Weaponized Homophobia

5/3/2025 - Edited 5/14/2025

Note that this is a statement of my personal opinion as an act of free speech. I do not advocate for violence or discrimination. Just that people think and use their critical thinking skills. I strongly advocate for freedom of speech and for voices to be heard before making an important decision. I support the democratic society we live in and your vote counts. You deserve to listen to all opinions around it if you wish to. Even if others find it wrong and/or misinformed.
 

It is okay to be queer. To be a ‘freak.’ To be a 'disgusting degenerate' queer whom society has elected to see as an undesirable.  To be a 'faggot' or 'dyke.' We live in a world where the word ‘faggot’ is still used as a slur by non queer men to insult the masculinity of other men who use the word without pause or a lick of remorse as to its meaning in US history. Rather than a term of endearment/pillow talk almost every single time it is used as a slur/insult it is perpetrated by heterosexual men and women who find gays and the notion of homosexuality disgusting and an abomination, unless it involves lesbians, when suddenly homosexuality seems to be not so bad as it appeals to their personal sexuality they masturbate to in porn. Lesbians being appealing to heterosexual men who find the same choices in men arousing, but show nothing but utter contempt for the male equivalent that does not appeal to their sexuality. I personally find major AAA studios that represent LGBTQ+ rights as lesbian relationships as cheap and hollow as few if any AAA studios have ever showcased a gay man's relationship in any capacity. Lesbians are a matter of choice to the heterosexual palette of straight men who show hypocracy in this that given the homophobia they display to men make this goonery all the more disgusting gatekeeping what in some cases is hate. This gross homophobic condition stems from the fact even to the modern day only a thin veneer shields the LGBTQ+ community from hate while still facing persecution if in small pockets usually reserved to online, in graffiti, or in limited examples where gay men are harassed, insulted, threatened, and murdered in the streets of the United States even into the current modern day. We live in a golden era where in many places across the globe homophobia is on the decline if largely only in western nations. In decline, but not gone. This doesn’t account for the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Homosexuality is criminalized in many countries, often punishable by imprisonment, flogging, or death. In Iran, men suspected of being gay have been executed, including public hangings. In Afghanistan, LGBTQ+ individuals face threats from both the government and extremist groups like the Taliban. Honor killings and police brutality are real risks for those in such regions where sharia law is the law of the government as well. Sharia, also spelled Shariah, is the system of Islamic law derived from the Quran and the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad. It encompasses a wide range of topics, including rituals, ethics, and social interactions, and is interpreted and applied in diverse ways by Muslims and Islamic countries. This same code has seen dozens of examples across predominant Middle Eastern Countries where it is weaponized as an excuse to torture and execute gay men to the cheers of the people who support the death and violence.

Allow me to be clear. Nations like Israel are only a handful of examples where being gay has not just been de-criminalized, its been so since 1988 over twenty years ahead of the US. While not being ahead in terms of still not allowing marriage within their systems, it is still a hate crime to kill someone for being gay in a nation where gay men can serve in the IDF. The same cannot be said about the nations that are constantly attacking them.

As of 2025, a majority of African nations still have laws that criminalize same-sex sexual activity, often carrying severe penalties, and in a few countries, potentially the death penalty. Algeria, Egypt (where its labeled as debauchery and publicly immoral), Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Benin, Burkinal, Camaroon, Chad, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali. Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, and more. This list continues to what amounts to the question that is 'what part of Africa where it isn't criminalized and/or shown very public hate?'

Even today in 2018 India finally decriminalized homosexuality, implying until then it was a criminal offense. Even then despite legal progress, social stigma, family rejection, and hate crimes still occur, especially in rural areas. In Pakistan and Bangladesh homosexuality is still criminalized and publicly scorned. Gay men may be harassed, blackmailed, or attacked. Police sometimes target LGBTQ+ people rather than protect them. Homosexuality is illegal in Malaysia where gay men have been publicly caned, arrested, or forced into so-called 'rehabilitation' where they are subjected to rape, torture, and terror. In Indonesia’s Aceh province (under Islamic law), gay men have been whipped in public. Across the country, police have raided private gay gatherings. In the Philippines and Thailand while not criminalized gay culture is visible in the cities, but violence and harassment still occur, especially outside urban centers. Its mainly in the west where we have seen the most progress.

This paints a dark and stark picture for us LGBTQ+ individuals and that is picture is we very much are hated, discriminated against, raped, tortured, and killed in many parts of the entire world even today in 2025 as of writing this little rant. This is a fact, not opinion. 

Now, outlining all this isn’t the point the point is for most over the world at large homosexuality is persecuted, criminalized, and punished with jail, rape, torture, and death. The point is this is momentum we absolutely CANNOT give up because silence and complacency give ammunition to see this social progress wrestled from us by groups that would see this progress reversed. See to it that LGBTQ+ members no longer feel safe in society when even in countries like the US gays and queer folk often come from broken families with anxiety problems and trust issues from feeling abandoned or disowned by family and social structures they may have once relied on like churches prior to their realization of self. Many of us come from having grown up in fear. 

The question yet remains. Which is how much longer is this homophobic rhetoric is to be allowed before they tie the noose around our necks? Line us up in front of the firing squads? Send us to death camps that would make the architects of Buchenwald and Auschwitz proud? Pretending that incarceration without trial, summary execution, torture, and marginalization aren't the primary tools and kit of police in most of the rest of the world outside the West? And the fact that if certain elements even in the US had their way this would absolutely become law even in the US given half the chance. 

