Imagine If Republicans Were Leading Black Men Around in Chains

Imagine If Republicans Were Leading Black Men Around in Chains

In San Francisco. In the middle of public streets. The "slave" is completely and utterly naked.

From a purely aesthetic standpoint, there's something even uglier. An old fat man wearing nothing but a cowboy hat and a kerchief. While the picture has been edited, the location of his hand leaves no question what's going on. And the police?

There were many youth at the fair, but also men and women ‘who were old enough to know better.’ We saw some children and a lot of people with their dogs, even though there was a warning against bringing children or pets because of the adult-oriented themes. I wondered why the organizers equated children and pets. There was also a sign at the main entrances which said “Nudity is Illegal.” Naked individuals walked right by, apparently without noticing the signs. The San Francisco police stood by and did nothing. One 29-year-veteran of the force said during an interview that they were told to ignore what was going on. “You don’t know the political climate,” he told us.

I see homosexuals complain that social conservatives overemphasize these problems:

I hesitated to blog about this, because I don’t want my blogs to be tabloid like places and I’d never purposefully reveal information like this were it secret. But it’s not; the cat is already out of the bag. It’s about Christopher Buckley’s illegitimate child. Buckley, notably is the son of the late William F. Buckley.
This topic illustrates why I don’t get bloggers like Clayton Cramer who seem so obsessed with problems in gay culture (yes there are problems) that he acts like that fact alone can be used to condemn homosexuality (but we know the condemners invariably have preexisting religious convictions against homosexuality that they are trying to justify). The Clayton Cramers of the world might have a point if heterosexuals like Christopher Buckley weren’t also always getting themselves into trouble. It’s that intractable thing called human nature, especially sexual nature (see also of recent note John Edwards and Bristol Palin).

I've long been quite critical of heterosexual immorality as well, and there's more of it. (Since straights are 95-98% of the population, you would expect there to be more heterosexual immorality.) But there is one fundamental difference: Positive Liberty's admission that there are "problems" in gay culture is the first such admission that I've ever seen from a homosexual. Social conservatives are quite prepared to admit that "straight culture" (for lack of a better term) has substantial problems in it. And you won't find too many straights (except those who are trying to make excuses for homosexuality) who would find the heterosexual equivalent of these weird behaviors in San Francisco to be acceptable.