Fundamentalists vs. The Culture!

Scott Lively, who we last saw being sued for human rights violations over his anti-gay advocacy in several African nations that have been tied to deadly anti-gay rampages in those countries, has a hilarious post out on his Wordpress site (good grief, it even comes with the default header, a blatant reminder that "evil cannot create, only copy the creativity of others to entice or to mock") in which he basically states LGBT+ activists are "puppets of Satan" who want to confuse everyone: first, about what men and women should "do," then about what men and women should "be," and then finally about what human beings "are." He writes:

It is not just the deconstruction of civilization but the dissolution of all boundaries between human and animal and machine, to produce creatures that are a blend of all three. We are witnessing the end-game before our very eyes but few recognize what they are seeing. What is next in the LGBT agenda is transhumanism, the redefinition of humanness and emergence of human/animal/machine chimeral forms.

Well, he's not wrong! (Well, okay, he's wrong about the "puppets of Satan" thing because there is no Satan, there never has been.) I'm completely ready for my furry cyborgized quadruped three-meter tall 'taurid post-human vacuum-capable but still soft and fluffy and squishable full-brain upload body, with all the orifices and phalli, equipped with a pleasure and progress-seeking mind-canon of hedonistic and optimistic absurdism, and surrounded by a cadre of curious dividuals and a nanotech utility swarm giving me all the data, accompanied by like-minded gleisners as we travel the universe in our light-sailed slowships and spend our intermediate days in polises, picking and choosing our capacities for boredom and fascination as willfully as we choose now between meals. I'm completely ready the transhumanist fully automated luxury queer communist interstellar empire. I've been writing about my own version for, oh, almost as long as Iain did, and long before I ever read a Culture novel.

It's so cute when fundamentalists discover us, and how distorted their view of us is, isn't it?