A columnist for the Huffington Post site says it is homophobic to criticize gay men who use Internet sex sites to meet teenage partners and only “bigots” are offended by such “nurturing intergenerational bonds.”
Publicity about a relationship between 39-year-old Hollywood screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and 19-year-old British diving champion Tom Daley has inspired criticism even from some gay rights activists.
Joshua Epstein, a blogger who identifies himself as a gay progressive Democrat, reacted to the Black-Daley affair on Twitter: “He could be his father. Yuk.” That reaction was condemned by Huffington Post columnist Michelangelo Signorile, who said only “internalized homophobia” could cause gays to criticize such relationships.
“There is an undercurrent in these comments — the ‘chicken hawk’ charge — that suggests that gay men are more likely to sexually abuse underage teens, the ugliest lie about gay men out there,” Signorile wrote Friday in Huffington Post’s “Gay Voices” section. “Hardcore homophobes are predictably pointing to Black and Daley as supposed proof. But many gay men too, so defensive about the charge and deathly fearful of how it’s used, overcompensate by saying ‘yuk.'”
Signorile specifically defended sites that promote “intergenerational” gay sex. “Some younger people are attracted to older people, and vice versa,” he wrote. “There’s even a gay website called Daddyhunt. The famed novelist Armistead Maupin’s 27-years-younger husband, Christopher Turner, founded it. The met on another one of Turner’s sites, HotOlderMale.com. If that’s not your thing, it’s totally cool, but in that case just shut your mouth.” . . .
Read the whole thing at The American Spectator.
Do you have a community college near you? You would really benefit from a basic logic course if you want to wade in the water with people on this board.
Oops, you did it again! 15 yard penalty for the lazy buzzwords “zealotry” and “superstitious.”
And ‘underpinnings’ is one word.
Not necessarily, but this is endemic among those who choose to practice homosexual behavior. And like other mental illnesses, it tends to have its roots in real life issues.
I guess when Mary married Joseph – a much older man to her – Mary was about 14 or 15 and Joseph was about 30 years older than her. Nice taboos there.
This is the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy, “woe unto you that call evil good and good evil” So in your thinking a man sticking his genitals in another man’s rectum makes someone “normal and healthy”. You’re an amoral nitwit.
anti-normal? By whose standards? You and your boyfriend’s?
The Scriptures say nothing about how old Joseph or Mary was. He may have been older than Mary, maybe not. She was likely around 18-20, but no one can say with certainty.
But even if he was older, that WAS their culture at the time. Who are you to judge another person’s culture? All cultures are equally valid, didn’t you know that? Or are you just a lying hypocrite trying to score cheap points from the kiddie table?
You take care of the rough trade for us okay Porter?
Who wore the dress to the altar?
And who are you to judge me?
Jesus never said anything about homosexuality either. Spoke a lot about adultery.
Really so you are speaking for her now?
Really you have statistics to prove this? What is the optimal acceptable age difference between two people? 2 years 5 years?
I am not the one generalizing here – you and your ilk are.
Christ didn’t have to say anything about homosexuality.
First, the practice was, at His time, largely unknown in Israel and so was not an issue He needed to directly address (among the Gentiles it was a far different matter).
Second, He came to uphold the whole of the Law, in which He had already condemned the sin of sodomy.
Third, He did say Sodom would still undergo judgment in the Day of Judgment (Mt 11:20-24). He also reminded His hearers that His Father rained down fire and brimstone on Sodom (Lk 17:28), the cardinal vice of which was what you call a lifestyle choice.
Christ didn’t need to when he said he came to establish the law not to destroy it. God had already declared homosexuality to be an abomination and God has no reason to repeat himself.
So, all of the younger males that are happily dating older women known as ‘cougars’ / ‘Stacy’s Mom’ / etc are all horribly diseased and sick people?
Upvoting yourself now?
You already used the terms zealot, theocrat and superstitious…I think you generalize quite nicely.
She just loves to generalize — I guess the heterosexual christian lawyer for the ADF Lisa Biron was sentenced to 40 years in prison on eight felony counts of producing child pornography. With her daughter. Yeah – gotta love those morals.
Looking at what she posted I see no reason for your objection. It is BigGov that has held the shop has to serve queers or they are running afoul of the “law.”
WOW – and you probably call yourself a good christian too.
No, it’s not.
FIFY.
It would have only taken you five seconds to see that I’m female by scrolling downwards, you know.
And you guys call ME ‘not discussing things like an adult’ when you refuse to even scroll. Sheesh.
So women and girls are merely “It’s” to you? How amazingly stupid of you.
Well he repeated himself plenty on Adultery – from the 10 commandments and the new testament at least 40 times overall.
And now “ilk.” Very generalized, that.
