Religious right or P.C. left? Quote 13

In this series of blog posts, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to read each quote and guess, before doing a Web search, whether someone in the religious right or the politically correct left said it.

13.

For the [gay] narcissist, the goal is the pursuit of pleasure. A certain segment of the [gay] community expresses narcissism by promoting total and absolute sexual freedom. They advocate anonymous sex and extreme sexual behaviors that may explain the presence of a high degree of promiscuity in this segment of the population.

I want a .sowhat domain name.

According to this article, we may soon see a spate of new Internet top-level domains, including .gay. The introduction of new TLD's strikes me as a solution having no known problem, particularly since the suggested .gay domain names include such clear winners as lawyers.gay, aids.gay, hotels.gay, and communitycenter.gay. Further, the article notes that previous TLD's such as .biz have been duds.

Stuff gay men supposedly like: 17. Education

In the blue-collar suburb where I grew up, people regarded an interest in education as an infallible indicator of sexual orientation. Now, however, education is one of the two forbidden topics of conversation among gay men, the other being career. The irony, it burns! Also, gay men, notwithstanding popular opinion to the contrary, are still men, and most seem to want to be the smart one in the relationship, regardless of whether they actually are.

Stuff gay men supposedly like: 16. Individual liberty

You'd think that this would be a given, and for a while it was. Then we made a Faustian bargain with the government-worshiping politically correct crowd. Not only did we thereby alienate some of our natural allies, but also, back in the golden age of politically correct silliness, I even heard some LGBT activists downplay or even dismiss the importance of reforming sodomy laws, of all things.

Of course, all of that adoration of big government automatically follows from LGBT liberation. No, you may not ask how; it just does.

My blatant ripoff of Yes Minister

The New York Times is the news source for people who think that they run the country; NPR, for people who think that they ought to run the country; The Washington Post, for the people who actually do run the country; The Washington City Paper, for people who think that in due course they will run the country; The Baltimore Sun, for people who think that the country ought to be run strictly for their benefit; The Wall Street Journal, for the people who own the country; Salon.com, for people who think that the country ought to be run by another country; Fox News, for people who think that it is; The Washington Times, for people who think that what the country needs is a god-emperor; and The Washington Blade, for people who think that what the country needs is a goddess-empress. Readers of Metro Weekly don't care who runs the country, so long as he's really hot.

Quote of the week

"[W]hile my faith may teach that marriage is between a man and a woman, our government is not a theocracy. As the state senator from District 9, I represent everyone in my district, regardless of their faith. Therefore, while my spiritual life is extremely important to me, it cannot be the sole basis for my decisions as a state senator." — Maryland State Senator Allan Kittleman (R-Howard and Carroll counties)

Stuff gay men supposedly like: 15. Fashion

Your typical bar twink probably thinks that Borrelli is a brand of pasta, and it's not as though he could afford it anyway. Besides, this applies.