If you look around Orlando, you might not know that it’s been a full year since the shooting at Pulse, a “gay” bar near downtown. Various signs and marquees around the area still carry the mottos “Orlando Strong” and “Orlando United” which were adopted in response to the shooting. Banners and city buses bear tributes in bright rainbow colors.
As tragic as the shooting was, it’s clear that the sympathy expressed towards those killed has largely been due to the fact that most of them were part of a politically correct “victim” class. It’s painfully obvious that, if most of the victims had not been “gay,” there would be considerably less emphasis on what group of people they represented; indeed, there may well have been far less public reaction to the shooting in general.
In the wake of the tragedy, the city (and much of the nation) hasn’t just mourned the death of 49 people; it’s also been led to express solidarity with the whole “gay” community, blissfully unaware of how unmerited such solidarity is.
And that’s where the real tragedy lies. People rightly mourn the death of a handful of “gay” men (among others), yet at the same time they encourage and support a lifestyle that harms and kills many, many more.
Around the Orlando area there are billboards advising “gay” men to be tested for AIDS, to get treatment for AIDS, and to join support groups for AIDS. These demonstrate what many people know but many others stubbornly try to deny: that there’s a strong association between the typical male “gay” lifestyle and the risk of a deadly and incurable disease. What fewer people realize is that this risk is merely the most obvious and undeniable of the many problems with that lifestyle.
Even as “gay” men are urged to deal with AIDS, there is a conspicuous lack of encouragement for any of them to avoid the behavior that puts them at risk for it, much less for them to face the inner issues that drive that behavior. And if anyone so much as implies that something’s wrong with that behavior, or that it can and should be addressed, they are branded as being the worst of bigots.
In believing that homosexuality is simply about “love,” well-meaning people enable disease, death, and the endless pursuit of fulfillment where it can never be found.
Anyone could be expected to mourn an atrocity that resulted in the senseless destruction of 49 lives. But to do so while also celebrating a lifestyle that leads to far more destruction is, at best, woefully ignorant.
At worst, it is damnable hypocrisy.
*** David Mann *** is a Life and Liberty News contributor, and Christian author who lives in Florida
