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[Eichen]

The Gay Fetish: the infinite shelf life of homo- distraction

Katie McKy - Raw Story Columnist
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/The_infinite_self_life_of_homo_0130.html

The sky isn't falling, but it's fraying. The ozone, that blanket of O3 between oblivion and us, dissolves when we spray fluorocarbons. The oceans rise. Divorce rates also rise, as more and more Americans, especially in the red states, emulate Britney Spear's matrimonial habits.

Then there's more. According to Sir James Lovelock, the original Gaian guy, the Earth is treating us like a virus, raising the temp to burn us off the global body. With every factory closing, we become more a nation of consumers and borrowers rather than producers and savers. And we're borrowing 2 trillion dollars to fund our Iraqi imperialism. Via that imperialism, we've cultivated a fresh crop of terrorists. We're running out of oil, but we're running high on gluttony. And so on.

And what worries the Right? Brokeback Mountain. And gay marriage.
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As a college class exercise, a friend of mine recently interviewed a classmate.

My friend asked, "What don't you like about America?"

The 18-year old classmate said, "Off the record, gay people are taking over."

What has taken over is the discussion of gay people. Whereas I consider the civil rights of gay people to be fundamental to the American dream and a requisite for Constitutional integrity, I consider the Right's ad nauseam appetite for gay-themed diatribes to be a deadly diversion.

Janet Parshall, the talk show host, said on the January 17th edition of Larry King Live, "After all, I think what we're witnessing, Larry, is the homosexualizing of America."

What most recently wadded up Parshall's panties and shoved them so far up her rectum that it'll take a proctologist to remove them is Brokeback Mountain. It's a semi-mainstream movie and it has Parshall squawking that the sky is falling. Well, Ms. Parshall, the sky is fraying. The oceans are rising. So is the temp. And what worries you? Make-believe amour between a couple comely sheepherders?

The hunky horror, the hunky horror.

Parshall and others assert that homosexuality is sin. Thus, if one is straight and frames homosexuality as sin, it's the sweetest sin, for it's not one's sin. This gives homosexuality an infinite shelf life. It's never grows stale, for whereas it demands change of others, it requires no personal change. No sacrifice. So long as one is straight and heterosexuality demarcates purity, one is permanently pure.

Thus, such Right-thinking straight people can use homosexuality as their fetish object for moral masturbation. It would be merely creepy if it didn't keep the Right from the work of weaning ourselves off oil, decreasing the production of gases that accelerate global warming, equalizing education, delivering healthcare to all children, and so on.

On a personal level, the gay moral fetish distracts from Biblical adherence. As long as Rush Limbaugh rants about queer folk, he's distracted from returning to his first wife, as the Bible demands. As long as Parshall squawks about Brokeback Mountain, she won't have to forsake her family and her fortune, as the Bible also demands.

Perhaps the homophobe should pay gay people for their perpetual diversion. One pays a cable provider for the television shows that distract us from the work of our time and the deprivations of the future, for as oil prices, the oceans, and the temperature rise and rise, quality of life will fall and fall. So, shouldn't the homophobes of the Right pay gay folks for distracting them from their patriotic duties and their Christian duties, since those duties are hard and their distraction means that their children and grandchildren will bear the brunt of massive debt and monstrous drought?

Like the 18-year old who believes that what's wrong with America is that "gay people are taking over," when you can hold back your rising worries with a sturdy dyke, life is good. For now.

But gay people do more than distract. They pander to our inveterate desire for an other. Queer people are the divine other, for homo-bigots believe that they have Biblical clearance to hate.

"Yes, uh, Flight 2002," they imagine God saying, "you have clearance to land on the civil rights of your fellow homosexual citizens. On final approach, you might run into some Constitutional interference, but tune that out and when you taxi over to the tarmac, we'll, uh, amend that Constitution."

The homo-fetish also serves an ancient purpose. It's no longer safe to publicly articulate racial hatred. But there remains a deep desire to define and elevate oneself by what one isn't. With God's green light, the fundy Right references gays everyday. However, with only 3 gay references in the Bible, and a hundred times that number of warnings against wealth, the arithmetic suggests that the real work of being a Christian is casting off wealth. Jesus told one story about a man going to Hell. That man was a rich man, a man who lived on the sweet side of a wall while a poor man suffered on the other.

But walking away from wealth would be Hell on Earth for those that love manna more than their fellow man.

So, thank God for gay folks.
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Quote: Parshall and others assert that homosexuality is sin. Thus, if one is straight and frames homosexuality as sin, it's the sweetest sin, for it's not one's sin. This gives homosexuality an infinite shelf life. It's never grows stale, for whereas it demands change of others, it requires no personal change. No sacrifice. So long as one is straight and heterosexuality demarcates purity, one is permanently pure.

Thus, such Right-thinking straight people can use homosexuality as their fetish object for moral masturbation.

