See, I don't have a problem with religions thinking homosexuality is wrong, but the insistence that the government shouldn't legalize the unions bothers me. I blame the conflation in the US of church and official marriage.

I think it's sunny someplace in the world.

Here!

Also, warm (for MA in March - it's in the 60s). I went out to lunch with a friend. Coming back to the office was very difficult.

Then there's people who get all squicked out about the idea of two guys having sex together.

Tom Delay recently proposed a campaign to inform teens of the explicit details of being gay (i.e., The Butt Sex), the theory being that if they knew how icky it was, they'd stop. His exact words were something like "we need to bring the shame back into homosexuality."

(Personally, I think it's hysterical that the right wing thinks that the "cure" for homosexuality is to show gay porn to teens, but that's just me.)

[eta -- oops, not Tom Delay, Peter LaBarbera. Most of this article is about Delay, so I'd conflated the two:

Peter LaBarbera, who heads the Illinois Family Institute and is known for his obsession with gay men's most outré sexual practices, told the audience, "My greatest frustration has been our side's inability to make homosexual behavior an issue in the public's mind." In order to inspire the kind of revulsion he wants to see more of, he read from a posting on a gay message board: [non-work-safe graphic sex details omitted]

"I don't think so-called GLBT teens are told anything like this" by their school counselors, LaBarbera said. "We need to find ways to bring shame back to those who are practicing and advocating homosexual behavior."]

OK, that's really funny. I remember being 10 or so and learning about what sex in general was, and thinking that was really nasty, but you know, I went through puberty and got over it.

Because only gay people have anal sex.

(Personally, I think it's hysterical that the right wing thinks that the "cure" for homosexuality is to show gay porn to teens, but that's just me.)

Oh, they should totally give it a try.

Oh, they should totally give it a try.

Why do I suspect part of the plan is to keep an eye out for anyone who doesn't act grossed out?

Because only gay people have anal sex.

It's true! Even lesbians!

I don't think so-called GLBT teens are told anything like this

The article is really cracking me up. It is also reminding me that I saw a truck for GLBS Transportation today, and wondered if it was a coincidence, or owned by GLBT group.

I am also not against religious thinking homosexuality is wrong, though I personally would not subscribe to one. But it honestly boggles me that anyone cares what other people are doing enough to ban something that is not hurting other people. And when people who I know and respect their opinion care, I fell I am missing a big part (probabably the part where they are nice enough not to want other people to go to hell)

I wish there was a Hell so Tom Delay could go there. I wish there was some kind of dying process in which people of his ilk discover that they were completely wrong, all along. I wish that right before lights-out, his last vision is of a gay Buddhist and a gay Jew having fantastic butt-sex in Heaven.

It's true! Even lesbians!

From most of the anti-gay stuff I've read from the religous right doesn't seem to be concerned about lesbians.