Diversity requires uniformity

These twin brothers, David and Jason Benham, operate a real estate firm. They were going to host a home-decorating t.v. show on the HGTV network. Then, a left wing blog entitled Right Wing Watch reported that the brothers were "anti-gay" and "anti-choice." The Network changed its mind and cancelled the show.



Charles Cooke writes:

Future students of language will wonder at the period in our history in which it was said with a straight face that diversity required uniformity, tolerance necessitated intolerance, and liberalism called for dogma. Of late, we have been told that Brandeis University is simply too open-minded to hear from a critic of Islam, that Mozilla believes too vehemently in “freedom of speech” to refrain from punishing a man for his private views, and that a respect for the audience of a show about duck hunting demands that we suspend a man for expressing his religious views in an unrelated interview.

“Never,” David Benham confirmed in an interview with CNN, “have I spoken against homosexuals, as individuals, and gone against them. I speak about an agenda.” Later, he added that “that’s really what the point of this is — that there is an agenda that is seeking to silence the voices of men and women of faith.” Say, now where might he have got hold of that idea?

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