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OK, the title pretty much says it all. And I think that I speak for the majority of Americans when I say, “OK, I get it, you’re gay, thanks for sharing…jackass”. Face it, most people could care less about your's or anyone else’s sexual orientation. We simply do not give a shit, so get it the hell out of our faces for crying out loud. Stop with the idiots on parade dressed up in banana suits and g-strings. I don’t need or want to see it. It serves no useful purpose other than to galvanize the religious fanatics out there and to piss off people like me, the apathetic and the ambivalent. To be honest, I don’t care if you are gay, but if someone could draft a law that banned gay rights parades or even passed a law to eradicate homosexuals from the planet, I would vote for it if it meant that I didn’t have to see another image on the local news of two idiots dressed in postage stamps shoving each other’s tongues down each other’s throats or dry humping one another in the street. And if you are offended that I would vote to eradicate you from the planet, too bad. You are asking for it. I would feel the same if some idiotic heterosexual group, S&M group or NAMBLA were having a similar parade. I’d vote to eradicate their sorry lives as well. And I’m pretty apathetic about most things, but some people simply ask to be wiped off the face of the earth. And yes, gay rights parades piss me off that much. Not because the people in them are gay, but because what they are promoting is radicalism and exhibiting such deplorable decorum and disrespect for anyone’s views other than their own. This is not how democracy does or should work.

Now, I do not believe that I am being prejudiced when I say this. I don’t want to see heterosexuals engaging in similar activity that I see in gay rights parades either. I generally despise public displays of affection in most regards. Holding hands, an occasional smooch, I’m not going to get too upset about regardless of the sexual orientation of the parties involved. However, the lewd, salacious behavior that occurs during gay rights parades, quite another thing. It is simply offensive and uncouth behavior that is not socially acceptable or in good taste.

I have yet to hear a good, plausible reason for the continuation of these abominable gay rights parades. What conceivable purpose do they serve other than as a vehicle to thumb one’s nose at society as a whole? Is this really constructive? Absolutely not! The bigots that hate gays are not going to suddenly see the light after a gay rights parade. All it is going to do is to further feed their hatred. The people that like gays are already on board, so they don’t care about gay rights parades. And the apathetic and ambivalent largely could not care less about the issue, but the public display of indecent and deplorable behavior, if it affects them at all, is only going to show them that gays are a bunch of depraved and immoral idiots that care absolutely nothing about actual integration with society but instead only want to trumpet and shove their own personal lifestyle and morals down everyone’s throats.

We don’t care. We care so little about your measly and insignificant “suffering” that it does not register on any meaningful scale. Get a clue. The fact that you can hold a gay rights parade, dress in absurd and unstylish clothing and do everything short of getting a hummer on the corner of Main and Broad tells us that you are not very repressed or downtrodden. It does not evoke a single shred of empathy. It does piss us off. Heterosexuals do not go around parading and enforcing our beliefs on others. We are heterosexual, get over it. You are homosexual. We are over it but apparently you are not. So, get over it. So you got screwed because your sexual orientation is different than the majority of Americans. Go live in Africa or the Middle East or Cambodia or someplace where deviating from the majority means flogging or systematic eradication. Go be poor or try losing a leg, then you might get some empathy. There are so many people worse off than homosexuals that it is truly staggering to see the inhumanity and self-centeredness of gay rights parades. That is the only thing shocking about them, that these people can only think of their own sad little lives whose “oppression” pales in comparison to a large percentage of the world’s population.

All of you other gays out there that do not participate in all of these idiotic gay rights parades; don’t you realize that they are just making your legitimate claims even harder to achieve? Yes, gays have some legitimate gripes about our society and should be working to effect change just like every other group in the United States. And that means hiring lobbyists and working quietly and steadily to change the law and people’s perceptions. Gay rights parades are counter productive to these goals. Gay rights parades give the public a distorted and offensive view of homosexuals, which damages the public perception of gays and makes it more likely that laws designed to aid the gay cause will meet stiff opposition, not just from the bigots, but from the normally apathetic public whose only perception of gays comes from TV coverage of gay rights parades. This is damaging stuff and it needs to stop if gays are to get any respect.

If gays want to hold a meaningful and effective parade, have everyone dress up like normal, socially integrated Americans. Come in jeans and a T-shirt. Isn’t the message that gays want to send to the public something along the lines of “Hey, we are just like you, except that we are homosexual.”? Isn’t the best way of doing that to show up to a gay rights parade dressed like your typical, average American and to act like your typical, average American? That is a much more powerful message than coming dressed like a freak in a leather thong with a red ping pong ball in your mouth. All I get from the latter is that there are a bunch of circus freaks out there that seem to be pissed off at the world. What I would get from the former is that there are some average Americans that don’t have the same rights as other average Americans and maybe we should take a long, hard look at that.

I will say this though. I do not want to encourage bad behavior. Therefore, I personally will not vote for or support ANY gay rights legislation until these lewd and offensive gay rights parades stop. And I call for all Americans to join me in this. This is not how democracy should work, by having a minority group shove its values and morals down everyone else’s throats. Do we really want to encourage bad and offensive behavior? No! Therefore, I call for all Americans to block and otherwise thwart gay rights legislation until gays learn some respect for other people’s opinions and clean up their act. We must absolutely show that lewd and offensive behavior is NOT the path to equality, but that groups must instead work hard and quietly within the confines of the law and society to effect real and lasting change that benefits all of society. And if there are any whiney gays out there that want to single me out as an oppressor, too bad. I have nothing against gays in general, but you have brought it on yourselves with your rude and offensive behavior. Clean up your act and then we’ll talk. Until then, sod off.