Before I encountered this American Thinker article, I had not paid much attention to Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign. After reading this article I firmly believe whoever is nominated should select him as their running mate.
While campaigning, Vivek Ramaswamy was approached by a woman who claims to be “pansexual” asking him about his opinions regarding the “LGBTQ+ community” and “same-sex couples.” Vivek calmly and politely explained that he believes America is falling victim to the “tyranny of the minority.” Although he spoke in a polite and respectful tone, what he said is a stronger answer than Republicans normally give and one that might play very well with the silent majority overwhelmed by slogans, yelling, and the other noise that characterizes today’s political discourse.
I have been making the exact same observation for decades. I first witnessed this back in the early 1990s, when I was a student at UMASS Amherst. That was my first exposure to the true political left. It was shocking to see how a small, yet extremely vocal, minority could trample on the beliefs and wishes of so many.
Vivek begins by accurately stating that so-called transgenderism is completely at odds with homosexuality. This is an important point. Homosexuality has been around since time immemorial, whether one likes it or not. Same-sex attraction is real. However, so-called “transgenderism” is a post-modern concept that has no basis in history or biology. Nevertheless, gay men are being told they’re really women, and lesbians are being told they’re really men—and then both are being pumped full of dangerous opposite-sex hormones and given mutilating surgery to prove this lie.
Regarding same-sex couples, Vivek said he doesn’t have a negative view, which is probably the case for most conservatives. I strongly disapprove of same sex-marriage because Justice Kennedy made up an imaginary constitutional right that smashes headlong into the actual First Amendment protection for religious liberty. And Vivek, to his credit, heads straight for that problem.
I agree with all the points he made. I have no problem with the idea of same sex marriage. I am absolutely opposed to forcing anyone to comply with anything they are opposed to. The Free Exercise of Religion Clause of the First Amendment protects our God-given Natural Right to believe and live our lives as we wish.
In America, he says, America is allowing a tyranny of the minority to force behaviors on people. “In the name of protecting against a tyranny of the majority…we have created a tyranny of the minority, and I think that’s wrong.” He’s absolutely correct.
Vivek continues, saying that it’s wrong to force religious people to preside over same-sex marriage ceremonies or to force women to compete against biological men or change clothes in a locker room with a man. “That’s not freedom,” he says, “that’s oppression.” Yes!
He is 100 percent correct.
Free adults, Vivek concludes, should be able to do as they will, up to a point, but they don’t get to force their behaviors on others. Those others, especially, include children, who are different from adults.
“I think a lot of frustration in the country—and if I’m being really honest, that I also share—comes from that new culture of oppression where saying those things [that is, opposing these aggressive new, leftist views] can actually get somebody punished.”
I don’t like the sentence “Free adults, Vivek concludes, should be able to do as they will, up to a point.” He needs to add the phrase “until they hurt others or interfere with the rights of others.” Then he would be voicing the true definition of liberty, which is the freedom to do as you wish, as long as you don’t hurt others, or interfere with the rights of others.
Today we have the Democrat Party, the Media, major corporations, Hollywood; all cramming this woke agenda down the throats of the entire nation, trying to force the vast majority of us to comply. That is the very definition of tyranny of the minority.
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