Right-wing rhetoric calls this woke. You're just fear-mongering for no reason other than seeking attention. Daring to call the LGBTQ+ movement apart of a 'woke mob.' Woke being that 'buzzword', conservatives in particular love crying every time they see a gay character in the movies, TV shows, or video games. Something they bring out using in ways akin to a slur. Stemming from a deeply insensitive mindset that because gay marriage was legalized fifteen years ago that it is no longer an issue that we all accept gays and queer folk now. Pretending like fifteen years is enough for three involved generations to fully change in what is a critical transition period for a minority that has suffered as freshly as fifteen years ago. Something painfully recent not ancient history.

It's even in corporate policy in labor laws, companies cannot legally discriminate against workers for race, religion, sex, or sexuality. Which for moderate and right wing is enough while they condemn, spread lies, and criticize pride month, pride parades, and love to mock furries and call them cringe degenerates online while they buy their waifu cups and big titty boob mouse pads of their favorite anime and Fortnite girls. Not realizing we are being BURIED underneath the avalanche of dangerous rhetoric that seeks but one goal. Using such colorful words as comparing gay men to pedophiles, calling homosexuality the essence of sexual degeneracy, and making up demonstrably false narratives that school children think they are cats and want to use a litter box at school unironically. Using theatrics falsely framing us as a threat to children and society as a whole with lies perpetuated by small startup foundations with no credibility other than an excuse right-wing lawmakers cite in their homophobic bills and homophobic comments when addressing the issue. Lawmakers that want bills that seek but one thing, the complete erasure of homosexuality as a concept all in the name of god, in the name of the bible, in the name of Jesus, the holy ghost, and in the name of the religious conservative fundamentalism they believe in and wish to make law.  Take a moment and ask yourself these lawmakers of ours. If separation of church and state is paramount and sacrosanct than why are lawmakers citing god, the bible, Jesus, and the holy scripture when talking what are policies and bill propositions? If you find yourself using woke, take a minute and pause. Think about who ultimately benefits from people crying woke. Who actually benefits from it? You the disgusting degenerate faggot living in sin destined to burn in hell? Who only recently gained the protected right to work and marry? Or the heterosexuals who cringe every time they see a gay character in their media and cry woke from an ingrained desire not to want to see it, not want to talk about it, and not want to acknowledge it. From a desire not to want to see us. From a desire to permanently remove us from the public space for now and all time to protect their comforts.

That inclusion and diversity is such an affront to them because 'it feels forced' or 'it doesn't reflect reality' phrases that translate to 'because you're a minority that makes us uncomfortable GTFO of our shows, movies, video games, and corproate ads. We don't want to see it.' And the silencing effects of this cause this desire to remove queer folk from the public space to gain traction. No one in the LGBTQ+ community, whether you identify as a part of it or not. If you are gay, trans, bisexual, or anything in between, if you use the word woke, think about the silencing and choking effect that has on our cause. Who benefits from its use? You or the godfearing Christians and Muslims who are actively lobbying to overturn the Supreme Court decision of Obergefell v. Hodges. And they are starting by forcing 'Don't Say Gay' laws in their own states. They think we are blind and stupid not to see it for what it is—the weaponization of religion and homophobia in the United States and abroad. Individuals citing the bible and the teachings of Christ to speak on behalf of Christians everywhere that gays be put to the sword and cut down. All in the name of god and the greater good. Silence them, remove them from society for the sake of our children. Think of the children for christ's sake. Our precious, precious children who should not be exposed to such SEXUAL DEGENERACY as gay people because the act of being gay in itself is a sex thing of course. A choice you can choose to ignore never mind how no one criticizes me for going home at night to rub my cock between my wife's tits. That's not sexual my religion says so right? You beginning to see the picture here?

It's okay to be critical of ourselves, but recognize this word, Woke, for what it is—a politicized weapon to invalidate and marginalize LGBTQ+ visibility and rights. All from people who do not remember history nor care for it. What they do care about is that your sexuality offends them or makes them uncomfortable. Your relationships make them uncomfortable. Woke is how they seek to remove all that from the public space. How they can say they do not like gays and do not wish to see you in their media and public space. Like they own the streets. They own the public forum. And if words and ideologies like these are allowed to prevail, we could see a resurgence of societal stagnation and complete reversal. Even after a given time. Words have meaning and their impact can have profound effects on the world around us. Everyone has an agenda, and people need to ask who the beneficiaries of those words are. What happens when you remove gay and queer folk from movies, from shows, from video games, cancel pride month, no more queer in corporate ads. Is social media next? The streets themselves? It is our right to exist. At least for now, companies are fighting to make our visibility a constant engine of change or at least used to. Pride flags are or were down the streets, solidarity with LGBTQ+, and even rainbow flags on beer cans. Calling it corporate pandering ignores the intended effect. Normalization. Calling it corporate pandering is how you remove it from the equation entirely and then we deal with the consequences if there are any.

If it's so offensive to you, why is that? Corporate pandering? Or is corporate pandering being used as an excuse to silence it? Trying to tug at your senses of pride by saying you are better than Budlight putting a rainbow flag on their cans. Is that really the case here? Who is even throwing a fit about this? Not me the faggot. Some of the loudest voices condemning LGBTQ+ advertising and inclusion in media are conservatives and right-wing leaning centrists, Christians, and other layers of society, as criticism can easily be a veneer to obfuscate hate. Are we also going to ignore this, which means we are seen as a market in the first place instead of an invisible minority? If its a litmus test it should be seen as there has actually never been a better time to be gay, bisexual, trans, or queer in the United States. Despite things being only just in terms of the veneer that holds things in place. A smoke screen. Even so people exist who go on Youtube filming a mock social commentary piece of a cop pulling over two men and asking the passenger if he wants to see his 'cat' spayed or neutered, Rediculous over-the-top 'comedy' meant to be a representation of what some elements in the right wing view furries and left-wingers as, even though it hardly reflects an ounce of reality. We get Black Knight Templars massacring degenerate furries while siding with 'protecting' Bluey because we have to get that pedophile dog whistle messaging in. All in things meant to be comedy but comments can show people who actually are calling for violence praising it as a Christ-ordained message they resonate with. Kill the furries, it is what Jesus would do. This comes from a society where some of the first exposure furries had publicly in media were mascot serial killer horror films and a 'furpile' in CSI Miami. Most media in the early years was nothing but negativity and scandal. 

