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Gays, Glee, and Big-o-try

Barry Belmont — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:05:05 +0000

There are children, today, in the twenty-first century, in arguably one of the most advanced and civilized nations to have ever existed on planet earth, that will kill themselves, because they are ashamed they are gay. They are ashamed because for centuries, the notion of homosexuality has been treated with contempt and disgust and those individuals born with homosexual tendencies are met only with derision and hatred. Why? Because some book has a half dozen lines or so (out of literally hundreds of thousands) crystallizing the views of their historical authors about homosexuality. And unfortunately these authors put their lines into the mouth of an infallible character.

This belief is pervasive. The most recent example comes by way of Victoria Jackson (of SNL fame) who blasted the show Glee for showing two male characters kissing. Her response can be seen below (particular attention should be paid to the phrase “It doesn’t matter what I believe, it matter what God believes” as this is the exact problem):

Shows like Glee (and Pretty Little Liars, FTW) have tried to provide an outlet for teens going through that awkward point in their life where they are first learning of their sexual orientation. Rather than showing it in a shameful light, they show it as another of life’s little complications. Yeah, it’s tough, but it’s nothing to be ashamed about. Conversely, by showing it as a natural thing, it drops the stigma and reveals that there really isn’t anything too terrible about two dudes kissing. Acceptance, tolerance, and compassion: this seems like a perfectly fine thing to teach kids.

Bigots hiding behind the poorly chosen words of ancient bigots deserve no respect in this regard. I understand the desire to raise your children as you would like, I understand the need for individuals to believe in what they like, I even understand the uneasiness that might come about through any initial culture shock (and the desire to avoid this uneasiness). But if you dislike gays, immigrants, blacks, Muslims, you are a reprehensible human being. If you hate for no reason than but to hate, you are terrible. If you are a bigot, that’s who you are, and there’s no sugar coating it.

To parse a phrase from the ever verbose Christopher Hitchens, those individuals who hate others on such a basis as Ms. Jackson belong to the infancy of our civilization and deserve to be treated like children. But luckily those of us comfortable with tolerance do not feel our children should be ashamed. They should merely grow up and join the adult table when they’re ready.

When Bigotry Meets Campus Politics

Barry Belmont — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:31:12 +0000

This is just horrendous. This dude, Andrew Shirvell, an assistant Attorney General for the state of Michigan, goes off the deep end in criticizing the openly-gay student body president for the University of Michigan. I mean, I’m not particularly in favor of any kind of student body president, but this is just ridiculous.

Watch the Silver Fox cut him down to size.

Bryan Fischer Brings the Crazy

Barry Belmont — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:05:28 +0000

Have you ever thought about insulting homosexuals, HIV patients, and undermining the whole notion of terrorism all in a few phrases? Well it turns out the director of Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy at American Family Association, Bryan Fischer, has beaten you to it with this absolutely disgusting nugget of hate, bigotry, and igorance.

I’ve never called gay people terrorists although I’ve said that what they have done is like domestic terrorism. You’ve got these Mujaheddin on the battlefield setting out these syringes with the HIV virus in it as a way to carry out terrorism.

This is exactly what happens when two males have sex with one another. If one of them is HIV Positive, then it’s just like injecting his partner with a needle with HIV.

That’s domestic terrorism. I don’t know what else you’d call it.

And for those of you that just need to see it to believe it:

The Logic Behind Homosexual Discrimination

Barry Belmont — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:25:57 +0000

I’ve never quite understood why so many otherwise decent people go absolutely bezonkers when it comes to something like Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell and gay marriage. And if you, like I, thought it was bad in America, it is nothing compared to the festering hatred found in places like Uganda. Below is an actual lecture by one of the leading advocates of the “Anti-Homosexuality” bill in Uganda. This video is what you get when there is a perfect storm failure of government, religion, and critical thinking.

It’s funny until you realize that he’s serious. …that people believe him. …that he thinks gay people should be killed.

…so next time you think of saying that gays shouldn’t be allowed to marry, consider that you are only one step removed from this and to the rest of us who believe that people should be free, you’re just as crazy as this guy.