Our time has championed one thing—sexual identity—over almost all else. The left feels it is a profound statement about an individual’s entire existence. The left also demonises the right with the worn-out homophobic accusation. Contrary to this misinformed, half-baked opinion, there are prominent conservatives who happen to be gay; the only difference is they don’t spend much time harping on about it, and I think they’re correct.
Our politically correct world has created a social arms race—who can be more compassionate and accepting of the LGBT community.
Commenting on the portrayal of two close-knit male characters in the Marvel films, Mackie stated back in 2021:
“It used to be guys could be friends, we could hang out, we could do this, and it was cool,” he continued. “You would always meet your friends at the bar, but you can’t do that anymore, because something as pure and beautiful as homosexuality has been exploited by people who are trying to rationalize themselves.”
Supporters of the LGBT movement want to bend over backwards to show their unflinching support for the cause. Indeed, many on the left operate with this modus operandi. The entertainment industry has become a tool of the left’s psyche in the process too. Madonna famously proclaimed, “I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for the gay community; how could I not support them?
For the left, being gay is equivalent to heroism.
There are gays on the right; they just don’t mention much about it.
Take prominent conservative Douglas Murray. The astute Murray has spent over a decade in the public eye as a writer and political commentator in the culture wars. Murray has spoken of the fact that he is gay and he is a vocal critic of the LGBT movement.
Murray is gay but that does not mean his politics ought to be formed by his sexual orientation.
But not only does being gay automatically make you special (on the left), it ought to inform all of your political belief system, so the belief holds.
We need to be able to separate sexual identity from politics. The political is not the personal. Just because thinkers like Murray may be gay does not mean they ought to support the LGBT movement. Murray has taken the LGBT movement to task with all of its contradictions and circus act-like acts.
“Why would we be taking individualism out of individuals?”
The right is right. The minute you attribute the individual to a group, you encounter danger because you shrink the particulars of the individual.
The right and gay conservatives are able to acknowledge that identity, whatever it is, does not constitute a necessity to wholly define itself on sexual identity alone.
There is more to the individual than one dimension alone.
Gay conservatives understand this, and in the age of LGBT mania, it’s refreshing.
Alice Wediel,the leader of the right-wing German party AfD ,is gay. The left does not know what to do when gay right-wingers oppose the pro-LGBT, pro-gay marriage, and pro-gay parenting belief systems of the left.
While Weidel, the leader of the AfD party, is openly gay, she opposes same-sex marriage and advocates for the traditional nuclear family unit with one mother and one father.
So what can we take away from all this? The left misses the forest from the trees. There is more to an individual than being gay. So what? And, to base all of your politics on the grounds of sexual orientation is a reminder of how far Judith Butler’s toxic quip has polluted our society. ‘The personal is political’ and those who toe that line ought to be reminded that the person is the personal, and the political is the political.