Woke is yet another identity-political movement designed to make people fight one another while marginalizing and silencing LGBTQ+ while nothing is done about the economy, while nothing is done about affordable housing or affordable rent rates, while nothing is done about minimum wage. Who cares if characters in a movie or show are gay? Why should that offend or bother you so much? 'It feels forced' or the fact that you'd probably just feel more comfortable not seeing any LGBTQ+ representation at all in media. The status quo hasn't changed and may never change for us, but we sure owned those libs. Again, the beneficiaries of it are the silencing and marginalization of an already vulnerable part of society, who may actually quiet down and feel safer if such things were not used or seen as a problem. To me, the fact that they are seen as problematic speaks to a society that is not yet ready for true equality. They do not want true equality. I don't go out of my way to scoff at and mock heterosexual relationships in movies or shows, or roll my eyes at Christian-themed bumper stickers. The fact that this is done at all towards queer folk and making LGBTQ+ content a problem to me is the problem. These are societal symptoms of elements that act to silence and marginalize. In a world where on the other side of the planet gay men are still hung, tortured, raped, and murdered for honor, supremacy, and religion. The jailing and execution of gay men is law. That up until 2003. Yes. In 2003, the United States of America still had sodomy laws that outlawed homosexuality in the states. Let. That. Sink. In. 2003. Not 1960. Not 1970. I was nine years old when it happened. It was that recent. I lived during the decriminalization of it. 

Much of this recent criticism stemming from Facebook lies and over-embellishment on behalf of Fox News, as we all know, Facebook is definitely not a hunting ground for conservative and Russian propaganda, and Fox News totally wouldn’t purposely misrepresent data and not say things live on television you can fact check and see are false from actual information authorities provide. Fox News hasn't been proven to doctor charts and statistics that have a direct effect of lies with a clear goal. Regardless of the politicization of it isn’t what we need to be focused on here as I do not feel it a political problem but a cultural one. Fundamentalists who view queer as dangerous to society. Who find sex and sexuality taboo while unironically romanticisng WW2 veterans who whored and openly banged as it was 'just part of the times man.' But those who think it's okay for a soldier to have non-marital sex with women find gays having unmarital sex disgusting and only proof that we are degenerates in the fall of western society and its decadence. That the Christian church likewise has helped perpetuate and engrain such accusations in Western society so that we still feel the fallout of today. This fear and hate of sex and sexuality. This perception that persists that queer folk are a direct threat to families and society at large. That being gay is a sex thing, sexual degeneracy. Your choice of love is sexualized to them. Their bible says as much. Pedophiles. Debaucherous degenerates. Filthy disgusting freaks. Unlcean and unwashed philistines. Not their kids. You stay the fuck away from them and your filthy corrupting ideals. Telling MY child its okay to be gay? 'My kid isn't going to grow up fucking dogs and masturbating to men because you opened the gates of sin to him you fucking faggot! We ought to lock your kind up like we did in the 60s. America was great back then before you woke bastards destroyed it all.' Vitriol against a class of society that historically has suffered and continues to suffer the most today. Because even in the West, we pretend that civil rights were from an age long ago and that we delude ourselves that just because we have not been a victim of homophobia, it doesn't still exist. We don't want to think it is still actively at work, trying to chip away at everything fought for. 

It boils down to a series of religious and societal beliefs that stigmatize homosexuality and queer in general. Now I am an ex-Southern Baptist man myself. Born and raised in the Baptist faith, I was technically baptized by the church my grandfather worked at as the head deacon. Yeah yeah the big bad demon woof used to be very familiar with the bible, sang in the church choir, and helped do outreach once upon a time. Even attended church at a Jehovah’s Witness branch for a while. I don’t hate Christians and I don’t wish them harm. At the same time, I have a… unique disdain for organized religion in particular and the weaponization of scripture to coerce, intimidate, shame, insult, and condemn other people who are lawful citizens of a first-world country. I also cannot in good conscience support it when churches largely have been front and center to US law and culture for most of their early history, which saw to it that homophobia and gay bashing were publicly condoned and supported by the public. History is essential like this, as I feel many who are homophobic are also the type who fell asleep in history class and leave their basic human decency at the door when they ascribe their religion to their values. 

Which is why I challenge you all who listen to this today to love who you are. Love yourself. Be proud of what you identify as and what makes your cock hard. As a man who was born and raised Southern Babtist myself I know this quite painfully. Most Christians do not love a god but their own comforts in church systems that act more like a clique than any form of actual creed and a bible they cherry pick the sins they condemn while committing other sins themselves they don’t really care about. They pick and choose largely what they focus on when the Old Testament encourages you to beat your children with a cactus after-all.  While most modern US Christians can be good people, Christians are not innocent nor blameless as a religion. They always get a pass by the west who likes to pretend they were not almost as bad as Jihad once upon a time when Religion WAS government and law with kings ordained by god to rule. Wars and killing of your fellow man in the name of god and country was a thing in the west whose kings were ordained by the Christian god. More blood has been arguably spilt in the name of god than World War One and Two combined. A sea of blood being shed over religious extremism and pandemonium. We label groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda terrorist cells, while not educating ourselves, these individuals are radical and violent religious fundamentalists in Islam. Essentially, what would happen if you gave weapons, political power and influence, money, and a private army to a church that threw the New Testament in the garbage and started executing people the Old Testament outlined as undesirables. The holy bible the written creed of the Christian call us heathens and unwashed sodomites. The Quran calls us infidels and disgusting philistines. It is an abomination in the eyes of both and more for gay and queer folk to even exist. The biblical story of the cities of Soddam and Gamorrah another famous example of both where we get the modern term 'sodomite' from and its direct correlation with gay men today. Sodomy has been cited as a crime in US history into the early 21st century—an actual crime punishable by jail or our equivalent of an asylum for the criminally insane. 

