Category Archives: homosexuality

Don we now our bright apparel

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From here:

Kids at a school in Traverse, Mich., are once again singing “Don we now our gay apparel” after a teacher made national headlines trying to take the line out of the traditional Christmas carol “Deck the Halls.”

Students at Cherry Knoll couldn’t make it through the line without giggling, the teacher said, so she substituted the word “bright” for “gay.”

“There had been students that had been snickering at the lyrics in ‘Deck the Halls’ and she had attempted to get them back on track quite a few times,” Principal Chris Parker told UpNorthLive.

This is interesting from at least two perspectives. First, it goes to show that hijacking a word that belongs to someone else can backfire and second, no matter how much you invest in social engineering, homosexuality will still be seen as an aberration whose mechanics are intrinsically comical. Except in the Anglican Church of Canada, of course, where homosexuality is the norm, heterosexuality the aberration and the church itself the archetype of high farce.

Quebec taxpayers to fund university research chair on homophobia

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It’s enough to bring on a bout of taxophobia.

From here:

The Université de Québec at Montréal is the first on the North American continent to fund a research chair devoted to studying homophobia.

Sexological research undertaken by the university hopes to quantify effects of homophobia on the LGBT community and inform public debate on policy and social justice.

The Quebecois government has given $475,000 (CAD), around £290,000, to the French-speaking university’s programme, which was launched in a ceremony attended by Jean Charest, the Premier of Quebec.

Another church in trouble for helping those with unwanted same-sex attraction

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A church which offers to help people with unwanted same-sex attraction is being criticised by gay groups because people, apparently, are born gay.

From here:

Gay rights campaigners have condemned a church for running sessions to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.

The Frontline Church in Liverpool claims homosexuality is caused by ‘pain in childhood’ and boasts it’s L.I.F.E sessions have ‘succeeded’ with some congregation members.

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The national Lesbian and Gay Foundation’s Andrew Gilliver said: ‘The issues about “childhood pain” are nonsense.

‘The pain is often caused by people who don’t understand what they’re going through.

‘We are born gay, but we learn prejudice. This is Dark Ages stuff.’

Someone should tell Chris Birch, a rugby player who woke up after a stroke and decided he was gay, that it’s impossible because, to be gay, you have to be born gay.

When 19-stone rugby player Chris Birch suffered a stroke during a freak training accident, his family feared it would be a life-changing injury.

Yet while his recovery certainly brought about a transformation, it seems to have been in a way no one could have expected.

For when he regained consciousness, the 26-year-old – who was engaged to his girlfriend – claimed he had become gay.

 

Blenheim, lesbians and Tim Hortons

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Blenheim is a small town in Ontario where the major source of entertainment on a Saturday night is cow tipping – so my wife, who knows more about sleepy Canadian towns than I, tells me.

Nevertheless, the town is big enough to have a Tim Hortons and at least two lesbians who, while on a quest to find a more stimulating form of entertainment than bovine unbalancing, decided to grope one another in full view of  those partaking of Tim Hortons’ more modest delicacies.

We may never know whether the negative reaction from a local pastor and the restaurant’s manager was due to Blenheim being a hotbed of prudishness or whether the titillation that men supposedly experience when women kiss was outweighed by the undeniable ugliness of the specimens in question, but the pair was asked to leave.

There aren`t many things more faddish than lesbians but the occupy something to protest the impalpable  with a view to changing the intangible movement is one of them. So now we have Occupy Timmies. This is almost certainly a self defeating effort since Timmies will  double their intake selling coffee and doughnuts to imported well-heeled yahoo occupiers  – while the rest of the sleepy town goes back to cow tipping.

 

Homosexuality and the yuck factor

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From here:

Several students at a Hartford high school expressed horror and left the auditorium when two male members of a city-funded school play shared a passionate kiss onstage on Friday. School officials said they opted against informing parents about the event ahead of time, saying that the students needed exposure to homosexuality, and hailed the “chaotic” reaction as a victory for raising the gay issue.

