Well, this is a tragedy:
In a recently released song titled “Born This Way,” pop singer Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, better known to her fawning fans as Lady GaGa, promotes the cultural myth that aberrant sexual behavior is based in biology.
The most-oft repeated lyric in the tune is “I was born this way.” In the song Lady GaGa sings, “I’m beautiful in my way, ‘cause God makes no mistakes.” In later lyrics she makes it clear the intent of the song when she repeats, “Don’t be a drag – just be a queen.” The play on words is an obvious reference to homosexuality.
Good job, wingnut!
As the song progresses, Lady GaGa becomes more overt in asserting there is a genetic basis for homosexuality – really for all aberrant sexual behavior. The lyrics continue: “A different lover is not a sin,” and, “No matter gay, straight, or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I’m on the right track baby. I was born to survive.” The song concludes by repeating the lyric, “I was born this way.”
As much as I hate to say it, Lady GaGa’s got a better grasp on the science than the Louisiana Baptist wingnut.
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic,” President John F. Kennedy once said. “Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
Sounds like a good description of fundamentalist Christian mythology.
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Oh, that’s too bad.
I had never heard the song before, so here it is!
The shrill anti-gay activist sited above knows that a lie, repeated over and over, takes on a life of its own. The lie–God did not create His gay children. By making gay people into “aberrant behaviors” rather than human beings made in God’s image, radical anti-gay activists can feel warm and squishy about voting away rights, promoting bullying in school, supporting hate crimes, firing gay taxpayers from jobs and promoting murder of gay people in places like Uganda. The problem is that God is watching and He already told them clearly that they are not to lie.
[I'm editing you not because I don't love you all, but because people who obsessively watch our comments sections decidedly don't love you all. - Evan]
[I'm editing you not because I don't love you all, but because people who obsessively watch our comments sections decidedly don't love you all. - Evan]
Guys!
Oh snap. Did someone complain?
LOL, no, and y’all know I’m not a hardcore moderator, but once in a while…
Damn you Evan, now you’ve got me all curious.
I have had involvement and association with fundies periodically over the many years. I, at one time, felt that I wasn’t supposed to be gay and needed help to be “the way God wanted me to be”. Fortunately, my innate need for things to make sense and the bad habit of examining my feelings and raising questions such as “Why?”, made for a true learning experience. These people are not knowledgeable about sexuality let alone homosexuality. They only know what they are told by their “Leaders” who, themselves, have an agenda – a religious agenda (saving souls, bringing them to Christ, into the fold/church and consequently leaving money in the basket) Look how many of the “leaders” have really great skeletons in their own closets. It isn’t about caring (although the followers are many times sincere in that. It is about leading the weak/non-thinkers and getting money and power. They must have an enemy in order to do that. Keep the non-thinkers following with the notion that God wants and needs them to procure perfection (the leaders’ version) on the earth, and you have a good game going. We all can see how such religious dedication easily leads to really demented, dangerous, and radical thinking and actions. Nothing becomes beyond the pale when God requires it.
We, as citizens in this country, can be very grateful that our system of laws, imperfect as they are, give us the same opportunities and methods to make ourselves heard, regardless of those who would condemn us to oblivion. We do have the same rights as every one of them and our march to true legal equality and recognition is making headway big time. We just need to keep going/pushing/resisting. There is an incredibly long history of hatred, discrimination. animosity, and religious beliefs bereft of reality to overcome and we are doing it.
Haha, Priya, if I knew how to get ahold of you privately, I’d share.
Gianni, well said. “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” –Voltaire
Makyui, you can send me an email at priya dot lynn at sasktel dot net.
Gaga is way cool as usual–I didn’t know she was Italian (Germanotta)—even cooler. :)
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