As long as the comics don't pull something like "Everyone in the world is really gay and the oppressive Christian/western/right-wing/whatever-supposedly-anti-gay-worldview-is-in-vogue-this-week makes us deny it against our will" (like was proclaimed in more than one of my literature classes in college - bleagh), I'm okay with it.
Mark Steyn was talking about this on Rush's show (as was mentioned) and he said something along the lines that "coming out of the closet" is a way to score political points and in some campaign somewhere a candidate "outed" a self-proclaimed bisexual man as really being heterosexual. That made me roll my eyes because why should you only identify yourself by your sexuality? It's like people who voted for Obama just so they could say they voted for the first black president - yippee-skip, the guy still has to govern. Does a person's skin color or sexual orientation (or even gender) automatically make them a good president, or even a good person?
There are gay people in the world - I get it. And I'm fine with them being my friends and neighbors. I don't hate them and I don't do/say cruel things to them. I don't condone their lifestyle, but I don't condemn them for it either. As long as they let me live my life the way I choose, I will let them do whatever they want.
But something totally unrelated makes me laugh about all this - the character's name is Kevin Keller. And I actually know a Kevin Keller in real life. And no, he's not gay - he's got some interesting ideas about life, but he's definitely not gay.
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Date: 2010-04-23 09:43 pm (UTC)Mark Steyn was talking about this on Rush's show (as was mentioned) and he said something along the lines that "coming out of the closet" is a way to score political points and in some campaign somewhere a candidate "outed" a self-proclaimed bisexual man as really being heterosexual. That made me roll my eyes because why should you only identify yourself by your sexuality? It's like people who voted for Obama just so they could say they voted for the first black president - yippee-skip, the guy still has to govern. Does a person's skin color or sexual orientation (or even gender) automatically make them a good president, or even a good person?
There are gay people in the world - I get it. And I'm fine with them being my friends and neighbors. I don't hate them and I don't do/say cruel things to them. I don't condone their lifestyle, but I don't condemn them for it either. As long as they let me live my life the way I choose, I will let them do whatever they want.
But something totally unrelated makes me laugh about all this - the character's name is Kevin Keller. And I actually know a Kevin Keller in real life. And no, he's not gay - he's got some interesting ideas about life, but he's definitely not gay.