This Guy Says "The Idea of Sexual Orientation... Inhibits Christian Witness"
02-26-2014, 08:46 PM
A miserably meandering piece.
He never mentions bisexuality and that is telling because all there is, sexually, is straight, gay and bi. There is nothing else. He mentions the emerging multiplicity of orientations, but that is people -- young people -- treating their sexual preferences (redheads, tall dudes, etc.) as part of their sexual orientation.
He has great reverence of queer theorists. As he mentions in the middle, apparently queer people have penetrating insight into sexual orientation. I find it amazing that these theorists are most likely only fucking same-sex people, but are now claiming they could do the opposite sex. Most likely a strand of thought in their head they could do the straight life. But, of course, they never would, but other people need to.
Still, he worship of queer theorists is telling of how he views the world. He is trapped between fleshed authority figures (gay people in academia) and the ultimate non-fleshed authority figure: God. He cloaks his common argument: Everything is a social construct erected by white, straight men to benefit them. We need to rip them down so we are all equal.
Finally, his expose at the beginning is completely untrue. This idea that homosexuality was invented in the 1860's is hilarious. America *didn't* discuss sexuality, at all. America was slowly feeling out their own perceived anti-social impulses. Further, psychology was slowly taking form and, of course, people with same-sex desires were one of the first to show up or forced there. This idea it was a fiction erected to bolster the failing construct of procreative marriage is a sad, little theory. America was coming apart -- very slowly -- and this time period was just the beginning.
His conclusion doesn't make all that much sense, as he is trying to balance queer theory with the Bible, but in twisted little noggin, he makes 100% perfect sense.
He never mentions bisexuality and that is telling because all there is, sexually, is straight, gay and bi. There is nothing else. He mentions the emerging multiplicity of orientations, but that is people -- young people -- treating their sexual preferences (redheads, tall dudes, etc.) as part of their sexual orientation.
He has great reverence of queer theorists. As he mentions in the middle, apparently queer people have penetrating insight into sexual orientation. I find it amazing that these theorists are most likely only fucking same-sex people, but are now claiming they could do the opposite sex. Most likely a strand of thought in their head they could do the straight life. But, of course, they never would, but other people need to.
Still, he worship of queer theorists is telling of how he views the world. He is trapped between fleshed authority figures (gay people in academia) and the ultimate non-fleshed authority figure: God. He cloaks his common argument: Everything is a social construct erected by white, straight men to benefit them. We need to rip them down so we are all equal.
Finally, his expose at the beginning is completely untrue. This idea that homosexuality was invented in the 1860's is hilarious. America *didn't* discuss sexuality, at all. America was slowly feeling out their own perceived anti-social impulses. Further, psychology was slowly taking form and, of course, people with same-sex desires were one of the first to show up or forced there. This idea it was a fiction erected to bolster the failing construct of procreative marriage is a sad, little theory. America was coming apart -- very slowly -- and this time period was just the beginning.
His conclusion doesn't make all that much sense, as he is trying to balance queer theory with the Bible, but in twisted little noggin, he makes 100% perfect sense.