He’s at it again. Throwing chum to his followers to get them in a frenzy.
Georgia’s own Erick Erickson, taking advantage of the horrible terrorist attack in France against innocent people at a satirical newspaper, is now comparing gay people to, yes, those same terrorists.
In a blog posted yesterday the day after Mayor Kasim Reed fired Kelvin Cochran as the city’s fire chief for insubordination and violating city policy, the conservative blogger and radio hosts goes on his own mission to make a martyr of Cochran.
A publisher published something that offended. It mocked, it offended, and it showed the fallacy of a religion. It angered.
So the terrorists decided they needed to publicly destroy and ruin the publisher in a way that would not only make that destruction a public spectacle, but do it so spectacularly that others would think twice before publishing or saying anything similar.
The terrorist wants to sow fear. The destruction of an individual is not just meant to be a tool of vengeance, but a tool of instruction. It shows others what will happen to them if they dare do the same. It is generates self-regulating peer pressure. Others, fearing the fall out, will being to self-police and self-regulate. They will silence others on behalf of the terrorists. Out of fear, they will drive the ideas from the public square and society will make them off limits.
It is not because the ideas are bad, but because the ideas offend a group that can destroy and tear down.
So when a publisher published something that mocked and offended a group prone to offense at such things, something had to happen.
The terrorists did what had to be done to publicly destroy and ruin the offender.
So they demanded the Mayor of Atlanta fire the Chief of the Fire Department for daring to write that his first duty was to “glory God” and that any sex outside of heterosexual marriage was a sin.
And the terrorists won in Atlanta.
If we think we can rest on our laurels in Georgia, we only need to read this one person’s blog to know the fight for equality is turning ugly once again. There is no time to rest. Expect to see the battles at the General Assembly become fierce as we fight for our equality while the religious right makes the ousted fire chief the face for the fight for so-called “religious liberty.”