How the Gay Community is Destroying Part of Itself

Can I Still Be Gay If I’m Not Liberal?

Is the LGBTQ+ Community just as bad as the Evangelicals we’re taught to hate?

STOP! Before you start reading this with a triggered, dare I say butthurt mindset, just stop. Collect your thoughts as a human being and listen for once to someone who doesn’t agree with you politically, but deserves the same voice and respect they give you. Take a breath. Be kind. Show some understanding. Your community is hurting others within it—learn why so that you don’t take part in it.

Most of you reading this already know what I’m talking about, and if you don’t know (or don’t want to know) it’s likely you’re part of the problem.

Because of the way I and many people like me have been treated by so-called “thought leaders” within the LGBTQ+ Community, you would come away with the sincere impression that no, you cannot be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer or any other sort within the Community UNLESS you’re also a Woke, SJW, card-carrying Liberal.

In other words, at least in the mind of the people I’ve heard from personally, it’s MORE important for you to be a political Liberal than it is for you to be how you were born.

Let that last paragraph sink in for a moment.

Out of sincere curiosity, I posted this question to a popular social media group of LGBTQ+ folks. Oddly enough, within an hour the moderators of the group deleted the question. Apparently asking this kind of question is a form of “hate speech”? One of the mods told me they’d gotten complaints about it.

However, I did receive about 50 or so responses from people before the thread vanished.

Ironically, there is no such thing as free-speech within the Gay Community. In fact there is not even a “Gay” Community anymore, you MUST refer to us with the alphabet-soup label, which is currently LGBTQ+, but will change next month to something new, and just about every month thereafter. But I digress …

Out of the 50 or so responses to my question, TWO people responded essentially that “it doesn’t matter what your beliefs are, they don’t change how you were born.”

Honestly, this is the response I was hoping for.

However, the vast majority of the responses were quips like: “If you’re not Liberal that means you don’t care about human rights and you’re a piece of shit.” About half of these responses also attempted to label, bully, and demean me for even suggesting that you could be Gay and anything other than Liberal.

In the minds of this online community, NO, you are not allowed to be gay, bi, lesbian, et. al. UNLESS you’re a card-carrying Liberal.

What the hell are we turning ourselves into?

The Victims of LGBTQ+ Fascism

I am not the only one who has experienced, been the victim of, what can only be called LGBTQ+ fascism.

It may come as a surprise to many of you reading this, but there are MILLIONS of gay Conservatives; lesbian Christians; bisexual Libertarians; and every other stripe of queer politically right-of-center people you can think of.

There are millions of Gay Americans who (Gasp!) voted for Trump. I know, that doesn’t even compute with most of you reading this.

But the point is we’re just as lesbian, gay, bi, trans, whatever, as you are—but we’re not accepted by the Liberal faction of the LGBTQ+ Community.

In fact, we’re hated.

So because of this, you never hear from us. We’re not allowed to speak without being ridiculed. So we keep silent; we stay in the closet; because to actually speak up about something political means to be shunned and maligned by the very Community who is supposed to be supporting and protecting us.

“Democrats are the only ones helping to pass same-sex marriage, Keith!”

No, they are not. Newsflash—many Republicans also support gay rights. They do. But for some reason, you don’t want to acknowledge their help.

Here’s the point: We need BOTH sides of the political aisle supporting gay rights. When we have Conservative gay/bi/lesbian/trans political support, that just makes everyone’s job easier.

Fascism Is Alive And Well In the LGBTQ+ Community

The word I want us to pay close attention to is the term FASCIST. Dictionary.com defines “fascist” as one who engages in “fascism”, which itself is defined as:

a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

Oddly enough, the dictionary definition of “fascist” also includes:

a person who is dictatorial or has extreme right-wing views.

But I’m here to tell you that fascists are not just part of a government, but can be leaders within ANY organized group. These “fascists” can also be people who possess extreme left-wing views as well. Or just left-wing period.

It is said that the “LGBTQ+ Community” doesn’t hate anyone; that we are accepting of anyone.

