This is a larger River of Shit than what’s been pouring from me the last two weeks.
The British anti-LGBTQ group Christian Concern is getting some press this week after a London theater cancelled a screening it helped organize for a new movie focusing on people “who are emerging out of homosexual lifestyles.” The movie, “Voices of the Silenced,” was promoted in an email this week by the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice, the parent group of the “reparative therapy” organization NARTH.
A 2016 trailer for the movie, produced by the UK group Core Issues Trust, compares those who advocate “ex-gay” therapy and their allies in other fields to enslaved Jewish people in the first century:
‘Voices of the Silenced’ remembers the Jews ripped from Jerusalem in AD 70 and brought to Rome to quarry stone and build the Colosseum. They were now the property of their masters. Filmed in seven countries and over 50 locations, our exploration compares the cultural captivity of the Jewish slaves in towns destroyed by the Vesuvius eruption in AD 79 with that faced by those silenced in the 21st century, people under an imposed state orthodoxy which reaffirms the ancient idea of pansexuality.
Oh, go fuck yourselves. Or someone else, then perhaps you could mind your own damn business. If someone wants to play at being hetero, there’s nothing stopping them, it’s not against the law, y’know. That does not cover up your blatant attempts at trying to squash all queer folk down so far you don’t have to think about them.
chigau (違う) says
We ran out of honey so I was forced to have my morning tea with *shudder* sugar.
Just like the first century (CE) enslaved Jews.
Stop oppressing me!
Marcus Ranum says
This is why I don’t favor stopping people from saying stupid shit: they turn around and say “We need safe stupid shit-spewing spaces!”
Raucous Indignation says
I can think of a few stupid, shit-spewing spaces I’d like to send them to.
Caine says
Raucous Indignation:
Yeah, me too. Right inbetween my legs for a start. ;D