By Darren Mcvey
For those worried that the Red Barn seemed paler than usual last Friday, worry not. The beloved Red Barn was not experiencing nausea, it was experiencing PINK 2008. PINK is an amateur drag show annually presented by commonGround, a self-described LGBTQ club. The theme this year is “Viva la Diva”, which is really all one needs to know. This drag show may not have turned the Red Barn pallid, but it should make students intellectually queasy.
The most crucial issue is what the PINK drag show accomplishes. According to commonGround President Ryan Kuyers, Pink is nothing more than an annual soirée to promote “increased awareness, understanding and acceptance” of University of Louisville’s gay and lesbian community. Kuyers ensures that PINK serves mostly as a social event for members of the ambisexual community and the gay agenda will not be the centerpiece of the event.
While the sincerity of this claim is not to be questioned, the accuracy of it must be. By hosting an event with such an explicit sexual theme, the university is serving as an accomplice of the gay agenda. Moreover, the university not only facilitates the advancement of that agenda, but validates it as an acceptable part of the academic experience.
Despite popular perception, the gay agenda is not simply about civil unions and hospital visitation. These are reasonable demands. The trouble in the gay agenda is, in collusion with feminists, it pursues three objectives; to blur the line between male and female, to push personal sexuality into the public, and to make sexual intercourse a casual experience.
These aims have made significant progress since the 1960s. The results of this “progress” is staggering, especially on women. Four out of five teens don’t consider oral sex to be real sex. The average girl has ten “hook-ups” from admission to graduation from college. While Bill Clinton can bear some of the blame for the former, there is no evidence that he is responsible for the latter. As a result, 25 percent of teenage girls have an STD and 37 percent of births are to single women. There is no more pressing issue in America than the destruction of traditional sexual morality.
The breakdown of the family structure that accompanies the breakdown of traditional values vis-à-vis sex is not the goal of gays and feminists. It is, rather, an unintended consequence of the moral relativism that produced the gay movement.
The point is not that gays should have no voice on campus and in society, but that U of L should not serve as a pulpit for that voice. Diversity in ideas is an essential part of the academic experience, but not at the expense of decency. The university should restrict campus-hosted events to those with explicit educational and/or moral value.
PINK 2008 may have been fun, if one is into that sort of thing, but depravity for the sake of sexual “progress” has no place on a campus. The bottom line is the university is no place for a drag show, no matter how amateur.
