Today, what was once counterculture is now the establishment. Those who claim to speak for people whose sexuality differs from traditional and biological norms now wield immense power.
To you, who claim to speak for anyone with an alternative sexuality, society does not owe you recompense, reparations, or special privileges. You talk about pride, in this so-called “Pride Month” of June. Precisely what do people who classify their most significant trait as their sexuality have to be proud of?!
If as an individual you have saved the desperate, healed the sick, fed the hungry, or taught the ignorant, then thank you for making our world a better place! You have earned real self-respect as an individual, not as a representative of a group.
There is a runaway narcissism in your movement, a pervasive self-involvement that blights everything you do. Your focus seems to be always about you, your grievances, your sexuality, your ambitions, and your vengeance. People sympathetic to you talk about justice, but justice requires reconciliation.
Are you reconciled to the reality that your sexuality runs counter to the norm? Can you possibly imagine forgiving the rest of us for not being like you? Are you capable of being gracious when the default settings of society are not calibrated to your variant characteristics? Could you really be satisfied with the kind of toleration that previous generations only dreamed of?
Such tolerance as we now have invites you to join into the broader societal mainstream. This is progress. Two generations ago, your alternative sexuality was criminal, and a generation ago it was still considered shameful.
So long as it is with another consenting adult, most other people could care less whom you find attractive and what you might do to satisfy your drives to find love and companionship. Those of us who are in the mainstream no longer care what you do.
We do not want to lock you up for it, nor do we even want to shun you. For the most part, we have come to accept that your nature is a basic component of your makeup. It neither is nor should be a barrier to your acceptance in mainstream society.
Our contemporary culture is willing to accept you with alternative sexualities as we accept any other individual who has distinct personal traits. You are free to be judged as an individual, based upon your chosen words and deeds, and not as representatives of a group. Your sexuality is about as important as anyone else’s ethnic heritage or religion. It can be life-defining, but it need not be so.
This is key. A free person can choose how to prioritize their characteristics. Most of us compartmentalize ourselves. We are different when we are at work than when we are home. Our faith and civic virtues inform our experiences without pigeonholing us in the fetters of determinism.
As free people, we are each more than the sum of any of our personal traits or characteristics. The lie of identity politics tries to make us prisoners of the accidents of our birth, in need of some outside savior.
At long last, within the bounds of objective reality and human biology, who we each are is a result of our decisions rather than our inheritance. If we are honest, generous, hard-working, trustworthy, and principled, then we shall be seen as a person of integrity.
If we lie and are miserly, lazy, duplicitous, and unprincipled, then others will never trust us. Why? Because we, through our own free choices, will have demonstrated our own untrustworthiness.
Instead of being a fully-realized person, you leaders and spokesman for the alternately sexual insist that you and those who are like you be judged strictly according to your sexuality. Rather than distinguish yourself as an individual with complexity, mystery, and character, you demand that your sexual identity shape your every interaction.
You who were formerly abused are becoming utterly abusive. You self-appointed leaders of those with alternative sexuality demand that others violate their own consciences, bending to your will. You make the unwilling parrot your creeds, adopt your pronouns, and join into your personal fantasies of gender fluidity.
Your list of demands go further, now extending to demands that no self-respecting individual in a healthy society could ever go along with. You leaders parade hideous caricatures of what troubled men imagine to be women in front of innocent children.
Womanhood is not so easily imitated by wearing garish cosmetics and girly-clothes and behaving like no genuine lady ever behaved. This transvestite behavior has as much to do with genuine femininity as Al Jolson’s Minstrel Shows had to do with the real African-American experience.
More importantly, this frantic obsession with sexualizing children strikes against the most primal instincts of human beings. It is nothing less than a vindication of the toleration of modern America that perpetrators of children’s drag-shows have not as yet been publicly lynched.
Perverting children by forcibly and prematurely sexualizing them is wrong, no matter who does it. This is pederasty. Our society, your fellow Americans, will eventually, inevitably, and definitively protect children from anyone who strives to normalize their premature sexualization.
This is even more true when chemical castration or genital mutilation are concerned. Minors are rightly protected by law from adult sexual predators. The child rapes that such pedophiles perpetrate are no worse than the damage committed by ideologues who demand that minors have free access to puberty blockers and sex change operations.
Future generations will likely see such practices as we now view African female genital mutilation, Chinese foot-binding of upper class girls, castrating young Italian boys to preserve their sweet boy’s voices into adulthood. Such types of mutilation maim victims in service to some unfathomable cultural imperative.
The innate inhumanity of willfully destroying the mental and physical health of children is coming to define your movement. This, coupled with your strident demands for control over the thoughts and words of others, is stoking an anger in mainstream Americans that could cost you everything you have gained.
If tolerating those with alternative sexuality truly comes to mean allowing kids to be sexually victimized, if everyone is now to be judged by a latter-day Spanish Inquisition of Pronoun Police, then your fellow Americans will soon say that toleration of those with alternative sexuality has been a grievous error. If, God forbid, such toleration were to end then you will have only yourselves to blame.
