Penguin - what is it a symbol for?In what would have to be one of the more bizarre episodes in world affairs, the small town of Penguin in Tasmania is at the centre of a "gay" controversy involving property development:
Property developer Stephen Roche had plans to transform the spectacular ramshackle town of Penguin, on Tasmania's north-west coast, into an exclusive holiday spot.But Mr Roche's development dreams were tainted last year after he was subject to death threats and a mail campaign that urged residents to say no to an "influx of gay Sydney men" and to "think of their children".
Mr Roche had a dead wallaby nailed to the door of one of his properties and his partner, Keith Westerby, left Penguin shortly after the campaign to take up a job in the Middle East.
The PC media then decried this:
Julian Punch, state co-ordinator of the Coming Out Proud program, said Mr Roche's departure was a sign that gay business people were still deterred from moving or investing in the state because of an "old, dominant homophobic culture that reigns supreme and unopposed" in many rural areas.
OK - so time for this blog to buy into the gay issue.
It hasn't done so to date because many of my fellow bloggers are gay and the blog didn't particularly wish to push it. But now I'm going to say, "Great. Good on that town for standing up to the gay mafia and against the global push for deviant sexuality forced onto a heterosexual, marriage based normal society."
Far from being "backward" or "homophobic", this is a positive stance - "pro-normality". These residents said "enough is enough" about the whole culture pushed onto society, with its drugs, family breakdown, teen pregnancies, homosexuality unleashed onto kids as "equal and opposite" when it is anything but and the whole bundle of policies most people don't want a bar of.
In the 80s I was actually part of a gay social scene [yes - it's true], went to their inner city parties and did all but partake of the offerings. There was no problem with individual gay men and women. They do what they do and I don't interfere.
Human sexuality is a private affair and neither lobbies nor the state have any place whatsover in the matter, let alone pushing their views onto schoolchildren.
There is an enormous problem with this town being flooded with gays from a major metropolis and residents forced to accede to something they simply don't want and don't believe is right.
Well done that the gay mafia has been stymied at least in this small way.
So now the words "gay" and "rainbow" have been hijacked from the vocabulary without any of us being asked our opinion, maybe the word "penguin" can also be hijacked to represent the fightback against a culture which actually criminalizes me for saying that I don't want a bar of homosexuality in my own private life though what my friends do is a private matter between them.
And one last thing - the morons who did that to that wallaby should be rounded up and incarcerated for cruelty to animals.
[Naturally there'll be a backup post this evening where the links will be. Time this lobby was nailed.]
WRONG !
ReplyDeleteYour "wrong" did not take into account this:
ReplyDeleteIn the 80s I was actually part of a gay social scene [yes - it's true], went to their inner city parties and did all but partake of the offerings. There was no problem with individual gay men and women. They do what they do and I don't interfere.
Human sexuality is a private affair and neither lobbies nor the state have any place whatsover in the matter, let alone pushing their views onto schoolchildren.
... which you continue at your site in yourt reply, Nunyaa.
Clearly we are not talking about individual men and women here.
We're talking about an organized force. How many references do you need?
This is what we're up against - the gay mafia who uses legislature to criminalize normal views.
There is an enormous problem with this town being flooded with gays from a major metropolis and residents forced to accede to something they simply don't want and don't believe is right.
ReplyDeleteWell done that the gay mafia has been stymied at least in this small way.
You obviously think it isnt normal and I replied to your comment at my site !
Well with the exception of the statement about the wallaby, I have to say I don't particularly agree with you at all here James. And in particular with this
ReplyDeletelet alone pushing their views onto schoolchildren
How ridiculous, much to my great aunts dismay you don't catch 'the gay', you either are or you aren't. Just because school children are being made aware of gay issues doesn't mean a whole generation is going to be converted. And so what if it did mean that? By the sounds of it, the children need to be educated about homosexuality, not shielded from it as if it were some kind of immorality.
Be gay if you're gay behind closed doors.
Not a good message really is it?
Knew this would get interesting, have to agree with Bunny and Mopsa :-)
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of a gay mafia. Imagine Don Corleone or Tony Soprano played by a mincing Julian Clary:
ReplyDelete"Oooh, I made him an offer he couldn't refuse!"
On behalf of penguins, though, James, I can't take your stance on this and am in agreement with previous commenters.
"How ridiculous, much to my great aunts dismay you don't catch 'the gay', you either are or you aren't."
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Oh dear James, so you think that a couple of homosexual people coming to a town to stay for a night is the invasion of a gay mafia and that its perfectly right to threaten them out of coming! And then you say you would allow people to carry on and do what they want in private- ummmm no you wouldn't you'd allow them to be witchhunted out of communities just because of their sexual preferences.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the contributions and I really mean that - all of them.
ReplyDeleteI have replied by posting another article above this one.
Most of the PC stuff backfires with the children I teach, who vehemently use the word "gay" as an inflammatory term of abuse - at least, among the white working/under class. Anything you want kids to think, teach the opposite.
ReplyDelete"Mafia" is a bit strong, but among gays, is there not a lot of networking and caballing going on to further one another's careers and common objectives?
Sackers - "mafia" is a bit strong? Read the next article and see if it is too strong.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, why the comments on this post, dear readers and not on the previous post on the Olympics? Surely the Olympics is more important?
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Yeah, whatever, don't want to get drawn into an argument where I'd imagine that I'm not going to change your mind, and you certainly won't be changing mine.
ReplyDeleteBUT I feel like you've really misrepresented the whole affair in Penguin. Locals fighting back? If you mean a handful of fucking morons too gutless to attach their names to a grubby little pamphlet, I guess you could call it that.
Straight, gay, left, right, every paper, political party and TV station in Tasmania have rightly condemned those bigoted idiots. And no, not because of some overarching 'gay mafia' or 'political correctness gone mad', but because Australia is supposed to be a tolerant, inclusive and respectful community where differences are accepted, whether you are straight or gay, Muslim or Christian, like licorice or can't stand it.
Condemned them jsut as I did, Kris - right at the end of the post.
ReplyDeleteBut you've condemned them for nailing the wallaby up (which was roadkill anyway, rather than actively killing it for the purpose of nailing it to a door).
ReplyDeleteThe broader condemnation that I have referred to regarded for their incitement of hatred, which you've actually congratulated them on.
In your words: "Great. Good on that town for standing up to the gay mafia... yadda yadda yadda".