Crooked Talk
A new book has been released called “Straightforward: How to Mobilize Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights.” Via the blog Balkanization, one of the authors (Ian Ayres) has linked to the first chapter of the book.
One of the purposes of the book, other than whine about the “inequalities” gays face in the United States, is to propel heterosexual support for gays and their demand for special rights. It is ironic that these gay advocates cry for support from those same people they label “hetronormative” and hate-mongers.
In the first chapter, the authors write about a concept I frankly was unfamilar with: heterosexual privilege. According to the authors, heterosexual privilege is “the range of perks and incentives with which hetorsexual identified persons are rewarded for conforming to the dominant sexuality.” The authors desire (1) that hetrosexuals use this “privilege” to advocate for gays in schools (specifically gay-friendly sex education) and in the economic arena (promoting policies within the workplace that favor gays).
Cleverly, the authors encourage heterosexuals to “disable [their] heterosexual privilege by making [their] sexual orientation ambiguous.” In other words, they want heterosexuals mask their innate sexuality in order to muddy the waters of gender and sex creating a societal ambiguity. Ultimately, they want heterosexuals to behave verbally and socially so they are “mistaken for bisexuals or as a gay” (my emphasis). Their overall strategy is to throw away the words husband and wife–words that identify oneself in a heterosexual marriage relationship–and replace them with words like spouse that are gender neutral (i.e., gay friendly). Ultimately they desire to interpolate into the english language, particularly the family vernacular, words that eliminate any connotation or inkling of a heterosexual relationship. This linguistic coup d’etat must fail.
The opening salvo of the book leaves the reader with a flavor of the tactics of the gay radicals who seek to overthrow our society and destroy its familial bulwark. Their strategy is communicative, corporate, financial, and governmental. Will it work? Nope–not if the people’s voice triumphs. As evinced by the number of states who support traditional marriage and have amended their state constitutions to protect themselves from a morally-bankrupt radical gay elitism, support for traditional marriage is high. Only by circumventing the will of Americans can gays force their disembowelment of the family on our Nation.