You Cannot Justify Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation- Period

Read the following passage.

The existence and power of the gay mafia

Not only is there a gay mafia but it is recognizable, well funded and politically active.

The "Gay Mafia" and "Velvet Mafia" are typically associated with the upper echelons of the fashion and entertainment industries, and the terms are also used humorously by gay people themselves, some looking to David Geffen as the unofficial head.


They're well funded and active:

Stonewall, the leading gay rights organisation, has an annual budget approaching £1 million, much of which is raised through the business community. Sponsorship, advertising and corporate fund-raising deals bring in enough revenue to fund a slick campaign, a spacious suite of offices in central London and a regular stream of champagne receptions and events.


And very much involved in changing legislation:

In a survey by YouthSpeak, the gay rights youth group which I chaired for a while, it was found that 84 per cent of young people valued social changes over legal reforms, and that over 70 per cent thought that most gay rights organisations put too much emphasis on trying to change laws.

There's more on the same theme.

The theme is that gay rights activists are pursuing an unholy agenda of seeking to brainwash the next generation into being gay, just to increase their numbers.

I have never heard such a ridiculous proposition.

History has been a series of battles by groups facing discrimination.

First, it was religious minorities. First they had to fight for rights, and then, after legal rights, the real battle.
To remove the social glass ceilings.

Catholics faced this struggle in the nineteenth century.
They got to vote in 1829. They were allowed to build their own churches in 1855. Most remaining anti-Catholic laws were repealed in 1925. But the real battle was a cultural one, a battle for Catholicism to be fully accepted as a cultural norm. Now nobody would ever think of treating a Catholic in any different way to anyone else. His/her religion, is just unimportant to how people see them.

Women are getting there. Their battle is still going, but we're on the homeward stretch. We're a long way from scolding braces and chastity belts.

But until the day when society applies EXACTLY the same moral code to a woman as it would to a man, we haven't come to the end of that battle.

Black people are a generation or two behind yet. Because societally, we haven't QUITE got away from the fundamental flaw in our thinking.

Even if you do try maintain that there is some kind of scientific proof that on average there are slight racial differences in features such IQ, body strength, size of organs, etc, you still miss the point.

It still doesn't mean you can guess the IQ, bodily strength or size of organs of an individual, merely on the basis of identifying their skin colour, anymore than being French means you wear a black beret, piss in roads and eat Camembert.

Until society as a whole accepts the logic of that proposition, we have not reached racial equality.



And people who choose to have same-sex sexual relationships, are still at the start of their struggle.
The law has only recently accepted that isn't in fact something so socially dangerous that we must criminalise it and class it as a disorder.
Reason why, whatever it is, it doesn't harm anyone. It's consensual, and nobody gets hurt.

But gay people are asking for more. They're saying, why treat us differently all, just because of this thing we do, that we've already agreed, doesn't harm anybody?

Who really cares who does it?

Their battle isn't won, until the day that nobody is sitting there giving a damn what sexuality their children turn out to be, and where no child feels uncomfortable about telling their parents as soon as they know, and not go through the agony so many gay people do, about how to tell people.

Which is what gay people still face. And they shouldn't.

It's so unnecessary that we as a culture, that we feel we still have to put people through that.
People, we've established, who aren't hurting anyone.



Moral, is trying to make humanity happier.
Immoral is justifying anything that causes more misery than it absolutely has to.

Advocating differential treatment to people on the basis of consenting activity between adults, is wrong. No matter how it is presented.

Gay people have a right to campaign to make life easier for that section of the next generation they can empathise with most.

Those who are going to face going through, what they did.

And it's time that we show our common humanity with them, by thanking our lucky stars we never went through that.
And make it easier for them.