The War Against Sex

As Dan Savage is given to saying, the religious right in America does not merely hate the homosexual agenda, but the heterosexual agenda as well. Opposition to vaccinations against a cancer-causing STD, bans against sex toys, severe issues with even life-saving contraception, and a Kansas crusade against heavy petting, there are few aspects of human sexuality outside of blind missionary that are safe against the prying policemen of American puritanism.

Taken in this context, we gay folk are truly the canaries in the coalmine of sexual freedom. When they came for the anonymous warehouse-sling sex, I said nothing; for I did not go to creepy warehouses with older, vaguely foreign men in boots . . .

I think we all know the poem.

Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher tackled this issue with its panel. Liberals and conservatives holding hands. Mass hysteria. Bill even chimes in on the forest of debate over manscaping.

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Comments

[Queer Conservative]

When they came for the anonymous warehouse-sling sex, I said nothing; for I did not go to creepy warehouses with older, vaguely foreign men in boots . . .

So Joe.My.God will in the first trainload, huh?

[Jamie]

I have absolutely no idea what the hell poem you are talking about.

Seriously. I consider myself fairly literate, and you have me at a complete loss.

Going to watch the clip now.

[Robbie]

Jamie - It's a take-off on this Holocaust poem that often makes the internet political rounds.

Probably in poor taste, but *shrugs*

[anthony]

From a canadian perspective it's interesting to note that the woman in the piece was, in fact, the first woman prime minister in Canada. She was also a conservative. Since she led the party it has taken a rightward shift to more closely ally with a "christian" political perspective. The current conservative prime minister is trying to overturn a parliamentary vote legalising same-sex marriage. Essentially this is a "do-over" because under the last parliament the granting of same-sex marriage rights was not in line with his thinking.

It's sad to think Canadian politics have come to this - but it's good to know that conservatives in countries other than the US will use their power to not only stop us from getting rights but will actually work hard to remove rights that we had previously been granted.

[Jamie]

Thanks Robbie. I might have seen that once before, in high school.

Half a lifetime ago.

I'm not surprised it makes its way around the net to support spurious arguments, though.

Myself--I prefer Homer.

'Cause I'm a Homer-sexual. :)

[dan]

Robbie, would you consider posting the toe-to-toe debate about religion between the governor and the actor?

[Robbie]

Dan - Yeah, I can do. I still have the show in my DVR. I'll put it up tomorrow.

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