“ You know, I know a lot of straight people and a lot of gay people (and a lot of people who fall somewhere in between), and no one—but no one—centers their lives around their sexual identity more than straight conservative Christians, whose identities as man/husband/father and woman/wife/mother are inseparable. They speak of procreation as their purpose, and assert that procreation must be between one man and one woman, only, ever. Being straight, getting married, making babies, raising those babies to be straight, get married, and make more babies, quivers full of them, is the essence of conservative Christianity. To assert that it is gay people who “center their lives” around their sexuality is just another example of conservative Christian projection… And their genuinely pathetic campaign of self-pity would be thoroughly hilarious, if only it weren’t contributing the the environment in which the suicides of gay youth really, actually happen.
October 24, 2010
