Sally Kern and her zombie anti-gay meme at OKC wingnut fest

"After the Ball" was written EONS ago

And if Sally Kern thinks it's radical, WHOA! It's pure Log Cabinette go-along-get-along crap.

As for Oklahoma. . .  

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by: David Ehrenstein @ Fri Feb 06, 2009 at 08:35:18 AM CST

You know...

When I was still in the closet, and trying to find out just who I was, it wasn't gay websites that told me about the so-called "homosexual agenda," it was places like Focus on the Family.

I didn't learn about books like "After the Ball" or Michael Swift's tragic essay from pro-gay websites, I found them copied and pasted on crudely designed geo-cities websites.

I didn't hear the idea that gays are pedophiles (having known many gay people quite intimately, I can say the only convicted child molester I know is heterosexual), I heard that, unfortunately, from my friends and peers in school.

Last, I've never encountered more hateful words, insults, and actions than people claiming to represent a loving god.

My heterosexual and Christian friends often ask my why I seem to have this knee-jerk distrust of others like them, and I find myself at a loss for words. I can only look at them and say, "You can't understand. Even if I had hours and hours and hours to explain every last detail of my life to you, you wouldn't truly understand."

When I read another article about gay and trans youth being murdered or killing themselves, I want to drag Sally Kern and her filthy ilk to the grave site so they can look at it. I want to bellow in their face, "You did this. This is your fault.

When I hear another teenage male refer to something as "gay," I want to slap him across the face and explain the effects of casual homophobia on society at large.

When I hear another frat bro talk about how "lesbians are hot but fags are gross," I want to kick him in the testicles and introduce him to some real, hardcore lesbian feminists.

When I hear of another lesbian brave enough to be out in our society being raped, or another straight man bludgeoned for being gay, or another gay couple like Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder or a boy like Matthew Shepard being murdered because they had the audacity and gall to confront people by their mere existence, I want to send the police reports and obituaries to politicians like Sally Kern with a long letter explaining why it should be no surprise when victims of policy become victims of violence.

Sally Kern, you once compared me, my friends and my lovers, people you do not know, to a cancer on this society. I submit that it is you, in your appalling and shameful actions, who are doing more harm than good.

Every time a gay youth is disowned, every time the word "fag" or "dyke" is uttered in violence, every punch thrown, every threat, every act of cowardice and hatred, makes our society worse.

It is not gay people who are actively lobbying to deny people a right they would demand for themselves, it is not gay people are trying to deny others protection under the law, it is not gay people who are firing straights from their jobs, it is not gay people who spread lies that heterosexuals recruit children, and it is not gay people who can roam the streets with impunity in places, free to dispense violence however their black hearts' desire.

It is people like you who do, people like you who enable people like that, but encouraging them with your words.

I would end this with an appeal to your senses of shame, dignity and humility, but you have none.

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by: Bachalon @ Fri Feb 06, 2009 at 08:38:43 AM CST

Michael Swift's tragic essay

I must say that I love Swift's essay because it is so in your face. Here it is:

The Gay Manifesto
by Michael Swift
First Published in Gay Community News, Feb. 15-21, 1987

We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us.

Women, you cry for freedom. You say you are no longer satisfied with men; they make you unhappy. We, connoisseurs of the masculine face, the masculine physique, shall take your men from you then. We will amuse them; we will instruct them; we will embrace them when they weep. Women, you say you wish to live with each other instead of with men. Then go and be with each other. We shall give your men pleasures they have never known because we are foremost men too, and only one man knows how to truly please another man; only one man can understand the depth and feeling, the mind and body of another man.

All laws banning homosexual activity will be revoked. Instead, legislation shall be passed which engenders love between men.

All homosexuals must stand together as brothers; we must be united artistically, philosophically, socially, politically and financially. We will triumph only when we present a common face to the vicious heterosexual enemy.

If you dare to cry faggot, fairy, queer, at us, we will stab you in your cowardly hearts and defile your dead, puny bodies.

We shall write poems of the love between men; we shall stage plays in which man openly caresses man; we shall make films about the love between heroic men which will replace the cheap, superficial, sentimental, insipid, juvenile, heterosexual infatuations presently dominating your cinema screens. We shall sculpt statues of beautiful young men, of bold athletes which will be placed in your parks, your squares, your plazas. The museums of the world will be filled only with paintings of graceful, naked lads.

Our writers and artists will make love between men fashionable and de rigueur, and we will succeed because we are adept at setting styles. We will eliminate heterosexual liaisons through usage of the devices of wit and ridicule, devices which we are skilled in employing.

We will unmask the powerful homosexuals who masquerade as heterosexuals. You will be shocked and frightened when you find that your presidents and their sons, your industrialists, your senators, your mayors, your generals, your athletes, your film stars, your television personalities, your civic leaders, your priests are not the safe, familiar, bourgeois, heterosexual figures you assumed them to be. We are everywhere; we have infiltrated your ranks. Be careful when you speak of homosexuals because we are always among you; we may be sitting across the desk from you; we may be sleeping in the same bed with you.

There will be no compromises. We are not middle-class weaklings. Highly intelligent, we are the natural aristocrats of the human race, and steely-minded aristocrats never settle for less. Those who oppose us will be exiled.

We shall raise vast private armies, as Mishima did, to defeat you. We shall conquer the world because warriors inspired by and banded together by homosexual love and honor are invincible as were the ancient Greek soldiers.

The family unit-spawning ground of lies, betrayals, mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence--will be abolished. The family unit, which only dampens imagination and curbs free will, must be eliminated. Perfect boys will be conceived and grown in the genetic laboratory. They will be bonded together in communal setting, under the control and instruction of homosexual savants.