Nah. Maybe it’s a “husband” but it isn’t a husband. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
I’m not a bigot. I’m just saying that sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander if you want to pull the generalization card. Straight people are disproportionately child molesters. Fact.
That said fact is true doesn’t make all straight people evil. That would be beyond silly. Group collectivist thought is wrong.
But if you we must play the big government nanny state social conservative game of referring to people as groups rather than as individuals, well…
He sure did! Because that’s what the Pharisees were indulging in, among other things, and He was right to do it! But from the evidence of Scripture, apparently not even they had (yet) sunk so low as to attempt to reintroduce sodomy to Israel as an open practice.
Only the truly mind-blind seek to do that.
And it’s you big government nanny state social conservatives that are talking about sodomy laws and enforcing Christian social norms against non-Christians.
Again, you and your mirror image Marxist big government nanny state left-wing folks have so much in common.
I don’t have the stats but if they existed, I’d bet my next paycheck (were I a betting man) that a higher % of sodomites rape children, or attempt to, than the % of the straight population. Just a hunch.
Ooh, bet you just been waiting to play that generalizing card.
For every professing Christian who does something like this, over 99% do not and would rightly condemn her for doing so.
How many homosexuals would try to seduce a child if they thought they could get away with it? Most of them.
Hardly. Most parents are concerned about such things because they tend to be inherently unbalanced because of the large difference in life experience. It is generally not a good idea to have a large difference in age because of this factor. As a result, the parents usually take some convincing to accept such a marriage. When the concerns continue, they are all too often shown to be right to have those concerns.
This is a moral issue and any parent who loves their kid will be concerned about these matters.
You can believe what ever you want as a Christian. And you can make reasonable arguments about such things.
But, at the end of the day, we have a secular government and you have no right to use the secular law to enforce your religious mandates upon non-Christians.
Guess what else are sins? Lying. Adultery. Dishonoring your father and mother. You want the secular police to arrest people for those things?
Secular government shouldn’t be in the business of arresting people for “sins”.
“Most of them.”
And you base this from… nothing.
No that’d be homosexuality in the mental illness camp. But now that you mention it, disease is horribly rampant among those who choose to practice homosexuality, as well. Thanks for mentioning that.
You mentioning her is the first I ever heard of this woman. It’s clear she lied about her testimony of Christ. No one indwelt by the Holy Spirit of Christ – for that’s what a Christian really is – can do what she did, for as long as she did, as deliberately as she did.
Disease is rampant among all people that choose to have sex with random strangers, straight or gay alike.
Of course, nobody in this thread will speak out against the straight romeo.
I do not all it a lifestyle choice. Sorry way off on that base. I didnt choose to be gay any more than you choose to be heterosexual,
Even Jesus said the sin of Sodom was inhospitably. Not homosexuality.
Right they didnt know anything about same sex attraction – sure its a new thing / fad right?
Sure we would, but he’s not here telling us we have to accept his sin as normal. YOU are.
ilk is not derogatory ….
actually no it was someone else – but you are welcome to bear false witness and accuse me of such.
Jesus did not say that.
You did choose your lifestyle because God condemns it as sin, and He, being just and holy, makes no one to sin in order to condemn them. You actually slander God when you say you’re made this way.
Look…I have no doubt your drives go way back, right? All that proves is you’re a sinner just like I am. I have proclivities of my own that I can track back to childhood…pretty much everyone has something that they can. But Christ has FREED me of them, and He can free you of yours, too. He is not powerless, He IS power, and He is love.
The deal is, you have to admit they are what He said they are, and want to be free. If you don’t, He won’t.
It is the way you meant it. Not that I take offense – I don’t. I’m just pointing it out.
Really – yet in Africa HIV is rampant in the heterosexual community – so are you saying that all these Africans are perverts and actually homosexuals?
What does that say about those whom have the HPV virus which is the most prolific STD out there,
Practice homosexuality? – is it an exercise? Damn I must be a Pro then.
Your first sentence is very true and those who choose to practice homosexuality do seem to have a penchant for sex with random strangers. The level of disease among those who choose to practice homosexuality is far in excess of their trivial numbers.
Sorry I dont hold your same beliefs – but I am happy for your that you have been freed from what ever proclivities you felt were sinful.
You can say a chose to be gay that is your belief – but you are wrong – and to prove my point could you live as a homosexual for 1 year, 1 month or even 1 week? the answer would be no.
Bearing false witness is deliberately lying against the truth. I assumed you upvoted yourself because I saw it happen almost the second you post appeared. If I was wrong, I’m wrong, but I did not lie.
You really aren’t very good at this, you’ll pardon my saying so.
I have no reason to up vote anything I say – either you agree or you disagree …
I agree, but others here have been known to self-upvote. If you didn’t, fine.
Do you choose to be heterosexual? Wow generalize much – have you ever been to a spring break? Homosexuals do not have the market on promiscuity.