SF Anti-Sex Crusade?

George Orwell, in his dystopian novel 1984, describes a fictional "Anti-Sex League", re-inforcing Stalinist servitude to Big Brother.

In the San Francisco of 2004, various right-wing factions -- Muslims, fundi Protestants, Roman Catholics, and Nazis -- have protested against same-sex weddings.

And on Monday, April 5, Pastor Roger Huang began a hunger strike
to demand closure of a "strip club" (nude-dance theater) in SF's Tenderloin district.

Huang urges citizens to express their views by writing to officials at City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 244, San Francisco, CA 94102. I, too, encourage citizens to express their views.

I've expressed mine by sending an email, reprinted below, to Mayor Gavin Newsom, with a copy to the SF Board of Supervisors.
Of course, these are my personal opinions, not those of IndyBay.

...........

Dear Mayor Gavin Newsom, (gavin.newsom [at] sfgov.org)

I flatly oppose the attempt by Pastor Roger Huang
to shut down the long-existing adult entertainment
site at 220 Jones Street. This gay-owned site has
long been a gay and bi men's sex club, and before that
it offered sexual entertainment to straight and bi
men. Its erotic usage was traditional long before the
San Francisco Rescue Mission chose to become its
next-door neighbor.

Fundamentalists are American imams and ayatollahs,
believing that sexual repression will bring a social
utopia. That Victorian idea failed in the 19th century,
and it will fail in the 21st.

Our Constitution protects the right of
authoritarian religions to preach prudery, censorship,
homophobia and sexual fascism -- and, indeed, to
preach repeal of the religious tolerance which
protects their fanaticism.
I defend Pastor Huang's right to advocate bad policies.
And I admire his willingness to fast.


Yet his reactionary views should be politely ignored
by the humane and secular government of San
Francisco.
No doubt Huang's a nice guy, but his
repressive and regressive ideas are dead wrong.


For freedom,

Tortuga Bi Liberty,
of The Tenderloin,
San Francisco 94109

copy to:

5 April 2004


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