It seems that quite a few students walked out in disgust. The disgust was almost certainly an instinctive rather than cerebral reaction. Is there anything wrong with that? I don’t think so. If we are designed for male-female sex, it isn’t particularly surprising that we are also designed to react with repugnance at deviations from that norm.

What is particularly satisfying is that the repugnance remains in spite of the exertions of pietistic liberal social engineers to eradicate it.

The UK is planning on withholding aid to African countries with poor gay rights

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From here:

Andrew Mitchell, the International development secretary has confirmed that the British government will withhold aid from countries with homophobic countries but denied that it will harm the most poor in those countries

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Last week, the Mail on Sunday revealed that aid ‘fines’ may be imposed on countries such as Uganda and Ghana for hard-line anti-gay laws.

The UK hasn’t altered its plans to double aid to Pakistan, though. Of course, although Pakistan persecutes gays just like any other part of the burgeoning Islamic caliphate, it compensates for it by also persecuting Christians, providing the UK with a vicarious sense of atonement for real or imagined past Christendom inspired imperialist sins.

In its defence, the UK is working on self-propitiation by doing its bit in eradicating Christianity within its own borders. Sadly, the British government doesn’t truly have its heart in the effort since it hasn’t resorted to burning or raping Christians. Yet. Withholding aid to Africa will have to do in the meantime.

 

Calgary’s mayor is straight but not narrow

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That’s what his tee-shirt proclaimed as he led the Calgary gay pride parade.

Language is often an indicator of a cultural climate. In this case “straight, not narrow”, a play on “straight and narrow”, has been blazoned across the mayor’s chest as a very public declaration of virtue: he may not be a homosexual (to be so and advertise it would be an even greater declaration of virtue), but he is not so narrow as to be intolerant – unlike Toronto’s mayor – of those who are; and he is proud of it.

The original phrase “straight and narrow” means “the way of proper conduct and moral integrity” and is itself a variation of “Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life” (Matthew 7:14). No mayor is likely to win approval by advocating  “proper conduct and moral integrity” at a gay pride parade, so Mayor Nenshi did the next best thing: he used a phrase which has accumulated centuries of cultural resonance and turned it into the opposite of its intended meaning.

A fitting tribute to a parade bearing a rubric whose meaning has suffered a similar inversion: pride.

 

 

British taxpayers funding Homotopia Art Festival

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Having led a sheltered life, I had never heard of “Homotopia” and assumed it was a new process for sterilising milk. But, no.

From here:

Liverpool’s Homotopia art festival has been granted funding for the next three years.

The annual art and culture event will receive £70,000 a year for the next three years from Arts Council England.

Judging by a sampling of last year’s “art”, it all sounds like a bit of harmless fun the average taxpayer would be only too delighted to pay for:

Midnight Mass Peaches Christ presents All About Evil

A San Francisco phenomenon, the underground hit that is Midnight Mass makes its UK debut starring horror hostess Peaches Christ in this Rocky Horror-style celebration of bad, trash and cult movie making. The infamous pre-show includes free lap dances with every large popcorn from a retinue of dude girls, a roller girl conga line, audience makeovers and unspeakable live participation.

 

One million unnaturally thin double-stacked dwarves attend Toronto’s Gay Pride Parade

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Apparently one million people attended the Gay Pride parade in Toronto today:

TORONTO – More than one million people jammed the streets of downtown Toronto on Sunday, sporting rainbow-striped outfits, corsets and glitter for the country’s largest gay rights parade.

The crowd whistled and cheered as the Pride parade’s colourful floats  many covered in balloons and blaring Lady Gaga music winded down Yonge Street under the blazing sun.

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Still, one person was noticeably absent from the crowd – Toronto’s mayor, Rob Ford.

This is what one million people looks like:

 

 

Obviously, there would have been no room for Rob Ford. Come to think of it, there would have been no room for a parade either.

 

Gay Google Rainbows

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Google has made a habit of celebrating homosexuality in June for a number of years. It does this by displaying a rainbow when the unsuspecting seeker after knowledge types words like “gay”:

 

I’m looking forward to Google celebrating Easter next year by displaying a cross when I type in Resurrection.