Article Dissection: Arrest Homosexuals for their Own Good?

[Rev. Rye]

This is an article dissection of mine from back when I was on Newspeak Dictionary and later CT Valley Atheists, written by a fundamentalist Christian. Content of my annotations has been changed to reflect recent events. Here is an article by an extremely right-wing nutjob named Neal Horsley. He first rose to prominence by being a member of a militant "pro-life" group called "The Army of God", which tries to ensure that Abortion becomes illegal by shooting up clinics, often thinking that the rights of first-trimester embryos as aware as sea slugs trump the rights of a living breathing and thinking doctor. He later rose to prominence by admitting to having, in his younger days, the most bizarre sexual dalliance of a Fundie mullah: sex with a mule, and even more strangely... with a melon?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MstyFwhLy4 [For the record, in this case, I'm not making a moral judgement, I just think that going from sex with a mule to a melon that doesn't even have orifices is going from perverse to just plain weird.] This article I am going to ridicule is about Homosexuality.

Neal Horsley wrote:Arrest Homosexuals
It's For Their Own Good

By Neal Horsley

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(Num. 35:11-12 King James Version) {11} Then ye shall appoint your cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither.... {12} And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.

One does not have to be a murderer to be a "manslayer." To be a manslayer all one need do is destroy the definition of manhood, and homosexuals are first and foremost manslayers.

Where does he get this idea that being a manslayer encompasses even the subjective definition of manhood? I don't know, he never backs up this proposition; only expounds upon the ramifications of what this would mean if it was true. And at any rate, I've known a few homosexuals at school who were actually extremely masculine.

Once it meant something to be a man in the United States of America. It was not an easy thing to be a man, nor perhaps was it even a desirable thing, but it was a clearly defined something. Being a man meant being prepared to let the women and children go first, even if being left behind meant death. To be a man meant not only letting the women and children go first, it meant opening the door for them so they would find their way easier.

Homosexuals are the living embodiment of the death of man. This exercise in manslaughter is supported by the huge majority in this generation who do not engage in homosexual acts because homosexuals are the avant garde of the sexual outlaws. Satan's strategy is easy to see once you look: As long as homosexuals are protected from law enforcement, the legions of fornicators and adulterers and other breeds of sexual outlaws can consider themselves safe. Since birds of a feather actually do flock together, the flaming homosexuals provide an early warning system for all the other varieties of sexual outlaws running rampant in this society.

So chivalry went out of fashion long ago. Gay people can be chivalrous, too. When you say that being a man isn't necessarily a desirable thing, I must ask; are you out of your damn mind? Until recently, in Western Civilisation, women had very little power. I highly doubt that there is a "huge majority" of people who approve of homosexuality. There may be a significant plurality, but at this point, it's clear that there's no "huge majority". If there was, we'd have gay marriage nationwide and Prop 8 would never have passed. With that in mind, it is unlikely that people will be accepting other kinds of unions anytime soon. At any rate, I thought it was acceptance of "fornicators and adulterers" who actually paved the way for acceptance of homosexuality.

Remember the Bible verse I quoted earlier? Most convicts don't know it, but penitentiaries have always had a "cities of refuge" aspect. Ordinary citizens in a community bereft of effective law enforcement often subdued criminals with the only means at their disposal: lethal force. It was called the law of the jungle. That's why law enforcement officers must rush in to arrest lawbreakers before average citizens take the law into their own hands.

For this reason, God allowing "cities of refuge" was a graceful accommodation for the manslayer. Which brings us to the subject of arresting homosexuals--for their own good. There are reasons homosexuality has been outlawed most everywhere throughout history. Intolerance is not, as we are being conditioned to believe today, always a bad thing. Some things simply cannot be tolerated by people who value life. Laws, prisons, jails, courts, judges, and law enforcement officers are the evidence proving that this society has always refused to tolerate some activities.

So, we should arrest homosexuals because you don't want to have to kill them. That's some good Christian love right there. [more on his brand of Christian Love will be shown down.] And for the record, homosexuality has not been outlawed most everywhere throughout history (pre-Stonewall.) For a long time, until Christianity came into power, man-on-man sex was pretty common, particularly in Ancient Greece and Rome.

