Big Ho needs to make a choice

Vincent J. Curtis

17 June 21

RE: Committee calls on city to fund safe space for LGBTQ community.  Hamilton Spectator new article of 17 June 21.

Big Ho, the LGBTQWERTY lobby, is one of several high-maintenance, special needs communities in Hamilton.  Recently, they practically accused the Catholic School Board of hate crimes for not flying the gay pride flag over Catholic schools during Gay Pride festivities, and retaliated by placing small flags of theirs onto School Board property.

Members of the gay community will give one of two mutually exclusive reasons for why they are gay.  One is that they made a life-style choice – the gay lifestyle.  The other is that they are the helpless victims of nature’s lottery – they can’t help being what they are, and therefore are deserving of sympathy, support, even pity.  Clearly, both can’t be true at the same time.

The explanation that gay is a lifestyle choice leads to the gay pride phenomenon.  They’re proud of their choice, want to express that pride, and want to encourage others in choices like theirs.  There are no Down’s Syndrome pride events, by contrast, or any other pride in suffering a birth defect.  Strangely, gays don’t want to live with the consequences of their choices.

The call by Hamilton’s LGBTQ advisory committee for the city to fund a “safe space” for members of their community is not predicated on gay being a lifestyle choice.  The underlying implication of need for support, of sympathy, of victimhood squarely places the request on the ground that gayness is a stroke of bad luck.  The LGBTQ advisory committee wants the city to believe that gayness is both a free choice and a stroke of bad luck in nature’s lottery – when it suits them, and not at the same time.

The leadership of the Big Ho lobby will take whatever they can get away with, so it is up to council to say, “Make your choice.”

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