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.
I’ll go you one better: I cannot name a single politician who believes gov’t should take action against sodomites who IS religious.
You’re grasping at straws. Adultery is any sex outside of a covenant relationship between one man and one woman. Homosexuality is adultery by its very nature, which why the penalty for homosexual adultery was the same for heterosexual adultery.
Fantasize much?
Because your psychology is so deformed!
Are you kidding? Look at all of the comments by fringe Republican figures saying that gays are nasty, pedophile-sympathetic, etc and therefore we must fight them.
Does the fact that you could reproduce with one – and ONLY with one – but instead desire the orifices of other men tell you something’s wrong?
That is not a joke, it’s a dead serious question and I’d appreciate an honest answer if you’ll give it. I don’t have much more time on here tonight.
Still none of your business if a man or woman want’s to screw younger adults or even tie them up and flog them. There are no laws against it. Why do I get the feeling that your relationship standards are so high that you are always alone?
Names or get out.
You’re a tyrant. If it’s legal and consensual mind your own business.
I don’t know about my Crazy Cousin Richard, but I am proudly bigoted – if you mean in the Edmund Burke sense.
I’m not a Christian, and I don’t see why you believe that I should be required to live by your religious teachings under the pressure of secular government. I don’t worship your God. I don’t accept what you call sins.
Call me whatever names you want, but it’s sophistry. How would you feel if an Orthodox Jewish President banned bacon? A Muslim President banned alcohol?
Attitudes and behaviors are what
form or destroy society. Therefore, sexuality and relationships are
always everybody’s business, no matter what the age. The more people run away from thinking about sexuality issues, the more of a violent, dysfunctional sexuality jungle we have.
Laws hardly begin to cover
all the kinds of attitudes and behaviors that are perverted,
destructive, or harmful. And laws are very often not even enforced.
The people breaking the laws, by the way, develop a criminal mind
because usually no one bothers to pay attention to them, and are
cowardly “minding their own business.”
“Minding your own business”
means nothing more than being negligent, cowardly, and passively
consenting (or actively endorsing) destructive behavior.
Do you honestly think that other people could force you to suddenly want to have sex with the same gender?
You think you could just turn on that feeling like flipping on a lights-switch?
You just want to do harm and violence with impunity. Anyone who demands ethics is a tyrant to a criminal or a slime.
Cmdr358 is right – you’ve descended into the Bowery of this discussion.
Well, you have Republican Presidental Frontrunner (at one point) Michelle Bachmann saying that she bases her political positions on that “we have a member of our family that is lesbian. This is not funny. It’s a very sad life. It’s part of Satan, I think.” for one.
Also, are you aware of the fact that in this very comment section you said that you want to bring back sodomy laws?
So, what are you going to do? Publicly shame people and legislate what kind of sex adults can have with each other? Live up to your own standards and leave other people alone, you annoying, puritanical, busy body.
You are irrational.
I am not a politician. Neither is she, anymore, and even when she was she did not call for laws stuffing you back in the closet and making you wear pants, whatever her opinions were.
You’re back to invisible to me now.
No one person develops a perverted sexuality in a few seconds. It takes time and multiple experiences to deform a person’s mind. Same for pedophilia.
What problems with women?
Do you even pretend to think before you comment?
Since you as a straight female do not wish to engage in sexual intercourse with other females, do that make you “having problems with women” too?
Ok, it’s derogatory. So, what? You deserve nothing less.
It’s also directly equated with idolatry, which “mere” adultery (best of my recollection) is not.
Eh, well, in talking to you, I guess it reiterated that the Christians that want to enforce their views on non-Christians aren’t even going to be honest about their own beliefs.
I always make the mistake of thinking too highly of big government nanny state people– whether of the social conservative or far-left variety.
And yeah, I guarantee you are alone in life. Who could possibly put up with someone, especially in bed, who would constantly be evaluating one’s sexual expression for signs of perversion and mental illness? He or she looks at you in the wrong way or engages in some harmless dirty talk or god forbid suggests a position other than missionary and you’d be on a tirade about how screwed up and mentally unstable they are. Your standards are unrealistic and people are free to get their freak on however they please.
