Iconoclast, I was just being ironic and sarcastic. Yes, I know, the government has never put up surveillance cameras in privat ehomes, but those homosexuals were arrested for having sex in a public area.
If there had been heterosexula couples having sex in public, the cops would have arrested them,too . But what consenting adults do in private is absolutely no business of the government, the law or the police.
But let's face it; right-wingers in America, many of them at least, DO want the government in people's bedrooms .
"Sodomy" laws are not only stupid but totally immoral . There is absolutely no justification for them in an enlightened and civilized society . Right-wingers want to go back to the bad old days when gay people lived in fear of being discovered,fired from their jobs, and
being blackmailed by unscrupulous and greedy individuals etc.
It was not uncommon until fairly recently for gays to be sent to
mental institutions for brutal electric shock therapy to "cure" them of their homosexuality . Some were even lobotomized, which is absolutely barbaric .
We can't go back to those awful days . The odious South Carolina senator Jim De Mint wants gay people to be denied the right to teach in public schools , despute the fact there have been gay teachers in schools from the very beginnning of organized education , and many have been outstanding educators .
Chances are that any of us here at theologyonline.com have had gay teachers when we went to public schools, but never knew it.
Some of your favorite teachers may have been gay . But did they ever do anything unbtoward ? of course not, because they knew this would end their teaching careers .
Gay people have made outstanding contributions to every field from the very beginning, whether as statesmen, philosophers,teachers, military leaders, novelists, poets, playwrights,
painters, sculptors, composers and musicians etc . You name it .
And they still are !
