Ethics

Are You Straight If You're Celibate?

By Ed Brayton

This is a question that would be quite difficult to answer for many right wing bigots. As Rob Tisanai correctly points out, the seriously anti-gay crowd really does seem to believe that one's sexuality only exists when you're actually having sex. At least that's what they think about gay people. Some examples:

Matt Barber of Liberty University threw a fit because Prop 8 Judge Vaughn Walker is gay, but he didn't call the judge a homosexual. No, he called him "an active practitioner of the homosexual lifestyle," and said, "Judge Walker apparently chooses to engage in homosexual conduct," and wrote of Walker's "alleged lifestyle choices."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 25, 2010 (boomark / email).