Two strangers on an elevator. Both look straight ahead.
5 – 6 – 7 – 8.
One nods.
9 – 10 – 11.
The other nods.
12 – 13. Clear throat.
14 – 15. Clear throat.
Silence. Silence. Both look straight ahead.
Door opens. Door closes.
14 – 13 – 12 – 11.
There are no strangers on the elevator.
<END> … Copyright 2012 by Terence Kuch. OK to link, or reprint if this blog is credited.
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As queer (yes) as it may seem, those Westboro folk may be on to something. You will recall the injunction “Be fruitful and multiply.” That is, Yahweh (the Abrahamic god) wants there to be lots of human beings, just as human farmers want their own crops to breed and flourish. Homosexual people have fewer children, statistically, than hetros; in most cases, none. God is displeased, because he enjoys the taste of fresh soul and can’t get enough. Therefore, the more human beings the better, even if they overwhelm the planet and cause the extinction of thousands of other kinds of beings. It isn’t just the same, eating rabbit soul, when you can gorge on the top earthly predator, i.e., us. God must feel threatened when He looks down and sees people voluntarily not reproducing, and yet they take bread from the mouths of those willing and able to breed again and again. There are pests loose on the farm, and they must be eradicated, ’cause they’re buggering the crop yield.
But the idea that God kills U.S. soldiers is truly stupid; service members are just the kind of healthy, vigorous breeding stock that He wants to see more of on the farm, not fewer. And they’re good eatin’, too.
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We have gone beyond Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) now; but for its day it was a progressive measure. Judging by the press coverage in the past few months, most people think that DADT was a evil policy advocated by homophobes. But not entirely.
Consider that DADT put an end to
.. Soldiers asking other soldiers if they were “queers”, or accusing them of being “one of those fairy types”.
.. Draft boards asking registrants if they had “homosexual tendencies” — and yes, draft boards are still with us.
.. And so on.
The downside was not being able to tell others a large part of who you were. A steep price to pay, but the gain with DADT was still positive, especially considering that no more-liberal policy could have been put into effect at that time.
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“Czech test for gay asylum seekers scrutinized: The Czech government has rejected criticism of its use of a test of the credibility of gay asylum seekers. The Vienna-based European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights said the Czech Republic is the only known E.U. country to use “phallometric testing.” The method tests whether men seeking asylum on the grounds of homosexuality are sexually aroused by heterosexual pornographic material.”
– Washington Post, 9 December 2010, page A10
I guess we can call this the “lay detector”. Who is watching the subjects to assess the results of these tests? What are the exact pass/fail criteria? (Stiffness? Degrees above the horizontal? Duration of the effect? Are there drug tests to make sure none of the applicants have taken Levitra for penile levitation?) In any case, the test seems highly phall-able.
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