A Case For Scheibe

If you know Jason Scheibe (a North Idahoan Moscow man) you know that he has a way with words; but more precisely he has a way with word. That word is "gay". Some people get annoyed by it and some people get a good laugh, but love it or hate it Jason is devoted to this word. How does he use it? Jason has changed this word for us. To him, it does not just mean homosexual anymore. It means Sin (this is a generalization, because occasionally he uses it as a critique). A perfect example is this: Jason will call a man "gay" if he sleeps with his girlfriend before they are married. How could he use a word so inappropriately when that act is so obviously heterosexual? Here is why. Jason is a Christian. He has morals by which he abides. He has taken one thing (being gay) that Christians oppose as sin and applied to the rest of the sinful acts. But why did he pick the word "gay" over other words? He could have easily chosen the word "murder". Tactic would then be lost. The one reason (but not the only, I am sure of it) he chose the word gay was that it is the most looked down upon action that Christian conservative men know of, but do not talk about. Christian men have an "icky" factor in them that cannot fathom why any man would want to be gay. They are grossed out by it and it implies being flagrantly effeminate. So, what Jason has done is made a heterosexual man insecure about his actions when he calls him gay. A man gets angry at his wife (a testosterone heavy deed) and Jason calls him gay. The man then thinks, "Getting angry is no less a sin than being gay is, and I don't want to be gay."

In short, Jason equates all sin, and does this by the one thing that men are most insecure about: Being gay.