Equality?! My Arse!

I managed to talk with two different couples this weekend in Brighton who have experienced at first hand the full force of secular 'equality' recently. One heterosexual couple complained of having been to a seafront gay club in Brighton and having got down and partied on the dance floor, having being told, in no uncertain terms, that they were not welcome in the club, by a severe looking security guard.

When I told another couple that I had heard this story over the weekend they told me that they had experienced similar reactions to their heterosexuality in a gay club and were given unwanted attention by the security guards.

I think, in gay clubs, for I have a little 'experience', you are welcome to enter if you are a woman, but only if you go as a 'fag hag', or perhaps, if you make it clear you are a lesbian, or perhaps if you are with your platonic girlfriends on a girly night out. It appears that as soon as you give away the fact that you are in a heterosexual 'partnership' and express your sexuality, then you are a threat to the established and prevailing tide of the club - that is, namely, the culture of homosexuality.

The couple I talked to, fresh from having been more or less ejected from a gay establishment, basically for the crime of being heterosexual and unashamed of it, were furious having spent quite a bit of money in the club. Until the bouncer asked them to leave in a kind of, 'Your type aren't welcome around here', manner, they were having a great time.

"I can't understand it," said the lady, "All we did was have a dance and a bit of a snog and the guard couldn't take it. We've been to gay pride marches and the rest and always supported their cause. All we wanted to do was go out and have a good time and they treated us like that. I found it shocking because the gay community were suppressed for so long...Now it feels like we're the ones being subjected to suppression."

It isn't wholly surprising. The gay scene relies heavily on a basis of exclusion, rather than inclusion. The stereotypical secular view of the gay scene is one of warmth, openness and a lively sense of community. All the colours of the rainbow stuff. Yet, I guess, as happens with all communities, there will always be outsiders and if you don't fit the mould then doubtless you will be viewed as a threat. Therefore, the gay scene relies on the protection of the group, at the expense of individuals. This is just one reason why gay pride marches are so vulgar. A sense of individuality can easily be lost in a largely ideological sub-culture, no matter how much this sub-culture has been absorbed and accepted into the mainstream.

In the Catholic Church, while a sense of community exists, in that we are the Body of Christ, there is no subsuming of the individual into the whole. Our individuality is never usurped by the community. As St Paul says, we are members of the Body of Christ, literally, as in limbs or parts of a human body, each serving a different function, each special, unique, different and important to the Body of Christ.

The Church is viewed with great suspicion by the 'gay community', concerned that the Church rejects the outsider or the homosexual person. Yet this is false, no matter what prejudices some individuals within the Church may have about the issue. Sexuality is a struggle for every individual, as is self-control or a struggle with our passions. The writings of the Saints bear witness to these struggles.

It is very sad that the 'gay community' is not so confident enough in itself as a culture that it can embrace society as a whole, but instead resorts to a state of perpetual victimhood that sees heterosexuality as a threat to its very existence. But then, perhaps the great undoing of the homosexual culture is that it is not grounded in nature or in goodness, but sets itself up against nature and against goodness and in a way, against society. That is why the claims for 'rights' still continue vehemently even though, short of gay people getting married in Church, there really is not very much for which the 'gay rights movement' to fight.

Still, this aside, the great scandal of what I was told by the 'straight' couple is that such incidents make a laughing stock of the Government's 'equality' legislation, because, lets face it, if these kind of incidents were reports from gay men getting booted out of straight clubs, it would probably be splashed across the front page of The Pink Paper, or perhaps, who knows, even The Guardian.

This is just another example of how unworkable and how terrifically skewed the Government's 'equality' legislation is and it just leaves me thinking, 'Equality? My arse!"

I don't know...Perhaps this incident lends more weight to the psychological argument that homosexuality is not rooted in a deep sense of male-male attraction, but in the wholesale rejection of women, a crippling fear of female sexuality and deep-rooted misogynistic tendencies...but then, hey, what do I know? I can only speak from personal experience.