‘The Iron Fist of Gay “Democracy” Cometh

from Stand Firm by Matt Kennedy:

Tobias Haller has written a brief little post in response to the Russell Levenson's "Please let us keep our milk-money" article in the Virginia Theological Seminary Journal. The great thing about this piece is the way that Haller so off handedly notes the iron fist of inclusivity that impatiently hovers over the glass jaw of defacto local option. He writes:

"Baker's proposal [advocated by Levenson] seems to me merely to formalize (and set in concrete) more or less what we already have de facto in terms of the prevailing issue, anyway (which is the issue Baker uses to frame the proposal): i.e., no parish is forced to call a gay or lesbian priest, or perform a same-sex blessing. There are many dioceses in which neither will happen for quite some time. Should the day come when parishes are actually required so to do, it will only be because in the course of time opposition has so far dwindled that any "vote" such as Baker proposes would produce the same result. Just how much does a democratic institution have to allow a local veto to joint decisions -- at least in the official and formal way Baker suggests?"

Catch the whiff of jackboot? Hey, don't worry, we're all democratic here. We won't shoot you unless we think the majority wants you dead.