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A Queer Need for Rejection

gpeterson Wrote: Dec 05, 2012 3:17 AM
"Sexual preference" isn't the same thing as "sexual orientation. They are two different things." One's sexual orientation isn't even necessarily the same thing as one's sexual identity, though I think that life is somehow better when it is. There is no "homosexual activist ideology." There are Gay rights activists, but that's not the same thing.
AZYaateeh Wrote: Dec 05, 2012 5:58 AM
No homosexual activist ideology? Really?

Huh. I'm pretty sure most of the gay activists of the 70s would disagree with you pretty strongly. I'm quite certain Michel Foucault, who invented the concept of "sexual identity", would, him being an ardent Maoist and all, who translated the class war from economics to the bedroom.

Tell me, you don't actually know anything about the Sexual Revolution, do you?

Whenever I write about the issue of First Amendment Freedom of Association, I defend the right of campus groups, not government administrators, to control their own belief structure and membership requirements. This often involves discussing real life cases with real life tension between religious groups and homosexual activists. This results in a slew of emails asking why a homosexual student would ever want to join a fundamentalist religious group. The short answer to the question is that homosexual activists don't really want to join these organizations. Some want to use them for political gain before shutting them down altogether.

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