beware of homophobes bearing hatchets
I read today where some kid went into a Massachusetts gay bar and hacked up a couple of queers with a hatchet and shot a couple of others, or vice versa. The story is kind of confusing. The story is not confusing in that the bar had pink walls. The story goes on to explain there is outrage about this hate crime and that the region is stunned that this happened. I guess the consensus of opinion is, “How can this happen, here?”
Perhaps I can clear up some of the confusion and explain why this young man might feel it was his destiny to carry out this act. It might help some of you understand his motivation.
First of all, we have enjoyed, for the last five years, the leadership of a homophobic President. He has been returned to office despite failing to keep his guard up and allowing the country to be attacked on its own soil. He has been returned to office despite failing in his duties as CEO and allowing the economy to go straight to hell. He has been returned to office despite his pension for pissing away our budget surplus and looting the treasury. He has been returned to office after bankrupting the social security fund into which all of us have paid huge percentages of our income. He has been returned to office primarily on “moral” issues, and primarily because the electorate that returned him to this position knows he hates queers. That electorate, of course, hates queers, too.
That President and his electorate hate queers so much that they are willing to amend our constitution to exclude queers and to attach a state religion to our country, despite the fact that the framers of the constitution specifically wrote it to avoid that happening.
Aren’t you proud that I managed to get the first four paragraphs on paper (or virtual paper, as it were) without saying, “fuck” once? I’m sorry, but that is as far as I can go without telling it like it is. So let’s recap.
The motherfucker in the oval office is a homophobe. The cocksuckers that voted for him are homophobes. They are willing to throw away 230 years of American history and tradition just because they want to lynch a queer or a few hundred thousand.
Anyway, some cocksucker comes along with a hatchet and a gun and he starts hacking up queers and shooting them and everybody gets all excited about it and saying, “This is America. How can that happen here?”
What the fuck is so difficult to understand. If, as a nation, we hate queers so fucking bad that we are willing to change the most sacred document in the history of civilization to take away the rights of gays, then where is the confusion? If some dumb-fuck, impressionable kid hears all the bullshit about how the gays have more rights than the rest of us and thinks he needs to take matters into his own hands, how can society be surprised?
We only have ourselves to blame for this whole thing. Okay, maybe someone should take the kid and break a Louisville Slugger over his head—you know, a 33-ounce, 32- inch—and tell him to cut out this crazy shit and leave his hatchet at home. But as a society, we caused it. By our being afraid of anything different—by our universal fear that if we are around gays we will realize they are all correct and we’ll all turn gay, too—so we all have to act like we can’t coexist or we’ll turn queer.
I can’t help but think that this whole thing goes back to Leviticus, chapter 18, verse 22, which says, “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination.” Verse 23 goes on to say, “Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith…”
I contend that most of the guys who voted for Bush might have had a woman once or twice, but Goddamn it, you know every one of them has fucked a pig or a sheep on numerous occasions.
The good news is that, if there is a God, every one of the Christian right will burn in hell for eternity. The bad news is that most of them are still going to be alive tomorrow. And, you never know when one of them is going to zone out and start hacking on some queer with an axe.
Or my name isn’t Dick Clinch.
Perhaps I can clear up some of the confusion and explain why this young man might feel it was his destiny to carry out this act. It might help some of you understand his motivation.
First of all, we have enjoyed, for the last five years, the leadership of a homophobic President. He has been returned to office despite failing to keep his guard up and allowing the country to be attacked on its own soil. He has been returned to office despite failing in his duties as CEO and allowing the economy to go straight to hell. He has been returned to office despite his pension for pissing away our budget surplus and looting the treasury. He has been returned to office after bankrupting the social security fund into which all of us have paid huge percentages of our income. He has been returned to office primarily on “moral” issues, and primarily because the electorate that returned him to this position knows he hates queers. That electorate, of course, hates queers, too.
That President and his electorate hate queers so much that they are willing to amend our constitution to exclude queers and to attach a state religion to our country, despite the fact that the framers of the constitution specifically wrote it to avoid that happening.
Aren’t you proud that I managed to get the first four paragraphs on paper (or virtual paper, as it were) without saying, “fuck” once? I’m sorry, but that is as far as I can go without telling it like it is. So let’s recap.
The motherfucker in the oval office is a homophobe. The cocksuckers that voted for him are homophobes. They are willing to throw away 230 years of American history and tradition just because they want to lynch a queer or a few hundred thousand.
Anyway, some cocksucker comes along with a hatchet and a gun and he starts hacking up queers and shooting them and everybody gets all excited about it and saying, “This is America. How can that happen here?”
What the fuck is so difficult to understand. If, as a nation, we hate queers so fucking bad that we are willing to change the most sacred document in the history of civilization to take away the rights of gays, then where is the confusion? If some dumb-fuck, impressionable kid hears all the bullshit about how the gays have more rights than the rest of us and thinks he needs to take matters into his own hands, how can society be surprised?
We only have ourselves to blame for this whole thing. Okay, maybe someone should take the kid and break a Louisville Slugger over his head—you know, a 33-ounce, 32- inch—and tell him to cut out this crazy shit and leave his hatchet at home. But as a society, we caused it. By our being afraid of anything different—by our universal fear that if we are around gays we will realize they are all correct and we’ll all turn gay, too—so we all have to act like we can’t coexist or we’ll turn queer.
I can’t help but think that this whole thing goes back to Leviticus, chapter 18, verse 22, which says, “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination.” Verse 23 goes on to say, “Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith…”
I contend that most of the guys who voted for Bush might have had a woman once or twice, but Goddamn it, you know every one of them has fucked a pig or a sheep on numerous occasions.
The good news is that, if there is a God, every one of the Christian right will burn in hell for eternity. The bad news is that most of them are still going to be alive tomorrow. And, you never know when one of them is going to zone out and start hacking on some queer with an axe.
Or my name isn’t Dick Clinch.
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