Tea at Trianon: Homophobic

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, July 3, 2015

Homophobic

I never cease to be amused by people who think that by calling me homophobic and invoking the f-word they will somehow force me to reconsider my beliefs. I have been called all kinds of names, including bigot, hater, homophobic, etc and it never had the desired effect. I no longer feel the need to justify my stance to those who use such names as they try to reduce me to a caricature. We each answer to God and His is the only opinion that matters. Share

3 comments:

julygirl said...: Yes.....I can only smile when I am called a bigot for believing marriage is between a man and a woman. Don't people who throw that terminology around realize they themselves are responding as bigots because they are intolerant of MY right to believe as I do? Do they not have the language to respond other than through name-calling?; July 4, 2015 at 12:44:00 PM EDT
Unknown said...: This jibe comes from a culture which holds real married couples in contemot and was calling them 'breeders' publically just 15 years ago. My whole life was twisted out of the true because my mother allowed a flamboyantly gay co-worker of my father's to rent a garage apartment & the whole ugly thing which was clear to anyone with eyes was passed.over. The areangeme t ended finally after a number of months - but along with my father's manner of dress and hair stylin from the late '60s thru the '80s I, as his sole som, was emotionally brutalized, with catastrophic results in my own life.; July 4, 2015 at 9:59:00 PM EDT
DanJay1983 said...: People that use the word homophobic have it backwards. You would be homophobic if you did NOT speak up. By stating your beliefs boldly and without fear, you are showing that you are not scared of them ;); July 5, 2015 at 12:17:00 PM EDT