Monday, April 6, 2009

The Lady Doth Protest

One of Fischer’s favorite themes is homosexuality. He lives and breathes it. The world could be in the throes of the Rapture and Bryan would still find a way to inject gay sex into a conversation.

Indeed, in May 2006, Fischer wrote extensively about The Joy of Gay Sex in his daily email newsletter. Now, Bryan jealously guards his email distribution list. He refuses even to reveal the number of recipients. But one can imagine the shock and sense of betrayal felt by the list’s genteel matrons and crumbling Christian gentlemen when Pastor Fischer treated them to a vivid description of ‘fisting’ and ‘daddy/son fantasies.’

Commentators who follow Fischer are quick to note his obsession with all aspects of gay life. His favored approach is to paint the gay community as a monolithic political powerhouse that seeks to strip Christians of their rights while recruiting their children in the process. He savors the opportunity to conflate homosexuality with pedophilia, and is wont to establish even the flimsiest links between the two when possible.

Fischer also obsesses over the ‘immutability question;’ that is, whether gays can willfully become straight. Ever confident, Bryan insists that homosexuality can be overcome. In Fischer’s mind, his deluge of harassment is warranted, and perhaps even morally permissible, if gays can change.

Always the bloodhound, Fischer uncovered today an Idaho Statesman plot to conceal the truth about homosexuality. He targets a sentence in an article by staff writer Kristin Rodine on women sex offenders, which reads,

Girls who are abused by women also face an additional issue ... They are much more likely to question their own sexual orientation than are boys who are molested by men.

‘Ah ha!’ thinks Fischer, as he writes, ‘This must have slipped past the normally vigilant editors at the Statesman, since it is a clear admission that lesbians may not in fact be born that way.’

Sorry Bryan. The comment suggests nothing about the immutability of sexual orientation. It merely highlights the fact that many victims of sexual abuse develop layers of mistrust toward members of the offending sex. This hardly precludes trust issues related to sexual intimacy.

But why be so insistent that people can change their sexuality in the first place? The only way a person can truly know this is if he or she has 'overcome' their own homosexuality.

Bryan, do you have something you’d like to share?

1 comment:

  1. I've noticed this pattern before as well (see: Tom Cruise). I mean, if you're so offended by the gay lifestyle, why wouldn't you make every effort to keep away from it as much as possible? These types who seem ashamed of their own feelings get a thrill out of being around such content. Yet in that moment their morality kicks in and they feel they have to condemn what they've just seen. It's quite sad, actually...

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