{"id":12584,"date":"2023-11-20T11:36:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T16:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=12584"},"modified":"2023-11-20T14:53:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T19:53:05","slug":"hafers-homosexuality-legitimate-alternate-deathstyle-a-personal-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/12584","title":{"rendered":"Hafer\u2019s Homosexuality: Legitimate Alternate Deathstyle \u2013 A Personal Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in December of 2019 I promised in a blog post to review the Hafer comic book. Back then I wrote:<\/p>\n

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Soon after this arrived in the mail, I began flipping through its pages. I\u2019d already seen many of them posted here and there in the Internet tubes, but I was unprepared for the unabridged wholeness of its contempt and hate. If Orson Scott Card was a cartoonist this would probably have been the comic book he\u2019d have produced on homosexuals and homosexuality. It\u2019s deeper in the dark night of the soul than even R. Crumb or S. Clay Wilson ever went. All the feelings of growing up gay while hearing this crap thrown at me over and over and over again came rushing out as I began reading it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Which is probably why I never got around to doing my chapter by chapter review, a\u2019la Fred Clark\u2019s takedown of the Left Behind books<\/a>. It was just too damn depressing, too many old wounds being reopened.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But in working on the \u201cfinal\u201d episode of A Coming Out Story<\/em><\/a> I had occasion to revisit this comic book for quotes to illustrate the climate of hate I grew up in. And once again the unabridged wholeness of its contempt and hate managed, even now, to shock me. But this time I dug a little deeper.<\/p>\n

Hafer helpfully provides an appendix to back up his \u201cfacts\u201d. It only took me a couple glances at it to see how much he was bullshitting his readers. I\u2019d seen this kind of thing back in the USENET days and it\u2019s why I have my \u201cgay studies\u201d bookshelves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And I thought\u2026I really need to do the review I\u2019d intended\u2026if only to get it out there.<\/p>\n

As I said in a previous post, these things, like the Chick tracts, are basically Tijuana bibles for prigs, allowing them to ogle their neighbor\u2019s sex lives, indulge their own sexual fantasies, and feel righteous about it. We are the sexual scapegoat they need, so they don\u2019t have to reckon with the empty wasteland they\u2019ve made of their own sex lives. But that doesn\u2019t mean turning a critical eye on it is pointless.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They posture as defenders of godly truths and moral values, and these things, truth and morality, are emphatically not theirs. Like the swords of myth and legend that refuse the hand of the unworthy, time and again when confronted with reason and morality, the hate pews flee back into their chapels of fantasies, lies, and superstition. It is worth exposing them, the better to see that the moral high ground is ours.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s begin in the next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in December of 2019 I promised in a blog post to review the Hafer comic book. Back then I wrote: Soon after this arrived in the mail, I began flipping through its pages. I\u2019d already seen many of them posted here and there in the Internet tubes, but I was unprepared for the unabridged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[154,21,90],"class_list":["post-12584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thumping-my-pulpit","tag-homophobia","tag-the-abyss","tag-the-human-gutter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}