Famous gay fashion designers express opposition to gay marriage

This is reported by Breitbart News.

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Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, founders of the eponymous fashion house, have come out strongly against gay marriage, the notion of gay families, and the use of surrogacy to procreate.
The billionaire pair, who used to be romantically linked, gave an interview with the Italian magazine Panorama, in which they said, “The only family is the traditional one. No chemical offspring and rented uterus. Life has a natural flow; there are things that cannot be changed.”

They also said, “Procreation must be an act of love.”

“I call children of chemistry, synthetic children. Uteri for rent, semen chosen from a catalogue,” Dolce stated.

Gabanna said, “The family is not a fad. In it there is a supernatural sense of belonging.”

The pair have long been outspoken about gay marriage. In 2013, when the LondonTelegraph asked them if they had ever considered getting married, they answered, “What? Never!” Dolce said, “I’m a practicing Catholic.”

Gabbana told the Daily Mail in 2006, “I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents.”

LGBTNews in Italy is already calling for a boycott of Dolce and Gabbana.

It is not unusual for gay men in Europe to oppose gay marriage. In fact, a group of gay men in France, calling themselves Les Hommen, have been an ongoing feature of traditional marriage protests in France. Les Hommen invaded the French Open, stripped to the waist, with pro-marriage slogans written on their chests. Gay Star News suggested it was “the most homoerotic anti-gay protest ever.”

First Things has a quick review of their success story:

Domenico and Stefano were for years perhaps the globe’s most prominent gay power couple. In the tightly knit, family-based, quasi-aristocratic world of Italian fashion, these two men came from nowhere to make a name for themselves that the whole world would recognize. In a 2005 New Yorker article, John Seabrook marveled at their success:

Unlike the Guccis, Pradas, Puccis, Zegnas, Ferragamos, and Fendis, Dolce and Gabbana do not come from families with long pedigrees in the production and sale of luxury goods. . . . They began as outsiders, with their noses pressed to the windows of the fashion world. Their business and their distinctive style are based not so much on family history and artisanal traditions as on their relationship with each other. And the only reason that Dolce and Gabbana are creative and business partners at all is that they were romantic partners first.

The two men have long approached political orthodoxies with the same brashness and iconoclasm that guide their fashion sensibility. In 2006, Gabbana told the Daily Mail, “I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents.” Such statements have yet to affect Dolce & Gabbana’s business, but as gay rights make gains there is likely to be less freedom to speak for those who oppose them—even if those speaking are gay men.

Already the new interview has prompted opposition, with the website LGBT News Italia calling for a boycott like the one launched against Barilla pasta after its chairman made similar comments. I tend to loathe the sub-democratic habit of expressing political preferences through consumer choices, but it would be hard to object to the victory won for elegance if conservatives were to start wearing D&G in solidarity with these two brilliant, independent-minded Italians.

I just want to say that I have absolutely no problem with these two guys. I think they should be allowed to believe what they want, act how they want, speak how they want and even have private commitment ceremonies if they want. All I want from them is that I be allowed to say the same things that they say in public, and not face the wrath of the secular leftist state and their powerful LGBT allies. I would like to also have the freedom to not celebrate or endorse anything that gay people do in word or deed.

I hope that a lot of gay people like these two guys will speak out for freedom like this, and in favor of natural marriage and family. I don’t expect any gay people to endorse my sexual orientation, which is premarital chastity and postmarital exclusive fidelity. But I do expect them to tolerate me, just like these two guys seem to be able to do. I could probably be friends with these two guys, except that I don’t care about fashion. But on gay marriage, these two guys really get it, and they get it better than most Christians and conservatives. Is it that hard to make a simple defense of natural marriage? I think not.

5 thoughts on “Famous gay fashion designers express opposition to gay marriage”

  1. In their short quips, they have articulated a rather elegant case for the traditional definition of marriage.

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  2. Gay Marriage will be a strong fad in the Gay community — UNTIL the time that the Divorce Industry is turned loose on them like it has been on us heterosexual men of the Western societies for the last forty to fifty years.
    However, the majority of us heterosexual men have learned our lessons about Marriage 2.0 and ‘No-Fault’ Divorce…as evidenced by the ongoing “marriage strike”, MGTOW, and the “where have all the Good Men gone?” wailing by the over-aged, worn-out, high-mileage harpy Alpha Carousel retirees.
    But the Divorce Industry and all its hangers-on have become used to their high profits and aren’t likely to be happy about losing any of their potential extortion money when we heterosexual men aren’t playing the rigged game that marriage has become.
    It won’t be long…

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  3. You know what? I’m really impressed with those guys for having the courage to actually go against the prevailing orthodoxy of LGBT politics; to hold to an unpopular position and continue to hold to it, even when the easiest thing in the world would be to ‘evolve’ one’s position for kudos and high-fives.

    It reminds me of a brilliant Thomist I know, who, though he has issues with same-sex attraction, is a practicing Catholic and believes in and holds to the Natural Law. There is something especially impressive in that; something which I cannot help but be moved by.

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  4. “All I want from them is that I be allowed to say the same things that they say in public, and not face the wrath of the secular leftist state and their powerful LGBT allies.”

    Too late. They’re already under fire from pop icons outraged at their homophobic suggestion that children should have a mother and a father. You don’t get to say it; neither do they. There is a boycott brewing.

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  5. Dolce and Gabanna are simply asserting the reality that ALL men are endowed with certain…i.e. fixed…CREATOR-endowed rights.

    That it is “unlawful’ to state such realities is the paradox: The more Man believes himself capable of ‘bestowing’ rights, privileges and providence to himself and others results in the ELIMINATION of EVERYONE’s Creator-endowed rights.

    This paradox is producing a gulaging of the American work force as everyone with a God-shaped conscience and work ethic is either destroyed in character and financial security or resigns in disgust.

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