... OH MY FUCKING GOD.

[katia]

I was browsing the IMDB Brokeback Mountain page earlier today only to come across some things so appalling I just needed to share them, these are all in response to an article someone posted in which Heath Ledger called the cinema owner in Utah that canceled the showing of the film "immature", not the word I would use but you get the point. (emphasis mine)

"Very immature? For a society to stand up for something they believe in? Why should you support gays if you don't believe in their lifestyle. Obviously you don't attack them, but you sure as hell don't support them. Lets all be sensitive and put aside our beliefs so we don't hurt other peoples feelings. Oh, I'm scared, what if people call me a bigot. Unbeleivable. I'm sick of this oversensitivity. Its Millers theatre, he can do what he wants. End of discussion. Lets admit it, people who support gay lifestyles are just moving closer to embracing that lifestyle themselves. Tolerance, yes. But not at the expense of moral beliefs. I'm going to go throw away my Knight's Tale DVD now"

At least that person can string a sentence together...

"...Also it's obvious God is real, when people think they are gay it's in their heads not their hearts. Satan is putting his mind into theirs tricking them, it's called temptation. I may not believe in the ways of them but I will still be friend them because I don't judge a friend by what they do or any of that. I am just stating an obvious fact that there is no way in hell evolution is real. I think that it's obvious a man and woman belong together on so many levels. One might think they're gay but they're really not, it's the society making people think they are."

Don't you all wish you had friends like this?

"im glad they did it. The movie is very impressonable. It could make kids and whoever think that being gay is alright, when it is not. That is the most unnatural thing that goes on with humans, even more so than substance abuse. One thing makes me feel better....that they will infact not breed and multiply, but they will multiply not by breeding, but by society gradually accepting it. Im not saying prison, rights and all that. Im saying we should acknowledge it as wrong. Gladly, about 70% of america is against gay marriage."

...Yeah.

My response right now is simply "..." some people make my head hurt. I don't think I need to say anything, I guess these speak for themselves pretty well.

Comments

[foulds.livejournal.com]

... Could we perhaps come up with some way of stopping these people from breeding?

[potatofiend.livejournal.com]

I say we need quotations from the Phaedrus dialogue to wave at them whenever they start picketing things with 'God Hates Fags' signs.

'Yeah, well, Socrates says gay people go to heaven and all you disgusting breeders are no better than animals, and are going to wander hell forever as shades!!!!'

[foulds.livejournal.com]

While I fully support the equal-rights agenda, and hate these particular people, not all heterosexuals are like that, and there isn't actually anything wrong, and certainly nothing disgusting, with wanting to be part of a heterosexual relationship which may involve children at some point.

[potatofiend.livejournal.com]

(Of course I don't believe this - I hasten to explain, because I know plenty of quite lovely straight people ohgod this is going so wrong - all I mean is: here is an equally extreme argument from an equally respected source, saying quite the obvious. So it really can't be that obvious, can it?)

[potatofiend.livejournal.com]

Of course when I say 'quite the obvious' I mean 'quite the opposite'. *facepalm*

[foulds.livejournal.com]

Oh thank God, I was getting very scared then, and wrote the gently worded reply I could to the effect of... umm, we're not all bad, really. Me and Nick are both nice, in fact

[potatofiend.livejournal.com]

*puts hands over face* Ohgod I am so sorry; it occurred to me about three seconds after I'd pressed 'send' that I hadn't really made it clear that I wasn't, you know. Endorsing this wild extremism. It was merely an example. You and Nick are lovely, and of course there's nothing wrong with being straight. That's who you are. What's wrong is that anyone should want to prevent you from being who you are.

[foulds.livejournal.com]

*Phew* Yes, good. Yes, sorry, should have known you'd never think anything like that.

[foulds.livejournal.com]

Don't scare me like that again, ok?

[kuteki.livejournal.com]

Yes! I have the perfect solution, make them watch a Queer as Folk marathon, after which they will all obviously turn gay themselves as clearly that's how it works and voila!