The more people criticize your deformed attitudes and behaviors, the better it is for society
I witnessed this in the 1980’s when I was in the Punk / New Wave end of the music business. As many know, there were a lot of young homosexual males around the scene and, inevitably, many of them had Chicken Hawk ‘boyfriends’ who exploited them something awful [including taking advantage of their inner psychological turmoil and beating them, physically and mentally] like perverted Svengalis. ‘You have to be carefully taught’ and these Hawks were good teachers.
There is a lot of violence in the homosexual ‘community’ – on both the make and female side, because these are psychologically damaged people, which means they’re always frustrated, which means there’s always a simmering anger burning inside of them.
They want to drag everyone down into their pit of misery and degradation.
Prove the “harm and violence” of a nineteen year old woman having a devoted thirty nine year old boyfriend in which they are in love and are faithful.
Back your claims.
Of course, you can’t.
Im not gay, halfwit. You’re simply vile and that needs to be told you over and over again until you do something about it.
And I guarantee you will only get to be with trash of people all your life! Ever wonder why?
Project much?
Why is big government nanny state social engineering laws somehow a good thing when social conservatives do it?
You’re an evil human being. End of story. And from what I’ve noticed is no matter who many people call out your deformed behavior, you’re still the same.
And there is zero harm, dysfunction, or anything of the like when you see a nineteen year old woman and her thirty nine year old husband together.
Guess what?
Nineteen year olds men and thirty nine year old women are having sex right now.
All of the world.
Get over it.
I am sorry that you need to live in fear and shame and with self loathing. It is possible to leave your destructive lifestyle and find happiness in more than that which arouses you.
WOMEN:
Vagina
Ovaries/eggs
Uterus
MEN:
Penis
Testes/sperm cells
various glands
Vagina/penis: complementary
Ovaries/testes: analogous
Egg/sperm: made for each other
MALE HOMOSEXUALS:
Penis/anus: not complementary and damaging
Semen/rectum: harmful to immune system
FEMALE HOMOSEXUALS:
Just as perverse and fruitless.
Whether one believes in divine design or designer-less evolution, homosexuality in all forms is inexplicably aberrant.
That is all.
Aww, I definitely touched a nerve. You probably even masturbate with the lights off if you even allow yourself that simple pleasure.
No, you’re just a pervert and you don’t want to look in the mirror
What 39 year old wouldn’t want to have sex with a 19 year old? She’s a lunatic.
I don’t think anyone is interested in the fantasies of a retard like you!
It’s very possible to leave the destructive and shame filled lifestyle of the conservative Christian that is raised to dislike people that are black, gay, and Jewish among other categories.
I did. And when the feelings that I had to permanently view my fellow Americans as evil just for something that they were born as washed away, I was born again.
A is always A.
To say A is B, is Hubris, and you are free to do it all you want.
But, watch out because Hubris is always followed by Nemesis.
Now you’ve resorted to name calling like an angry child because you’ve been called out for your bullshit. You are the one who is quite obviously unstable and are simply projecting on the world around you.
You keep using the word “pervert” as if you have some idea of what it means. And yet you call a happily married couple of a younger adult man and an older adult woman sick and evil. You view this as “perversion”.
To be honest, I’m actually really sad for you. What a small life you have.
Of course there can be. It all depends on the make-up of the individuals and the dynamics in their relationships. And with such a difference, the probability for exploitation, objectification, or domination is high
You should read her blog. It’s like a diary of her insanity dressed up in clinical language.
GOVERNMENT:
Providing the common defense and upholding core functions of civil order while providing maximum civil rights and freedoms of its citizens.
RELIGION:
Viewpoints that are adopted due to persuasion that people adopt as a matter of free choice rather than coercion.
Is that so hard?
Not like your HIV and syphilis spreading gay sauna life!
Yes, you should read my blog. The only time you won’t be reading trash in your life!