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The Queering of America: Pushing an agenda asserting that there is no such thing as “normal” in human sexuality is not inconsequential
American Thinker ^ | 10/12/2023 | Robert Weissberg

Posted on 10/12/2023 9:57:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

For most Americans, labels such as “gay,” “non-binary,” and even “members of the LGBTQ+ community” are generally used interchangeably to describe those preferring same sex partners. This imprecision suffices for ordinary conversation, but it fails to capture a key political distinction among today’s homosexuals, namely those embracing the label “queer.”

The label “queer” may appear new, but it is decades old. In his 1995 book Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography, David Halperin explains:

As the very word implies, ‘queer’ does not name some natural kind or refer to some determinate object; it acquires its meaning from its oppositional relation to the norm. Queer is … at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant.

‘Queer,’ then, demarcates not a positivity but a positionality vis-a-vis the normative— a positionality that is not restricted to lesbians and gay men but is in fact available to anyone who is or who feels marginalized because of her or his sexual practices…

[I]t describes a horizon of possibility whose precise extent and heterogeneous scope cannot in principle be delimited in advance.

Queers thus differ from homosexuals who embrace the traditional gay political agenda of same sex marriage and anti-discrimination laws. Queerness aims to undermine the very ideas of normal sexual identity, create a world of “anything goes” where one form of sex is no better or worse than any other. This might include currently illegal sexual practices such as incest, bestiality, and pedophilia. Queerness is thus revolutionary and subversive.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: childabuse; culture; education; homosexualagenda; homosexualpolicy; lgbt; queer; queers; sexuality

1 posted on 10/12/2023 9:57:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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This subversive intent is apparent in how Queers fixate on the education of children, especially very young children, and the campaign to “capture” young children is hardly hidden. At one New York City Gay Pride parade, a flamboyant drag queen openly chanted, “we’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children.” An estimated two million onlookers watched that Pride parade. Proselytizing can be outrageous as in another Gay Pride parade where stark naked tattooed men marched down the street waving to children and their families. Elsewhere a man was dressed as a giant penis, and he too, waved to the crowd. Interestingly, the parade was sponsored by Bud Light beer. A similar parade of naked gay men with children watching recently occurred in Seattle while in Los Angeles elementary school students as young as five were required to participate in a weeklong celebration of “National Coming Out Day.”

The most notable example of exposing youngsters to “Queer” is the fact that drag shows have now become ubiquitous in America’s public schools. One NYC organization—Drag Story Hour NYC—has recently given its raucous drag queen show 49 times in 34 public schools to kids as young as three thanks to $200,000 in city funds.  Columbia, Missouri’s Values Diversity breakfast was held to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and featured a drag show where adults tossed dollar bills at lip-syncing dancers. No parent was informed about sexual content. Permission slips just mentioned “traditionally there are songs, performances, and a food item.”

But the greatest controversy surrounding children and Queer sex concerns banning books from school libraries. The term “book banning” conjures up images of Nazi book burnings but debates ignore whether the portrayed graphic sex is age-appropriate. The often-unspoken reality is that hard core pornography has been placed in school libraries under the subterfuge of “educating” youngsters about human sexuality. No doubt, the graphic depictions are too raw for public forums.

2 posted on 10/12/2023 9:59:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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3 posted on 10/12/2023 10:04:17 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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To: SeekAndFind

How many “queers” think Hamas will behead them last?


4 posted on 10/12/2023 10:36:00 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: SeekAndFind
there is no such thing as “normal” in human sexuality

Yes, there is normal.

No, "queer" ain't it.

So the thing that calls itself David Halperin can "explain" it's mental illness for another 28 years, it will not do anything to make the queers "normal."

But hey, it will give the thing called David time to write another book that does absolutely nothing.

Best Sellers Rank: #741,439 in Books. Yes sir, it's on fire, that one.

5 posted on 10/12/2023 11:46:27 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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An idea, lets get all these activists across the board queer gay transgender Palestinian supporters, BLM DEI racial justice warriors and send them into the action in gaza


6 posted on 10/13/2023 3:21:30 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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...apparent in how Queers fixate on the education of children, especially very young children, and the campaign to “capture” young children is hardly hidden. At one New York City Gay Pride parade, a flamboyant
drag queen openly chanted, “we’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children.”...
The often-unspoken reality is that hard core pornography has been placed in school libraries under the subterfuge of “educating” youngsters about human sexuality.

7 posted on 10/13/2023 9:07:40 AM PDT by GOPJ ( FBI goons told Hillary naming reprogramming camps Auschwit Birkenau would shut cult members up?)
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To: TLI

I believe that God’s word in the Bible clearly indicates what is normal or abnormal in human sexuality. Of course there are those who clearly apparently think they are a greater authority than God on this matter.


8 posted on 10/14/2023 6:25:31 AM PDT by oldtech
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