According to Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, “If a man inserted his finger, hand, or foot into his wife’s vagina, he was to undergo a penance of three weeks of fasting. A similar penance was mandated if he used a piece of clothing.” Foucault’s corpse so just popped a boner.
Filed under: Family Research Council, family, fisting, gay rights, homosexuality
What? The Gay Man’s Chorus of San Diego sang the national anthem at a Padres game? That’s so disrespectful, like burning the flag. After using it as a glove for fisting. And in front of children, who were invited, as members of families, to the event, no less!
Seriously, though, there is something that bugs me about the Family Research Council’s either taken for granted or carefully planned opposition between family and homosexuality, between “supporters of the family” and “homosexual groups”. As if they are opposed; as if “homosexual groups” threaten “the family” in some way; as if there’s one way that the family is, was, and always has been; as if “the homosexual” (who is simultaneously new and, like the family, as he [because the threatening homosexual is a man, because the sign 'homosexual' always points to anal sex, as in statements about homosexuality as a high risk group, homosexuals that "prey on children", etc.] has always been) cannot have a family, cannot be family. Perhaps more problematic is the way in which this sort of rhetoric legitimates “the family” as always good, as always already (heh) redeemed, as something-more-than-an-institution whose value is never in question. As if abusive families either cannot exist or somehow don’t count as families.
