latency not awol from christian fundamentalism
thanks to atrios and tbogg, we find this article (we almost said "we come upon this article," but changed our minds, and you'll see why when you read it) from an old issue of rolling stone analyzing the christian right's "holy war" against gays. the interesting bit is by one dr. paul cameron, who is...
founder of the family research institute and isis, the institute for the scientific investigation of sexuality. cameron, 59, a former psychologist based in colorado springs, issues a stream of data often used by anti-gay activists: that gays are far more likely than straights to molest children, that gays are more likely to commit crimes as mundane as tax evasion or shoplifting, and so on. "we're kind of the wellspring of most of the statistics about the gay lifestyle." cameron says.
nothing really new there. but we like dr. cameron's reasoning as to why, if left unchecked, homosexuality will eventually destroy the heterosexual lifestyle. read carefully now:
"untrammeled homosexuality can take over and destroy a social system," says cameron. "if you isolate sexuality as something solely for one's own personal amusement, and all you want is the most satisfying orgasm you can get- and that is what homosexuality seems to be-then homosexuality seems too powerful to resist. the evidence is that men do a better job on men and women on women, if all you are looking for is orgasm." so powerful is the allure of gays, cameron believes, that if society approves that gay people, more and more heterosexuals will be inexorably drawn into homosexuality. "i'm convinced that lesbians are particularly good seducers," says cameron. "people in homosexuality are incredibly evangelical," he adds, sounding evangelical himself. "it's pure sexuality. it's almost like pure heroin. it's such a rush. they are committed in almost a religious way. and they'll take enormous risks, do anything." he says that for married men and women, gay sex would be irresistible. "martial sex tends toward the boring end," he points out. "generally, it doesn't deliver the kind of sheer sexual pleasure that homosexual sex does" so, cameron believes, within a few generations homosexuality would be come the dominant form of sexual behavior.
without getting into specifics, (such as, how does dr. cameron know that "men do a better job on men," and what kind of job, and what's the going rate?) we quote a writer much better than ourselves:
"the lady doth protest too much, methinks."
also, thanks to tbogg, we get this practical list of aramaic phrases to use when watching "the passion."
cross-posted at the american street and our own heroin-rush of a blog.