Can we just be honest about what was really going on with the Orlando shooter?

[ellennelle]

112. tormented

by the inability - or freedom - to be true to himself.

the specter of his father's opinions about homosexuality must have haunted him, on top of those from his religion (little different from most others, really), and society at large had to have contributed to his clearly fundamental mental instability.

it does seem the negative and aggressive male impulses in general are too often tangled up in fears of one's own homosexuality. that remarkable nude "wrestling" scene in borat certainly leaps to mind.
interesting the female parallel does not have the same expression.

i've long been wondering why no one has mentioned the "lavender scare" mccarthy perpetrated along with his "red scare," or why there is not more recognition that religiously sanctioned persecution of homosexuals has long been the hallmark of dictatorships, from justinian to ted cruz.

of course, religious foundations of hatred are perceived as "righteousness" in their beholders' eyes.

so why does no one ever quote the matthew passage: "if thine eye offends thee, pluck it out"?