All churches who condemn us will be closed. Our only gods are handsome young men. We adhere to a cult of beauty, moral and esthetic. All that is ugly and vulgar and banal will be annihilated. Since we are alienated from middle-class heterosexual conventions, we are free to live our lives according to the dictates of the pure imagination. For us too much is not enough.

The exquisite society to emerge will be governed by an elite comprised of gay poets. One of the major requirements for a position of power in the new society of homoeroticism will be indulgence in the Greek passion. Any man contaminated with heterosexual lust will be automatically barred from a position of influence. All males who insist on remaining stupidly heterosexual will be tried in homosexual courts of justice and will become invisible men.

We shall rewrite history, history filled and debased with your heterosexual lies and distortions. We shall portray the homosexuality of the great leaders and thinkers who have shaped the world. We will demonstrate that homosexuality and intelligence and imagination are inextricably linked, and that homosexuality is a requirement for true nobility, true beauty in a man.

We shall be victorious because we are fueled with the ferocious bitterness of the oppressed who have been forced to play seemingly bit parts in your dumb, heterosexual shows throughout the ages. We too are capable of firing guns and manning the barricades of the ultimate revolution.

Tremble, hetero swine, when we appear before you without our masks. - http://blog.radioleft.com/blog...

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. -- John F. Kennedy (inspired by Dante's Inferno)

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by: oldbrit @ Fri Feb 06, 2009 at 08:53:50 AM CST

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You forgot the beginning.

You know, the part that explains, "This essay is an outré, madness, a tragic, cruel fantasy, an eruption of inner rage, on how the oppressed desperately dream of being the oppressor."

Please, don't do it again.

On that note, though, I love it too. I just wish more people could take it as what it is.

This is still one of my favorite calls to action.

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by: Bachalon @ Fri Feb 06, 2009 at 08:59:41 AM CST

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But if they took it for what it is

what would they have to use against us?

I am the lizard queen!

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by: RainbowPhoenix @ Fri Feb 06, 2009 at 10:54:35 AM CST

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A great book, but it took her almost 20 years to find it?

I remember reading this book right after it came out in 1990.  I was working in the library of a college in Northeast Georgia and was newly out of the closet.  I was thrilled by the concepts laid out in the book and was encouraged by the authors to keep hope for the future and to use some of their tactics to reach out to family and friends.

If you haven't read it, I recommend that you do.  It may be a bit dated, but it was a visionary work and still has worth in our ongoing struggle.

Sally Kern is a piece of work.  Was there really anything in that book so terrible, so horrible that she really thinks that she can claim to have found the "gay agenda"?

Someone needs to up her meds.  She's pretty close to wearing tinfoil on her head.  Someone get this poor, insane lady some help!

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by: jpopphan @ Fri Feb 06, 2009 at 08:58:25 AM CST

The more she preaches...

... the more I believe that her son is gay. You know how these people will come out of the woodworks on this issue and this issue alone because either they're queer and have come to find out or suspect that they've made queers.

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by: saywhat? @ Fri Feb 06, 2009 at 09:22:19 AM CST

Oh my ...

First Great Awakening: Congregationalists and Presbyterians.

Second Great Awakening: Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Methodists, Mormons, and Seventh-day Adventists.

Third Great Awakening:  All the above + Christian Science, the Salvation Army, the Society for Ethical Culture, Jehovah's Witnesses and the Pentecostal movement.

Fourth Great Awakening:  All that + the Jesus Movement, Southern Baptists, Missouri Synod Lutherans, "non-denominational" churches, "community faith centers" and megachurches.

Fifth Great Awakening:  Prompted by Sally Kern's mention of the term, 92% of wired Oklahomans head over to Wikipedia after googling "Great Awakening," and come away angry after realizing that there's just not that much to be learned from the first four wake-up calls, except that maybe we have a tremendous capacity, as a country, for coming up with new names for "religious fanatic" ...

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by: Chino Blanco @ Fri Feb 06, 2009 at 09:24:58 AM CST

A new "Awakening" would have a very rough go of it,

precisely because all the new media would cast a very sharp light on it.

The original "Great Awakening" came under fairly intense scrutiny (and more than a little ridicule), in its day--by Benjamin Franklin and Tom Paine, among others.  

As documented in Richard Hofstadter's brilliant America at 1750, when the public learned the facts about the stuff the leaders of the Awakening got up to, they were horrified, and the movement died a quick death.  "Awakener" George
Whitefield was caught in a sexual scandal with the children in an orphanage he had founded.  "Awakener" Cotton Mather preached against "sin" and "sinners" so vehemently he drove a member of his own family to suicide.  And on and on.

So if Sally and her pals want a new Awakening to bring them under scrutiny, I will echo George Bush and tell her,"Bring it on!"

Cynic, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.  
-Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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by: QScribe @ Fri Feb 06, 2009 at 10:47:49 AM CST

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The John Birch Society?!

I thought they went away with the "red menace".  It figures Sally would be a featured speaker at one of their meetings.  Sally actually wore a red suit to one of their meetings?  Shocking!

As for "After the Ball", I think the Religious Reich is starting to quote that now more than Bible verses and only they could be expected to have an I.Q. level low enough to take it seriously.

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by: Jon Michaels @ Fri Feb 06, 2009 at 12:13:18 PM CST

How much is she paid to speak?

You can bet your bottom dollar that Sally is turning bucks by pimping her hate across the great state of Oh Kay.

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by: Lurleen @ Fri Feb 06, 2009 at 16:54:24 PM CST