Politics: Homosexuality and Islam

Mark Steyn does a wonderful job in an article for the Western Standard in revealing the fundamental disconect involved in supporting gay groups and fundamentalist Islamic groups. Something has to give in the end. Steyn opens his column with a comment on some reviews of Brokeback Mountain, which suggested that the Right's effort to fight gay marriage is futile. He then points out that it is folly to thing history is an inevitable progression by bringing up a recent Canadian government report, headed by one Martha Bailey, calling for an end to the ban on polygamy, which suggests that the removal of said ban would result in an influx of skilled Muslim workers, to which Steyn responds:

But let's say Ms. Bailey gets her way and legal polygamy succeds in attracting more skilled Muslim men and their legions of wives to Canada. What proportion of the population has to be Muslim before Nicole Langlois notices that "the rising tide of cultural acceptance for gays" is beginning to recede.

The relevant hadith of the Prophet on "cultural acceptance for gays" is pretty straightforward: "Kill the one who is doing it and the one to whom it is being done"--a distinction which suggests Mohammed doesn't subscribe to Ms. Langlois' line on the "beautiful complexity" of "gay love." How would a Human Rights Commission rule if you put that hadith up on a billboard? Not all Muslim societies kill the sodomites--some just toss them in jail--but, oddly enough, punishing homosexuality by death correlates more with polygamy than a "highly skilled" workforce does. For example, under the Taliban, pretty much the only construction work in Afghanistan was the building of brick walls for the purpose of crushing homosexuals. Possibly all those polygamous masons will now be attracted to our decadent Dominion.

Zing! The same, of course, can be said regarding basic rights for women. I've never understood why some on the far left have determined that national sovereignty trumps basic human rights. Multiculturalism, when faced with real evil, quickly becomes incoherent.