Heh! I like your post, Dave. I agree that the in-your-face aggressiveness of certain individuals in the gay community with stuff like the Gay Pride parades we see has become downright obnoxious. It's a case of the pendulum swinging too far the other way...and that seems to inevitably happen with any persecuted groups who gain the courage to face that persecution and also the general public support to face it effectively...

...they soon get carried away with themselves. They become one-issue people. They become pests. (I mean...a few of them do. The ones who can't think of themselves apart from their particular beef with society. It's the permanent 'hero/martyr/am I not persecuted and must you all not be partially to blame for it?' syndrome. It gets bloody tiresome, no matter who's doing it.)

Yeah, I've seen that happen with just about every embattled minority I can name. The old holier-than-thou dynamic starts to take hold and it becomes a royal pain after awhile. It's an emotional blackmail tactic, and it's one of the most powerful forces driving the unholy engine of what has come to be called "political correctness". It reeks of hypocrisy and self-serving.

As to the phrase "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman", well, that was simply put in the polite vernacular of the time. It was a bit of a euphemism, perhaps, but its meaning was clear: To "lie with" someone meant "to have sexual relations with them". It did not mean sleeping beside them on the same mattress. It did not mean telling an untruth. It meant having sex with them. Period. It meant that and only that. But you knew that, didn't you? ;-)