It's not a coincidence that this has had damaging ripple effects throughout history when you also take it from other perspectives. As I feel it’s a three-point issue, we’ve just highlighted the largest of the three. The other issue is reproduction fundamentalism and false perceptions on masculinity from hetero men projecting their own perceptions of sexuality on homosexuals. In biology, reproduction is probably the most important thing for any animal species on the planet. While true, opponents of homosexuality claim that because of this homosexuality is a threat to that importance that can jeopardize the survival of the species or the sanctity of the nuclear family structure as religion still unfortunately once again gets shoehorned into the picture as there really is no tiptoeing around it. One man, one woman, and a group of children. This ignores that there are approximately 108,900 to 123,000 children in the United States foster care system who are waiting to be adopted and a portion of them will age out of the system having never been adopted and a gay couple are just as valid of parents as a heterosexual couple. Homosexuals still account for a very small percentage of American society and more than not the declining birth rates in the US are attributed primarily to economic instability, younger generations realizing they like sex and the notion of it being taboo is absurd, and the fact wages have stagnated while inflation skyrockets and rent rates and mortgages only go up to where you generally need two people working fulltime at least to rent an apartment or afford a mortgage. Homosexuals consistently get called out for being compared to pedophiles because clearly if you raise your good god-fearing young man its got to be someone else’s fault if they realize they are gay. They gays are corrupting the youth yadayadayada insert a much of preconceived lies usually centered on moral scares that are completely unfounded and blatantly false. The notion of ‘I don’t mind gays so long as they stay the fuck away from my children,’ implying all gays are potential pedophiles in the wording from people who troublingly may disown their own children if they came out as gay. And lastly another elephant in the room of gays being seen as threats to masculinity and destroy the image of what a man should be. Gay men are ‘faggots,’ ‘pansies,’ ‘fairies,’ and ‘poofs.’ The term faggot still used to this very day by heterosexuals as a slur. Lets talk about physical size and strength. The strongest openly gay man in the world, who also happens to be a professional strongman, is Rob Kearney. He is known for his incredible strength and for being the first openly gay professional strongman. Kearney has competed in the World's Strongest Man competition and holds multiple American log lift records. He is also a strong advocate for LGBTQ+ visibility in sports. If you google images of this absolute unit of a man he is deadlifting a thousand pounds with his bare freaking hands. This is a man who if enraged to the point of losing reason could theoretically snap spines and tear limbs out of their sockets without breaking much of a sweat. Gay men serve in the US military fighting for their country in the armed services because contrary to popular macho ‘alpha male’ conceptions there are gay athletes, service men,  police officers, fire fighters, and some of the strongest men on the planet are homosexuals.  Your striped tube-socked femboy in a skirt is only one end of the spectrum when it comes to gay. The fact this needs to be pointed out to me attests to a very dim-witted and uncultured individual with a very narrow world view. There are likewise gay doctors, scientists, engineers, and people with doctorates who speak five languages who likewise are gay. Some of the most intelligent men on the planet are gay. Yet the fact words that have their genesis in the US zeitgeist as being derogatory slurs filled with as much hate as slurs historically used against other races in this nation still exist and are used as insults to other people even regardless of sexuality as its seen as particularly offensive to use as an insult to a man is just telling to me. If thankfully on a stark decline in recent years compared to the past. It all stems from the preconception that being homosexual is an insult, a disgrace, disgusting, and a threat to masculinity and family values. All when ‘family values’ are often times what lets queer folk down, what makes them live in fear.

If there is one thing as a queer man I loathe its religion and religious text being weaponized as a excuse to subject me and my kind to acts and words of hate, discrimination, marginalization, and slander. Americans forget that the wanton slaughter of queer folk at the hands of serial killers was a condoned and overlooked act by law enforcement dating back as recent as the 1970s and 80s who thought that if you were gay and wound up murdered you deserved it. You deserved death for your choices.

It’s not evil to state that a rich first-world country does not need to have a church to be its moral backbone, nor the center of its culture, when addressing nations as racially and culturally diverse as the US. A first-world country should be built upon laws and principles that the people agree on. Not what religion dictates to the fanatical who seek to project their religious values on others. Let them worship the religion they wish to, but that religion should not take precedence in matters of state, law, and fundamental rights as citizens. This is why America has a separation of church and state. Something conservatives have been railing against to reinstate. These same folks seek to not just reverse all the social progress made within the past three hundred years but plunge us back into the age of hellfire and damnation. The 1800s culturally where gays and queer folk were murdered and seen as a mental illness. Where sodomy laws outlaw homosexuality, those who violate them would seen its violators silenced and imprisoned. 

I do not forget history and don’t lose sight that these Christians who claim to 'not care' about gays tend to be extremely vocal about their children not being gay too and if they did turn out to be queer it is seen as a viscous attack on them and their way of life. Because queer folk are time and again compared to pedophiles, prostitutes, and sexual degenerates like sexuality is some heinous taboo nation to be condemned. As I said and will continue to say. Once upon a time gay men and queer folk were in the same social class as whores in the US in a time where the saying was true then as it is now and that is the fact in the eyes of the police 'no one gives a shit about a dead whore.' That was us. No one gave a damn about a dead faggot because a faggot got what a faggot deserved if a faggot wound up severely beaten or murdered. Praise god for dead faggots. Praise god for hate, for prejudice, for discrimination, and may we slaughter all those who seek to infringe upon our right to persecute, cause, and bully others with the same tenacity of Nazi Germany who chained homosexuals in chains with the pink triangle, a symbol of hat slapped upon us to mark us for death. Fuck that. Fuck that mentality. Fuck the people who agree with it.

