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The "husband" of some man
Massachusetts became the sixth jurisdiction in the world (after the Netherlands, Belgium, Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec) to legalize same-sex marriage. It was the first U.S. state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. [Source: Wikipedia]I like watching Jeopardy. It is a light, all-round quiz show. The contestants are usually ordinary people, teachers, businessmen, housewives, who tell us brief biographies about themselves prompted by the unrufflable host Alex Trebek.
One of the contestants last night said something with "my husband" in his commentary. This contestant happens to be a man. It threw us all for a loop. Trebeck didn't (couldn't) react, since there is no time to ask detailed questions, and to do so would be "homophobic" in our brave new modern world. The TV crew couldn't bleep it out since, like Trebek, they have to be as PC as possible. The audience, like me, was given unsolicited information about a controversial social arrangement during a normally pleasant evening show.
This creepy guy, and his movement, won hands down with no contest. I ended up turning off the TV.
I was really disturbed. We now live in a world where homosexuals will accost you with their aggressively upfront "my husband" and "my wife" information, unsolicited and disconcerting. What do you say when a man talks to you about "my husband" and a woman about "my wife"?
I have a neighbor with a cute French bulldog. I meet him in the elevator, and sometimes out in street. We were talking more than the usual "hello" the other day (which I usually direct to his dog), and he told me that he writes for an online gay magazine. I was curious and asked for the web address. His writing is nothing special, and the website is a run-of-the-mill edition of gay events around the city, gay personal stories, gay businesses, and so on. He expected a friendly, "accepting" reaction from me, and expected that things would go on as normal.
Well they didn't. I don't have any more pleasant "hellos" for him or his dog. Rather than ask what is the matter, he seems to act like someone who got found out, with a submissive, and rather pathetic, expression whenever he sees me.
I think it is time that ordinary people "upped the ante" wherever possible: not doing business with openly gay people (there aren't that many); not watching shows and movies with openly gay actors or characters; pointing out aggressive gay behavior to others (as I did here); cutting off even social niceties with openly gay friends and acquaintances, and so on. We have no choice really. Either that, or we let the homosexual wave roll over us.
But is that all that's left for us: if you don't like what you see or what your hear, then leave alone, tune out our shows, don't do business with us?
Still, one person, and one episode, at at time, will a movement make (I hope).