Oz the Prismatic 🧙🏻‍♂️💎🌈

The thing that actually bothers me about it... outreach.faith/2026/10/an-lg… ...is that it supposes that gay people are some kind of social-structuralist political activists whose relationship to the moral life consists in political consciousness-raising. Like, there is no particular relationship between somebody dealing with same-sex attraction and xenophobia, racism, or all this other social and political crap that would not apply equally to anyone else. The association only makes sense if you already conceive of homosexuals as members of a particular political class with an accompanying set of activist concerns. And the victimhood framework is selective. If social disapproval is sufficient to establish victimhood, then racists themselves should be incorporated into the same framework, indeed all the more so given the active and constant social condemnation of their beliefs. But they aren't, because within this political framework they are classified as structural enemies rather than victims. Meanwhile, homosexuals have enjoyed increasing social acceptance, substantial legal protections, and even positive social status for decades. Whatever actual instances of unjust discrimination remain, they hardly establish that homosexuals constitute a permanently victimized political class. The whole thing presupposes a political conception of homosexual identity that has no necessary relationship to homosexuality itself, and then imports that conception into the examination of conscience as though it were a matter of Catholic moral theology.