Some musings on 'Brokeback Mountain'...
The movie 'Brokeback Mountain' is causing quite a stir here in the inter-mountain west. The local paper has been publishing salvos from both sides, many of which shed a lot more heat than light on the issue. I've decided to enter the fray and have submitted the following to the Editor. I'll let you know if they have the guts to publish it. Anyway, here's my take...
To the Editor.
Erin from Los Angeles writes to remind us that gay cowboys exist in Wyoming. Of this, I have no doubt. But I have considerable doubt that straight movie producers exist in L.A.
How else do we explain the dominance of the homosexual community within the entertainment industry? We are inundated with pro-homo propaganda. Every T.V. show, it seems, has it's token queer. Invariably, they are the smartest, funniest, most charming, most normal-looking characters on the show. Generally speaking, this is a lie. Anyone who has ever witnessed a gay-pride parade in a major city knows better. You will never see a more twisted, confused, tragi-comic spectacle as that. But what do we expect from people who identify themselves according to their sexual proclivities and strive to rub our noses in their perversion? Most people confine sex to their private lives; yet homos delight in leaping out of the closet and making their private acts public. And then they have the gall to wonder what we're all so upset about.
But, as much as I hate to admit it, some of the 'Brokeback Mountain' apologists have a point. After all, hollywood has been selling sex for decades; with nary a peep from the hetero community. The same straight cowboys who are outraged by two men tongue-wrestling in Wyoming probably have girlie magazines stashed in their pick-up trucks. 'Our' porn is A-O.K., but their's is not? Hollywood never fails to depict traditional married sex as dull and/or dysfunctional, and where is all the hetero outrage when they do? Sexually explicit movies featuring hetero couples are routinely celebrated as works of art despite their adulterous and perverted themes. But, NOW by heaven, we're drawing a moral line with 'Brokeback Mountain'? There's a very special word for those who think this way, and it's not used enough in public discourse. Hypocrite.
The wide-spread tolerance of heterosexual sin has produced the present social climate and our double standards are now catching up with us. Indeed, we are now so desensitized to every form of heterosexual sin, that it barely registers on our skewed morality scale when homosexual porn is marketed as a 'love story'. Does anyone want to imagine what comes after a general desensitization to homosexual porn? Does anyone wish to live in a society that permits animals and children to be used as sex toys? Just checking; because that's where we're headed. And that's also why homosexual sin should never be celebrated and promoted. But even as we stand against the normalization of homosexuality, we ought to remove the log from our own eye. The filthy preferences of others will never justify our own.
R.G.
To the Editor.
Erin from Los Angeles writes to remind us that gay cowboys exist in Wyoming. Of this, I have no doubt. But I have considerable doubt that straight movie producers exist in L.A.
How else do we explain the dominance of the homosexual community within the entertainment industry? We are inundated with pro-homo propaganda. Every T.V. show, it seems, has it's token queer. Invariably, they are the smartest, funniest, most charming, most normal-looking characters on the show. Generally speaking, this is a lie. Anyone who has ever witnessed a gay-pride parade in a major city knows better. You will never see a more twisted, confused, tragi-comic spectacle as that. But what do we expect from people who identify themselves according to their sexual proclivities and strive to rub our noses in their perversion? Most people confine sex to their private lives; yet homos delight in leaping out of the closet and making their private acts public. And then they have the gall to wonder what we're all so upset about.
But, as much as I hate to admit it, some of the 'Brokeback Mountain' apologists have a point. After all, hollywood has been selling sex for decades; with nary a peep from the hetero community. The same straight cowboys who are outraged by two men tongue-wrestling in Wyoming probably have girlie magazines stashed in their pick-up trucks. 'Our' porn is A-O.K., but their's is not? Hollywood never fails to depict traditional married sex as dull and/or dysfunctional, and where is all the hetero outrage when they do? Sexually explicit movies featuring hetero couples are routinely celebrated as works of art despite their adulterous and perverted themes. But, NOW by heaven, we're drawing a moral line with 'Brokeback Mountain'? There's a very special word for those who think this way, and it's not used enough in public discourse. Hypocrite.
The wide-spread tolerance of heterosexual sin has produced the present social climate and our double standards are now catching up with us. Indeed, we are now so desensitized to every form of heterosexual sin, that it barely registers on our skewed morality scale when homosexual porn is marketed as a 'love story'. Does anyone want to imagine what comes after a general desensitization to homosexual porn? Does anyone wish to live in a society that permits animals and children to be used as sex toys? Just checking; because that's where we're headed. And that's also why homosexual sin should never be celebrated and promoted. But even as we stand against the normalization of homosexuality, we ought to remove the log from our own eye. The filthy preferences of others will never justify our own.
R.G.
posted by Randall Gerard | 12:58 PM
2 Comments:
Good letter. If the church had been more effective in ministering to the garden variety of sexual sin in her own ranks, and especially among the leadership, we would not be as confused as we are. But now, with the 'in your face' tactics of the queers, we have to resist an alliance with the hetero sinners who are merely revulsed by homo sin, while still wanting to hang on to their multiple partner perversions.
Long delayed reply... just found your excellent blog. Anyhow... yep, the Church has dropped the ball.
- "Personality cult" churches, where so much emphasis is placed on one man, that when he fails, well, we've seen it all too often.
- A failure to call sin "sin" in the interests of instead being "nice." We -can-, however, excercise proper Christian love for an out-of-wedlock pregnant woman and still ensure that a stigma exists with the condition.
- Christian "winking" at "soft-porn." I absolutely classify such things as the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, for example, as pornography: "harlot + image": a woman selling her body for licentious use. But, no we'll just ignore that sort of stuff.
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