{"id":3341,"date":"2011-05-11T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/05\/so-what-is-homognosticism.html"},"modified":"2011-05-11T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T09:38:00","slug":"so-what-is-homognosticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/05\/so-what-is-homognosticism.html","title":{"rendered":"So what is homognosticism?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The other day I posted a post flippantly entitled Homognosticism Strikes Again<\/em><\/a>!\u00a0\u00a0 Well, it dawned on me that this term really wouldn\u2019t mean anything to most of the human race.\u00a0 So let me explain.\u00a0 The homosexual rights movement has been one of the greatest examples of evolution in history.\u00a0 Surely, nothing demonstrates the evolution from one species to another more than the Gay Rights Movement.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

In the beginning, Gay Rights rode the crest wave of our post-war liberal society, where such things as absolute truths and normative values were going the way of the butter churn.\u00a0 We were to accept homosexuals because who was to say what is normal and what isn\u2019t?\u00a0 A free, enlightened society understands that nobody has a right to legislate morality, or demand conformity to a particular value system.\u00a0 You could disagree with the actual behavior, but it was their choice to live as they wanted, and a truly liberal culture would embrace that, just as we would embrace the right to not live that way or not to agree with it.\u00a0 Just watch old shows and sitcoms from the mid-70s to early 80s.\u00a0 You\u2019ll notice the main message being \u2018who\u2019s to say what\u2019s normal\u2019 as the reason for not rejecting an actively homosexual individual.<\/p>\n

Well AIDS crapped all over that.\u00a0 Just when folks were starting to adopt the media\u2019s call for live and let live<\/em>, when homosexuals were actually being interviewed and we actually saw real life homosexuals asking to be respected for who they chose to be, that it wasn\u2019t a disease or disability, and therefore they shouldn\u2019t be treated different than anyone else, they just wanted to be left to live life their own way and they would never, ever impose their values on anyone else \u2013 BAM!\u00a0 AIDS hit.\u00a0 Almost immediately, folks started to ask if it was a good idea to tolerate something that, at least to most novice eyes, appeared to be bringing a rather frightful pandemic into the living rooms of the world.<\/p>\n

Well, to avoid the possibility of saying they were wrong, they did what progressives are always able to do, they simply changed that absolute eternal truth of the universe of yesterday.\u00a0 Suddenly, and without much warning, homosexuality was like being man or woman, or black or white.\u00a0 It was genetic.\u00a0 Some gene made it happen.\u00a0 Something.\u00a0 It was no more a choice than having blue eyes or being Asian.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

That changed things.\u00a0 Especially as our society, still smarting over America\u2019s Official Sin (Racism), was willing to give carte blanche<\/em> to any group that could claim discrimination due to genetics.\u00a0 Our post-WWII sensitivities made such a claim a winner.\u00a0 Likewise, at the same time, we were increasingly sure that harboring hatred and loathing and even desiring censorship of those ideals we didn\u2019t like was just A-Okay.\u00a0 After all, it isn\u2019t as if the majority of the human slaughter in the 20th century was based on ideologies and not on race or anything. <\/p>\n

So by the 90s, things were clearly moving in the direction of treating homosexuality like a species unto itself.\u00a0 Despite the evidence of homosexuals marrying those of other genders and having children and doing the whole heterosexual thing, the emphasis was on comparing the need to be homosexual if you so much as had the slightest inkling, to the need to have oxygen and water. <\/p>\n

Now the problem became, of course, what to do with those who don\u2019t, you know, by into the agitprop of the post-AIDS Gay Rights dogmas?\u00a0 What about free speech?\u00a0 What about freedom of religion?\u00a0 Well, no problem there, as the post-modern progressive movement gradually weans a generation of Americans into believing that the Bill of Rights is based on goodthink \u2013 if you don\u2019t embrace leftist goodthink, you don\u2019t get rights \u2013 a growing number of individuals across our national spectrum have no problem thinking that the rights enjoyed by religious organizations, secular organizations, or even individuals is entirely dependent upon how one reacts to the question: Should gays be able to be married?<\/p>\n

