SEE THE excellent contribution by Scott M. in the previous entry to various reflections on Lady Gaga and the diabolic imagination. He writes:

We can speak of the ageless “powers and principalities” that have been seeking to destroy human souls since time immemorial, but we would be telling only half the story if we did not identify groups in the human community that have been determined and impassioned agents of real malevolence, and whose depredations have not only been tolerated but internalized by their victims. Every heterosexual who tittered delightedly at gay “camp” performances in which the hetero-normative world was held up for mockery (such as the John Waters movie and subsequent musical Hairspray) was preparing the way for the mainstreaming of the likes of Lady Gaga. If I may state the obvious: the guiding consciousness in her videos is every bit as homosexual in its origins as the German fashion designer’s bright idea of female models with beards. In the world of talented homosexuals, there are those who try, through art, music, literature, and philosophy, to find their way to the center of life to the best of their ability (as we all do), and there are those whose vocation is to attack the very sources of life and defile them. Those of the latter group are driven by hatred for the sacred, for the human body, for the call to love and the vulnerability we experience when we heed that call. As C.S. Lewis once said (and I am paraphrasing), the only place outside of Heaven where we are free from the risks of love is Hell, where all love has been erased. Lady Gaga and her conceptual collaborators are selling a hellish vision of freedom, and, yes, when parents do not shield their children from this they are guilty of a moral idiocy that would be unforgivable were it not for the indoctrination that has been foisted upon them for decades, often in the name of “tolerance” and a prolonged adolescent anti-puritanism that has long ventured beyond its proper scope. 

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