Posted on 11/10/2007 10:18:41 AM PST by the tongue
What was once a great city is now a cesspool of corruption, murder, politically correct tomfoolery and drive to become a third fourth-rate city.
It’s been Filthydelphia for four or five decades. Remember all those mobsters that used to run the city? What was the Italian mayor’s name?
Frank Rizzo
How could I forget? Frank Rizzo. The very emblem of big city corruption.
How could I forget? Frank Rizzo. The very emblem of big city corruption.
Now they want a whole neighborhood/gayborhood in Philadelphia advertised as being dedicated exclusively to homosexuals and lesbians. They already have gay beauty pagents, closed to any heterosexuals (as if any would enter anyway!), gay television programs. What next? What do they want? Will it be next that they will demand that some major companies hire only gay employees and to advertise as such? (I would love to see them attempt a challenge of the EEO laws on that.)
They have gone full circle and it has become reverse segregation (as usually happens with these type movements). So whose fault is it that they are more separated from society than ever? They have removed themselves from the very mainstream that they fought to be included in.
Heck, "gay" has been around for centuries (back to about AD 1300?, meaning "showy," and the drag queen (female impersonator) Will S. Hays sung "The Gay Young Clerk in the Dry Goods Store" in the 1860s. Late in the 19th Century, it was tied to hobos' catamite companions ("gey"), or prostitution ("gay houses").
"Homophobia" comes George Weinberg in the 1960s, first published in 1971, and popularized with his 1972 book, Society and the Healthy Homosexual. However, he said it was: "...a fear of homosexuals which seemed to be associated with a fear of contagion, a fear of reducing the things one fought for—home and family. It was a religious fear and it had led to great brutality as fear always does." But, of course, the dishonest lefties distorted the term.
I was thinking about the song “The Streets of Laredo” where “gay” is used, but I think in the sense happy. My American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (1969-1973) doesn’t show homophobe, but it does show gay as slang for homosexual.
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