[Depicted: gay pride flag, symbolizing that this post is about The Gays.]
Kirk Cameron is so oppressed, you guys. So very, very oppressed. More oppressed than gay people? Probably! You see, people keep hauling him out and crucifying him for his love speech. Except in this sentence “love speech” means “calling homosexuality unnatural and destructive” and “crucifying” means “saying mean things about Mr. Cameron, like that he’s a homophobic jerkface.” So, possibly the opposite of that thing I just said?
Hey, guess what? According to the US government, if your same-gender partner is your sole domestic partner and you share financial assets and are committed for life, you may not be deported if you’re an undocumented immigrant. Which is nice. They almost have the same status as a 24-hour Vegas wedding! “Marriage doesn’t matter” is a common refrain for a lot of queers, especially younger queers, as a backlash against the 100% marriage focus of a lot of gay rights groups. I definitely agree that marriage isn’t the only queer rights issue Americans face (Employment Non-Discrimination Act, anyone?), and a lot of so-called LGBT rights groups tend to throw trans people under the bus. But the thing is that “marriage doesn’t matter” a really privileged position. For a lot of people, including undocumented immigrants, equal marriage rights really does matter, and until we have equal marriage rights we’re stuck with this sort of half-measure to accommodate queer people’s needs.
Minneapolis Archbishop John Nienstedt believes that Jesus taught that a mother should reject her gay son or she’s no longer a Catholic (and hence risks going to hell). I am definitely sure that was what Jesus taught.
In Moscow, a gay club was attacked by fifteen to twenty masked men shortly after Orthodox Christian activists called for a ban on gay nightclubs, which apparently entice immature souls into homosexuality.
In the Anoka area, noted for the suicides of LGBT teenagers, the Halloween parade has banned a local gay group from participating citing concerns that the parade was ‘too full,’ even though there were no limits on how many people can be in the parade.
Machismo is harmful to gay and bi Latino men. The lack of acceptance of queerness means that many of them live a life in the closet, which can cause depression and isolation; many will still conceive of themselves as straight as long as they’re the active partner, rather than the passive partner, who is considered to have lost their masculinity. The cult of masculinity is not just a theoretical issue: it harms actual people in the real world, and we need to fight it.
Jnakabb has purchased 200 words of swearing from me. (If you’d like to purchase swear words, or not swear words, you can donate here!) I figure I will use them all up talking about homophobic jerkfaces. Here goes:
Fuck you, you bloody fuckbag. I’d take a shit on you, except my ass is too fabulous to get that close to your fuckwitted face. I fucking hope you enjoy your motherfucking moment of Godforsaken glory, because it’s not going to last. We’re fucking winning, you cockmongering dickfaces, you shitlicking splitpricks. Your wanker children will sneak out from suburban hell to shake their tits and asses to our music, to Lady Fucking Gaga and David Fucking Bowie. Your daughters will beg us to eat their pussies; your sons will swish in lip gloss and leather pants tight enough to show their pricks. You won’t have to disown their narrow queer-loving asses, because they’ll disown you, your dickhating ways and dinosaur fears. I hope I’m there so I can laugh at the stricken expression on your shitwater face. I’d call you a cunt, but unlike every cunt I’ve ever known you’re neither deep nor hot nor remotely enjoyable. I suppose I’ll have to be content with douchebag, since you’re certainly outdated, misogynist, and useless. Piss off, you unfathomable bastard, you shitcocking son of a bitch, you misshapen ballsack. I hope you rot in the fetid hell where your ideas already are.Â
Photo– Elsie Esq./Flickr.Â
“I’d call you a cunt, but unlike every cunt I’ve ever known you’re neither deep nor hot nor remotely enjoyable.”
Best sentence in the entire post. Also as good a reason as any for people to not use a word for female genitalia as an insult.
It’s funny to hear the backlash against the gay marriage movement described as a privileged position, because the way I usually hear it put forth is something like “all these middle class, assimilationist gays are setting the course for national LGBT politics and all they care about is having their monogamous, straightlaced relationships legitimized while poor queer kids are homeless, or afraid of getting kicked out of their homes, or afraid of losing their job and then being hungry, etc.” And it seems obvious to me that elevating LGBT rights exclusively through a system as constraining as marriage, expands that… Read more »
There’s a difference between “there are important issues other than marriage at stake here, guys, let’s focus on helping these other GLBT’s over here” and “Marriage doesn’t matter.” I can see poor GLBT’s saying the former, but not the latter. The latter statement I associate more with upper-middle-class teens who don’t have any intention of settling down (some of them will change their minds as they grow older; others won’t) and thus don’t see any point in the marriage-equality struggle.
About the archbishop: not that I agree with him in the least, but what his letter says is rather different than “reject your child or you’ll go to hell”. What he says is that if one does not accept paragraphs 2357–2359 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (which basically say that gay sex is a grave sin, and homosexuals should live a life of chastity) they cannot consider Catholic and should not take Communion and so on. Nowhere the archbishop tells the woman to throw out her son, nor that *anybody* is going to hell. Now, in any case,… Read more »
To further make my point: another part of the Catechism (paragraph 2267, to be precise) takes a strong stance against the death penalty. Let me quote: “Today, in fact, given the means at the State’s disposal to effectively repress crime by rendering inoffensive the one who has committed it, without depriving him definitively of the possibility of redeeming himself, cases of absolute necessity for suppression of the offender ‘today … are very rare, if not practically non-existent.'[John Paul II, Evangelium vitae 56.] On this issue, I am personally in perfect agreement with the official position; but there are plenty of… Read more »
Now THAT, dear readers is a perfect example of money well spent and well earned.
Ozy – thank you for both making my day and making your point.
Harsh but fair.