Death By Jurisdiction ? 2

Whoa, fags............talk about Synchronicity.......less than 24 hours after we uploaded Death By Jurisdiction ?  commenting on the Entitlement Mentality of Faggotry and Same Sex Spousal Benefits being one of the drivers for Gay Marriage, we find an interview with libertarian feminist Wendy McElroy uploaded on 17 March 2013 on the Daily Bell entitled, "Wendy McElroy on the Right to Pornography and The Art of Being Free".

We excerpt the good bits below.  Underlining and bold print by FuelMix:

Daily Bell:  Where do you stand on issues such as gay marriage? Is it important for the state to sanction marriage? 

Wendy McElroy:  The first thing to note about gay marriage is that it is not a rights issue. No one has a right to be married by the state; I may have the legal ability to do so but not the right. To the extent anyone can be said to have a right to marry, it is only as an extension of the right to contract. And that is what marriage should be – a private contract between two adults ... or as many adults as are involved. Marriage by the state actually denies this freedom of contract because the state imposes its own terms on marriage and divorce, as well as upon any children there may be.

I understand the passion with which people argue for gay marriage. About two years ago, I wrote an article entitled "The Lurking Urge to Applaud Gay Marriage." This is one of the few issues on which my mind and my emotions are at odds. Intellectually, and as a final position, I want government OUT of all aspects of personal and family life. The "lurking urge to applaud" comes from how vividly I remember the shame, the fear and the outright danger with which gays lived only a few decades ago. When I get discouraged about society, I remind myself of the areas of life that are now far better. The acceptance of gays is one of them.

And, yet, I suspect much of the drive behind gay marriage is not justice but a desire for entitlements such as the mandated health coverage that heterosexual partners often receive from an employer. Again, I applaud any employer who treats gay couples as he would all other employees. But no one – heterosexual or gay – has the right to impose the cost of a personal choice, like marriage, on an unconsenting third party, like an employer. Fully half the articles I've read on gay marriage laud the extension of marriage "benefits." This means a heavier burden on taxpayers and employers. I do not want to expand entitlements to gays. I want to end entitlements for heterosexuals.


and it gets better.......


Daily Bell:  Why are people who are not in traditional heterosexual relationships so quick to turn to the state for protection? 

Wendy McElroy:   In two words: identity politics. A fairly standard definition of the term is "the politics of group-based movements who allege to represent the interests (and thus the identity) of a particular group." The group is often based on race, gender, or sexual orientation. Identity politics is now the defining force of society.

Society has been divided into distinct political classes that are said to have antagonistic interests: blacks against whites, women against men, gays against heterosexuals. It is a politics of oppression that puts Marxism to shame. It focuses, not on the individual rights of the group members, but on the interests that all members allegedly share. Receiving the same treatment from government as other groups 'enjoy' is high on the hierarchy of shared interests.

This is a sharp departure from the conception of rights as being universal to all human beings. It is a sharp departure from the steady progress of liberty that has occurred over the last centuries. One way to look at the growth of liberty is as the breaking down of barriers between human beings so that freedom is equally claimed. For example, instead of only the elite having a right to property, the peasants did as well. Instead of only men being able to contract, women could sign their own as well. Not just whites but blacks ... and so on.

The steady expansion of individual rights has been halted in its tracks and is being reversed by a political correctness that views secondary characteristics (such as race and gender) as more important than our shared humanity. It is our shared humanity that is primary. First and finally, we are all human beings.

........Awww.........and you faggots keep accusing us of internalised homophobia because we consistently strip away the Political Correctness of Faggotry to bring you a new M2M paradigm of thought and behaviour.

We should start charging for this blog.

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