I know the conversation has more or less moved on, but let me take your attention back to Kevin Jennings, who by the way remains in his position as ‘safe schools czar’. Before we all withdrew from politics (at least a little) to spend the holidays with friends or family, one of Andrew Breitbart’s many Media Matters-taunting tweets caught my eye. He posted:
LEFT gets media pass correlating homosexuality w deviant behavior: @mmfa claims pedophelia & teaching fisting2kids as ‘gay rights’ issue.
And he’s right: the left defends perversion by extending (overextending I’d say) their arguments on homosexuality and insisting that that’s the issue in play. And they get a pass. And the gay community both gives them a pass and gets one itself for not speaking up.
Now I understand of course that the progressive community and the gay community are friends and have a lot of overlap and obviously the left provides the champions of the so-called gay agenda while the right is their boogeyman. But if there is in fact a unique gay agenda and if gay groups and leaders are in fact representing that interest and not shilling for their political overlords, isn’t this where the gay agenda and the hard left agenda depart? Put another way, do the leaders of the gay community really want to represent to the world that you have to believe in teaching deviant sexual behavior to children to be a gay rights supporter?
It seems to me that any gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered individual seeking respect for themselves or their sexual orientation would want to get as far away as possible from the issues of pedophilia and teaching sex to children. Their top objection should be to stereotypes that tie their orientation to an interest in the sexuality of children, but in this case, such slanderous stereotypes are being used by their friends. And it’s a shame for the sake of the gay community that they seem to lack leaders with the intellectual fortitude to object to the smear.
Update 1-1-2010: Breitbart tweets that Media Matters is prepared to apologize:
Media Matters for America set for Jan 9 apology. Sorry for correlating homosexuality w pedophelia & deviant sexual behavior. @mmfa
