Larry H. Miller Doesn’t Care About Gay People

I’m no Kanye West, sorry.

The Guardian (!) has picked up the Brokeback Mountain cancellation. I’m guessing the other theaters in town showing the film are jumping up and down with glee. Of particular interest in the Guardian post is this comment:

“If you ask me he banned the wrong movie. Chronicles of Narnia made me think about Tilda Swinton riding me with a strap on. If that’s not evidence of that movie brainwashing today’s youth with unbiblical sexual practices, I don’t know what is.”

Gay cowboys rule.

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  • Sebastian

    Violence is violence. I don’t distinguish “hate” crimes from “love” crimes or any other kind of crime. I don’t understand why I’m supposed to feel more or a deeper sympathy for the person who is gay and assaulted in relation to the people who are assaulted for being women, or black, or Jew, or white, or cops, or priests, or nerds, or whatever. That is why hate, as part of a crime, is irrelevant.

    I grew up in the gang ridden schools of east LA. Does it matter that a knife was pulled on me and my life threatened because I was white, or male, or anything else? Would my death have had less value than if I’d been GAY! My story would have been buried on page A7, while the homosexual would have been posted across the front page and evening news for a week. (See how much you really know about my life.)

    I’m not sure what Christianity has to do with the argument. Why even bring that up? Saying you’re Christian should say the most, but has come to be the word meaning the absolute least.

    John has rejected my offer of friendship because he sees the totality of who he is as a gay man. And because I don’t accept his practice of homosexuality he can’t return any tolerance or understanding. His whole happiness is predicated upon the fact that I approve of his homosexual activities, despite the fact that he might be a brilliant doctor, lawyer, engineer, painter, dancer, musician, historian, etc.

    You want to meet at a sports bar and talk about how lame USC is for losing the Rose Bowl, fine let’s go. Or can you as well not get past your gayness? If you want to climb up on the bar and announce you’re gay, than I guess you can, but I don’t know that I’d recommend it. Not because you might be assaulted but because it’s just rude.

    Every Gay Pride parade signals the rest of society how you’d like the world, if only you had total acceptance. While somewhat entertaining and illegal, that is not a world I want me or my family living in day to day. If the gay community wants to create that world someplace where it is accepted than that is their choice. I’m all for state’s rights and community standards. If my home state of California wants to endorse naked men in chaps, gay marriage, pedophilia, drag queens, and sex with animals, then I guess they can and I won’t live there anymore. But I’d hope that all those accepting, tolerate, more enlightened people won’t be any the offended if my new home state doesn’t. To each their own. That is why there are individual states after all.

    The bar is still open…

    Sebastian

  • http://biggaysam.com Sam Merrill

    quote: “Violence is violence. I don’t distinguish “hate” crimes from “love” crimes or any other kind of crime. I don’t understand why I’m supposed to feel more or a deeper sympathy for the person who is gay and assaulted in relation to the people who are assaulted for being women, or black, or Jew, or white, or cops, or priests, or nerds, or whatever. That is why hate, as part of a crime, is irrelevant.”

    Yet considering all the variables you listed not one of them has anything close to a defense for a violent crime like the “gay panic defense” This line of defense places the blame on the victim for the crime instead of the individual who perpetrated the crime. Yet you can’t see a difference. This is a successful defense strategy. Yet if someone were to say they committed a violent crime against someone because they were black, jewish, a woman, etc. it would be laughed out of court.

    It’s been explained before that a hate crime is a type of crime that not only affects the victim but an entire community because the crime was committed based on victim’s sexual orientation or ethnicity.

    I brought up my Christian background to show that we are just like you. We have faith and morality. We have families and jobs. We live our lives the best we can. We have no problem accepting you as straight. But you on the other hand cannot accept me as being gay. That sir is bigotry. It’s none of your business what I do in the privacy of my own home and no legislation has a right to deny me ANY basic human rights. Where is this separation of church and state that everyone is so adamant in maintaining? This is a moral issue. Morality should not and cannot be legislated.

    I think you misunderstood my challenge. I wanted you to actually experience the discrimination. To see what it is we have to put up with daily.

    The way you ended your last post shows me exactly how you view gay society. If you’d actually attended a gay pride event you’d see that the freaks (we have freaks in every aspect of society not just the “gay community”) are few and far between. Also, your rhetoric is a little outdated. Your position of lumping us in with pedophiles and bestiality is a common tactic used 15 to 20 years ago. It doesn’t work anymore. Plus you seem to be intentionally trying to provoke an angry response which will never happen. I find it very sad and very pathetic. Also very troll’ish.

  • http://johnsthing.blogspot.com John

    I feel pity for you, Sebastian.

    You are speaking, acting, and living with a sheet over your head. I spoke with friends [straight friends, fyi] who do not understand you in the least. After those conversations, I’ve realized that nothing I say will get through to you. You refuse to understand the pain that myself, Sam, and others experience on a daily basis.

    YOU are in the majority. Do not pretend you are a minority. You are not. Simple fact. Learn to accept it. Every day. EVERY DAY I am a minority. You are not. Accept that and move on.

    I am not familiar with the laws that you spoke of. However, I know that you were not alive in the 1800s. And if you are thinking ‘Well I had my turn to be discriminated against, it is now your turn’, then, and I am sorry for this, but that is the most superficial thing I have ever heard.

    I can handle myself. I can deal with people like you who think that they are in the know and understand all that the world has to offer. What I can’t handle is what may happen in the future. I pray to God [yes, I believe in God, and I believe that he loves me and accepts me] that you are not born with a daughter or son who is gay. I pray for them.

    Last thing. If you were a true christian, you would support me. You would love me and you would say ‘I am not God. I am not the person who decides what is right and wrong’. If you read your Bible, you will notice that in the same book homosexuality is considered ‘wrong’, it also says that women cannot enter a church until after giving birth. Or pig fat [ever eaten bacon?] cannot be consumed.

    Do not judge me, Sebastian. It is NOT your place.

    You are a bigot, Sebastian. And I pity you.

  • http://www.blurbomat.com blurb

    I’m going to close comments. This is getting out of hand.

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