Washington's Leading Anti-Gay Pastor and NOM Ally Ken Hutcherson Wants the Word 'Gay' Back from Gay People
Washington state anti-gay pastor Ken Hutcherson wants the rainbow back too:
"Seriously, I am the gayest guy I know...My frustration is that some groups have taken words and symbols away from the Church and from society in general. When I say I'm 'gay,' what I mean is that I am happy, that I am joyful and that I love people. That is precisely what a Christian ought to be so in my opinion we just need to be as gay as we can. Dan Savage (a pro-gay activist) says he is gay. He's not gay, not anywhere close. Yeah, he may be a homosexual but he certainly doesn't appear to be happy or joyful when he stands up in front of a classroom and uses profane language. Nope, nothing gay about that."
Why do I think he and Brian Brown really have a gay old time together?
Posted by: Oliver | May 4, 2012 6:32:30 PM
Maybe we should take back the word black.
Posted by: Daniel | May 4, 2012 6:32:35 PM
Can anyone explain why I'm seeing ads for MITT ROMNEY on this website????
Posted by: MIleHighJoe | May 4, 2012 6:39:04 PM
"Seriously, I am the gayest guy I know"
Yeah, we know. It explains the anti-gayism.
Posted by: Mk_ultra_again | May 4, 2012 6:40:59 PM
How can any one that teaches and preaches hate have any Gayness what so ever? The emotional kind or the sexy sexy kind?
Posted by: Sargon Bighorn | May 4, 2012 6:48:55 PM
I believe he is just being a troll (I wouldn't argue this in debate as it is an ad hominem and thus has nothing to do directly with his argument), if that word may be applied in such an instance, in that he doesn't expect to be taken seriously by anyone and he doesn't sincerely believe in his own argument; he wants only to make others feel bad.
I feel sorry for him. Either he is very shallow or he doesn't sleep well, I suspect.
As to his argument: That's not how language works. Most ordinarily words aquire added meanings over time. Sometimes words go out of use, but they rarely lose meanings they once held. It may be one day that to use the word "queer" to mean "odd" is so archaic that it is never ever used that way. But it will still have that archaic meaning. It won't lose it entirely, I will bet. Again, either he doesn't understand how language works, or (and this is not an agrument either, it is an ad hominem) he is purposely ignoring all this in order to be spiteful - trolling.
He's a troll.
Posted by: NullNaught | May 4, 2012 6:56:25 PM
I say just ignore him. Let him call himself gay repeatedly. The word isn't going to change and he's just going to make a fool of himself.
Posted by: Adam | May 4, 2012 7:30:22 PM
Oh, shut up Uncle Phil
Posted by: Paul | May 4, 2012 8:22:57 PM
Dear Ken Hutcherson,
Please see the next (above) post from Hillary Clinton.
Thank you.
Posted by: castaway | May 4, 2012 8:37:19 PM
Well I understand the people in Africa wants their word "african" back. Most who use the term "african american" are not from Africa, they're born and breed here in the good old USofA. So what we come down to is the homosexuals will use their term and he can use the "negro" term for himself.
Posted by: Macmantoo | May 4, 2012 8:46:31 PM
Fry & Laurie nailed this one all the way back in 1987:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtaPaQwSQPA
Posted by: BABH | May 4, 2012 8:59:05 PM
@ MILEHIGHJOE: you are seeing ads for Mitt Romney here because:
[1] Mitt Romney bought ads from Google
[2] Google places the ads on web sites where "Mitt Romney" has been mentioned, and
[3] Mitt Romney has been mentioned here.
Because we've mentioned his name in the course of discussing this, Mitt Romney's ads will appear with a bit more frequency here. This will cost Mitt a bit of money each time such an ad is clicked on. And a bit of that money will be paid from Google to Towleroad.
Posted by: Vint | May 4, 2012 10:15:45 PM
Is this idiot so desperate for attention that he would take semantics to the umpteenth degree? Well, whatever gives him a sense of accomplishment.
And if that fails (as we know it will), give him an enema!
Posted by: Matt | May 4, 2012 10:57:43 PM
Well, no, you can't have it "back."
You see, the word "gay" appears only once in the King James Version of the Bible, in James 2:3, where it is used as an adjective to describe the clothing of a rich man -- "gay clothes." In newer translations, the adjective is "fine" or "expensive" or "fancy."
So since God didn't use the word "gay" in the Bible to describe being happy or joyful, it's up for grabs and we get to use it to describe ourselves as happy and joyful or, for that matter, well-dressed.
Posted by: jpeckjr | May 4, 2012 11:13:32 PM
Zorro was the Gay Blade; Fred Astaire was the Gay Divorce';The Gay Continental was Christopher Walken on SNL; not to mention the Gay Ninties, the Gay Parisian and Gay Bars. I think the word Gay is shared by just enough. We all know the difference between being Gay & being Gay!
Posted by: Tim | May 4, 2012 11:17:04 PM
Oh, I have a word for him....
Posted by: Patrick | May 4, 2012 11:44:16 PM
No.
Posted by: Jim | May 5, 2012 12:41:22 AM
Looks like Bishop Eddie Long has a buddy!
Posted by: Eddie Schlong | May 5, 2012 1:18:08 AM
I just had to post how great all your comments are. Smart, funny, rational. Thanks friends.
Posted by: Brad | May 5, 2012 2:18:46 AM
Idiotic.
Posted by: Matt26 | May 5, 2012 2:43:04 AM
Get the word "gay" back? NOT.GOING.TO.HAPPEN
Well that closet queen is a gay already, but we prefer he never comes out of the closet.
Posted by: FunMe | May 5, 2012 3:38:53 AM
He finally came out?
Posted by: Gay Gnostic | May 5, 2012 3:45:10 AM
And what the hell gave him the right to determine how language should be used and how we should describe ourselves? The point of this little man's little tirade is that he should be able to use language to discriminate against us, along with eveything else his superstitous little being wants to use. Well go ahead, bigot. Do your worst. Oh, that is what you are doing alerady, isn't it? What petty, mean spirited, nasty people our opponents are.
Posted by: candideinncc | May 5, 2012 6:50:04 AM
He seems not to know that prostitutes had it first before it became embraced, applied or owned by us.
Posted by: QJ201 | May 5, 2012 8:14:20 AM
Sorry Ken, you do not warrant the adjective gay. Queer maybe, but not gay.
Posted by: Peater | May 5, 2012 8:35:41 AM