That about sums it up for me. "Teh Gayness" distraction on the far-right is honestly as lame as "Teh Blame" distraction is for the far-left.
Any comments from the moral authoritarians... I mean far-right?

[Gryff1nd0r]

Nice.

[halcyon~sky]

Damn, Rob. You owned them.

[Gryff1nd0r]

interesting how people have chosen to ignor this thread............

[halcyon~sky]

Dude it's impossible to argue with Eichen on this one. This post is very close to perfect.

[Eichen]

thegriffinator13 wrote: interesting how people have chosen to ignor this thread............
*crickets, tumbleweed*

[Enoch]

Brilliant post. I couldn't agree more.

When it comes to lambasting the homosexual population, fundamentalist Christians have it locked up. They will twist, spin, and outright lie in order to garner attention for their pet cause that gay people are "ruining" society somehow.

My compliments on the post sir!

[Gryff1nd0r]

And with this thread, there is officially no longer a reason to even have a gay forum :lol: .

I keep checking back to see if any of the self-rightous homophobes have decided to reply, but I really don't think that there is anything to say...

:owned:

[Enoch]

The self-righteous homophobes are too scared to reply. They know that, despite the comedic nature of the post, it is incredibly accurate.

[XPhile2868]

Eichen wrote: The Gay Fetish: the infinite shelf life of homo- distraction

Katie McKy - Raw Story Columnist
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/The_infinite_self_life_of_homo_0130.html

The sky isn't falling, but it's fraying. The ozone, that blanket of O3 between oblivion and us, dissolves when we spray fluorocarbons. The oceans rise. Divorce rates also rise, as more and more Americans, especially in the red states, emulate Britney Spear's matrimonial habits.

Then there's more. According to Sir James Lovelock, the original Gaian guy, the Earth is treating us like a virus, raising the temp to burn us off the global body. With every factory closing, we become more a nation of consumers and borrowers rather than producers and savers. And we're borrowing 2 trillion dollars to fund our Iraqi imperialism. Via that imperialism, we've cultivated a fresh crop of terrorists. We're running out of oil, but we're running high on gluttony. And so on.

And what worries the Right? Brokeback Mountain. And gay marriage.
Advertisement

As a college class exercise, a friend of mine recently interviewed a classmate.

My friend asked, "What don't you like about America?"

The 18-year old classmate said, "Off the record, gay people are taking over."

What has taken over is the discussion of gay people. Whereas I consider the civil rights of gay people to be fundamental to the American dream and a requisite for Constitutional integrity, I consider the Right's ad nauseam appetite for gay-themed diatribes to be a deadly diversion.

Janet Parshall, the talk show host, said on the January 17th edition of Larry King Live, "After all, I think what we're witnessing, Larry, is the homosexualizing of America."

What most recently wadded up Parshall's panties and shoved them so far up her rectum that it'll take a proctologist to remove them is Brokeback Mountain. It's a semi-mainstream movie and it has Parshall squawking that the sky is falling. Well, Ms. Parshall, the sky is fraying. The oceans are rising. So is the temp. And what worries you? Make-believe amour between a couple comely sheepherders?

The hunky horror, the hunky horror.

Parshall and others assert that homosexuality is sin. Thus, if one is straight and frames homosexuality as sin, it's the sweetest sin, for it's not one's sin. This gives homosexuality an infinite shelf life. It's never grows stale, for whereas it demands change of others, it requires no personal change. No sacrifice. So long as one is straight and heterosexuality demarcates purity, one is permanently pure.

Thus, such Right-thinking straight people can use homosexuality as their fetish object for moral masturbation. It would be merely creepy if it didn't keep the Right from the work of weaning ourselves off oil, decreasing the production of gases that accelerate global warming, equalizing education, delivering healthcare to all children, and so on.

On a personal level, the gay moral fetish distracts from Biblical adherence. As long as Rush Limbaugh rants about queer folk, he's distracted from returning to his first wife, as the Bible demands. As long as Parshall squawks about Brokeback Mountain, she won't have to forsake her family and her fortune, as the Bible also demands.

Perhaps the homophobe should pay gay people for their perpetual diversion. One pays a cable provider for the television shows that distract us from the work of our time and the deprivations of the future, for as oil prices, the oceans, and the temperature rise and rise, quality of life will fall and fall. So, shouldn't the homophobes of the Right pay gay folks for distracting them from their patriotic duties and their Christian duties, since those duties are hard and their distraction means that their children and grandchildren will bear the brunt of massive debt and monstrous drought?

Like the 18-year old who believes that what's wrong with America is that "gay people are taking over," when you can hold back your rising worries with a sturdy dyke, life is good. For now.

But gay people do more than distract. They pander to our inveterate desire for an other. Queer people are the divine other, for homo-bigots believe that they have Biblical clearance to hate.

