In the bad old days it was the heterosexuals who tried to make people ashamed to be gay. They never succeeded with me. I always counted it as a blessing, not a curse, that I could see beauty in a man's frame or find comfort in a man's arms. Now however, the societal tables are turned and, yes, finally, they have made me ashamed to be gay.
Only, "they" this time are people who go up to Christians in the street and try to entrap them, as described in this article in the Telegraph: Preacher locked up for hate crime after quoting the Bible to gay teenager. Incredibly, the young man asked the preacher what the Bible said about gays and then made a hate crime accusation to the police. The preacher was frogmarched off on his say-so alone and made to spend a night in the cells.
There's a line where you stop being a victim and start being a fascist, using your "victim" status as a club to bash others over the head. This kind of behaviour is on the far side of that line. At least the boy's friend's behaviour was admirable: in court he said that Mr Larmour hadn't assaulted his friend or called him homophobic names: he had simply answered his question and told him about Adam and Eve and Heaven and Hell.
