The New Anti-Gay Argument: "The Gag Reflex"

[cbayer]

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/guest_bloggers/7272/the_new_anti_gay_argument___the_gag_reflex_/


August 27, 2013 3:40pm
Post by ROB SHRYOCK

The real reason conservatives are losing the "cultural battle" over gay marriage is because they have stopped focusing on the public's "gag reflex," says Baptist Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile of the The Gospel Coalition (whose founders include Mars Hill's Marc Driscoll).

In other words, the Christian-turned-Muslim-turned-Christian pastor argues in a lengthy blog post, the only way for conservatives to recover lost ground in the gay marriage debate is to start talking about the particulars of gay and lesbian sex. The “pro-homosexuality cause,” he argues, shifted the debate over gay marriage away from “sexual behavior” to things like “love and commitment” and “rights and equality.” Thus, conservatives should discard “politeness” and "return the discussion to sexual behavior in all its yuckiest gag-inducing truth."

Anyabwile then provides his own three-paragraph description of gay and lesbian sex in the graphic but clinical tone of the public school health teacher, once referring to the penis as the "male organ used to create life.”

Anyabwile then justifies his inclusion of graphic sexual detail: “That reflex triggered by an accurate description of homosexual behavior will be the beginning of the recovery of moral sense and sensibility.” He believes, on a fundamental level, that describing gay sex in visceral detail will trigger feelings of disgust that will allow people to see the “truth” about homosexuality.

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[rrneck]

1. Sex is only dirty if it's done right. nt

[Bluenorthwest]

2. That's so not new. It is perhaps the oldest and least mature of their hate speech.

The stunted and atavistic thinking of the 'faith community' is incapable of producing new thought. This is just basic Hate Speech 101.

[cbayer]

4. Agree. The writer he describes thinks the religious right are losing ground

when it comes to GLBT civil rights because the conversation has moved away from talking about sex to talking about what really matters - love, commitment, families. He is encouraging people to get back to focusing on sex.

You are right - this is basic Hate Speech 101.

[Bay Boy]

3. Was the bullet point here that gay sex is gross?

If yes, don't do it then. Also quit thinking about it so much.