For his “Ridiculist” segment Monday night, Cooper attempted to set the pastor straight, so to speak. “I’ve never actually been to the secret meeting where the gays plot their agenda, though I imagine the catering is quite amazing,” he said. “But thanks to someone named Larry Tomczak, my eyes have been opened.”…. In his piece, Tomczak said that Cooper is “promoting homosexuality” by boasting “openly on TV he’d rather ‘have sex’ with a man” and co-hosting the network’s New Year’s Eve coverage with Kathy Griffin…. “Now, I don’t know what a ‘gay lifestyle’ is, just like I don’t know what a straight lifestyle is,” Cooper said, adding that people of all sexual orientations “just want to be able to live their lives with the same kinds of rights and responsibilities as everyone else.”…. On Tomczak’s suggestion that parents show their children I Love Lucy instead of modern programming, Cooper joked, “I grew up watching I Love Lucy and I’m as straight as they come.”…. “Those were the good old days when gay people could be arrested for going to a bar or fired from their jobs — which, actually, they still can in many states — and live life largely in the shadows,” Cooper said of the 1950s. “Good times.”
That there are those convinced Teh Gayz are out to recruit our children, force their sexuality down our throats (feel free to ignore the double entendre in that), and just generally make this country fabulous is hardly breaking news. People like Pastor Larry Tomczak will shout to the four winds about the evils of the Homosexual Agenda, but the truth is that most gays, like most straight people, simply want to be left alone to live their lives authentically, peacefully, and without fanfare. There’s no Gay Illuminati that plots how best to convert children, no gay plot to use the media to propagandize us into accepting homosexuality as “normal,” and no insidious campaign to irreparably damage the sanctity of traditional marriage by legalizing same-sex marriage.
More than seven in 10 Americans now live in states in which same-sex marriage is legal. As far as I can tell the tsunami of Divine Retribution that was promised once Teh Gayz were allowed to marry has yet to arrive. I’m guessing we won’t have to worry about that, because most Americans realize that it’s not “gay marriage’ or “traditional marriage,” it’s just marriage. It’s about two people who love one another enough to want to commit to spending their lives together. How that isn’t a net benefit to society is beyond me.
Cooper’s correct when he says that the LGBT community just wants to be able to live their lives. It’s not about anything except wanting the same rights that heterosexuals take for granted…and what’s so wrong or evil about that?
To Pastor Tomczak and those who think as he does, I have only one question: What are you so afraid of? Unless you’re secretly worried about your own sexuality, you have nothing to be concerned about. My suggestion would be that you might want to direct the energy your focusing on hating Teh Gayz into increasing your self-awareness. You might be surprised at what you end up having to admit to yourself.
Or are you afraid of what you might learn about yourself if you look too deeply?