Not true.

Not if you’re even remotely Conservative. Or Christian. Or Libertarian. Or someone not willing to toe the Liberal political party line agenda. Which I and millions of people like me are not willing to do.

The problem isn’t our sexuality or how we were born, the real problem is that we in the LGBTQ+ Community have been rejected by the mostly Conservative Church which does possess a lot of sway within the GOP or whatever party your country harbors as Conservative. As such, we’ve found a home within the opposite political spectrum, typically the Liberal ones: Democratic, Green, Labor, even Socialist / Communist.

The irony is that Liberal Communist fascist icons like Che Guevara actually murdered gays because we were, well, gay. The next time you see some gay guy wearing a Che t-shirt, you’re looking at someone who doesn’t know history very well.

But somehow, in our zeal to win the political war, we have become just as fascist, just as hateful, and just as evil as the Evangelicals who hate us for being who we were born as.

Fascism attempts to control what you think and what you can believe. Don’t allow yourself to fall victim to this Borg-like one-size-fits-all mindset.

Is It More Important To Be Gay? Or Liberal?

If you’re like a lot of people in the LGBTQ+ Community, it’s without question the latter. It’s more important to be politically Liberal.

Of course it’s not this way with everyone; I don’t want to paint everyone with the same broad brush, but it is fucking quite a few, if not the vast majority. (Nod your head, you know I’m right.)

In fact, it’s so bad that if you don’t march to the drum of whatever some self-avowed “thought leader” is preaching from the pulpit of their peculiar brand of political bent, you’re branded with a scarlet letter. Ridiculed for not supporting the community! Even bullied and called names like “racist”, or even “homophobe”, or whatever other bullying term these so-called leaders can think of to force you into submission of the left-wing’s often moronic political views.

It’s as bad as the Catholic Church branding you a “heretic” or some Evangelical calling you names for not blindly believing whatever nonsense they preach from their pulpits.

“Keith, how can you support Evangelicals trying to take away your rights?!”

I don’t—support them in that regard. I want to see Same-sex Marriage legalized. In fact, I want to see marriage removed from the purview of the government period! It’s none of the government’s damned business who I marry or how many people I want to marry.

But the Conservative political platform is MORE than just about who we can marry.

Some would call me a Fiscal Conservative and Social Liberal. Whatever. I don’t like those labels either because I’m so much more complex than these simple pigeon holed labels.

And so are you.

It’s Not Safe To Be A Gay Conservative

The irony is that I see a lot of LGBTQ+ people who hold many of the same Liberal social views and fiscally Conservative values I do: they want to see same-sex marriage made legal; they want to see responsible government policies that reign in politicians spending like drunken sailors; they want policies promoted that make America energy independent; policies that support renewable energy; a strong military; etc.

But we’re not allowed to speak.

Or more to the point, dissent about anything political is just not tolerated. Not without us being demeaned at best, or excommunicated at worst.

And once some Liberally-bent LGBTQ+ “thought leader” has branded you a “racist” or even a “homophobe” for God sakes, for wanting nothing more than a balanced budget or term limits, or even something as innocuous as not wanting to use the nonsensical “LGBTQ+” alphabet-soup label, you don’t want to speak out anymore. You get branded with someone’s hateful scarlet letter.

So the power of our numbers is kept silent. Shunned and abandoned, ridiculed by the community that is supposed to help support us in our common goals of bringing normalcy for how we were born.

The fact is, Conservative Gays (to use an umbrella term) are just as much on the front lines of the political battles as the Liberals are. In some ways it’s worse for us because we have NO support in our efforts to help remove these stupid and Unconstitutional marriage and discrimination laws.

There is no tolerance, or very little, within the LGBTQ+ Community for discussion or dissent when the topic turns political. If you’re not Liberal you not accepted. Period. If you didn’t vote for Obama, Hillary, or Biden people look at you like you voted for Satan.

The irony here is, if the Gay Community openly supported so-called Conservative politicians, those politicians would openly support US!

