This is an outrage.
Posted by Terry Nelson on Oct 20th, 2007
Examples of hate in the blogosphere?
As the title suggests, I am outraged - not by the content of Gerald’s post “Empathy for Gay Catholics” but because, as of this writing he has received over 150 comments! I’m lucky to get 1 or 2 comments on anything. (See, no one reads me.)
You should read his post however. It is a compassionate appeal for understanding as regards homosexual persons. The comments are interesting, some hateful, others using the post as a sort of litmus test for Gerald’s orthodoxy. The comments offer a glimpse into the mindset of many in the Catholic blogosphere.
October 20th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
150 Comment!?!?!?!?
I don’t get 150 comments in a year. Let’s go burn his blog down!
(After I read his post and comment first, though).
October 20th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I dashed into the kitchen at work one night to get someone a hot chocolate, and Melissa Etheridge was singing (on the radio). I’m so sick of hearing self-outing gays’ tales of woe –never moreso than on talk radio that militantly tells 14-yr. olds to come on out (and do what– play?) — I said it aloud, “Aw, she used to be one of my heroes - ’til she said she was queer.” The kitchen worker slid to a halt in mid-scramble and whipped her head around, “Are you saying you’re against homosexuality??” “Well, if I was trying to say, ‘It looks like rain,’ it sure did come out funny.”
The outrage isn’t so much in a bundle of comments about gaydom.. but that our being all *a-flame* over here causes us to speak less of the gulags and holocausts of the world.
October 20th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Thought it would be poor etiquette if I didn’t comment and didn’t want to hear the sobs coming from the other side of the river
Going to go read Gerald’s post. Haven’t been to his blog in months.
October 21st, 2007 at 9:11 am
I don’t know if people hate gays so much as they are just plain sick of hearing their endless whinning.
October 21st, 2007 at 9:41 am
Genetics is not equal to Dogmatic Theology. I doubt the genetic inculpability story at least the way it is given to us “so loudly and so often” in the manner that Lenin proclaimed that a lie could “become the truth”
October 21st, 2007 at 9:52 am
Dymphna - I just did a post on that as I received your comment.
October 21st, 2007 at 7:57 pm
How is it that they’re getting so much press / media attention at 2% of the population.
Although, much of there efforts seem to resonate with today’s youth. Ask the 7 - 12th graders in your religious ed classes, and I think you’ll find a strong sentiment towards ‘being gay’ is just a personal preference, and we ought to live and let live.