That’s the question The Young Turks asked at the GOP convention, after awaiting for a batsh*t fundie to show up, and their wish was granted—when apparent Hartline-wannabe Ryan Sorba showed up. His lot in life is to ”expose the dark secrets of the homosexual political community.” (Read past Blend post here.)
In this video he claims that Barack Obama is a “pro-sodomy activist,” and that Obama will ruin the definition of marriage as “total sexual community.” (?!) He then goes into the ”born gay hoax” nonsense, and says that most gays have “deep seated emotional problems.” He also informs us that there were no people with a “gay identity” until after 1862.
Ryan Sorba also spends a great deal of time talking about dogs humping legs under a table and the fact that dogs don’t bark with a lisp.
Boy, the Young Turks hit pay dirt with this young man.
H/t, Adam K.
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He also informs us that there were no people with a “gay identity” until after 1862.
True. But there were no people with a “straight identity” until after 1868 - and the first recorded use of the concept in print is 1892. So our identity is older than his identity. At least, older than the identity he claims…
He also informs us that there were no people with a “gay identity” until after 1862.
People who do not read the classics are condemned to look like idiots.
Was the phrase “gay identity” ever used? No. Are men mocked in the plays of Aristophanes and others for only liking sex with men (and, to a lesser extent, for only liking sex with women)? Absolutely. Alkibiades is the most famous, but there are quite a few others.
So, yes, there was some version of the Kinsey Scale as a public meme in antiquity--the only difference is that the optimum was perceived to be somewhere between one and five rather than at zero.
Most likely Ryan is a gay lad fighting to be straight, because he irrationally believes that straight people can be turned gay by recruitment and attendance at a summer camp. Sexual orientation is not fluid in my experience.
I’m reminded of Ahmadinejad’s position. Merely wanting to have sex with guys doesn’t make you gay—everybody wants that, it’s no big deal, but most guys grow out of it. It’s when you start self-identifying as gay—your subscription to Saveur, your season tickets to the opera, and your Master’s in interior design—that’s what makes you gay.
Ryan isn’t “formerly gay” is he? He reminds me of an ex-smoker friend of mine who wanted to smoke again so bad thet he berated anyone who lit up no matter where or what the situation.
Marriage allows you to enter into “Total Sexual Community”, eh?
Does this mean now that I am married, I get to have sex with anyone with whom I want to have sex, so long as she too is married? Because there is a “total sexual community” of all married folks?
I thought the right was into monogamy (at least in theory). But I guess they are all a bunch of swingers?
If I were gay, I think I would have deep-seated emotional problems stemming from having to pretend to be someone I’m not. I know that my immediate family would be loving and comforting, but having to project another image to all the ignoramuses in my grade school and college would have left me wondering if indeed there was something wrong with me, in that I didn’t fit in.
And I knew one out man in college who used to get death threats when he was in high school.
So, I’m frankly not surprised that many LGBTs have deep-seated emotional problems. As usual, however, religious fundnuts have mistaken the effect for the cause. Jerks.
I find it funny that even through his misguided statistic (that only .2% of species display what is understood to be homosexuality) that he still can’t concede that it is natural, if only for that .2%. And then attempts to psychologize homosexuality while maintaining that what separates civilization from “savagery” is human reason.
So am I supposed to take away that animals also have psychological problems or that homosexuals are beastly creatures.
This man is offensive and unintelligent in equal parts (which I’ve come to realize is the norm for this breed of ignoramus).
I worry that there is something wrong with me. Some of these anti-sodomy guys make me hot!!
Excuse me while I go and ejaculate on my ficus. It’s looking a little peaky.
Congratulations Ryan Sorba, you are today’s wiener!