Did you know that John the Baptist could be viewed through a “ queer lens ”? How about the Bible ? Or ballroom dance ?

That is what “queer reading,” also known as “queering,” is all about: taking a subject and trying to figure out a way to view it through an LGBT prism.

A “queer reading” guide explains that “queer time,” for example, “is the time that will destroy heteronormative time's conception of itself. This then relates to the horror that is created by the queering of time through the breaking down the binaries that hold together normative society as the time in which queer subjects exist is also in a time in which heteronormativity exists.”

If that sounds like nonsense meant to make a pseudo-academic pursuit seem like a legitimate approach to research, it is. Queering is a way for gender studies professors and queer theorists to make it look like they are practicing scholarship that is equal to that of a chemist or physicist.

A theologian wrote this about John the Baptist. “Applying a queer lens to today’s gospel, we might say that the mission of John the Baptist is inherently queer (this is not to say anything about his sexual orientation, which we will never know),” Sister Jane Aseltyne wrote for New Ways Ministry, a nominally Catholic group that operates without approval from Catholic leadership.

Paraphrasing another theologian, Aseltyne writes that queering is “pushing beyond the binary, challenging the status quo, and turning authority on its head.” She then asks, “Was that not exactly what John was doing?”

St. John challenged authority by telling the king he was wrong to commit sexual sins. It is ahistorical to make him into an LGBT warrior, and slapping “queer” on him does not make it true.

It is not just religion that is subject to “queering.”

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists called for “queering nuclear weapons.” (President Joe Biden tried that with Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition Sam Brinton ; it failed.)

“Exclusion and unfair treatment of queer individuals and other minorities by a homogenous, cis-heteronormative community of practitioners also creates vulnerabilities in nuclear decision making,” an article from June states .

This is why it is important to apply “queer theory,” according to the article. “The queer lens prioritizes the rights and well-being of people over the abstract idea of national security, and it challenges the mainstream understanding of nuclear weapons,” the authors wrote.

An offshoot of Marxism and critical theory, queering can even be applied to topics such as gerontology, the study of aging.

“Queer gerontology is a critical analysis of the heterosexual norms shaping scholarship and practice in gerontology,” University of California, San Francisco professor Jesus Ramirez-Valles wrote in 2017. In his book about “gayby boomers,” a play on the phrase “baby boomers,” Ramirez-Valles applies a Marxist approach to aging gay men.

“Gayby Boomers, I argue, are defying stereotypes about older gay people, shifting the meanings of old age, exposing some of the heterosexual foundations of old age while reproducing other features of our (white) heterosexual neo-liberal capitalist system,” he wrote.

Others have applied queering to aging, too.

“Influenced by poststructuralism, critical theory, feminism, and cultural studies, queer theory provides an open theoretical system to view, understand, and analyze social relations,” two academics wrote for a 2015 paper about “Queering Aging.”

“Through the process of queering, possibilities of resistance as well as different ways of thinking, doing, living, and relating can be explored,” the scholars wrote.

“Queering” may be a way of “thinking,” but much like its father, Marxism, it is not a good way of thinking. Nor does it lead to the truth.

Matt Lamb is a contributor to the Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential blog. He is an associate editor for the College Fix and has previously worked for Students for Life of America and Turning Point USA.