I discovered the comment below when I was recently perusing the Wings Over Scotland website and it really brought me up sharp when I read it. I have, for many years, been an advocate of equality for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual (LGB) people. I may have had questions as to how such equality, or as near as damn it equality, could be achieved and about the actions of campaigners for this end, but it was a cause that I supported. For a roughly ten year period starting in the mid 90’s I marched, campaigned and signed petitions about almost everything related to people not being oppressed because of their sexuality.

These causes have included having Bisexuality included in the umbrella of a large Lesbian and Gay organisation, against Section 28, for Civil Partnerships, for an end to police oppression of LGB people and for the rights of parents who might be LGB. I’ve been a Classical Liberal in this area and believe that negatively discriminating against LGB people also goes against the Biblical injunction to ‘judge people with honesty’. At one point I even supported the 2004 Gender Recognition Act (GRA).

Looking back I find that I do not regret this campaigning one bit, although there is one exception where I do have regrets and that is my welcoming of the 2004 GRA. This is because in my opinion this Act has created as many problems as it has solved. It has, of course, benefited a tiny number of genuine transsexuals but it has, along with the 2010 Equality Act, become somewhat of a Trojan Horse, in so far as it has been exploited by some pretty questionable and dangerous individuals, ideologies and groups.

However, looking back to my activist days, there was one thing that I refused to get behind and that is Queer Theory. This ideology didn’t speak to me and my aims, which was to have people treated equally whether they were attracted to the opposite sex, the same sex or both. Like Neo-Nazism or the support by Western radicals for Pol Pot, Queer Theory smelled really bad to me from the start. Firstly there’s the name, which includes the word ‘Queer’. Queer to me is an insult of the most gross kind, it was the word that was uttered by deranged Queerbashers as they kicked in the heads of gay men late at night when they were leaving gay venues. To me there is nothing at all positive about the word ‘Queer’.

When I started to see Queer Theorists appear in the minority sexuality community in the late 90’s and very early 2000’s I was repulsed by them. I saw them as societal and cultural vandals and a universe away from the laudable aim of treating LGB people as equal citizens. I wasn’t interested and was in fact turned off by the Queer Theorists’ idea that society and culture should be upturned. I hated their insistence that the building blocks of society such as marriage should be destroyed, their insistence that sex differences should be ignored or deplored and I especially hated how Queer Theory attracted the sort of people who really should be on the fucking sex offenders register. I hated them and the feeling was mutual. At one point at a large public meeting a left wing Queer Theorist in the audience called me the ‘Tony Blair of the LGB movement’ because of my insistence that, in order to gain equality, LGB groups and campaigns must bring the majority who are not LGB along with them. My view at the time was and still is that if you want to achieve a laudable aim like LGB equality, then you don’t do it by doing it in the street and frightening the horses.

But back to the core of this week’s ‘Worth A Read’ section. Scotland was, at one point, one of the homes of the Enlightenment. Scottish philosophers, writers and campaigners changed the world for the better. However fast forward to today and in a Scotland ruled by the Scottish National Party and the Greens, Scotland is suffering from what can reasonably be called a de-enlightenment. Scotland is now a place where the law is used to silence women who disagree with the gender identity cult, where venues at the Edinburgh Fringe cancel productions put on by those who speak out about the gender cult and where pro-trans demonstrators feel comfortable and safe from arrest even when they carry placards saying ‘Behead the Terfs’.

It’s frightening to see how far Scotland has turned away from enlightenment values and how Queer Theory is at the heart of much of what has gone wrong in Scottish politics, Scottish administration and Scottish policing. The person writing the comment below sums up just how bad things have got. I have highlighted in bold those comments about Queer Theory that I believe are important and why people need to get together to fight against Queer Theory and turn away from it, just as I did all those decades ago.

I urge you to read not just the excellent comment by Ms Campbell below but also the entire article from Wings Over Scotland as is linked also below.

https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-end-of-the-enlightenment/

Lorna Campbell says:

19 August, 2023 at 1:26 pm

Graham Linehan held an open-air event before the Scottish parliament, wholly in keeping with the Enlightenment values and the original Fringe values. We are living in a rapidly-evolving totalitarian state where Enlightenment principles are secondary to ‘tent poles’ in female loos and spaces.

Graham, in common with so many others, has suffered hugely in terms of his private life and his working life for having the temerity to believe in reality. Satire and comedy are the ways that those of us who have no power can bring our rulers to task and to laugh at them – which is why it cannot be censored, no matter how anyone, as an individual, might feel about content.

Every society and culture has its own No-Nos, and they are usually fenced round with laws because, without those laws, or if the No-Nos are allowed a free rein, the culture/society would disintegrate very quickly and everyone would suffer as a result.

Let us think about that. What if we removed all laws prohibiting the protection of women and children, what would happen? Well, it is fairly safe to say that women and children would very rapidly – overnight, actually – become the prey of determined human predators, and, with no laws to prohibit their behaviour, these predators would run amok.

Gay men and lesbians would also become prey, as would anyone currently protected by prohibitive laws: the disabled, those on benefits, someone with a big house and/or money that someone else coveted, someone who had annoyed someone else and could be murdered with impunity… The list is not exhaustive.

Well, folks, that scenario, in a nutshell, is what the Queer Theorists and the Post Modernists/Neo Modernists/Cultural Marxists want to bring into our society. They are the very antithesis of the Enlightenment. Think of Oliver Cromwell’s Puritans crossed with the Covenanters, then crossed again with the Maquis de Sade and the Inquisition, crossed yet again with Stalinism, Pol Pot-ism, Maoism and Jimmy Savile, and, even then, you would not be close to the sheer horrors that these youthful (almost always) monsters wish to unleash upon us in the name of righteousness. If you are not so scared that you are peeing and pooing your underwear, you should be.

These people are on a power trip. Nothing to do with “being kind”. Quite the opposite. Not being kind is their theme, regardless of how they dress it up as virtue. Many will be narcissists and psychopaths and sociopaths, and those that are not are even more dangerous because their brain cells have been turned into soup by their salivating adherence to the former, and they are quite unable to distinguish reality from fantasy. They have been indoctrinated to the point where they are unable and unwilling to even think: the hive mind. Except that bees, ants, etc., have a biological purpose for their form of being.

Humans have individual brains, and this indoctrination actually negates their biological purpose, which is to reproduce in freedom (with choice and discretion, even to enjoy life as a species freed from endless toil, with time to think and create for our shared humanity’s betterment) eschewing anything that does not chime with that primary purpose.

They might win the battle, but they cannot win the war. Nature will not allow it. Evolution will not allow it. The Enlightenment told us that. Every iota of learning that we, as humans have ever embraced, tells us that. Such a pity that these petty, infantile regressionists, unable to jump the ‘trans’-itional hurdle from childhood tantrum mode to adulthood do not understand the simple reality that cultural Marxism/Queer Theory/Post Modernism cannot ever work. Ever. In any human society.

This is a stunning piece by Ms Campbell. She really hits the nail on the head about why Queer Theory is so dangerous and why it must be countered. I agree with her that nature will ultimately win against this monstrous ideology, but it’s not a battle that we should just sit back and allow nature to win. We need to help nature along a bit and do everything in our power to counter Queer Theory, in order to keep the number of people who become victims of this ideology down to the barest minimum. It won’t be an easy fight, there are too many individuals and groups who advocate for Queer Theory, either in whole or in part, embedded in our political and administrative structures in the UK, but it is a battle that needs to be fought and needs to be won.