Leftists Show
Their Tolerance, Try to Give Pat Boone the Boot
Adrian College
faculty and students in Adrian, Mich., are working to “disinvite” singer Pat
Boone as the college’s commencement speaker because of his writings for World
Net Daily.
Boone, who is a well-known Christian
speaker, has drawn the ire of the college’s liberals, who can’t stand that he has
dared to question President Obama’s birth certificate,
which is downloadable at the White House website.
A Facebook page organized by student
Chelsea Blankinship claims, with no apparent awareness of irony, that Boone’s
columns on the WND site promote “racism, sexism, homophobia and religious
intolerance” and therefore he deserves to be banned from Adrian College.
The school’s faculty association has
voted to condemn the selection of Boone as speaker and demand that the college
withdraw his invitation. The faculty, also apparently with a sense of irony,
condemned Boone’s “inflammatory kinds of rhetoric.”
Blankinship cites a 2008 article by
Boone that she characterizes as “outside the bounds of decency and morality” by
comparing gays to terrorists.
What Boone actually said was that
while there have been no gay-rights bombings, the level of anger demonstrated
by gay activists is comparable to that among terrorist groups.
It’s a valid comparison. Gay activist
groups have proven time and again to be disruptive, disrespectful and
destructive in their methods of protest. They share with terrorist groups a
desire to tear down existing societal norms and replace them with their own
twisted vision. Toward that end, both gay
activist groups and terrorist groups employ propaganda campaigns that target
all age groups and promote re-education (mandatory brainwashing) or punishment
of those who disagree.
“Hate, unbridled, will eventually and
inevitably boil into violence,” Boone writes in the column that has so offended
Blankinship. “How crazily ironic that the homosexual activists and sympathizers
cry for ‘tolerance’ and ‘equal rights’ and understanding – while they spew
vitriol and threats and hate at those who disagree with them on moral and
societal grounds.”
Blankinship says, “When someone makes
their living declaring hate and intolerance, he has no place on a college
campus that was founded as a campus that accepts diversity.”