Star Parker readily admits she didn't read the book she decries; rather she skimmed it for all of five minutes. She recommends the same practice to others. Given Ms Parker's thumping, it's a safe bet she doesn't advocate this approach to the Bible.
Ms Parker isn't happy about Mary Cheney's book, Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life, or Cheney's insistence that gay marriage has a rightful and, what should be, a legal place in our society. Ms Parker chides Ms Cheney based on "a few breezy sentences" Ms Cheney wrote. Let's try that again. Ms Parker chides Ms Cheney based on "a few breezy sentences" Ms Parker bothered to read:
Cheney effortlessly transforms traditional marriage and family from the core institution on which our free society is built into an instrument of oppression.
The core institution on which our free society is built? Wake up and smell the History Channel. Let's review those good old days of yore when our "free" society was being built. (Enter melodious harp music here) Ah yes, when every native person was subject to death, rape, torture, and, if they were lucky, simply driven off of their own land. When Blacks were enslaved, beaten, starved, raped, and their families torn apart over nothing more than economics. When Blacks, Catholics, Irish, Germans, Italians, Mexicans, Jews and women were denied education, housing, employment, and the right to own property. When Blacks and women were not allowed to take their issues to the polls.
Not all people had rights equal to those who made the laws. That's oppression. The instrument? The United States Constitution. Read it and weep. Seriously, don't just skim. Ms Cheney didn't transform tradition into an instrument of oppression, but that is certainly what a Federal Marriage Amendment would do. Go ahead; tell me how it wouldn't.
Ms Parker and a glaring lack of evidence concludes that,
Growth in black lesbianism is generally the product of a culture where families already have been destroyed. These aren't pioneers venturing out of an intact family that has given them a good life, to discover a new "lifestyle." The injustice and discrimination they feel is to never have had the opportunity to grow up in an intact family and to understand what it means to have a man in your life who is responsible and from whom you can receive love and respect.
Article comments
1 - Brian Sorrell
Nicely done Diana.
It sounds to me as if Ms. Parker suffers from a disastrous collision of "Slippery Slope" and "Begging the Question" -- among other popular fallacies. I'm suprised that she didn't hurt herself.
2 - SteveS
That's a good article. I recently blogged my own plight in regards to marriage and was surprised to find the article was picked up by the Washington Blade BlogWatch.
Basically my sister, who I love dearly and had no intention of making her an example :-), got married recently. Her son is going off to college and she has no plans to have any more children.
Should her husband die, she now gets social security benefits and the whole protection of assets, etc.
Here I am with my partner and a 3 year old daughter and if my partner dies, we're basically going to become homeless because we won't get squat back from something we are required by law to pay into.
Families, real families suffer by this discrimination. Nobody is harmed by the inclusion, but people ARE harmed by the exclusion.
The government's recognition of family shouldn't be based on biblical tradition. Our government shouldn't be based on the Bible at all. I should be free from being held to biblical standards.
3 - NR Davis
Very well said, Steve.
4 - gulickgurl
That was said better than I could ever put words together Diana. I don't understand why this has to be such and issue. Rights, it's about rights, and not the Bible.
Thank you!
5 - therese
...without the gay dollar. you're a kidder. =) good article, lady.
6 - Lily H.
Star, Star, Star...when EVER will she quit?
For all her supposed conservative stances,
she needs to examine her life a mite closer
than the gays or others "beneath her station"
so to speak.
For all her "traditional values", Star has
been divorced for some time from the preacher
husband she'd married (read her first book),
though nowhere on her website does that appear.
Also, her second daughter from said marriage
DIED at the age of 14 after hanging out with
friends at a teenage nightclub in her area
in Orange County, yes, the sane O.C. of TV
fame. Wonder where Mom was when her child was
out doing what Mom used to do when she was
a "welfare queen"? Star is a sham artist of
the highest order.
7 - F S Jones
And don't forget the multiple abortions she's had (at least 3 by her own count). But then it was the abortion provider's fault she had them, according to one biography.