gay civil rights : Gay & Black Glossary

Introduction

Even though it looks as though homosexuality is largely genetic, Christianity teaches that it is a sin, much like lying or adultery. However, it is treated in a special way from all other sins. It is punished by denying equal civil rights. Further, it is punished as a thought crime. You don’t even have to have gay sex to feel the lash.

Denial

Other special rights include protection from being thrown out of their apartments based solely on their sexual preference, or being fired from their job. Christians strongly oppose hate crime legislation. Freedom from being randomly assaulted based solely on sexual preference is also seen as a special right since straight people are rarely assaulted for that reason.

Slander

Changes

Yet 30 years later the Supreme Court of Canada ordered that common law gay couples would henceforth be treated equally to straight couples. We still don’t have an institution comparable to marriage to formally recognize unions, but this is a great first step. One of the most important new rights is you can bring your spouse into Canada if they are a citizen of another country. Formerly it was illegal to even visit Canada if you were gay.

We have an unvicious circle. As the law offers more protection against discrimination, more gays come out of hiding. That means more straight people are exposed to gays. That means there is more tolerance. That means there is greater acceptance for offering gays equal civil rights. That leads to still more gays coming out of hiding.

The most wildly anti-gay people are Chrisian un-come-out gays. They are doing a mighty battle internally and absolutely hate anyone who accepts their homosexuality. As civil rights improve, even these people can relax a little and their anti-gay rhetoric tones down.

TV Evangelists

Only very gradually are there community programs becoming available that present a more balanced picture of gay life.

Genocide

It would be highly unwise to get rid of all gay people in this way without thinking about the consequences. Nature thinks gays are necessary. Why are they useful?

• The world is seriously overpopulated. It would be much worse if another 10% of the population started producing babies.
• If a parent dies, gay uncles and aunts can act as surrogate parents. This is especially important in times of massive disaster.
• If parents abandon a child or teen, gay people can step in to care for the child no one else wants.
• Gays males tend to be less combative than straight ones. They tend to play the rôle of peacemakers and compromise makers.
• Gay people tend to be more funny, artistic, creative and original than straights. It is not that gays are inherently superior, it is mainly because being freed from the time constraints of caring for a family, they direct their energies and skill-development in other directions. They are less likely to be entrapped by the trivia of conventional domestic life, though, of course, many do get trapped in the triviality of the sex-seeking game. Once a person is forced out of mainstream conventionality, they feel freer to break free in other ways.
• Gay people tend to mix between all social classes. They are the antidote to stratification.
• Lesbians, (and among males, gay males) are at the forefront of equal rights for women. They are an antidote to the subjugation of women.

Dirty Tactics

• Falsely claiming that homosexual orientation is a choice, like getting your nose pierced to annoy your parents.
• Falsely claiming that only homosexuals can get HIV (Human Immuno-deficiency Virus). Claiming it is God’s punishment, forgetting, of course, that lesbians have the lowest STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) rate of anyone. Young teen heterosexual females are the fastest growing HIV category.
• Falsely claiming that all gays are child molesters or that gays are more likely to molest children than straights.
• Falsely conflating transvestism, transexuality and homosexuality. The idea is to fan any prejudice to any of the three groups and apply it to the other two.
• Quoting Leviticus who said homosexuality is an abomination without mentioning that Leviticus called for nearly everyone to be put to death for crimes as minor as eating shrimp, swearing or trimming their beards.

Summary

Pride marches went over the cliff a few years ago when we decided all that crap about rights and equality was cutting into our partying. In the early years going to pride was an admirable, courageous act, the equivalent of going on a firewalk. Today, pride marches are more like freak shows than rites of passage. And bad ones at that. My biggest beef against them isn’t that they suck (they do — I’ve seen better floats in high school homecoming parades) or that they tear down everything we work for (we act out every offensive stereotype we spent the past year trying to break down). No, my biggest beef against pride marches is that they celebrate the wrong thing — being gay. Why? Because there’s nothing intrinsically good about being gay. For every Walt Whitman there’s a Roy Cohn. For every Elton John there’s a Jeffrey Dahmer. For every gay hero there’s a gay asshole.
~ Michael Alvear , Syndicated gay columnist

Christianity is the main source of hate and intolerance for gays. It leads to things like the crucifixion of Matthew Shepard. In its most extreme form, churches like the Westboro Baptist church and their website GodHatesFags.com (held off the air by hackers) live solely to teach an anti-Christian anti-gay message of intolerance and hate. We must stop treating the Kristian churches with historical kid gloves and start treating them as the evil institutions they really are. A sign of light is the counter site godlovesfags.com.

I would like to make clear I am not calling for the crucifixion of a Christian Matthew Shepard. I am not calling on you to fire your Christian employees on a pretext. I am not calling for you to evict your Christian tenants. I am not calling for gang of gays to out and beat up Christians as they come out of church. I am not calling for you to persecute Christians in any way. I am calling for you to resist the institutions that teach Christians to be malicious toward gays. So, for example, you can lobby for the end to the tax holiday for churches that teach discrimination against gays (which is distinct from teaching that you should refrain from homosexual sex. What they do to themselves is none of my business.) You should lobby for an end to public funding to organisations that discriminate against gays or the children of gays, such as the Boy Scouts. When you hear bigots spreading lies about gays, speak out. You don’t have to be angry with bigots, though sometimes it is hard to resist tormenting them. They were brainwashed from infancy with anti-gay propaganda, as were many gays themselves.