For Michael Rajner, tolerance is a
one-way street.
By Peter
LaBarbera
If an honest
historian ever writes an objective history of homosexual activism in America,
he or she will have to document many incidents of the sort witnessed (and
enabled) by reporters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on Tuesday.
At the press
conference in support of Mayor Jim Naugle’s opposition to male-on-male
“public sex,” HIV-infected Michael Rajner of the “Campaign to End AIDS”
(or was that the “Coalition
to End Others’ Free Speech Rights”?)
decided he didn’t like what pro-family advocate Janet Folger of Faith2Action was saying in support of Naugle.
So Rajner did
what radical homosexual activists have done for years (think way back to Anita Bryant getting a
pie in the face …): he began shouting over Folger, who was speaking at
the microphone, drowning out her message and disrupting the Mayor’s press
conference. (He even accused Folger of “demonizing AIDS!”) The
media didn’t seem to protest.
You can watch
it all on this Sun-Sentinel
website — just click on the third video on the right, the one
innocuously titled, “Mayor
Naugle’s latest press conference turns heated.”
(The video could have been titled, “Homosexual activists shouts down
speaker at press conference.”)
Memo to Michael Rajner: next
time just call your own press conference.
If
Rajner’s self-important outburst wasn’t bad enough, the Sun-Sentinel then
proceeded to reward
him for for
it. The liberal newspaper gave its camera to Rajner for a one-on-one
web-video “reaction” to the Naugle press conference. You can view
Rajner’s cliche-ridden rant against Naugle and his supporters on the
same Sun-Sentinel
website (the second video down on the right), “Reaction
to Mayor Naugle’s press conference.”
Nothing
like creating an incentive for intolerance. Now try to imagine
the Sun-Sentinel
or any liberal media being similarly solicitous of a
conservative activist who shouted down a “gay”
speaker. Right. It’s time for the media to return to some
semblance of objectivity, and to stop coddling spoiled “gay”
activists who do not understand, or simply refuse to abide by, the rules of
fair play and civil discourse.