This disgusting marginalization of human life and value is as accurate now as it was then if you gave these same individuals the power to do as they please. Which is to say, if you're gay, bisexual, trans, or anything in-between, you are viewed as gross, disgusting, a social undesirable, no one would miss if you died or turned up murdered. Your doing the lord’s work if you rape us, kill us, and remove us from society. Praise god for dead faggots. Praise god for hate. Praise god for murder. Praise god for the subjugation and marginalization of minorities. Amen. That is what scripture says and preaches to these fanatics who cheery pick scripture to suit their own comfort. ‘A man shall not lay down with another man as he does a woman’ Leviticus 18:22 a verse cited in infamy as justification for gaybashing. Gaybashing being the bullying, intimidation, marginalization, rape, and murder of LGBTQ+ individuals.

We saw the same hate in the US and abroad time and again. The Holocaust Nazi Germany perpetuated 1933-1945 saw the summary execution of queer folk alongside jews and sympathizers. You got the pink triangle for being gay that saw you shipped to the death camps alongside all the other undesirables. The Spanish Inquisition murdered gay men. The Chechen Anti-Gay Purge currently ongoing even today. The Pulse Nightclub Massacre of 2016 in Orlando, which killed 49 people and wounded 53 others, was committed by religious extremism against gay men in a dark, dark chapter of self-loathing religion, and a culture of violence abroad was to blame for it. The Lavender Scar of the 1950s into he 1970s where the Eisenhower Administration committed heinous acts discriminating against gay men where gay men were fired, publicly shamed, or driven to suicide during this Cold War-era moral panic that equated homosexuality with national security threats. Even to this day in Iran gay men are publicly lynched for religious reasons. Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay college student, was tortured and tied to a fence post, left to die. His brutal murder sparked nationwide outrage and led to the eventual passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009. Uganda has passed and proposed harsh anti-LGBT laws, including life imprisonment and the death penalty for same-sex relations. In 2011, gay rights activist David Kato was bludgeoned to death shortly after a newspaper called for gays to be "hanged." In England and its colonies (including the American colonies), sodomy was a capital crime. Men convicted of homosexual acts were publicly executed by hanging. Similar laws and punishments were enforced in colonial India, Africa, and elsewhere, leaving lasting legal and cultural scars. This doesnlt even address serial killers throughout history who have been all but aided and abetted by law enforcement who have allowed these disgusting and deplorable acts to perpetuate because gay men were seen as disgusting and less than to deserve their deaths just like a prostitute.

All throughout history gay men and queer folk in general have been victims to religious persecution and hate for simply being who we are and nothing else. The list of hate crimes keeps going on and on and the worst part is the dates coming up are not that long ago. This is not ancient history, its recent history. I find it increasingly hard to stay quiet about as a 30-something graymuzzle with Gen Z who need to be reminded of what their dad figures went through. What the people they masturbate to endured and they will inherit by proxy.

I am here to say if you give these assholes an inch they will take a mile. They will take your life and the lives of your lovers if given the power to, which makes being aware all the more important of what goes on in your nation. The LGBTQ+ community needs to stand firm against hate. Against discrimination. Against marginalization. Against people who sling the word pedophile around like the word means nothing to them. Against those who seek to weaponize hate and fear to defeat their adversaries on the backbone of religious fanaticism and fear of hellfire.  And not forget, we may have won the battle, but the war is far from over. The war on hate. Our right to feel safe in our communities. Our right not to fear for our jobs. Our right to support the victims of families who have abandoned them for their choices, tortured them for their choices, and/or have made their lives so miserable that turning eighteen and moving out to them is liberation and freedom. I am saying this today because it still needs to be said. Nothing is more ironic and hypocritical online as weebs bashing on furries for being cringeworthy or degenerate.

Christianity has no power if man didn’t fear death. Christianity has no power if man didn’t fear hellfire. Remember this and hold it close to those affected by the fallout of faith.

Remember you are NOT ugly. You are NOT disgusting, You are NOT an abomination for loving who you want to love and living the way you want to live. If being a man who loves other men makes you a philistine than the one who claims that is the uncultured and uncouth swine deserving of condemnation. Hate should be called out for what it is. Hate, intolerance, the marginalization and invalidation of minorities and their plights.

"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” — John 8:7

This verse comes from the story of the woman caught in adultery. The religious leaders bring her before Jesus, saying the Law of Moses commands she be stoned. Jesus responds with this famous line, challenging their hypocrisy. One by one, her accusers leave, and Jesus ultimately tells the woman:

"Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more." — John 8:11

Jesus sat and dined among sinners and philistines and was the first to call others other than none were holier-than-thou. He defended the weak and the sinners and that is why he has never existed among fundamentalists who refute Christ that he is not the lord and savior and never existed to begin with. That is why Jesus is hated among fundamentalists because he was a maverick who taught tolerance and love and his teachings that have declawed hate some Baptists generally have for queer folk because even they cannot refute that Jesus walked, spoke with, and dined among sinners and defended their right to live and exist. Like I'm many examples of hypocrisy and cherry picking scripture, it's just easier to remove or not acknowledge part of the text if it's more convenient to do so, as Christianity having over a hundred denominations proves people interpret it any which way they please, as it is. Which is fine until said religion starts impacting culture as a whole in ways that are damaging, harmful, or even dangerous for others. 

