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Mark Shea continues to have fun while making a point<\/a>.\u00a0 Much of the Gay Rights movement is a farce.\u00a0 Anyone with half a brain could see it.\u00a0 But just as Sean Strub points out for the Huffington Post<\/a>, it\u2019s never about truth and facts when it comes to advancing Gay Rights.\u00a0 Mr. Strub is upset because a new HIV awareness campaign is too harsh, too frightening.\u00a0 Using graphic images of the ravages of various diseases linked to HIV, the campaign seeks to advance awareness of the toll it is taking, particularly in the gay community, where one in five men will become infected.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

You\u2019d think that\u2019s just the kind of hard hitting honesty the gay community is looking for right?\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 Well, apparently not.\u00a0 Mr. Strub cites several Gay Rights groups who are bothered by the ad, because it seems to focus on the fact that somehow the physiology behind male homosexual sexuality is a little more risky than good old fashion heterosexual sexuality.\u00a0 Of course, the overwhelming testimony of medical science (you know, science that is always \u2013 ALWAYS \u2013 supposed to be listened to), suggests it is true<\/a>.\u00a0 And like the old anti-smoking campaigns of old, the new one simply tries to get gay men to take protection seriously, even by grabbing by the collar and shaking a bit. <\/p>\n

But as Mark demonstrates with humor, there is little desire for truth or fact in the post-moder quest for sexual fulfillment.\u00a0 Little things like facts, data, science, medicine \u2013 or tens of millions dead \u2013 won\u2019t stop what we want to happen.\u00a0 So we have silly things like \u2018if a person is born with a tendency toward a certain something in some cases, then it\u2019s OK in some cases\u2019, as if that\u2019s supposed to mean anything.\u00a0 As Mark points out, plenty of people are born with the tendency to be overweight.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t stop our media, our pop culture, our government, and our medical establishment from jumping over \u2018fat and obese\u2019 people as if they should be ashamed of themselves.\u00a0 Yet it does keep those same groups dead silent regarding that other tendency which those same groups actually admit can be risky.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Perhaps that\u2019s the problem Mr. Strub has.\u00a0 Ultimately, gay rights is in many ways based on the same truth finding as the Emperor\u2019s New Clothes.\u00a0 For the most part today, as agencies like CNN pine for the day when punishment is immediately handed out to anyone who criticizes homosexuality, asking about facts is simply verboten<\/em>.\u00a0 You don\u2019t do it for fear of the dreaded homophobe label<\/a>.\u00a0 Even though no one cares about the dreaded obesophobe label.\u00a0 It almost makes you think that as a society we haven\u2019t learned anything from the last 5000 years of lessons.\u00a0 Almost, though everyone assures me we are truly on the cutting edge of an enlightenment revolution, so that can\u2019t be the case.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"