Calling Gay Capitalists

12Oct09


Let me preface myself by saying that as a libertarian, I am for gay rights in the same way that I am for the protection of the rights of all individuals from interference. The constitution guarantees gays and lesbians equal protection under the law. Any policy of the government to abridge those protections cannot stand.

Yesterday gay rights activists protested Washington in what's being called the National Equality March for, among other things, equal access to marriage and to serve openly in the armed forces.

These are issues of liberty. Yet one of the largest groups represented among the protesters seeks to destroy American liberty as we know it. The Party for Socialism and Liberation, a labor and community organizing party founded to promote, in their words "revolutionary change".

They advocate for American solidarity with Venezuela/Cuba, amnesty for illegal immigrants, unionizing of all industry, community organizing, and you guessed it, socialism.

They blame capitalism, which they define as "The system in which all wealth and power is held by a tiny group of billionaires and their state.", for everything from poverty to war to gay/lesbian oppression.

Webster's defines capitalism as:

"An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market."

I don't see anything in there about a preferred sexual orientation. The reality is, capitalism doesn't give a damn who you choose to sleep with. Capitalism isn't centrally planned. There's no set of bureaucrats to decide what groups are and are not desirable within an economy. If there were, that would be socialism.

The PSL doesn't care about the GLBT rights. This is just another example of socialists targeting a disenfranchised group of people from the left, and co opting its struggle for their own agenda. It was done to Blacks with Social Justice and Black Liberation Theology. It was done to Hispanics with La Raza. Gays and Lesbians are just the next minority to be used.

If you're Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual or Transgendered, stand up for all of your rights, and fight the socialist agenda that sees you as nothing more than a means to an end.