Roger Scruton wrote in the London Times about the singular success that gay activists have achieved in demonizing their opponents...

The gay intimidation campaign reaches toward the Pope

By Phil Lawler

 In his annual message for the World Day of Peace—a statement of nearly 3,600 words—Pope Benedict XVI devotes one sentence to the campaign to redefine marriage. 

And what happens? 

• Thousands of headlines announce that the Pope has condemned same-sex marriage as a threat to world peace.
• This spectacular over-reaction to a tangential remark is, as the director of the Vatican press office observed, “lacking in decent composure and sense of proportion: it consists in shouting, not in reasoning; it is intended to intimidate those who want to support this view freely in the public arena.”
• All too true. But here’s another factor. 
• By focusing obsessively on the issue of same-sex marriage, the mass media obscured the remainder of the papal message. 

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