Some of my best friends are…
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Society is being herded hard and fast into believing that statistically negligible sexual orientations are the real norm.
We are a social species.
We worked together to drive woolly mammoths over a cliff hundreds of thousands of years ago—it’s our heritage.
I feel I’m being driven to a cliff, if not yet over.
I’ll start by gladly acknowledging that I am an Islamophobe. I could write a thousand words without thought on the totally justified reasons—historically and recently.
A few years ago, I would have said there was no way I would become a homophobe. That was a few years ago.
I should preface all this by saying I have worked in live theatre for the last 40 years, hence the title of this piece, but now . . .
We are being driven to (a) notice and (b) wonder about the trajectory.
It started with rights—just like the suffragette movement. No one can argue about equal rights. However, we have gone past that. It’s not just civil equality; we have redefined marriage for a minor minority—yet again, we have redefined another piece of “normal.”
Gay and lesbian couples buy babies. We are fed a constant gay agenda on television. Every series covers gay, lesbian, and trans subjects like they are common in suburbia. I realize the dysfunctional Californian and New York centers are creating the entertainment content, but it’s not real for the rest of us, no matter how many times you tell us it is.
There is also the political aspect of all this. I had a conversation with one of my gay friends the other day, nothing shattering, but his position was very much a Democrat woman’s position, and I realized that I wasn’t talking to a member of the male demographic; he was in the other camp (pun intended).