Patrick J. Buchanan
June 9 2003
Having seen the ratings bonanza of the reality dating shows "The Bachelor," "Joe
Millionaire" and "The Bachelorette," the NBC-owned cable channel Bravo is
getting in on the action. And to lure a perhaps jaded audience, it has come up
with a new twist.
In July, Bravo begins airing "Boy Meets Boy," a six-episode series starring a
bachelor who chooses, from 15 male contestants, a lover with whom he wishes to
share a vacation, paid for by Bravo.
To spice up the series, several contestants are straight males, who hide their
orientation. The prizes?
According to Lisa de Moraes of the New York Post, "If the leading man picks a
gay man to be his mate, he wins a cash prize and a vacation with his guy of
choice. Should he pick a straight guy, the straight guy wins a cash prize
because, executive producer Doug Ross (says), 'to get them to do this you have
to dangle more than a sociological experiment and exploring ... gay issues.'"
I'll bet.
The contestants were forbidden to do more than kiss, though Ross concedes he
cannot be sure what went on once the lead man took a contestant home for the
night. The show, he says, was all played "in the spirit of fun and progressive
gay values."
Yet, ratings and raking in bucks for Bravo are just one motive behind this show.
A second is social subversion, the breaking down of taboos. As Scott Seomin of
the Gay & Lesbian Alliance told the Post, "This is going to blur the boundaries
of what is thought to be straight and what is thought to be gay in this
country."
Bravo officials admit "Boy Meets Boy" was designed and created to "challenge
preconceived notions of what is considered gay and straight behavior." In short,
this show is meant to break down the moral norms of society that, for 2,000
years, have held that for men to engage in sex with other men is unnatural,
immoral and destructive of body, soul and society alike.
How far we have come in so short a time. If memory serves, it was only a decade
ago that Ellen DeGeneres kissed Anne Heche on television. While that caused a
sensation, "Boy Meets Boys" has attracted little controversy. Alexander Pope
remains prophetic:
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated needs but to be seen.
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
In its relentless drive to overthrow the moral code that has guided Western
civilization since Constantine, the homosexual lobby has moved from triumph to
triumph in a few years. And what would constitute total victory for "gay values"
over traditional values?
Answer: Acceptance by a majority of Americans of the idea that homosexual
relations are as natural, normal and moral as those between a man and his wife,
and the extension of the full rights of married couples to homosexual unions.
Victory is not yet at hand, but the "gay-rights" movement has made strides that
would have astonished previous generations. Democratic leaders like Hillary
Clinton now march in "Gay Pride" parades, as her party endorses the full
homosexual agenda with the exception of "gay" marriage. Howard Dean is almost
there.
As for the Republican Party, it is now a Big Tent where the Log Cabin Club
coexists with a Religious Right that is coming to believe it has been sold out
by the man it endorsed for president.
If a vote were taken among our cultural and media elite from Manhattan to
Hollywood, the entire "gay-rights" agenda – including "gay" marriage and
adoption rights – would be approved. Already, the New York Times publishes
formal photographs of gay wedding partners.
Among baby boomers and Generation X-ers, millions think that refusing to accept
the equality of homosexual unions and traditional marriage is as bigoted as
denying the equality of blacks and whites.
But, as Americans laugh with "Boy Meets Boy," consider what we will be smirking
at: a "lifestyle" that is the leading cause of the spread of an HIV virus that
has killed hundreds of thousands of "gay" men in America, a death-style that
appears to cut off decades of life of those who indulge in it. Even a casual
reading of the obituary pages of the prestige press reveals that among the most
famous who embrace the "gay" lifestyle, life is short.
And the star of "Boy Meets Boy" is no boy. He is already 32.
If the tenets of the "gay-rights" movement are true, the Torah and New Testament
are wrong, Christianity has been wrong since the time of St. Paul, Aquinas and
Augustine were wrong, and the moral edifice by which men in the West have lived
for 2,000 years was built on bigotry, prejudice and lies. Was it?.