Dumbledore’s Gay

Big effing whoop! I was reading a Time opinion moaning that Dumbledore’s sexual orientation couldn’t have been worked into the plot a bit more. I haven’t even bothered reading all the detractor’s opinions. As I read from someone, “The people most incensed by this, are already people who hated Potter in the first place.”

Dumbledore’s homosexuality was only revealed in response to a pointed question. If that question had not been asked we might have never known the backstory. Back stories are the story behind the main story. They are meant to give depth to the story’s world. The plot worked just fine without knowing Albus’s orientation, but now that we know it works even better.

However, I would go out on a limb and say that perhaps Rowling should not give up backstory information. I don’t know. Maybe I’m old school, but I feel that all answers should be found within the text. Rowling shouldn’t have to answer questions about the text if she did her job. Then again, it probably is helping sales. I don’t know.

Here Comes the Wedge…

In a last ditch effort to preserve conservative credibility, Bush attempts to pull the heart(less) strings of the religious right.   In an attempt to raise the spector of renegade judges and warn of the perils of homosexuality, Bush blasts New Jersey’s Supreme Court for closing legal loopholes.  As written, the constitution of New Jersey allows for equality between same-sex and inter-sex marriages and mandated that the legislature needs to fill in the loophole.

Let’s hope that New Jersey has the balls to realize that homosexuality has never hurt anyone and it never could.  Even viewed apart from the abstract concept, homosexuals are no more likely to sexual or any other type of crime than straight people.  If they want legal rights, let ‘em have ‘em.  If they want the name, give it to them.  What’s in a name anyway?  Legal rights?  Monetary rights?  The right to visit your partner on his death bed after hours?

You show me a good marriage threatened by homosexuals and you show me a set of sad people–dinosaurs that hopefully the next generation can finally fossilize into the ground.