Ben Shapiro: Grammys Weddings Example Of Hollywood 'Killing' Gay Marriage

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On Top Magazine Staff
| January 30, 2014

Breitbart.com Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro argues that Sunday's gay-inclusive Grammys weddings is an example of Hollywood “killing” gay marriage.

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.”