American rapper Macklemore and produced Ryan Lewis are climbing up the charts with their single “Same Love;” a song about gay-marriage. Overall, the tune is insipid and uninspired. It’s like a laundry list of bitching points from the liberal gay lobby. Unfortunately, because he is throwing everything together, including the very real phenomena of gay teen depression and suicide, with the bogus belief in eventual homosexual emancipation, it just trivializes all and makes the entire mix ring false. In other words, the gay liberation movement, by co-opting every gay issue (gay teen suicide has nothing to do with the fact that adult homosexuals cannot marry) shows its true reliance on sensationalism as rhetoric. The song’s lyrics, to one that lived that life and was able to escape, resonates as oppression masked as empathy:
…The right-wing conservatives think it's a decision
And you can be cured with some treatment and religion
Man-made, rewiring of a pre-disposition
Playing God
Ahh nah, here we go
America the brave
Still fears, what, we don't know
And God loves all His children
Is somehow forgotten
But we paraphrase a book written
Thirty-five hundred years ago
I don't know…
And you can be cured with some treatment and religion
Man-made, rewiring of a pre-disposition
Playing God
Ahh nah, here we go
America the brave
Still fears, what, we don't know
And God loves all His children
Is somehow forgotten
But we paraphrase a book written
Thirty-five hundred years ago
I don't know…
This section hits at the heart of the fascist stream that has always run throughout gay thinking: if you do not buy the party-line, you are against us. This has been witnessed in the recent push by gay-indebted politicians seeking the complete prohibition of “reparative” therapy for children with same-sex attraction; once they accomplish that feat, they will move on to suppressing the practice even with adults looking for help because of their unwanted sexual desires. Also, it’s the height of hypocrisy for Macklemore to state that anyone is playing God, except himself. How does he know what God can do? He is in the direct linage of apple-biters Adam and Eve: Man as the all-seeing eye of the Universe. This mentality was one of the things I disliked most in the gay community: the slavery to group-mind-think; the frantic quest for happiness, covering-over the real need to heal the wounds of childhood; and the desperate inability to see any other way out.