Detective Joe Delahoy
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So evangelicals who do the same thing are okay? Especially when they mean it in earnest to beat their fellow man to near death or bully them to a point that they kill themselves?
That's odd; I don't remember saying anything about evangelicals. What people seem to have a problem realizing is that just because you're a Christian doesn't mean you don't have to follow the rules. It's not Christians > Nonbelievers. We're all under the same rules, no matter who we are.
In other words, no: An evangelical who twists the Word is just as bad as a nonbeliever who twists the Word. In fact, Those interlopers who try to persuade people by doing such a thing, especially if they claim to be Christians, are the people I despise more than all.
tldr; God doesn't hate homosexuals. False priests just say that for publicity. Like Savage.
Savage is a hyperbolic mofo. My first brush with his work was him hoping that someone marry someone who comes out as a necrophiliac for having ditched a boyfriend who rubbed her feet after work because he had a foot fetish.
Honestly... I'm just tired of the whole "Gay people in the civil rights movement have to be better than everyone else" mentality. I mean we already feel like we're treated like second class citizens. We have kids bullied to a point where they kill themselves and their pleas for help are ignored. We have people beating young men and leaving them to die in a cold night, then getting lighter sentences because "They were so angry that they were hit on." And have right wing folks compare homosexual romance to beastiality and then run for president in 2012. Have people preach hate and bile and have it accepted as standard. And the moment that some gay rights activist returns the favor? ZOMG IT'S AN OUTRAGE!
I mean, being gay and engaging in these kinds of things, I feel like every time I act like a human being who gets angry at things like people dying for something so trivial, how it's me they're talking about and comparing to dog ********. How I can be fired for mentioning my boyfriend while straight relations can be heralded from the rooftops. And the moment I get irrational and reactionary and angry about it and a little bit hateful I'm the bad guy?
I'm not saying "ZOMG all Christian's are bad!" ******** no. I prayed to god last night thanking 'em for my job offer I got on friday. I have a St. Christopher Medal. There's a pair of virgin mary candles my mother has above the fireplace.
I'm saying that there's a very clear double standard with how gay people are supposed to be, and with how the right's supposed to be. And it kinda reinforces the whole "We're not equal" inferiority complex folks have.
I like Dan Savage. I've written to him for advice. I've been on his podcast. I know what he says isn't true. He knows what he says about Christians isn't always true. But you know what? It makes me feel just a little bit better that we've got someone who isn't afraid to lob the hate right back at the slimeballs, and give them a taste of their own medicine.