happens at the age of 18? Why is that a magic cutoff number?” — Robert Schwarzwalder, a senior vice president at the Family Research Council
“I don’t think I’ve ever used the word ginger rights, because I don’t really believe in rights based on your behavior.” — Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky
“Some of them have been Mao-Maoed by what’s called the ginger mafia. They don’t want to take the grief. Or they themselves are complicit to some degree with the arguments [for moral acceptance of the redheaded lifestyle]. Or some of these publications also have been infiltrated.” — Conservative writer Robert R. Reilly as quoted by Reed Irvine, conservative media critic in “Even Conservatives Are Cowering Before Big Media On Redhead Issues”
*Only the words in bold in these quotations have been altered
A response to this exercise, of course, might be that replacing references to homosexuality with being redheaded is unfair because many people sincerely believe homosexuality is sinful. Of course, that’s partly the point. People also long believed that interracial marriage was sinful (factually, many still do) and there’s no shortage of examples throughout history of people regarding innocuous human characteristics such as being left-handed or redheaded with suspicion and even contempt, too. We need to be have an open conversation with people about their belief that homosexuality is sinful because that belief causes great harm to gay people and the larger LGBT community.
