Closed minded suppression of the "QUEERS ARE PERVERTS" viewpoint

> Please do tell me how you are being ruthlessly oppressed.

I said that the QUEERS ARE PERVERTS viewpoint is suppressed by an intolerant, closed minded population. The opinions expressed in the press are one sided on whether queer sexuality is a perversion or an "orientation". There is no vigorous discussion or respectful debate in which people with opposing views are really listening to each other. My own opinion on the question, and the rationale for it, is not given any coverage whatsoever, so no one is even aware of it, much less giving it consideration.

Since I am a civic speaker, and since I have spoken on this issue (as well as on many other issues), my personal story provides a case study of such intolerance (of a speaker) and suppression (of an idea). I have been under effective house arrest for two and one half years in Mountain View, California, and the local court has imposed a gag order upon me. For these two and one half years, IdeaFarm (tm) Operations has been silenced by unlawful government force. Some of the people of Mountain View wonder why the IdeaFarm (tm) Operations signs are no longer displayed 24x7 on the streets of Mountain View. This silencing is not voluntary. It is politically driven. The unlawful government silencing of speech here is rooted in a local population that not only disagrees with my viewpoints, but opposes their expression. Mountain View has a significant queer population, and many who are not queer join the queers in their opposition to the expression of my viewpoint using the very powerful speech method that I use. The "street essay" method, under the ideal conditions found in Mountain View, can reach 20,000 people per day and can be likened in its effect to "a speech in a public park to a milling crowd".

In short, I am at this moment engaged in repelling a "ruthless" attempt by government to outright prohibit an innovative and powerful direct method of speech that is capable of destroying the "thought steering" monopoly that controls the civic conversation in most urban areas of the United States. I just finished meeting with my attorney a few minutes ago. The suppression of the QUEERS ARE PERVERTS viewpoint is indeed real, it is ruthless, and it is so total that many who read this will not be aware that such a viewpoint even exists in any rational, well articulated form. It does exist. You just have not encountered it.

I agree with you on one point: that, even after reading this, I have not encountered the "queers are perverts" viewpoint in any rational or well-articulated form

I am far more concerned with this destruction of a vigorous, uncensored, respectful and constructive "civic conversation" than I am with the silencing of the marriage norm, which the queer community understandably finds inconvenient. ("QUEERS ARE PERVERTS" is a crude statement of part of the marriage norm, which I have defined in another conversation on Wikinews.)

You can talk to yourself all you like.

The wonderful thing about free speech is we don't have to listen.

If you live in the United States or in any other democracy, then you DO have a civic duty to listen. Democracy cannot function if the citizenry is closed minded and does not tolerate the effective expression of ideas that are unpleasant.

Touche, Ironholds! I just noticed the "even after reading this". My posts, overlong as they are, do not, and cannot given the space limitations, articulate my viewpoint in any detail or with any rigor. A full essay would be required to do that.

But this conversation can be a beginning. What I have posted should be enough for you to respond intelligently to. Tom Morris's post on the other thread, in which he offers an alternative definition of "couple", is the best example of the kind of intelligent response that I hunger for.

The love teaching of Jesus, which is the essence of the Christian way of life, is that we should be wholesomely connected with each other (and with God and with the Earth). Here, I seek wholesome connection in the form of respectful and constructive intellectual engagement, in which we mostly just listen to each other and learn from each other. That is the path on which true progress, including liberty and justice for the queer community, will be found.

I am a libertarian. I do not oppose the political objectives of the queer community. I am only opposed to the methods that they are using to achieve them.