You have to wonder, though, is life so hard for gays in Russia? Do they have to live underground constantly in fear of their lives? After all, pictures of gays with bloody noses are pure propaganda gold in the western press. But, I wonder if there is a bit of provocation going on. We cannot approve in any way the beating of people for the mere fact of being gay or even expressing it. In fact, the New York Times ran a picture this week of a gay-beating thug being physically detained and arrested by Russian police. Some say the thugs are encouraged and protected by the police though I see no evidence of that. Now, there are some very nasty things going on in Russia with regard to gays. You would think he might have been corrected by the President of the United States who was sitting right there, but he wasn’t. I would expect a firestorm after Jay Leno compared the gassing of 6 million Jews with the inability of homosexuals to tell their story to school children. He compared it to Germany under the Nazis, said it was like taking away the Jews. No less than Jay Leno on the Tonight Show said to President Obama that it has become “illegal” to be homosexual in Russia. They tell us that athletes suspected of being gay will be arrested when they arrive in Russia for the winter Olympics next year. He wrote that people even suspected of gayness could be jailed. Gay writer Harvey Fierstein wrote a few weeks ago in the New York Times that parents who speak positively to their children about homosexuality could lose their children and get jail time. They tell us that it is now illegal to be homosexual in Russia. But opponents of the Russian law must go further in gilding the lily. After all, these new laws are enough to shock the sensibilities of westerners where homosexuality has largely triumphed over the culture. Opponents of the law are not content simply to shock their friends with what is really going on in Russia. An additional law forbids homosexual adoption of children or foreign adoption into countries that allow for homosexual “marriage.” The law also forbids public manifestations like parades. The Russian parliament recently passed a national law forbidding homosexual proselytizing to schoolchildren.
Something similar is happening with the evolving situation in Russia. Very brave, Jonathan and very textbook, too. Capehart caught the preacher off guard, claimed he was a victim, implied the preacher is a hater and a bigot, and then walked off without giving the preacher a chance to talk, explain or even to apologize. “Jamming” comes from a book called After the Ball, a 1989 manifesto on how homosexuals could triumph over the culture.
Called “jamming,” the purpose is not to debate the issue respectfully or otherwise, but to shame opponents into silence, castigate them, and cast them into outer societal darkness. What followed was the classic sneak attack, assertion of victimhood, name-calling, followed by a refusal to engage in any meaningful way. Capehart said the preacher quoted from a bible passage that mentions many sins including homosexuality but it appears that the preacher only highlighted a “pimp becoming a preacher” and a “prostitute becoming a prophet.” But that was enough to get Capehart going. It is unclear whether the preacher even mentioned homosexuality. There’s a lot packed into this brief encounter. That is all I have to say.” Not waiting for or even wanting a response, Capehart stalked off. “During his oration, I vowed I would not shake his hand.” But Capehart did shake the Reverend’s hand and then said to him, “Your sermon was offensive to me.” Taken aback the Preacher say, “What?” “Your sermon was offensive to me. He attended his aunt’s funeral in North Carolina at which the preacher’s “guest eulogy gave way to a harsh sermon about who can and cannot get into the kingdom of heaven.”įrom what Capehart quotes, the preacher did not actually talk about who can get into heaven but rather who can “transform” their lives by washing themselves in the “blood of the Lamb.” Gay writer Jonathan Capehart published a short piece in the Washington Post this week in which he oh-so-bravely spoke truth to Gospel power. Now it’s the gays turn to panic, in this case by any public criticism, imaginary or otherwise, or legal restriction on their proselytizing. A psychiatrist of the early 20th century coined “homosexual panic” to describe an overreaction by heterosexuals who have been hit on by a gay guy.
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