Posted by
David S. on Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:45:20 AM
This is what Sean Penn said at that silly movie-awards ceremony:
I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone.
Thank you, Sean Penn, for the sanctimonious lecture.
Yes, I oppose so-called homosexual “marriages.” Yes, I supported — and still support — Proposition 8.
Still, I think I’ll retain the right to decide for myself what I should and should not be ashamed of, and what my children and grandchildren will learn and cleave to. Thanks. In any case, as concerns virtue and personal morality, I will not be needing — or heeding — the counsel of some Hollywood player with a record of drunkenness and hooliganism, who has been divorced and remarried, has fathered children out of wedlock and committed adultery, and who evidently approves of all manner of sexual libertinism in the lives of others as well.
I am content with my own "unevolved" family values, based in my own traditions and Christian beliefs. These continue to work for me, my household and the community of which I have chosen to be a part. I will hold to these, and Mr. Missionary Penn is welcome to take his post-modernist, "post-Christian," metro-lib version of the White-man’s burden somewhere else.
But given that Penn is so flush with self-satisfaction at having played that great martyr, Harvey Milk — OK, I'll join him in one song: Anybody here seen our old friends Abraham, Martin and John — and Harvey?