Seriously, he says he doesn’t get it.
A gay photographer who celebrated Friday’s Supreme Court decision in favor of gay marriage by posting a Facebook photo changing the Marines raising the American flag over Iwo Jimo into four sweaty, muscular young men raising a rainbow banner can’t understand what all the fuss is about.
The “gay pride” photo mimicking one of the most storied images in American military history was taken about a decade ago by studio photographer Ed Freeman, according ot the Washington Post.
He posted it on Friday after the court decision was announced – and can’t get over the backlash.
How dare anyone compare a legal victory to marry, based on sexual preference, to Iwo Jima. Beyond disrespectful. pic.twitter.com/q4OkjL6IXF
— Taylor (@RightWing_B) June 29, 2015
“I got swamped with vitriolic hate mail,” he told the Post in a phone interview from Los Angeles.
Maybe things look so different from an art studio in Los Angeles that the besmirching of an American icon goes by without a blink. And maybe a crucial World War II battle that killed almost 7,000 American soldiers and Marines — more than twice as many as died on 9/11 — just looks like fodder for the latest lefty cause celebre to a certain brand of ignoramus.
Maybe gay activists don’t understand that an image that’s so iconic it’s in a monument at the entrance of Arlington National Cemetery — the most famous sacred ground in the United States, for God’s sake — is something special to millions and millions of Americans, not matter what their politics or their sexual preference.
Maybe Freeman and his ilk don’t get it, but a whole lot of people do.
@RightWing_B do you expect anything less from liberals? The kings and queens of victim culture — GSimms (@GSimmsTrades) June 30, 2015
@RightWing_B @clantro a This is by far the worst image I’ve seen since Friday. 6,000 marines died! You can’t even compare. — Lynsey (@SueLynsey) June 30, 2015
.@RightWing_B @LizzzT As the son of a World War II veteran, I can’t tell you in words how angry this makes me. Part of society’s scum. — Wes Borucki (@CrimsonTideWes) June 30, 2015
@RightWing_B@SueLynsey that is the most ridiculous, offensive photo I have ever laid eyes on. I am #Speechless — THE Great Nation (@steeltown26) June 30, 2015
Some postings were caustically humorous — and all the more effective because of it. Gays think they won a fight against fellow Americans they consider their enemy?
@RightWing_B@hopingforachang let’s put em all in uniform and let them raise it in front if ISIS — heartlandguy (@gbowling2) June 30, 2015
But this one summed it up the best.
@RightWing_B @clantro they just don’t understand what real sacrifice is… — Patrick (@pwc1011) June 30, 2015 Just ask that photographer. He doesn’t know what all the fuss is about.
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