Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan
has compared gay rights activists to former Cuban President Fidel
Castro.
Castro assumed military and political
power after leading the Cuban Revolution against Cuban President
Fulgencio Batista. Under Castro's rule, Cuba was transformed into a
socialist state with close ties to the Soviet Union.
In a Townhall.com
op-ed, Buchanan lamented the “long retreat in the culture war.”
“Soon, same-sex marriages will likely
be declared a right hidden in the Constitution and entitled to all
the privileges and benefits accorded traditional marriages. Next,
those who refuse to provide services to same-sex weddings will become
the criminals,” Buchanan wrote.
“Thus does biblical truth become
bigotry in Obama's America.”
“And the process has been steadily
proceeding for generations.”
“First comes a call for tolerance for
those who believe and behave differently. Then comes a plea for
acceptance. Next comes a demand for codifying in law a right to
engage in actions formerly regarded as debased or criminal. Finally
comes a demand to punish any and all who persist in their public
conduct or their private business in defying the new moral order.”
“And so it goes with revolutions. On
the assumption of power, revolutionaries become more intolerant than
those they dispossessed.”
“The French Revolution was many times
more terrible than the Bourbon monarchy. The Russian Revolution made
the Romanovs look benign. Fidel Castro's criminality exceeded
anything dreamt of by Fulgencio Batista.”