"Yes, uh, Flight 2002," they imagine God saying, "you have clearance to land on the civil rights of your fellow homosexual citizens. On final approach, you might run into some Constitutional interference, but tune that out and when you taxi over to the tarmac, we'll, uh, amend that Constitution."

The homo-fetish also serves an ancient purpose. It's no longer safe to publicly articulate racial hatred. But there remains a deep desire to define and elevate oneself by what one isn't. With God's green light, the fundy Right references gays everyday. However, with only 3 gay references in the Bible, and a hundred times that number of warnings against wealth, the arithmetic suggests that the real work of being a Christian is casting off wealth. Jesus told one story about a man going to Hell. That man was a rich man, a man who lived on the sweet side of a wall while a poor man suffered on the other.

But walking away from wealth would be Hell on Earth for those that love manna more than their fellow man.

So, thank God for gay folks.
----------------------------------------------------

Quote: Parshall and others assert that homosexuality is sin. Thus, if one is straight and frames homosexuality as sin, it's the sweetest sin, for it's not one's sin. This gives homosexuality an infinite shelf life. It's never grows stale, for whereas it demands change of others, it requires no personal change. No sacrifice. So long as one is straight and heterosexuality demarcates purity, one is permanently pure.

Thus, such Right-thinking straight people can use homosexuality as their fetish object for moral masturbation.

That about sums it up for me. "Teh Gayness" distraction on the far-right is honestly as lame as "Teh Blame" distraction is for the far-left.
Any comments from the moral authoritarians... I mean far-right?


:clap:

[F'losrix]

The silence from the right on this is deafening. Not so much as a peep even from the trolls. Wow.

[Kt]

OMG dood, t3h gayz are ruening our cuntry! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

[Pepper]

ok...i have found a great way to make everyone happy....

stick all the gays on an island and see how they reproduce.


years later......there goes out democrat problem.

[Gryff1nd0r]

Pepper wrote: ok...i have found a great way to make everyone happy....

stick all the gays on an island and see how they reproduce.


years later......there goes out democrat problem.

How does that "solve" anything? You don't have to be gay to produce a gay kid; there will always be gay people in America :? .

[Pepper]

what i'm trying to say...is.....the homosexuals on there own would not last. I remember back in the day, if you were a homosexual....you would be in trouble because someone would probally kill you.....now...everyone is so worried about be politically correct, that they say its ok for people to be homosexual.

[cap'n queasy]

halcyon~sky wrote: Dude it's impossible to argue with Eichen on this one. This post is very close to perfect.

It's impossible to argue that the Earth is not treating humans like a virus and burning them off?

:lol: That's a ridiculous theory. And what it has to do with homosexuality is beyond me.

I think that is your explanation for lack of interest.

[F'losrix]

Pepper wrote: what i'm trying to say...is.....the homosexuals on there own would not last. I remember back in the day, if you were a homosexual....you would be in trouble because someone would probally kill you
Are you advocating that we go back to this method of handling homosexuality in our society?

Quote: .....now...everyone is so worried about be politically correct, that they say its ok for people to be homosexual.
I'd say it's a long way from being everyone. :roll:

[F'losrix]

Pepper wrote: ok...i have found a great way to make everyone happy....

stick all the gays on an island and see how they reproduce.

1) I'm not sure how that's supposed to make me happy, since I have do desire to leave my job & family to go live on an island full of other gay people.

2) Just because people are gay, that doesn't mean they're wholly incapable of reproduction.


Quote: years later......there goes out democrat problem.
Democrat problem? Since I'm gay and NOT a Democrat, I don't quite see the connection...

[StrangerWitCandy]

Pepper wrote: what i'm trying to say...is.....the homosexuals on there own would not last. I remember back in the day, if you were a homosexual....you would be in trouble because someone would probally kill you.....now...everyone is so worried about be politically correct, that they say its ok for people to be homosexual.

yea those were the days weren't they :roll:

I usually don't resort to namecalling, but this was just moronic.

[Gryff1nd0r]

cap'n queasy wrote: It's impossible to argue that the Earth is not treating humans like a virus and burning them off?

That's a ridiculous theory. And what it has to do with homosexuality is beyond me.

I think that is your explanation for lack of interest.

You (purposefully) missed the whole point of the post. The point that I gathered is that there are serious issues in America and in the world today, and the religious right are obsessed with gay people, and as stated in another thread on this forum, many are willing to pump ridiculous amounts of money into preventing gay marriages. It is a waste of time and energy. Social conservatives are just looking for something to get all worked up about, and the argument over gay rights is tiring.

The lack of interest is explained by the fact that the self-rightous homophobes can't argue the fact that their self-rightous fight to keep gay people from marrying is a petty issue that doesn't negatively effect them or anyone else. "Moral masterbation" is an excellent way to put it.