Gary Badcock is a theology professor at Huron University College; his crime was to state in a keynote address that homosexuality is a first world problem. That seems to me to be a self-evident truism: when civilizations descend into affluent decadence as the West has, sexual mores crumble and homosexual activity increases. Unfortunately for professor Badcock, a lesbian heard his address and is castigating the professor for hate mongering.
It doesn’t help that Professor Badcock is a member of ANiC, an organisation which is, apparently, ultra conservative, an archetypal infamy against which all other infamies beg to be measured; I am so pleased to be a part of it.
From here:
The principal of a liberal arts college in London, Ontario — which is affiliated with the publicly funded Western University — says that his school does not condone discrimination in any shape or form, as one of the school’s professors denies homophobia allegations.
A Canadian teacher alleges that Gary Badcock, a professor at Huron University College, made homophobic comments while giving a keynote speech on Nov 8 at St Philip’s Theological College in Kongwa, Tanzania.
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In a letter sent to Huron University College principal Stephen McClatchie, the teacher alleges that Badcock described homophobia as a first-world problem, because people in Tanzania have to have children for economic needs and therefore can’t be gay.
I don’t know the context of Prof Badcock’s remarks, but it does seem like a weird (and unnecessary) thing to say.
Regardless, it always amazes and amuses me to see the intolerance of the tolerant, and how the phrase “liberal arts” has been transmogrified into meaning the art of being a political liberal.
Indeed tolerance is not always a hallmark of the ‘tolerant’, but then toleration is often overestimated as a virtue. Meanwhile, the notion that the liberal arts (literature, mathematics, the pure sciences, theology, etc) could be the preserve of the ‘political liberal’ is however perverse. Instead, they are the foundation of scholarship from late antiquity through to our own era.
I agree with J Lawrence. Academics are normally so careful with their word choices that the whole “(Tanzanians) should be very worried about homosexuals coming to “steal” their children” comment seems really bizarre. I tend to think that he must have been misquoted. I’m assuming that some on this site must know the guy so can anyone verify that he actually said these things?
There is nothing whatever weird in the statement of Professor Badcock, Homosexuality is clearly a sin and is denounced in Scripture. The time has long since passed for Christians to stand up and call “a spade a spade”. Society has been taken in by the claims of the gay and lesbian community that they are born that way. Nothing could be further from the truth. Pedophiles are trying the same argument before the courts. Sin is sin whether that be theft, adultery or whatever and it is time for the church and Christians to stand up for the truth.
To equate homosexuality to pedophilia is a strange jump in logic. It’s like saying that since I am obsessed with food and eat too much of it (a gluton), I must therefore also be obsessed with pornography. One does not necessarily lead to the next.
Further, even though gluttony is a sin, for someone to go to a foreign country and spread rumours that the fat white man from Canada is going to come and snatch (or eat) their kids is utter nonesense. This professor should be held accountable for his words… if he really did say it.
I was not equating homosexuality with pedophilia other than to state that pedophiles have attempted to claim they were “born that way” which is one of the arguments put forward by the homosexual lobby.
As far as sin is concerned even the slightest could only be redeemed by the blood of Christ. What we are noticing within the ACoC and other denominations is the acceptance of homosexual activity even to the point of “blessing” such activity. That is clearly impossible as Scripture clearly states this activity is sinful.
I guess we are then debating two different things. I understood the original article to be more focused on the bizarre things that the professor said in Tanzania… such as gays snatching kids rather than on the debate of whether homosexuality is a sin or not.
Perhaps he was speaking figuratively. When he allegedly said something about homosexuals coming to “steal their children” he may have been talking more about the soul rather than the body. It is quite obvious that the homosexuals want to “convert” children to their ways, and part of their strategy for doing exactly this is to have their disgusting and abominable sexual perversions “taught” as being “normal” in the health classes in our own schools.
Either way, I am surprised that an academic would be so careless in his word choices in a public speech as this. Usually academics over-analyze their word choices too much. This was obviously not the case here.
The idea that homosexuality exists almost exclusively in developed countries is laughable. Gay people exist everywhere, and try to get by everywhere. In some countries that means trying not to get killed.
And calling it a “problem” always brings us back to a “solution”, and Lord knows that doesn’t sound remotely sinister. 😀
Requiring African nations to toe the western line on homosexuality in order to receive western aid is also a “first world” problem.