Why Gays Have So Much Influence on Our Culture

American Thinker ^ | 02/03/2014 | Alicia Colon

[SeekAndFind]

We've had the Gaymmys; we've had Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson suspended for expressing unfavorable comments about anal intercourse; HBO has a new series, Looking about three gay men looking for love. It seems as though just about every television show, whether comedy or drama now has a gay character as a regular.

It's not surprising that homosexuality has become mainstream in our culture because nearly everyone has a relative or friend who is gay and we have been deeply influenced by those words of Harvey Fierstein who said, "I just want to be loved. Is that so wrong?" What we have failed to realize, however, is that there has never been anything morally wrong about loving anyone, same sex or not.

But love is not what is behind the gay rights movement; it is a powerful marketing tool, though, much better than using words related to the specific sexual acts that trouble many observers.

One of the most intriguing and illuminating articles I have ever read about this polarizing issue was written by a gay Catholic man, Ronald G. Lee, originally published in the New Oxford Review. Lee formerly lived in Austin, Texas, and regularly visited Lobo's, a gay book store:   

Looking inside from the street all you saw were books. It looked like any other bookstore. There was a section devoted to classic "gay" fiction by writers such as Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, and W.H. Auden.... But if you went inside to browse, before long you noticed another section, behind the books, a section not visible from the street. The pornography section.

[Just mythoughts]

The culture was lost when even Rush the play actor conservative got light in his loafers. Course I did stop listening to his bravado after the last election primaries. He use too acknowledge the mental instability of perverts now he embraces it. Way back when he was married to wife number well whatever it was, Rush, began backtracking on the crumbling effects perverts have on a civil society. That was when it came out that Greg Louganis was messed up and whacked his head in the Olympics and bled in the pool.

Rush has always been more concerned with his personal bank account than what is best for the country.

[pfflier]

I can only defer to your experience. You have seen it at it’s worst.

[highball]

“Rush has always been more concerned with his personal bank account than what is best for the country.”

Of course. He’s a play-actor. His conservative schtick is just that; a character he plays on the radio. That’s why he’s able to directly contradict himself from day to day, hoping we rubes won’t notice so long as he drops enough buzzwords and tosses around insults to liberals.