There are now gay country singers coming out of the closet. This discussion should neither be circumscribed nor obsessed over. I grew up in a rural area, and loved country music, but admit that gays and maybe lesbians are not rare in my Irish farming family or community. It could be that the Gaelic people have higher percentages of gays members than other ethnic peoples.
My home town was Gaelic-American and German-American and, in the 80s, one educated music teacher was hinting that many and a high potential of gays in the community might account for so many single adults of both genders in such a small, rural population, uncommon for a village that size. My mother wanted this woman to leave it alone, and not dig up controversial subjects.
It could be that a study could be done linking the correlation or lack thereof between repressed gays in traditional communities and the preponderance of that frustrated population to excel as individuals in response to their double lives and privation of acceptance.
We are at the point in society that gays and straights should not care what anyone's orientation is. The two replacement emphases should be: refute and reject group-living and get going and self-realize.. Those are the subjects that warrant discussion and support.
If I was a Mavellonialist bishop, I would send 50 to 75 Mavellonialist pastors to Ferguson to work with young blacks to get them out of group-living and to invite them to self-actualize.
Blacks like the gays need to exert their attention and energies where they matter, not rioting in the street, or taking over the NFL or country music scene to make a political correctness point.
Quit whining, get maverizing, and get on with your lives.
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