Reversal Of Fortune: Homophobia In The Heartland January 27, 2012
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in Politics, religion.Tags: AIDS, choice, cynthia nixon, gay, gay marriage, GRID, HIV, homosexual, lesbian, Newt Gingrich, pope benedict
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For a long time, things seemed to be improving in this country. Beginning back in those hippy days of the 1960′s, it looked as if we were gradually easing into the Age of Aquarius. On issues like civil rights, human rights, gay rights, privacy, honest sexuality, freedom of and from religion, and public education, we seemed to be entering a new enlightenment, a time of tolerance, openness, and understanding. Now it’s all turned to shit. Really. I’ve gone from encouraged to frightened. Maybe it was 9/11 or maybe it was just some ingrained human opposition to change, but everywhere you turn right now, you find the darkness of ignorance and bigotry and mindless fear encroaching on any inroads of the light. This week’s examples:
Minnesota Parents Demand Schools Teach “Pray Away The Gay”: This one ought to warm the hearts of Michele Bachmann and her devout husband, who runs a clinic for washing away homosexuality with some combination of holy water and hypnosis. They also demand that the schools teach about GRID, Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, which is how the medical community stopped referring to HIV/AIDS about a month after the epidemic started. I imagine the term “GRID” would be fairly offensive to the millions of heterosexual individuals who have been afflicted with HIV/AIDS in the last thirty years. Ask Magic Johnson.
Cynthia Nixon: For Me, Being Gay Is A Choice: Well, maybe Cindy just got tired of penises in general, and there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that there’s an element of bisexuality in all humans, expressed to one degree or another depending on historic and social and environmental factors, but for several tens of millions of gays, they’ve no more made a choice about their sexuality than I made a choice about my eye color. This kind of statement from another bed-hopping celebrity just adds fuel to the fire of folks like the ones in Minnesota who’d like you to believe that homosexuality is not so much a choice as a disease, and one which is an affront to their god (who should also be your god or you should spend a trillion years in flames, but that’s another issue altogether…).
Newt Gingrich Equates Gay Marriage To “Rise In Paganism”: Yeah, right. All the gays are out in the forest running around campfires in the nude and chanting incantations. Newt should be statutorily prohibited from ever commenting on the sanctity of marriage. As an aside, this is also an insult to Wiccans, whose religion has every bit as much basis in fact as Christianity.
Pope Benedict XVI Says Gay Marriage Is “A Threat To The Future Of Humanity”: Whereas the Inquisition and witch burnings were positive developments to the march of civilization.
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