{"id":24317,"date":"2011-12-07T14:47:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T21:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/peter-sprigg-is-a-dolt.html"},"modified":"2011-12-07T23:26:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T06:26:02","slug":"peter-sprigg-is-a-dolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/peter-sprigg-is-a-dolt.html","title":{"rendered":"Peter Sprigg is a Dolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sprigg, of the Family Research Council, is appalled at the &quot;fanatical&quot; &quot;cultural imperialism&quot; of the Obama Administration saying that respect for the human rights of gays in a given country will be taken into consideration in foreign aid decisions.<\/p>\n<p>1. So we should only push for equal treatment of certain rights if they are universally accepted, lest we be guilty of &quot;cultural imperialism&quot;? What human rights are, in fact, universally accepted, Peter? Quite a number of nations don&#39;t believe in religious tolerance (at least as the US recognizes it). Should we not consider that, either?<\/p>\n<p>2. Is overseas missionary work &quot;cultural imperialism,&quot; Peter?<\/p>\n<p>3. <i>&quot;It\u2019s ironic that they are pushing this issue while at the same time deemphasizing the recognized right of religious liberty&quot;<\/i> &#8211; a calumny that usually boils down to &quot;not letting me discriminate against others using my religion as an excuse.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>4. In speaking against gay rights as fundamental human rights, Peter says, <i>&quot;These type of human rights and civil rights protections are usually granted for characteristics that are inborn, involuntary\u2009\u2014\u2009you can\u2019t choose them\u2009\u2014\u2009immutable\u2009\u2014\u2009you can\u2019t change them &#8230;&quot;<\/i>  So (even if one buys the idea that homosexuality is some sort of chosen predilection) does that mean that freedom of conscience, belief, religion, is also not a human\/civil right?<\/p>\n<p>Dolt. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthenewcivilrightsmovement.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F12%2Fsprigg-.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thenewcivilrightsmovement.com\/watch-obama-lgbt-rights-policy-fanatical-cultural-imperialism-says-frc\/politics\/2011\/12\/07\/31398#.Tt_cQrJCo8k'>Watch: Obama LGBT Rights Policy Fanatical Cultural Imperialism Says FRC<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPeter Sprigg says President Obama\u2019s international LGBT rights policy is \u201cfanatical\u201d \u201ccultural imperialism,\u201d adding there is not universal acceptance for gay rights.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sprigg, of the Family Research Council, is appalled at the &quot;fanatical&quot; &quot;cultural imperialism&quot; of the Obama Administration saying that respect for the human rights of gays in a given country will be taken into consideration in foreign aid decisions. 1. So we should only push for equal treatment of certain rights if they are universally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/peter-sprigg-is-a-dolt.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peter Sprigg is a Dolt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,100,10,25,110],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dolts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-gay-stuff","category-religious-zanies","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21304,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/17\/unblogged-bits-fri-17-jun-11-1130.html","url_meta":{"origin":24317,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Fri. 17-Jun-11 1130)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 17-Jun-11 11:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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