I, as an ex-Baptist, can see all this and tell how weaponized holy scripture can be to paint things in such a skewed light against human decency and against what should be goodwill. Remember that history is important and does not lie. For the disillusioned you are NOT alone in your pain. You and your life matters. You like me can be rescued from the void that forms in the space scripture filled. When you become disillusioned friends in the church will turn your backs to you in an instant. What you were raised in does not need to define you nor be the sword of Damocles over you. You and your life matters. Decisions you make today can shape the rest of history. This cult of culture you were raised in does NOT need to be your downfall or the reason to cut your own life short. You are not alone. Help is there and waiting for you. You and your life matters. You are beautiful just the way you are.

Love yourself. Be proud of who you are. Never lose sight of what is important. It’s been a bumpy road and yet there is still farther to go. Do not forget history and stay vigilant for actions with a clear agenda and that is attacking the normalization of queer. Mocking and hate calling attempts to increase the visibility of gay folk ‘woke’ when for every gay character you see in shows there are thousands without. And honestly as furries we all know its 2025. I think we can stop pretending sex is taboo and humans are not sexual creatures. Moral scare may have worked in the 1900s but should be an obsolete concept in the 2000s. Most importantly, separation of church and state should be sacrosanct and protected. As queer folk we painfully know why this is, those who have lived a life of fear in a world filled with it. Fear.  

Thank you for your time if you have read this far. Stay informed, stay vigilant, and never forget for the sake of all who have come before us. May their sacrifice and suffering not be in vain. We will only maintain these hard-fought victories if we stand firm and call out dog whistles when we see them.  Who benefits from words and accusations as we march forward for a kinder and gentler nation where tolerance is not just encouraged but the law. Where hate is condemned and cannot find purchase in society. Human decency and our right to exist. Our right to work. Our right to love. Our right to marry and have all the benefits of it. And our right to live as we want to live as long as it doesn't hurt others. The same tolerance afforded to Christians and other religions in this nation. True equality. Where you and your life matter.

We can forgive, but never forget. Hate is out there. Alive and well in a violent world. May we be prepared for it when it rears its ugly head.
 

No matter how long it takes. We must stay strong and firm to those who actually defend us. Who do not weaponize family values as a matter of homophobia and gay bashing to see us removed from society and see us stripped of our rights. We the most beaten and hated class of any nation across the globe. If your gay you are seen as a insult to everything it means to be a man to homophobes. Heterosexuals who view the word faggot as a slur to any man because they see being gay as being weak, being stupid and gross. Weaponized hate we need to rise up and take back.
 

Absolute victory and nothing less. Offer no quarter to hate and bigotry.

Hate, fear, these are the two tools in the cabinet of any fearmonger troll I will stand against. By doing what I do best. You can hate scat all you want, hate sizeplay. Snap screenshots of things taken out of context all you want. I am still here. I am here today to declare a state of war on hate, on fear, on the weaponization of scaremongering weaponized against LGBTQ+ individuals.
 

We will win, we will prevail. Because we must. Because you and your right to exist matter. Your right to marry and adopt. Your right to own a home be happy. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Your right to feel safe in your own neighborhoods.

You're right to know that no radical Christian who is scared of true equality can just reverse everything we've fought for. Everything those before us have shed blood and died for, been imprisoned and tortured for. No. No their sacrifices will not be in vain. 
 

You and your life matters. You deserve happiness. You deserve To not be afraid of tomorrow. Which is why I opely declare war on fear and the use of it to silence others.
 

We are not weak. Ware strong. We will not go quietly into the night, And we will overcome adversity as we have time and again. We will give our opponents absolute hell as we defend our rights. 
 

We are living beings and humans entitled to all the rights of a Christian. If you think otherwise, you are not American.

We will see ourselves through this terrible valley and win through to absolute victory lest all those before us and their efforts be in vain. Lest the conservative Christian Church and fundamentalist values destroy everything we hold dear. Annulment of your marriages, hauling you off to prisons, criminalizing your sexualities, punishable by prison and torture, spitting and laughing at your pain as they grind their boots into the back of your skull in the mud. Do Christians fear this? No. Do Islamists fear this? No. This is the punishment handed down to us by those same people. 

Our position in this society is hard-fought and will be snapped away with terrifying ease if we allow it. Even as I speak, private third-party institutions in the United States, in particular, are hard at work lobbying Congress and local state municipalities in an attempt to label gay people as freaks, rejects, and societal undesirables. unfit to adopt, and unfit to be recognized as individuals under our government. True equality terrifies these Christian fundamentalists so much that they'd seek to invalidate and destroy our way of life. Annihilate you from society. Bring back the sodomy laws to jail and torture homosexuals once again. All by third-party organizations with 'truth' and 'freedom' in their names. 

No Christian should have more rights than a homosexual. They are equals. They are brothers in this glorious melting pot we call the United States of America. Brothers in arms. Brothers in blood. Homosexuals should have all the rights afforded to a Christian, and if you think otherwise, you are not American! To use Christianity as a weapon to marginalize and oppress others in the name of fundamentalist values is an insult to modern Christians and an insult to Americans—an insult to freedom in a nation that is a shining beacon of diversity. A nation where gay men account for a part of the elite of the armed forces of our nation. 

Equality now, equality forever. We will not fall on our morals for to do so is to surrender to the sword. To surrender to fear. To surrender to hate.

Fear is the ultimate tool used to persecute and oppress. Fear of change, fear of equality, fear that equality is the greatest insult to some who seek supremacy, not equality. 

Those who, without prompt or cause, see themselves as the stewards of morality. Picking on minorities like homosexuals as an easy target to usher forth a new age of faith under their control. Using the Christian faith not as a message of love but a weapon of war, a weapon of hate, a weapon of subjugation and marginalization. Thousands of voices were silenced beneath a drowning torrent of bigotry and hate. 