Homosexuals have a huge Achilles' heel: They do really disgusting things. To hold up homosexuals as examples of law-abiding citizens, people have to be kept ignorant about what homosexuals actually do to each other. People must never be allowed to think about human beings deriving pleasure from having an arm inserted into their rectums or smearing their mouths with feces. The knowledge of the kind of perversions homosexuals engage in has the power to elicit powerful feelings of disgust in normal people. Such disgust is repressed today because our society has chosen to ignore the fecal facts of the homosexual perversion. In fact, in this first year of the new millennium, conditions seem to be favorable for homosexuals being accommodated by general society once and for all.

Ah, yes the "Wisdom of Repugnance." Of course I find fisting and corprophagia disgusting, but at least I leave those who practice it to themselves, but then again, so is open-heart surgery. Indeed, I'm not sure how common they are in the gay community, but I doubt that it's as common as Neal seems to imply.

But don't bet on it. As soon as we see a hiccup in the economy, or a serious war that threatens the survival of the nation, then, if history is any guide, a new and horrible story will emerge. Just as the homosexuals are being used as the point guards of a new world order of sexual licentiousness, in the face of a major threat to our survival, we will see the homosexual avant garde turned from point guard of the sexual revolution into a sacrifice of appeasement. History will want to turn its face away from the carnage that could descend upon this "rational" and "tolerant" nation in such a time.

In order to avoid such a fate for the homosexuals in our midst, we should immediately start to reverse the licentiousness that inevitably opens the door to the slaughter of homosexuals. The best way to reverse that licentiousness is to restore the laws forbidding homosexual activities. Now are you beginning to understand why we need to arrest homosexuals for their own good?

*10 years pass. Acceptance of gays has increased. We get our first foreign attack since Pearl Harbor, and get into the most senseless and bloody war since Vietnam. In addition, we get into the worst economic depression since the crash of '29.* And yet, despite all of this, despite Jerry Falwell claiming that gays among many other groups, are responsible (although aparrently indirectly) for 9/11, none of this has directly led to a rise in crimes against homosexuals, certainly nothing like Neal has described.

Neal Horsley wrote:Neal Horsley is an author, the founder of the Creator's Rights Party, and the publisher of the Nuremberg Files, abortioncams.com, and the Christian Gallery news service. He is a heterosexual.

Just to let you know, the Creator's Right's Party is a far-right wing Georgian Political party consisting mainly of him, the Nuremberg Files was a website hit-list of abortionists that was shut down, and Abortioncams.com and Christian Gallery are "pro-life" websites that are still up.
And yes, a straight guy wrote this. Because everybody who reads this would be thinking, "wow, this guy must be really, really Gay" without that disclaimer.

I will close this essay with a very apt quote:

"Mr. [Horsley], what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
__________The Principal from Billy Madison

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I just think that going from sex with a mule to a melon that doesn't even have orifices is going from perverse to just plain weird.] This article I am going to ridicule is about Homosexuality.

What do you mean a melon doesn't have orifices ?----neither does a warm apple pie.

[Rev. Rye]

I just think that going from sex with a mule to a melon that doesn't even have orifices is going from perverse to just plain weird.] This article I am going to ridicule is about Homosexuality.

What do you mean a melon doesn't have orifices ?----neither does a warm apple pie.

It's much easier to stick your hog in a pie than a melon, though.

[Autumnlicious]

It's much easier to stick your hog in a pie than a melon, though.

True, but ever have that time when you see something utterly hot while holding a melon, and whoops *crunch*, you find out that they sheer force of your attraction to said hotness manifested in your boner drilling into the melon?

[LukeMC]

True, but ever have that time when you see something utterly hot while holding a melon, and whoops *crunch*, you find out that they sheer force of your attraction to said hotness manifested in your boner drilling into the melon?

No.

[Dotard]

True, but ever have that time when you see something utterly hot while holding a melon, and whoops *crunch*, you find out that they sheer force of your attraction to said hotness manifested in your boner drilling into the melon?

Yes

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