The other Kind of Eugenics.

When people hate your kind, they often want to control your reproductive issue. We have found this to be true, of poor, immigrants, Jews, Hispanics, African Americans, Native Americans ---Homosexuals, and if I had more coffee, no doubt I could create quite a list.

I won't lie and tell you I am above making the joke about who should be having babies. That bumper sticker---"Stupid People Shouldn't Breed!" is one of my favorites. I am mostly joking.

What got me on this subject was a story from Cnn about the Gay Baby Boom.

First of all, I hate the use of the made up word, "Gayby." That is fucked up. You cannot bemoan the fact that people are stigmatizing Gay Couples who want to have and raise children, or the children who are raised by Gay couples, and then call them "Gaybies."

Its unbelievably tacky. On behalf of all those School Children out there who are from Gay Household, I would like to thank CNN for the mass publication of the *word "Gayby" so that they could find that scrawled on bathroom walls next to their phone numbers and e-mails. Or have it yelled at them from moving vehicles as they walk home from school.

Anyhow back to the point.

There are Americans who hate Gay People so much, who fear their Gay-Contamination, that they will deny homosexual couples and individuals, the right to have children, or to even maintain ties with children already produced in past heterosexual marriages or relationships, and most especially the right to adopt children or interact with children on any level. All that is missing is a can of anti-Gay Spray. The Catholic Church set a shining example by scapegoating Homosexuals for their internal problem with Priest-Pedophiles.

But what these Homophobes do not understand is that they are promoting two very disturbing things:

Eugenics--As in who is allowed to breed based on the perception of inborn qualities.

Eugenics is "the study of, or belief in, the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics)."[2]

Many Gay people, and their straight supporters and sympathizers understand that yes, being gay is innate. It's not strictly a learned behavior or a choice.

and

Cultural Genocide---meaning that those "Gays" who slip through the cracks and make a baby anyway, or adopt children, should be prevented from raising their children, for fear that they might indoctrinate their children into Homosexuality, and normalize homosexual cultural values.

Article 2 of this convention defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."[1]

It's those last two statements: Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

The only way to stop the spread of the "Gay Illness" is to stop Gays from having or adopting children and to remove children from Gay Households.

I doubt that Homophobes think of it that way. But Gays do. Or at least educated homosexuals do. Think of the source of the Pink Triangle. Homosexuals reclaimed the Pink Triangle from it's Nazi past. You see when Nazi's weren't forcing Jewish folk to sew yellow Stars on their clothing, they were making homosexuals sew pink triangles on their clothing.

Every generation of homophobes really believe that they are onto something new. But really it's just an old, old practice. Gay Bashing, taking their children away, firing them from jobs, vandalizing their homes, and private property---old hat for homosexuals.

As for why the children of Gay households, Gay Couples, might feel ashamed? Is it because their Parents are Gay? Or is it because of how their peers and others in society at large treat Gay People, and treat the children of Gay People?

Every child is embarassed by their parents at some point. That is a normal part of growing up. Its part of the process by which a child rebels and defines their individuality.

But when dealing with the stigma of Gay parents, that normal process is magnified. Lots of children have mixed feelings about their interacial parents, about their family's poverty or immigrant status, or their parent's extreme conservative or liberal values. There are lots of ways that children can feel stigmatized by their parent's identity. Gay is simply one of many possibilities in that respect.

Children are not stupid. They see on television how we portray Gay People. They see the news, they see the Mathew Sheppards of the world, and they know on some level, they should be careful with their parent's identity because hatred is involved.

So lets call this spade, a spade.

What Conservatives really want is for Homosexuals to stop being visible, and for them to be disallowed the right to reproduce or to raise their own children. They want Homosexuals to die out. It's pretty simple. They want Homosexuals to die.