This must nor come to pass. We are Americans. Land of the free. Land of the Brave. Land where you can be anything you want to be. The only nation in world history where man can rise from rags to riches. Where dreams can be made and realized. Giving justice to the weak and a voice to the marginalized. That is the essence of the America I know and love. 

Today, like all the days before, we are fighting for our rights and lives. Ask yourself the critical questions: Who wins with the words used?

If you see as I see and feel as I feel, join our brothers and sisters fighting for our rights. Your governors are on the warpath to protect your rights to a good education, stand up against authoritarianism, and declare that hate and fear have no place here. 

We will not go silently into the night, but give our opponents absolute hell. That our cries may deafen our opponents with their overwhelming might. That we may not be forgotten, but keep the flame of equality alive in its darkest of hours after a hard-fought victory. We may have taken this hill, but now it is up to us to hold it. The attack isn't just coming to my friends. It is already upon us in its fierce and terrible might.  

Wake up and remember history. Remember those who came before. Remember that our opponents are not dead and gone but alive and well, bidding their time and jostling for position to go straight for the throat in the form of overturning Obergefell v. Hodges and reinstating sodomy laws across the US. Should we fail, we have but one domino to fall in the collapse of equality to fire and flame. To hate and bigotry. To hateful wraiths who declare to have ownership and complete authority over 'family values', a term and a goalpost they dictate and move anyway they wish because they think they own it.

No. They DO NOT own family values, they do not own morality, and their outdated and bigoted principles are the very reason why we must carry forward to drown and bury their voices out amidst the tide of cultural change, for you cannot hold back the tide of the ocean with your bare hands. You can merely delude and lie to yourself that you stand for morality while wielding bigotry and hate like a battleaxe to silence, marginalize, defund, and cripple those your hate deems scum. Because you are scum. Part of the ailment of this society. This toxic and hateful mentality of 'because it does not affect me I do not care,' the song and dance of every conservative basement dweller who has not paid rent a day in their life. Who buys a new car on a family member's inheritance after dropping out of school, and yet can afford rent because their parents break up the house into separate apartments for their children, type deals. Electing those who seek to defund and destroy your social programs to drain the swamp. Because you are the swamp to these people. All of this was done by people who have not had life kick them in the balls yet. Can get by comfortably because the nuclear family never failed them and that allows them never to grow up having to be on their own as an adult. To realize shit is hard and while governments across the pond do something about it ours doesn't in the states and thinks it s a point of pride our people die from lack of healthcare and wind up homeless from no social programs. Waving the flag high acting like they are the best nation on Earth with the highest rate of people incarcerated in jail in a nation with entire city districts that consist of homeless and people living out of their cars. A nation where gun laws allow the mass murder of thousands every year, and political organizations in the US especially love and fetishize burying and ignoring the fact that children are gunned down in cold blood. Praise god for dead children. This comes from the same platforms that love and support family values, like it's some coveted religion. Your right to bear arms is more important to the same individuals who will storm your Capitol building with firearms. Your right to bear arms is more important than over 5000 dead children and civilians, all against some perceived evil that never manifests aside from all the gun violence. Aside from the same people who off the cuff talk about starting militias to rise against the government every time a certain democrat says or does something. These same morons would rather die from being denied healthcare thinking themselves free when they are slaves to nationalism and authoritarianism on a level they cannot comprehend because they were raised in it. They would rather pay extortionate prices for bare necessities than have a mixed economy that subsidizes the people with a welfare fund. They look at European nations and call them communist when they are not communist, they are socialist. 

The same type is first to point out that history books say Hitler was a socialist too. When ANYONE who bothers to read into the matter beyond the subtitle knows that is not true. Hitler was a socialist in name only. His party and policies were very capitalist, aligned with pro-capitalist policies and pro-capitalist industrialist groups in a fascist ultra-nationalist government that threatened and killed all its political opponents under a military authoritarian regime that adored slave labor held under the gun. This man gave nothing to the poor and middle class while greasing palms with very rich men who fueled his war machine. A pro-capitalist nation that took an industrial fervor to mass murder, as the only government in history to make mass murder an industrial military complex in its policies. Auschwitz, Buchenwald, the trucks they designed to poison and kill jews, homosexuals, and other undesirables on the exhaust fumes of the truck. Any historian can tell you this for anyone who stayed awake long enough in history class or actually passed it with a passing grade and didn't forget about it while deepthroating fascist propaganda on Facebook that as we all know isn't a Russian propaganda machine for misinformation from an authoritarian dictatorship. Russia has no national interest in launching misinformation campaigns on US social media to try to get public opinion to defund our sixth-generation airplanes and next-gen aircraft carriers, certainly not. Because the F-35 is a stupid, ineffective waste of money, burning the pockets of the American taxpayer, and should be tossed in the garbage for much older warplanes that can dogfight. All from mythical Fighter Plane Mafia figures who desperately wanted to gut and cut everything that gave our warplanes an advantage in modern warfare. After all, they certainly were not paid by Russian Oligarchs to not appear on Russia Today to decry the American military complex and call their current projects stupid and a waste of time and money. All by figures who claim to be more closely involved in the development of several warplanes than they actually ever were, if you stare at the title their desk had for more than three seconds. All while ignoring the SU-Felon is not compatible to the F-35 technologically with the F-35 being superior in firepower and stealth capability, allowing it to defeat the Felon in combat. Unless Lockheed Skunkworks suddenly cannot compare to Russian aviation manufacturers. Something I sincerely doubt. I think Lockheed has always been consistently two steps ahead of Russia and China in technology and longterm combat effectiveness. All the while, American stealth technology continues to negate and overwhelm the air defenses of countries that have completely lapped up and bought into Soviet-era stockpiles, which are useless against American stealth technology. Worse than useless, they cannot fight back at all against it. Countries sold air defenses on the black market from Earth's alleged second greatest military. 

