On your discussion of homosexuality and race. I've noted some of it but probably not all. The essence though is to draw a paradigmatic relationship among race, homosexuality, and discrimination, correct?
What would bother me about this is the diversity of sexual orientations. Besides heterosexual and homosexual there are a number others including bi-sexual, pedophilia, and bestiality.
Why would your paradigm not include these others? If a sexual orientation is a preference, partially or wholly genetically determined, there is no intrinsic difference among any of them, is there? There is no reason to regard any one of them as more or less perverse that any other, is there?
It is true that pedophilia presently has legal ramifications, but only concerning the act and not the fantasy. And at least one organization, NAMBLA, is committed to ameliorating the legal problem by lowering the age of sexual consent. And finally, we know that homosexuality was once illegal also, in the sodomy laws, but that society removed that stigma.
I guess my point is, why do you and others limit your concerns of discrimination to gays only? Why are you not equally concerned with discrimination and other strictures as they apply to all the variations of sexual orientation other than heterosexual?
I am not baiting you here, but engaging you. If you are arguing for a new paradigmatic way of looking at homosexuality and race, don't you think you are obliged to include any and all other sexual orientations? |
