Right-wing Christians are obsessed with sexual deviance.
It is how the whole thing began (Adam and Eve eating forbidden fruit analogy), and sexual deviance pervades Christian culture and is seen as a strength in Christian leaders (why they love Trump, or defend pedophile priests).
As such, they see sexual deviance everywhere, lots of places where it doesn’t exist, but they imagine it must because it’s an obsession, fuelled by anger, in every spare moment of their thought.
I don’t think that argument makes a lot of sense. If sexual deviance was seen as a primary definition for strength then gay people would be seen as a strong group to be emulated. It seems far more likely that it’s simple in groups vs out groups and the traditional rules for thee but not for me playing out. And certain kinds of sexual deviance is an easy way to define an out group.
Along perhaps with projection based on priests continually being proven to be the exact sort of homosexual groomer pedophiles they claim to be most afraid of. Something like “if our ‘influencers’ are this bad, the other sides influencers must be worse”.
Right-wing Christians are obsessed with sexual deviance.
It is how the whole thing began (Adam and Eve eating forbidden fruit analogy), and sexual deviance pervades Christian culture and is seen as a strength in Christian leaders (why they love Trump, or defend pedophile priests).
As such, they see sexual deviance everywhere, lots of places where it doesn’t exist, but they imagine it must because it’s an obsession, fuelled by anger, in every spare moment of their thought.
I don’t think that argument makes a lot of sense. If sexual deviance was seen as a primary definition for strength then gay people would be seen as a strong group to be emulated. It seems far more likely that it’s simple in groups vs out groups and the traditional rules for thee but not for me playing out. And certain kinds of sexual deviance is an easy way to define an out group.
Along perhaps with projection based on priests continually being proven to be the exact sort of homosexual groomer pedophiles they claim to be most afraid of. Something like “if our ‘influencers’ are this bad, the other sides influencers must be worse”.
There’s an interesting book called “Compromising Positions”
Aka the Kamasutra
Foucault’s History of Sexuality has a section on the church