LGBTIQ???

Article from Into The Deep July 2017

LGBTIQ

There is a joke about a patient in a psychiatrist’s waiting room who introduces himself to another patient as Napoleon. The other bloke asks him how he came to realise he was Napoleon. Napoleon answers confidently, “Jesus told me!” Another patient pipes up indignantly from the other side of the waiting room, “No, I didn’t!” If this joke was about gender confusion, we wouldn’t be able to laugh. If it was about a man who thought he was a woman, we’d be expected to suspend all reality and accept what he believed himself to be, what he “identified as”. This is what the LGBTI brigade demands of us. LGBTI stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex; sometimes a Q is added for queer. And there are plenty more. Most of these “identities” relate simply to who they want to have sex with, or how. Some of these individuals are quietly misled or misguided, and some are battling privately with their own demons. These people deserve our sympathy and patience. But the activists, the lobbyists, the vicious, vocal, anti-religious, anti-freedom-of-speech, intolerant LGBTIQ brigade, I have had more than enough of. I’m sick of them thrusting their “sexual preferences” into the spotlight and trying to force us to consider these normal. I’m sick of seeing the acronym LGBTIQ plastered everywhere, and I’m sick of the “gay pride” events that make everyone celebrate the deviant sexual activities of some. I propose another meaning for LGBTIQ: Logic – Get Back To It (Quickly!). We all know that human beings are either male or female. We know that men and women are different. And we know we are complementary. Male and female together “work” – we are designed that way, two halves, made to be a whole. A man and a woman join in marriage and their sexual differences join perfectly to create new life, children that can grow and mature in the shelter of their parents’ love. We all know what is normal and natural and (bio)logical. Why do we allow ourselves to be bullied into submission by those who try to convince the world that men can be women, girls can be boys, a man can have a husband or a woman can have a wife (or any combination thereof), or children can be born to parents of the same sex. The vast majority of us has been silenced, afraid to speak of logic. We know that if we say a man in a dress is still a man, we’ll be accused of being bigots; or if we claim that marriage is between a man and a woman, we’re haters; or if we think children need a mother and father, we’re judgemental. It made me look up the old story of the Emperor’s new clothes. Hans Christian Andersen wrote a profound little tale (published in 1837) about a couple of swindlers who came into town and claimed to be brilliant weavers of the finest cloth. The cloth was invisible to all who were unfit for their office or who were “unusually stupid”. The Emperor paid the thieves a fortune for his fine new clothes, and no one was game to admit that they couldn’t see a thing. He undressed and put on his new clothes and paraded through town. Everyone in the streets exclaimed how fine the Emperor’s new clothes looked because no one wanted to be seen as being unusually stupid. It took an innocent child to say, “But he hasn’t got anything on!” This little child gave the adults courage to state the obvious and the whole town in the end “cried out at last” that the Emperor had nothing on. Where is our innocent child to speak the obvious truth? Where is our courage? Or do we just go along with the pretence of the swindlers? Surely the majority of us still believe in logic. Let’s Get Back To It. Quickly.
Ed.