Here Is The Big Gay Agenda

[kliljedahl]

Here Is The Big Gay Agenda
Revealed! The horrifying secret plot to homo-amplify America.
Also: Dig this hetero agenda!

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, January 27, 2006

I have spoken with my gay friends. I have been to yoga classes and men's health spas and Restoration Hardware, chic rug shops and the Castro Starbucks and really cute restaurants featuring mixed baby greens that cost $12. I have observed. I have taken notes. I have checked the fashions and the cars and the skin-tight T-shirts, the newsletters and the bumper stickers and the secret codes hidden within the rainbow flag.

It is time to come clean. It is time to reveal the truth. After all, the religious right has been hammering at it for years, the pseudo-Christians and the homophobes and the sexually terrified all fully and truly believing that there is a plot, a massive, deep-seated agenda among the gay community not only to decriminalize and demystify homosexuality but to actually coerce and cajole and actively lure the innocent white babies of America into the sordid and well-dressed "gay lifestyle," so much so that, much like aliens living in underground cities in Area 51, well, there must be something to it.

Just look. Look at the wanton slew of nasty e-mails I received -- intermixed like bloody shrapnel amid a huge stack of gorgeous e-mail enthusiasm, mind -- in response to my recent column extolling the virtues of the heartbreaking, perspective-altering "Brokeback Mountain" phenom, wherein I dared to suggest that this spare and potent little film might actually help deflect the savage karmic pain of people like Samuel Alito and move the human experiment forward, just a little. What nerve I had.

Mark, gay films move us back. To tell society, which includes children, that to stick a penis inside someones anus, a wholey unnatrual act is ok and normal is ubsurd. I don't hold anything against gays, I'm not one to judge people, they can do what they please, but to shove their pervertions down everyones throat, and to try to make it mainstream and teach children honosexualiy is a normal thing for people to do is sick. -- Steve W

Or this:

It is really hard to believe that people like yourself are gloating over this film and are so proud of the degradation of our country (USA) that you have joined the masses and are HELL BENT on the destruction of Christianity, family values, and everything that is decent and what out forefathers have fought and died for in this country. Your kind are the real BIGOTS! You are the enemy of everything that is decent and good, you love death and destruction (that is what the homosexual lifestyle will lead to)... -- Larry L



Isn't that sweet? Doesn't it make you feel good to be an American? Sure it does.



Keith’s Barbeque Central

[niyad]

1. mark has been one of my favourite's for years--brilliant!!

[HockeyMom]

2. I live with my gay daughter

I, too, would like to know what this "gay agenda" is. The only thing I have heard from my daughter is that: she would not come with me to look for an apartment because they wouldn't rent to us if she is gay, or, that she just wants to be able to live her life and get the same civil rights (including marriage someday) as ALL AMERICANS are entitled to.

So, you tell me. What is the gay agenda?

[YOY]

4. From what I can tell from my gay friends their agenda includes:

-ABBA Getting back together and releasing some great new tunes
-A National Monument to Liza Minelli
-Something about people being fabulous
-Carson from "Queer Eye" getting the shit slapped out of him (one friend's adamant opinion...)
-Fred Phelps getting the shit slapped out of him (Hey I agree on that! Could that make me gay?)

[TheCentepedeShoes]

7. Fred Phelps (grrr)

He and his sideshow has come round these parts for a couple of funerals of guys killed in Iraq. And from what I've seen, the local fishwapper and newscritters all characterize them as "anti-war protesters" without revealing their real agenda.

[xchrom]

3. i love this essay

and the first --- he is very eloquent indeed.

[kliljedahl]

5. Mark Morford is a unique writer

Two columns a week, always excellent.



Keith’s Barbeque Central

[peacebird]

6. my email to Mark

Brokeback Mtn is an amazing, haunting film. I still can't get it out of my mind - so heartbreaking. Ennis's shirt covered by Jacks with a picture postcard - I remembered "appropriating" a piece of clothing from a lover secretly in college when we would be separated for the summer. I slept with his shirt cradled in my arms just to remember his smell.
My husband and I went to the movie and were so gratified to see the broad cross section of society waiting in line - and to hear how somberly they discussed it on leaving the theater. No mention of "gay agenda" and no snickers... Just people thoroughly rocked to their core by a story of love and loss.
A story of all too human.
You are right - I think that most gays want a normal life, being able to marry their loved one and care for them in peace. To be equal to every other person in that most basic desire - to be able to live their lives without people judging them simply for whom they love. I think that this movie scares the rightwing radicals simply because it presents them as normal everyday humans. Not stereotypes.
Thank you for writing - your columns are wonderful. A voice of sanity. You know what I think? The broad spectrum seeing this movie makes me believe that there will be justice for gay, lesbian, and transgendered folks in my lifetime. I hope so anyhow.
peace,