As people try to triangulate the nexus of Old School conservative blacks, the GOP and mainstream social conservatives lots of odd things happen. It's a non-trivial exercise and most folks aren't so keen and dotting all those Is. Since I represent, I have to do the t-crossing and i-dotting, but it's quite liberating when somebody else does it for me. So it is with some pleasure that I concede a new victory in writing over to my existential partner Jimi Izrael, who for the second time in memory has given a most gracious yet well-placed and stinging verbal smack to the overproductions of gay advocacy.
Where I basically stand is here:
For me, homosexuality is not wrong, just thoroughly distasteful, yet not offensively so. And gayness is neither threat nor menace, it's just damned annoying. And so as I approach these new new appellations I wonder if they might be substantial enough to support my own sentiments in the area. But I can already tell you that I won't use them, not the least because I already have my own hermetic system of knowledge and I don't need to borrow the terms. Still, I might hold out some ray of hope that those who do use them are not as homophobic as they sound, or perhaps the liberalization of our culture requires such terms in common conversation because we are called upon more often to voice our particular angles on the gay life.
I'm a civil libertarian and don't want to see gays bashed any more than I want to see Mojados lynched, and you can generally count on me to speak out against racism in immigration and homophobia in civil rights. But you can't count on me to support illegal immigration or gay marriage. I'm against both. But I'm even more aggravated by the unchecked suggestion that because I'm against those two issues that I am so for the ugly reasons. This is the legacy of political shallowness also known as 'correctness' which has abused its moral 'authority' on the subjects and rightly deserves all the backlash thoughtful people consider worth spewing.
So on the gay question, you can call me gay respectful but not gay friendly.
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