Grow two inches

Image from Waking Up Now

I know a girl whose father used to beat her because she wan't tall enough.  He used to measure her height every six months, and if she hadn't grown enough she would get a hiding.  Maybe she was supposed to eat more protein.  Who knows.  I tried never to have any interactions with him.

And of course, most people would regard his batty behaviour as I do:  utterly bizarre, unfair, unproductive, stupid, cruel.

But it made me think.  A friend of mine once said that trying to make a gay person straight was the same as asking them to grow two inches taller.  And this is exactly what gay-haters want.  They want to make us grow two inches taller.  And when we can't, they beat us.

Many of us are bisexual, so we can pretend we're two inches taller.   We can lie to ourselves (the ChrisTaliban prefer us to lie and be miserable than to be gay).  We can even suppress with varying degrees of damage our "gay side".  But some people are 100% gay.  And every day they stand against the wall and someone measures them, and finds them wanting, and punishes them.

[See also NOM = OAGR]

The March of the Anti-Christ

The ChrisTaliban have been opposing human rights for centuries.  This photograph (from Blue Truck, Red State) of a protest in 1957 in Little Rock Arkansas, against integration has some choice posters:  Race Mixing is Communism, and Stop the Race Mixing March of the Anti-Christ.

Every major human rights reform of the last two centuries has been opposed by the Christian-Fascists: the abolition of slavery; the right of women to own property; the vote for women; divorce; birth control; abolition of segregation; Black rights; and now, gay rights.

I confidently predict that the churches will be as embarrassed by their unwholesome, rancid and irrational  hatred of gays in fifty years time as they are now about their former support for slavery, subjugation of women, etc.

Priceless

Jesus is Not a Homophobe

A schoolkid who wore a T-shirt with this image on it, has been prevented from wearing it to his school.  Reason: it's "indecent and sexual in nature".

These Christian-Fascists are OBSESSED with sex.   "Jesus is not a Homophobe" is indecent?  Sexual in nature?

Good grief.

Conservatives & stupidity

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it. 

[John Stuart Mill -- a comment in a debate in Parliament]

So let's get this straight ...

Oscar Wilde's Tomb

After Oscar Wilde was released from Reading Gaol (he had been imprisoned for "gross indecency"), he went abroad to Paris, where he died. Unlike the English, the French  recognised his genius, and buried him in the cemetery Pierre Lachaise (in the north east of Paris), an honour they reserve only for those they most admire (Edith Piaf and Corot are just two of the other denizens of this huge necropolis.)

My daughter and I saw his tomb when we visited Paris (my favourite city) a few years ago.

You can see all the lipstick kisses on the sides of the tomb, made by the thousands of visitors who go there every year.

So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one of us
Would end the self-same way, 
For none can tell to what red Hell
His sightless soul may stray.

(Excerpt from The Ballad of Reading Gaol)

Cretinism

It's enough to make you weep.

Via Volewica