Sometimes when you’re in the majority and attempt to curtail the minority’s rights to the things you enjoy, the minority gets all uppity about it. The minority might refuse to be ashamed of their “deviance” and declare that they are proud to be who they are.

As a card-carrying member of the majority, what do you do?

This.
Often in feminist circles when women are discussing how oppressive the patriarchy is, a man will show up to declare that he too is oppressed! And maybe he is. But not for being male.

This isn’t the same thing, of course, but it’s just as obnoxious.

Visit their about page for more info on the heterosexual agenda. Basically, these folks are ferverent in their defense of heteronormativity. Girls must behave as girls, and therefore must be taught how to behave girlishly by women. Boys must behave as boys, and therefore must be taught how to behave boyishly by men.

Lesser_gods on the Dark Christianity LJ community said:

I would like to see someone pointing out to them that, by their logic, it would still be okay for lesbian couples to raise girls, and gay male couples to raise boys.

But as usafpa says, they’d have an answer for that, too:

Oh no. that means they would teach teh boy to wash dishes and make beds. That will never do. The lesbians might make the little girl change the oil in the car.

Part of the conservative Christian fight against the queer community has to do with the verses in the Bible that ostensibly condemn a man lying with a man and so forth, but the other part has to do with gender and the belief that God intends for us to adhere to a strictly binary, firmly defined set of gender expression. My favourite and yours, Crazy Jim Dobson is big on this. That’s why Focus on the Family has two magazines for teenagers, one for girls which talks about preparing yourself for your future husband and one for boys which talks about how masturbating is bad for you. Not to mention the books about raising boys to be boys so they don’t turn out gay.

On a lighter note, I found it very amusing that the image on the frontpage they’ve got this image — two women, side by side, with one wearing a rainbow vest.

One other point of hilarity and/or terror: check out the similarity between one of their t-shirt designs and a Nazi logo.

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