GAY TRUTH

What may seem like a straightforward chance to celebrate LGBT progress actually masks a fault line that has divided the LGBT movement since its start: whether the goal is equality or liberation , a fight for the right to be treated like everyone else or the freedom to be authentically ourselves. But this will never happen because it is based on lust. Do we seek belonging in the world as it is (including the military, marriage, and parenting) or the chance to transform the world, by throwing off repressive norms, crushing all resistance, governments, churches, schools everybody who objects, into a place where all of us — queer and non-queer alike — can be freer?  For those who prize the latter — call them “liberationists” — nothing better symbolizes the wish to assimilate than same-sex marriage, and in reflecting on Stonewall’s legacy, they’ve often chided the movement for going in the wrong direction.  For decades, immoral gay activists who cut their teeth in the countercul

Christian evangelist was accused of a hate crime and locked up in a cell after preaching from the Bible to a gay teenager. Gordon Larmour, 42, was charged by police after telling the story of Adam and Eve to a 19-year-old who asked him about God ’s views on homosexuality . The street preacher referred to the Book of Genesis and stated that God created Adam and Eve to produce children. Within minutes he was frogmarched to a police van, accused of threatening or abusive behaviour 'aggravated by prejudice relating to sexual orientation' - despite not swearing or using any form of offensive language. The father-of-one spent a night in custody and faced a six-month ordeal before a sheriff cleared him of any blame. The incident, which occurred in his home town of Irvine in Ayrshire, has become a rallying point for Christian campaigners who are concerned that freedom of speech is being stifled by political correctness. Mr Larmour told the Scottish Mail on Sunday: “I can't