No Compromise

Bill Buckley taking on Gore Vidal during coverage on ABC of the Democratic National Convention in 1968. If you haven’t seen it, you should check it out on YouTube.

News that a reality TV series has been picked up by HGTV caught my attention because of two factors: the two primary stars have been labeled as “anti-gay” and one of them cited an interview with Ken Hutcherson, former pro football player and pastor, who died in December.²

Of course, in today’s anything goes world, refusing to endorse homosexuality is anti-gay. Not going along with gay marriage makes you a bigot.

Hutch was a man who stood on principle, no matter the fallout. We should heed his advice. It is never right to compromise on core values.

Sure, I lose friends and cousins because I take unpopular stands. I write about it, and some don’t like it. So be it.

As Bill Buckley so aptly put it, we are the fellows who stand athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’ Unfortunately, many are not heeding the repeated warnings.

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1. Vidal vs. Buckley on ABC while at the Dem Convention, 1968
2. Of course, minutes after finishing this post, I learned that the feckless cowards at HGTV have pulled the plug on the series. The gay mafia strikes again.