A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Via I bet this turkey can get more fans than NOM / FB:
I am still able to see "I bet this turkey" but can no longer comment. I can't imagine that anything I wrote there could be regarded as faintly homophobic, except by someone unable to understand critical thinking.
I am not, for example, convinced that biological determinism, so widespread now as a counter to US religious attacks, is a useful way to advance the cause of equality. Just because evangelicals say that homosexuality is "the choice of a sinful lifestyle" and therefore open to conversion into "ex-gay" status, do we want to abandon choice and freedom? A dangerous road.
Rejecting the rhetoric of "I Was Born This Way" may startle some, but it's far from homophobic.
I would be grateful if you could ask them to drop me a Facebook Message, telling me if I have been excommunicated and, if so, why.
Could I beg a favour?
ReplyDeleteI am still able to see "I bet this turkey" but can no longer comment. I can't imagine that anything I wrote there could be regarded as faintly homophobic, except by someone unable to understand critical thinking.
I am not, for example, convinced that biological determinism, so widespread now as a counter to US religious attacks, is a useful way to advance the cause of equality. Just because evangelicals say that homosexuality is "the choice of a sinful lifestyle" and therefore open to conversion into "ex-gay" status, do we want to abandon choice and freedom? A dangerous road.
Rejecting the rhetoric of "I Was Born This Way" may startle some, but it's far from homophobic.
I would be grateful if you could ask them to drop me a Facebook Message, telling me if I have been excommunicated and, if so, why.
Cheers, DNH
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