People's failure to read beneath the headlines makes it easy to be manipulated by fear and perceived moral scare. To look at headlines on social media and not question where they come from, and investigate the sources. 

Remember. Who wins with the words used. Think critically. 

Will the lower working class actually benefit from the current state of affairs in 2025 to 2029? No. Nothing will change for us. If anything, they may get much worse with inflation and rising costs of upkeep. Mark my words. What is being talked about on Capitol Hill is taking this broken and unequal system and simply trying to explode it to make us a carbon copy of China's model industrially. Wages won't change. Taxes won't change. Just trying to expand this model that has us all upset by blowing it up on a larger scale. Then pat themselves on the back like they accomplished anything while doing nothing for those who voted for them. Assuming what is a massive gamble doesn't backfire in their face spectacularly and we all pay the price. Ask yourself. Think critically for a second and think does four years of economic instability seem like a good investment when it means a democrat will likely win the next cycle to put an end to the instability? If you were a betting company seeking to setup a brick and mortar facility stateside to profit on the tariffs would you risk anything on the facility when a democrat reverses the decisions made now? No, you wouldn't. You've got to think long-term. John Deer and Ford are steadfast and adamant in their market decision because the facilities being built by them are not affected by tariffs. Facilities are being built outside the nation that sell products not domestically, sparking unjustified outrage. All while a beloved Elon Musk proclaims his exploration into robotics will save the American economy. A billionaire who dreams of replacing the workforce with robots and profiting massively off it. All from a nation that thinks free education is the work of the devil to be abhorred, hated, and vehemently opposed. Yes, die in poverty and obscurity while we replace your jobs and grind you into dust.  The question only becomes, how bad do things need to get for others to see as we do? How many need to wind up homeless before people agree we have reached a breaking point? Your author and dreamer of DOGE wishes to replace you all with robots. That is the mission of TESLA. Tesla is not just about cars. It wants to replace the working force itself with robots. It wants to replace cabs with robots. It wants to replace eighteen-wheelers with robots. Robots don't need health insurance, rights, never need sleep, never need vacation in a nation that restricts and demonizes vacation time as something to condemn. Elon Musk, the working man's champion, wants to replace the working man because he thinks you are a part of waste, fraud, and abuse. You are the swamp he wishes to drain and purge. 

Let's push the middle class to as close to the breaking point as possible. Lets milk the working man for everything he has and make him praise and worship the very path we walk on because we pretend to give a shit. As long as they can hold onto their guns as long as we claim to give a damn about them they think we're the second coming of Christ. How convenient blind Christian values can be when we claim to own the monopoly on faith and family values. Lets make the middle class choke on our metaphorical shit and thank us for it and treat us like gods while we live lavishly at their expense. While we profit enormously off it and do nothing to make life easier for them. That is the conservative dream. 

Think I am lying, think I am full of shit? Look no more than the passage of time. Mark my words. See how your prices of Eggs, gas, healthcare, and food are all in 2029 and ask yourself if anything actually matters or has changed. Then you tell me to my face that our current constituent ever gave a damn. He doesn't. In fact, he stands to make hundreds of millions over the next four years while we waste away in obscurity. The only person who stands to benefit from this presidency's words and actions is the president, who will congratulate himself and pat himself on the back. In contrast, people are worse off than they were even under Biden.

Because this company doesn't worship a god, it worships money—money before lives, families, education, and values. Money matters before all of that and more, and so long as conservatives are in power, that will never change. They want you to die. They want you to suffer. To reject your insurance claims. Waste, fraud, and abuse. You are the abusers, you are the fraudsters, and you are the waste of humanity and the waste of society, they seek to remove and erase. 

Accountability and human dignity work both ways, and conservatives do not own the monopoly on it. Nor mention how nepotism babies like Donald Trump are born and raised. People born into unimaginable wealth with every opportunity afforded to them. Rich men who turned into draft dodgers on record bragging about their prowess with women, to the struggle of Vietnam veterans. Some of those same veterans still love and adore him, kissing the ground he walks on despite disrespecting and mocking them on multiple levels. Ask those same veterans how their benefits are doing in 2029. Time tells all, did voting for this president make your life better? You have no one else to blame when he owns the Senate and the judiciary majority. 

But yes. None of it matters as long as we owned them libtards. Lets take a piss on the woke mob together and pretend we're doing the world justice. 

All funded by easily manipulated and controlled farmboys too uneducated and stupid to know how dictatorships start. Who thinks Facebook mirrors reality while Putin shoves dirty money in Mark Zuckerberg's trousers to look the other way to Russian bots. All from a conservative presidency that thinks they are doing god's work, cutting even more funding to an already under-funded education system. Who cares as long as they get the truth off of Truth Social and Facebook? That's all the facts and life lessons they need. As long as it's a right-wing echo chamber, everything is fine. Because you totally cannot break down Trump's speeches point-by-point and fact-check them to all be wrong.

Freedom of speech has always been a joke in the West, a force controlled by corporations, and that makes actors like the new right-wing foundations sprouting up since 2010 a force of misinformation, a fact from a tiny organization with no tenure or reputation—whose findings comply with the bible, anti-abortion, and nuclear family values. How convenient. 

In essence? Ignorance and stupidity is bliss and hate can be disguised in many forms. To cook a frog you bring the heat up gradually. By the time it realizes it is being boiled alive, its far too late. 

IMO its never been about morality or who is right or wrong. No. Its been about who wins and by whatever means possible. Its about people who do not want equality, they want supremacy in the name of scripture. Double standards and bigotry and those who subscribe to it just because they cannot see it are suddenly shocked when the lion you voted for suddenly claws your face off.

-Filth Hound