Joseph Farah’s column yesterday, I do want acknowledge, especially to columbine, the double-edged sword of separate-but-equal high schools. It’s not an ideal solution and it has both practical and philosophical pitfalls. But I think, in this particular case and at this particular time, it’s important to remember these students were already at risk. They were already compromised, and the school serves as a safety net to keep them from opting out and becoming throw-aways.
While I’m on GLBT issues: Before we can consider radicalizing marriage or worry about losing our rebel ways, we still have a culture war to keep down. (Yes! Lara Riscol again!)
Ahem. Pardon my burst of enthusiasm. I enjoy Riscol’s writing a lot, you know, and we don’t see enough of her at Alternet.
Anyway, evidence more than suggests that a gay backlash is rising. Despite regional findings that Andew Sullivan pointed to a recent weblog entry. Things are going to get messier before they get better. Consider these two points. Well, three, you count Canada. (And, yes, Farah. Again. It shows where the pressure’s coming from.)
Me, I’m watching a lot of Bravo to drive up the tolerance numbers.
Don’t confuse conservative Fox News with the more oportunistic Fox TV. While the former routinely complains about hell and a handbasket, the latter’s apparently holding the basket as it skips towards Gomorrah. At least that’s how it looks, what with Skin about to hit its airwaves. Now, I don’t have a problem with the show itself nor am I a prude about porn’s perceived mainstreaming. If anything, I get a chuckle out of how the True Believers at Fox News are being used just as much as the producers of Skin, all in the name of making an almighty buck. Really, do you think Rupert Murdock cares about social conservatism? I bet he’d willingly sacrifice it if it didn’t contribute to his profit margins.
However, that’s not stopping “born again” social conservatives from calling for “by the majority” censorship. Scroll about halfway down this Crossfire transcript and you’ll find singer Pat Boone doing just that.
OK, let me get this straight: The man who cut a heavy metal album in full leather long after the death of hair bands and at the very moment kinky sex awareness on the Internet hit its apex is now telling us to censor by majority rule? Hypocrite. Scarier yet, he sures seem a lot more sincere about censorship than he did about his radical sex leather persona.
OK, enough ranting. I’ll return with happy, shiney entertainment fare next entry, ‘K?
