David Codrea via Guns magazine-
“Jesus wouldn’t join the NRA,” filmmaker and philanthropist Abigail
E. Disney insisted in a Reuters “editorial” that really amounted to free
advertising for her directorial debut. The Armor of Light
follows a crisis of conscience for Evangelical minister Rev. Rob Schenck
as he struggles with the question of whether it’s possible to be
pro-life and pro-gun, a false assumption from the outset. Schenck is
joined on camera by a mother questioning “stand your ground” laws
following the shooting death of her son. With just that information,
it’s not unfair to assume the film is anti-gun. Approving reviews by
politically-supportive film critics don’t dispel that expectation.
It’s also not unfair to assume Reuters has an agenda, and one that’s
being pushed with a theme. Simultaneously appearing on their “Analysis
& Opinions” web page, along with the Disney piece, was a bit of
wishful thinking by George Mason University professor of public and
international affairs, Bill Schneider.
“Public opinion on guns seems to be going in the same direction as it
did on same-sex marriage,” Schneider wrote. “The religious right lost
the fight against same-sex marriage. The gun lobby may lose the fight to
stop reasonable gun-control laws.”
On the one hand, there’s a secular “progressive” presumption that
Jesus is squarely in their camp. On the other, the “religious right” is
presumed irrelevant. As for Mason, he warned “To disarm the people is
the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” What he would have
thought of an anti-gun academic stumping for disarmament under the
banner of his namesake university is probably not debatable.
But back to Abigail. Yes, it’s that Disney. She’s the granddaughter
of Roy, Walt’s brother and co-founder of an empire. As a beneficiary of a
staggering fortune, she’s following in the footsteps of heirs looking
for significance by patronizing “progressive” causes to make a mark on
the world of their own. And she’s found what may be her optimal
collaborator, albeit one that many religious conservatives may find
surprising: Rev. Schenck, heretofore associated with the “political
right.”
“First, it’s important to know I am the principal subject of Ms.
Disney’s film,” Schenck tells readers in a column he penned for The
Huffington Post, a curious forum for hosting an evangelist. Suddenly, an
activist, who has defied injunctions as part of his anti-abortion
commitment, is finding himself the toast of the left, writing a guest
column for a site that, before he became useful to them, was dismissing
his defenses of traditional marriage and of rights of the unborn to
life, as “below-the-belt broadsides.”
“She is an unabashed left-leaning, pro-choice, Planned
Parenthood-supporting feminist,” Schenck admits of Disney. That may be
the reason he wished to engage with and attempt to convert her. But
despite his transformation into an anti-gun propaganda tool, aside from
superficial appearance gestures, his new “friend,” hasn’t actually
budged an inch. All the conversion has been on his part.
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