The love that dared not speak its name
In today's news, we can see that the Pride Week
is starting at noon today. It might come as a surprise to many of my
readers that I am not that much against gay people, for reasons that I
tried to list in my old post "All things just keep getting better".
Gays mostly annoy me due to the fact that leftists absolutely idolize
them. However, the dynamic between leftism and homosexuality is so
multifaceted and self-contradictory (I first accidentally almost wrote
"self-congratulatory", but that wouldn't really have been wrong either)
that I always enjoy watching the morally superior leftists crying and
gnashing their teeth in desperation whenever the objective reality
always asserts itself in the end. For example, when some leftist gay
man gets AIDS, the disease that famously doesn't discriminate.
This year's slogan for the Pride Week seems to be "Fearless". This is a positive message, even though a few times in summertime when my merry strolls take me to the Church-Wellesley area, I wish the "bears" were a little bit less fearless in prancing around without their shirts on or pulled up so that their bellies hang out. This morning's local news broadcast informed us that James Loney, the gay man who was kidnapped in Iraq and then released, and everybody who knew that he was gay was really quiet about it so that the kidnappers would not kill him like a dirty dog they would consider him to be, will be getting some kind of "Fearless award" for his courage. Say what? So when a gay man is kidnapped by a gang of virulent homophobes, his remaining successfully in closet is somehow "fearless"?
Especially by historical standards, this is an extremely low hurdle of fearlessness. If that guy had openly announced to his kidnappers being gay and chosen martyrdom that way, that would certainly have been a truly fearless act worth remembering. But I just can't see in what sense Mr. Loney is now any kind of inspiring example for his fellow sodomites. Shut up about being gay, and you won't get hurt. Is this really the message that gays want to celebrate and this way help it become more widespread?
I can especially hardly wait to see what Irshad Manji has to say about this. For about a decade now, I have read interviews and articles whose constant message has been that Irshad is the great female hope who is going to reform Islam, so it would be good to see her actually, you know, do something.
Of course, this whole thing is once again a perfect example of the leftist double standard so that we can't demand and expect as much from the brown people in the Third World as we constantly demand and expect from, well, you know who. As an educational thought experiment, let's pretend for a moment that Mr. Loney had been kidnapped by a group of white Christians who didn't know that he was gay, and the ensuing events and the forced hush-hush about his homosexuality to avoid antagonizing his kidnappers had otherwise been exactly the same. Now, do you think the aftermath and especially the public reaction of leftists and the gay community might have been a bit different in any way, once Mr. Loney had been safely returned home?
This year's slogan for the Pride Week seems to be "Fearless". This is a positive message, even though a few times in summertime when my merry strolls take me to the Church-Wellesley area, I wish the "bears" were a little bit less fearless in prancing around without their shirts on or pulled up so that their bellies hang out. This morning's local news broadcast informed us that James Loney, the gay man who was kidnapped in Iraq and then released, and everybody who knew that he was gay was really quiet about it so that the kidnappers would not kill him like a dirty dog they would consider him to be, will be getting some kind of "Fearless award" for his courage. Say what? So when a gay man is kidnapped by a gang of virulent homophobes, his remaining successfully in closet is somehow "fearless"?
Especially by historical standards, this is an extremely low hurdle of fearlessness. If that guy had openly announced to his kidnappers being gay and chosen martyrdom that way, that would certainly have been a truly fearless act worth remembering. But I just can't see in what sense Mr. Loney is now any kind of inspiring example for his fellow sodomites. Shut up about being gay, and you won't get hurt. Is this really the message that gays want to celebrate and this way help it become more widespread?
I can especially hardly wait to see what Irshad Manji has to say about this. For about a decade now, I have read interviews and articles whose constant message has been that Irshad is the great female hope who is going to reform Islam, so it would be good to see her actually, you know, do something.
Of course, this whole thing is once again a perfect example of the leftist double standard so that we can't demand and expect as much from the brown people in the Third World as we constantly demand and expect from, well, you know who. As an educational thought experiment, let's pretend for a moment that Mr. Loney had been kidnapped by a group of white Christians who didn't know that he was gay, and the ensuing events and the forced hush-hush about his homosexuality to avoid antagonizing his kidnappers had otherwise been exactly the same. Now, do you think the aftermath and especially the public reaction of leftists and the gay community might have been a bit different in any way, once Mr. Loney had been safely returned home?
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