MSNBC's Pat Buchanan argues strongly
against gay rights in his new book Suicide of a Superpower.
The 72-year-old Buchanan is currently a
political commentator on cabler MSNBC's Morning Joe and a
regular on The McLaughlin Group, the syndicated half-hour
weekly public affairs program broadcast primarily on public
television stations.
In Suicide of a Superpower,
Buchanan rails against gay rights, in particular the repeal of “Don't
Ask, Don't Tell” and the increasing legalization and acceptance of
gay marriage.
On DADT: “Indoctrination of recruits,
soldiers and officers into an acceptance of the gay lifestyle will
transfer authority over the military, the most respected institution
in America, to agents of a deeply resented and widely detested
managerial state.”
On marriage equality: “[Judge] Vaughn
Walker, a gay federal judge in San Francisco, has ruled that same-sex
marriage is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. Can anyone
believe, this absurd notion of equality was intended by or written
into the Constitution by the Congress that produced the 14th
Amendment? Although gay marriage has been rejected in 31 states in
referenda, judges continue to declare that such unions be treated as
marriages. An idea of equality rejected democratically by voters is
being imposed dictatorially.” (The video is embedded in the right
panel of this page.)