Breitbart.com Editor-at-Large Ben
Shapiro argues that Sunday's gay-inclusive Grammys weddings is an
example of Hollywood “killing” gay marriage.
(Related: Madonna,
Queen Latifah joined Macklemore at Grammy's Same
Love
weddings.)
In a TownHall.com op-ed titled How
Hollywood is Killing Same-Sex Marriage, Shapiro claimed that the
ceremony exposed the entertainment industry's “hatred of Biblical
values” and its “true agenda.”
“This wasn't an argument for same-sex
marriage,” Shapiro wrote. “It wasn't even attractive
image-making on behalf of same-sex marriage. It was hatred of
Biblical values cloaked in pietistic nonsense.”
“Begin with the marriages themselves.
The only rationale for getting married on the Grammys en masse would
be either attention-seeking or spite toward Americans with
traditional values, or both. Neither of these rationales scream
'love,' 'commitment' or 'societal building block.'”
“Move on to the cheering audience –
a group of anti-marriage Hollywoodites who largely see the
institution itself as patriarchal. The same folks standing up for
same-sex marriage at the Grammys largely scorn the institution of
marriage itself. The only time they embrace marriage is when it is
being mocked, undermined or perverted. That's not a cuddly case for
same-sex marriage.”
He later added: “For years, Hollywood
was able to get away with perverting the Bible by ignoring it. But
in its rush to congratulate itself for overthrowing Biblical values
without a shot, Hollywood spiked the football and revealed its true
agenda. And that agenda is not the agenda of tolerance for
individuals, but an ugly agenda of unearned moral superiority via
destruction of traditional values.”
Writing
at Equality Matters, Luke Brinker noted that Shapiro's “latest
tirade fits a pattern of homophobic statements.”
(Related: Conservatives
go nuts over gay-inclusive Grammys weddings.)