Georgia On My Mind

The newspaper photographs depicting priests of the Orthodox Georgian Church physically battling with men gathered to demonstrate for the cause of male homosexuality in the country of Georgia in the city of Tiblis is yet another reminder that when the religious gain any kind of power and freedom from societal surveillance they go on the attack.  One would hope that just one time that new found freedom would result in an increasing effort to do good, spread love, honor the gospel pronouncements of the Christ for whom they exist.  But gay males always represent a threat that adherents to one of the branches of the Abrahamic religions cannot tolerate.  The religious ideas derived from that source are profoundly hostile to the idea of women's parity with men, and gay males are seen as a prime threat to the ideal of masculine superiority.  The source of women's inferiority to males derives in the very first instance from their generally inferior physical strength, augmented by their inherent physical weakness during their pregnancy and parturition plus their dependency during the early period of motherhood.  This inferiority is policed and underscored by the constant instances of male brutality visited upon the bodies of their wives, nowadays documented with precision by the worldwide press.  The Book of Genesis recounts the story of Adam's doom in his seduction by Eve in the matter of eating the apple; many scholars consider that the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is rather better translated as a Knowledge of Pleasure and Pain, and thus Eve is inviting Adam to taste the joys of orgasm.  Jaweh's warning that death lies in eating the apple is another way of saying that when a couple procreates they have fulfilled their biological destiny, a milestone that leaves only death untried.  Sexual ecstasy is the one moment when a male loses control, and therefore the only time when his constant domination of women is in danger.  Gay males are in every way a threat to the heterosexual male.  He gazes at his fellow males with the look that betokens domination and invitation. He is insinuating, insisting that males are physically attractive, just as heterosexual males will not acknowledge that fact, fearful if they do that this exposes them to the same debilitating sexual interest that they impose upon women. He is not party to parenthood, so has no relationship with women that depends upon her physical weakness and his control of it.  He does not automatically assign women to the role of subordinate helper, because he will not be having a baby with her.  He looks at women as objects of parity; he destroys the hierarchy of the sexes, upon which the Abrahamic religions are built.  What is more, the very idea that gay males bring other males to orgasm, thus a male inflicting ecstatic powerlessness on his fellows, is a frightening anathema to the inherently control-mad heterosexual male.  What is more, every gay male will testify to the times in his life when he has had some mutually satisfying sexual encounter with a heterosexual (using those terms in ways that are sometimes counter intuitive) male, which is a testament to instincts most males would prefer were not acknowledged, better repressed, or, when excited, violently denied.  One can only imagine what passions were boiling in those violent Orthodox priests brutally striking out at the gay males standing before them in open acknowledgement of their sexuality.