Now, despite the fact that in the early days, folks were assured it would never come to such things as gay marriage or polyamorous relations, it has.\u00a0 Increasingly, we are following certain European countries and simply throwing marriage itself out the window.\u00a0 Ignoring the generational suicide that Europe has imposed upon itself through catastrophically low birthrates, we are increasingly fine with the notion that all humans should do is have sex with whomever or whoever they want, that should pretty much define them, and it should define the limits of those who refuse to go along.<\/p>\n

Still, every now and then, a believer begins to ask questions.\u00a0 Aren\u2019t homosexuals just plagued with all sorts of \u2018troubles\u2019 that seem to be unique to homosexuality?\u00a0 Don\u2019t most homosexuals have problems in disproportion to other folks, even in countries in Europe?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t homosexuality still the numero uno<\/em> group of AIDS victims in the world?\u00a0 That\u2019s when the inquisitors of gay goodthink come in to rewrite the rules once again.<\/p>\n

For now, it\u2019s not just that homosexuals are born that way and must live that way.\u00a0 It\u2019s that homosexuality is\u00a0more than any other behavior.\u00a0 Procreation?\u00a0 Why, the whole notion that sex is mainly for perpetuating the species is just the result of eons of homophobic bigotry, most likely the result of the evil Christian faith.\u00a0 The idea that homosexuals suffer from emotional and psychological problems out of proportion of other demographic groups?\u00a0 Again, it\u2019s the result of vast, global heterosexual conspiracy.\u00a0 The notion that homosexuals, lesbians, and other non-heterosexuals have issues with drugs, past accounts of abuse, and physiological difficulties out of proportion to the rest of society?\u00a0 Well, that\u2019s when we are reminded that verily hath God made homosexuals slightly better than the angels.\u00a0 We are told that homosexuals are in every way superior.\u00a0 Better, smarter, more refined,\u00a0wittier, kinder, gentler, better lovers, you name it.\u00a0 There\u2019s just no real reason NOT to be a homosexual.\u00a0 Even if you aren\u2019t born that way buster brown, you should want to be that way!<\/p>\n

And those heterosexuals who don\u2019t enjoy the superior life of a homosexual (who happen to enjoy one of the highest standards of living of most demographic groups in America)?\u00a0 Well, they are there to give birth, I guess, to more homosexuals.\u00a0 Sort of like the old gnostics.\u00a0\u00a0Back in the day, some of them concluded that since all matter was bad, and nothing meant matter more than child birth, therefore all women were bad.\u00a0 They had no souls.\u00a0 Their only purpose was to give birth to men who did have souls.\u00a0 And the more our society continues to shape and mold and reform its reasons for everyone accepting homosexuality as normative [superior], I can\u2019t help but think it\u2019s eventually going to come to that. Hence the term. <\/p>\n

Certainly as Dan Savage explains<\/a>, despite all assurances from the gay rights activists of old, it doesn\u2019t stop at homosexuality.\u00a0 Manufacturing kids in labs so two dads can give birth, gangbangs and orgies and group sex, polyamorous relations and polygamy \u2013 why the possibilities are endless!\u00a0 And by embracing the glorious censorship for the advancement of the post-modern secular Left, we should have no problem convincing the masses to sell themselves into slavery for the promise of a good lay.\u00a0 Hence the warnings.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day I posted a post flippantly entitled Homognosticism Strikes Again!\u00a0\u00a0 Well, it dawned on me that this term really wouldn\u2019t mean anything to most of the human race.\u00a0 So let me explain.\u00a0 The homosexual rights movement has been one of the greatest examples of evolution in history.\u00a0 Surely, nothing demonstrates the evolution from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nSo what is homognosticism?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The other day I posted a post flippantly entitled Homognosticism Strikes Again!   Well, it dawned on me that this term really wouldn't mean\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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