What, Exactly, Is The "RADICAL HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA "?

[Segami]

:shrug:......" ....folks who scream the loudest about us trying to extend tolerance to all people are the ones who use tolerance as the basis for their discrimination. They want us to tolerate their bigotry so others can’t have tolerance or full civil rights under the law..."




" Okay, call me a dope if you must but I just can’t figure out what the hell the “radical homosexual agenda” that so many conservatives talk about actually is. Yeah, yeah, you could insert a lot of sexual identity jokes here, but really that just plays into stereotypes about our gay citizens. The fact is, and most of you will be able to confirm this from your own experience is that gay, lesbian, bisexual citizens span the same range of good, bad, conservative and liberal as those who are heterosexual.


Just take a look at the Log Cabin Republicans (a group who has the best ability to compartmentalize and segregate concepts that I have ever seen), here is a Republican gay rights group. Almost a oxymoron in and of itself. Yet these are conservative gay citizens who support most of the Republican agenda.



In my life I have known a lot of people who are gay. I was a child actor associated with a couple of professional theater troops. As you might guess, some of the folks who acted, directed, did costumes or lighting were gay. In a way I think I was lucky, it was not an issue that Tom and Dan were living together and loved each other, it just was what it was and even a callow teen like I was couldn’t get too worked up over two men in love.



The point though is this fear mongering idea of the “radical homosexual agenda”. I suppose it is pretty dammed radical to want to not be fired because you boss is afraid of “the gay”. In most states if you are gay or transgendered then you are working at the whim of the most homophobic of your management team. They can fire you for your gender identity or your sexuality with no recourse. Hell they can tell you that this is the reason that you’re being fired and there is not a dammed thing you can do about it.



Trying to find out what the “agenda” is I went over to Conservapedia (to paraphrase Obiwan Kenobi “A more wretched hive of scum and villainy you will never find) They seem to feel that the “agenda” is all about making homosexuality acceptable. That’s it really. Here is a quote that features prominently in the post from Justice Antonin Scalia:



...." Today's opinion is the product of a Court, which is the product of a law-profession culture, that has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, by which I mean the agenda promoted by some homosexual activists directed at eliminating the moral opprobrium that has traditionally attached to homosexual conduct.



That quote is from Lawrence v. Texas which invalidated the homosexual sodomy laws. That is also the case on which the overturning of Maj. Margaret Witt’s dismissal from the Air Force under DADT was based.



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[Brickbat]

1. Teaching fisting in kindergarten, requiring fifth-grade sex ed to explicitly describe penises in

anuses, recruitment of preschoolers -- you know, the basics.

[HopeHoops]

2. Same as a regular homosexual agenda, but with signs made by teabaggers.

The teabaggers aren't smart enough to know what they're putting on the signs anyway - there's plenty of photographic evidence to prove that.

[me b zola]

3. I think it is similar to the feminist agenda

The "homosexual agenda" is the radical notion that LGBTs are people too.

[hendo]

4. It's equal rights! Extremely radical, I know! NT

[Morning Dew]

5. My radical homosexual agenda... for today, anyway.

Bread, milk, eggs and a birthday card for my Niece.

[Segami]

6. Oh oh, be very careful, you might be jumped for promoting such a radical agenda.

[Morning Dew]

7. Funny, isn't it?

We just want to live our lives and it's a "radical agenda".

I get so annoyed by the idea of some "gay lifestyle" that the wingers think we live.