HOME  Pro-Gay Haters against "Hate": Reply to Frank Rich of the New York Times    5/16/05

by Rabbi David Eidensohn

In his New York Time's column of May 15, 2002, entitled Just How Gay is the Right?, Frank Rich tears into the Right for hating homosexuals. He writes, "unprincipled gay-baiting has mushroomed into a full-fledged political movement. It's a virulent animosity toward gay people that really unites the leaders of the anti-"activist" judiciary crusade."

This bald lie, with flecks of saliva dripping off every syllable, accuses me of being a hater, because if I oppose political gay programs, if I oppose certain judicial practices, it is not because I disagree with them intellectually, but because I am a putrid primal primitive from the pits.

I am against activist judges for the simple reason that America is a democracy. When we turn over the control of the country to judges, we have no control ourselves. Those who oppose surrendering the constitutional prerogatives of the executive and legislative branches to the judiciary do so because they are right. Democracy does not mean someone appointed forty years ago turning our laws upside down because of some archaic belief.

Those who oppose the Gay Lobby do so because the Gay Lobby makes terrible laws, such as removing AIDS and HIV from the list of infectious diseases in New York and other Gay Lobby states. When people like Frank Rich lie through his teeth in the name of the New York Times, and convince people that the Gay Lobbyists are kind and wonderful people and religious family people like me are evil, the Gay Lobby convinces people to pass ridiculous laws that cause incredible death and destruction. 100,000 people in New York State have HIV, and almost all of them would not be sick if AIDS and HIV were on the list of infectious diseases. Thus, the Gay Lobby is a lobby of murder. And Frank Rich is their spokesman. They kill, and he lies. But if they kill, it is because of his lies.

The very arrogance of someone telling me not what is wrong with my beliefs, but that I am mentally ill if I believe something, is not just pathetic. It is extremely dangerous. This was the way of the Bolsheviks, who took people like me and put them either in the grave, or in Siberia, or, in mental asylums, because I had not discovered the glory of Communism, and believed that G-d was alive. Now, of course, Bolshevism is dead, and G-d is alive. But now, the enlightened left has a new cause. They want to enslave the world in their social and philosophical mantras. Whoever resists must be reprogrammed.

I remember Frank Rich when we were at in the Paris Commune, two centuries ago. He was a revolutionary who wanted to do away with monarchy and the church. In of itself, we could, if we were so inclined, study the intellectual reasons why people wanted to do away with a monarchy or a church. However, our intellect would be quite strained when we see Frank Rich and his fellows dragging people, from here or there, for no rational reason, to the guillotine. I remember the day as if it was yesterday, and not centuries ago. Thousands of people, from all walks of life, came running to absorb the spectacle of their neighbors, people they worked with, people they knew or did not know, walking their final steps in this world. Crash! The blade descends, and in the most scientific manner, designed by a doctor, the head is removed and the body collapses.

Frank Rich was there, inspiring them. "Hate, hate, hate," he said. "These people are vicious. They people represent decadence. Worse, I don't like these people." The crowd, most of them waving the latest edition of the New York French Times, shouted with glee.

After that, I lost track of Frank for over a century, until the Russian Revolution. I saw him again, driving a group of stockholders into a waiting train. I don't know where he took them. A crowd gathered, and Frank stood before them, rousing them to more and more hate. "Kill, kill, kill the enemies of socialism" they screamed.

And now, Frank and I meet once again. This time, however, he is after me. He wants people to hate me, and when they do...