"Fire purifies evil," Performance art of burning the homophobic Christian leaflets handed out at Dallas Pride 2023
Used the four homophobic leaflets handed out by the Wells Church at the 2023 Dallas Pride event.
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Background on who they are and their activities at 2023 Dallas Pride.
Fire Safety
There is a small fire extinguisher and a bucket of water and the area has been swept of combustile material. Further the burning is in a small barbecue unit.
As performance art against homophobia
The overall theme is “Fire purifies evil.” The homophobic Christians handed out three leaflets to me at various times, and one was one my car door at the parking lot for dallas Pride. (See earlier post.)
So I decided to match up each leaflet with one of the possible motivations of a homophobic Christian. I put them on plain cardboard, since I was going to be burning them as trash. I also taped the leaflet to the cardboard so it would burn and be visible as a leaflet burning. The following are the four leaflets burning. I made a video incorporating all of these individual videos with a commentary. See after these videos.
Combined Video with commentary
In this video I discuss that the strategy of debating whether the Bible is anti-Gay or not, is a losing debate. it is something the homophobic Christians love to do, they are very prepared to engage in that debate, and debating them legitimizes the underlying theocratic assumptions of their campaigns and makes our rights dependent on a theological argument and getting these homophobes to believe it. I have the following image in the video.
What we need to focus on, and be confronting homophobic Christians with, is the underlying self-serving, self-indulgent, and bigoted motivations they have. We need to emphasize their disordered thinking and motivations.
So before each burning their is a short mention of one of the self-serving, self-indulgent delusional motivations behind homophobic campaigns.
The last part of the video has to do with the homophobic Christians that we all have to assume that Christianity is real. When we debate the Bible, we are conceding that.
In case you are wondering what or who Zardoz is in the last part of the video, it is from a movie, Zardoz, where a ruling group in a dsytopican world has created a fake god, names after the Wizard of Oz.
Conclusion
I am going to be thinking of different ways homophobic literature can be burnt as performance art to get across a message.
We need to confront homophobic Christians with their self-serving motivations.
As for the Gays who are whining about the confrontational nature of my efforts, I don’t want to hear from whiners.
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