Cooper's execrable line of questioning -- which embraces exactly the sort of amoral, heinous equivalency I earnestly urged against in my Monday essay -- basically demanded that Bondi justify her public revulsion at the slaughter "despite" the fact that she's opposed same-sex marriage and defended her state's ban of the practice in court. How could she pledge to prosecute anti-gay violence to the fullest extent of the law when she'd never even promoted gay pride on social media? That is literally a question that a respected news anchor decided would be relevant and appropriate to ask in this context.This is the kind of cultural dare I was talking about in my post "Day-After Reflections." The outpouring of grief and sympathy for survivors of the Orlando horror was sure to reinforce the notion so prevalent in our society that Christians, or anyone who doesn't subscribe to the notion that homosexuals can be truly married, were to shut up and move on.
Benson - who is gay - points out that Cooper is attempting to construct a phony syllogism:
Many Lefties and press types are giddy over Cooper's performance, for which he should actually be embarrassed. There is precisely zero hypocrisy -- none -- in an elected official both (a) opposing same-sex marriage as a public policy matter, and (b) unequivocally blasting the mass murder of gay people, and vowing to do everything in her power to prevent or severely punish similar outrages in the future. This should be patently obvious to anyone who doesn't reflexively assume that all opposition to gay rights legislative efforts are rooted in "hate."I was ripped into on Facebook for my post the other day by a gay man who wanted to know how I could, at a time of such catastrophe and tragedy, preoccupy myself with matters such as I did.
Well, because I was sure that someone in a position like Anderson Cooper's would "go there" and further balkanize our already fractured society.
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