Gay Conservatives Work Just As Hard

Because the Evangelical Christian Church makes up a huge swath, if not the majority of the party, it’s just assumed that there is no home for the Gay Community within the Conservative side of the aisle.

Or is there?

Not within the Evangelical part of the Church, obviously, but within Conservative political circles? There is, actually. I’m there. I have many gay friends who vote Conservative and Libertarian as well.

“Well then you’re voting against your own interests, Keith!”

NO. I’m voting FOR the interests of myself and the nation. I am not a “single issue” voter. I’m not going to damn the whole nation to insolvent hell just to put some lying Communist in office who promised to eliminate my student loan debt to get my vote—and then reneged on the promise they knew from the outset they couldn’t keep.

You get the point. You were lied to just to get your vote.

Yes, the Conservative side of aisle has a lot to learn about the Gay Community. So far, they only get their understandings from the religious Evangelical parts of the aisle.

But this is changing. Slowly.

The Church’s influence is waning; not to mention the Church itself is losing membership, year after year.

Evangelicals do NOT speak for the whole of the right-side of the aisle. In fact, plenty of churches now support the Gay Community because we are there.

“Well WE did that, Keith! The Liberals did that!”

Don’t try to take credit for something ALL of us did. It wasn’t just Liberals. Millions of us worked to change hearts and minds that eventually led to the change of laws that discriminated against us. And it took decades.

On the religious front, I’m doing my part to educate our Community, arming us with hard-hitting factual scholarship that we can use to counter the nonsense Evangelical diatribes of hate.

Just look at my articles here on Medium. I’m practically a one-man crusade!

No, GOD doesn’t hate gay people, same-sex unions, or polygamous unions, or anything of the sort. And I show us WHY.

It’s time the Church was brought out of the Dark Ages of their “un-holy tradition” and into the light of what Jesus really taught and who he historically was.

It’s a huge job getting the Church out of our bedrooms. But you don’t need to be a political Liberal to do it! In fact, the Community needs ALL of us working together regardless of our pet political stripes.

Imagine the power we would have if we were able to get rid of the “us versus them”, Right vs. Left political mentality and had support for our Community from BOTH sides of the political aisle instead of just one side of it!

Gays Are In The Evangelical Church

As a final point, we need to recognize that we have people from our Community in the Evangelical Christian Church at all levels. Not a year or even month goes by now that some Christian leader or entertainer is either outted or comes out on their own.

And what do we do with them? Ridicule them. Demean them. Call them nasty names and write nasty articles about them for staying in the closet.

It should occur to us that WE are also the reason they stayed in the closet.

Now these Gay Christians, often typically conservative, have ZERO support—certainly not from the Christian Conservative side of the aisle and not from our Community either.

The more people we have in the Church the better it becomes for the Community! Can you not see this?!

No. Many of you cannot. You’re too busy slamming whomever for being Christian and Gay. Fuck that kind of behavior. We need less hate and more understanding. Not everyone in the world is Liberal.

Conclusion

The Liberal side of the political aisle can and should be credited for making HUGE strides toward normalizing same-sex marriage and promoting anti-discrimination laws that keep governments out of the bedroom.

Many Conservative to Moderate politicians have joined Liberals in helping to pass these laws. But Liberals did NOT do this alone.

The point is, if you’re Liberal, just know that you are not the only ones working toward this end. A massive group of Conservative Gay folks are on your side and working with you.

No, we’re not going to agree on some political or fiscal issues or candidates. We’re not Woke (whatever that can mean these days). We’re not SJWs either. That’s fine. We can have these political discussions without labeling us as “racists” or whatever other derogatory terms people think up simply because we might disagree with left-wing policies or views.

We have common ground—how we were born.

Let’s not push out a massive body of support for the Community just because we’re working from the other side of the political aisle.

The fact is we love you and everyone that reciprocates that love. Please stop pushing us away.

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Keith Michael is a Christian author and lay-scholar who has spent nearly 40 years within various Christian churches; he is the author and contributor of numerous Christian books, including FALSE WITNESS — How the Christian Church Built a Foundation of Lies