Saturday, February 05, 2005
Ok, enough already
If you are against homosexuals, you are a bigot. It's that simple. You don't have to like them, you don't have to be friends with them or invite them into your home. You do have to accept that they are members of our society and that they deserve every single right you do.
Christians, sight the bible as their prevailing document to justify their bias. They say that the bible is clear in it's depiction of homosexuality as a sin. It's not clear. Very little in the bible is truly clear, if it were there wouldn't be so many different sects of Christianity, along with the same-bible based Judaism and Islam. It should also be noted that these self same Christians used the same bible based argument against blacks as a justification for their bigotry there.
Homosexuals are like everyone else. There are good people who are gay and bad people. There are smart homosexuals and dumb homosexuals. The act though, of being a homosexual hurts no one, certainly not more than being a heterosexual.
Do you really think gay marriage is a danger to your marriage? Honestly, when was the last time someone else's marriage affected your own? Other than if someone else's husband or wife cuckolded them with your spouse, it just doesn't happen.
What about when gays adopt children or even have children of their own? What's the worst thing that can happen? Raise them from birth to believe their dogmatic rhetoric about a certain lifestyle being superior to every other lifestyle? Have those terrible gays teach them that people who believe differently from them should be told to either change their belief system or face certain rejection from general society. Or worse yet, teach their children that they best way to deal with a group of people they believe are living a bad lifestyle is to use their superior numbers to legislate against them? The worst thing gays have done in my neighborhood is force me to make my house nicer so it's not the worst one on the block. Damn them for that. I can't recall a time when the gays have rode up to my house on their bicycles at six in the morning to share with me their views on the world. They don't leave their paraphernalia in laundry rooms.
There are those who argue that being gay is a choice. Without any scientific data back me up, I think I can say with some confidence that such a statement is just stupid. For one, it would also stand to reason then that being heterosexual is a choice. Now, unless there are more natural born martyrs than we ever could have imagined, the idea that these people would chose a lifestyle that would garner them little but scorn, hatred and isolation strikes me as silly.
There is no choice when it comes to sexuality. But there is choice when it comes to hatred, when it comes to accepting something because it is what you have been told. In my mind those Christians who, instead of choose a righteous path of tolerance, chose the goose stepping march of bias preached by so many, are cowards. Preachers who offer their flocks nothing but the talk of hate are no better than those who justified actions against blacks in the south during segregation.
There was a special recently on PBS about a integrated commune Georgia in the 50's and 60's and how the community leaders came to ask them to stop. They accused the leader of stirring up trouble and causing frictions between brothers by creating this situation that was so against what everyone believed to be right. He said he believed in nothing more than peace on earth and goodwill towards men, but what this commune was doing was wrong and the divisive nature that it fostered was unchristian.
Of course, had they read their bible, I don't remember Jesus being particularly regarded as a guy who had everyone loving his actions. This was simply their way of justifying their hatred and so it happens again.
This is fear. Fear of an unknown. Fear of change. It's the same fear that binds all terrible things together. As always it's the cowards who speak up the loudest, their screams piercing the shadow of reason and sanity.
Christians, sight the bible as their prevailing document to justify their bias. They say that the bible is clear in it's depiction of homosexuality as a sin. It's not clear. Very little in the bible is truly clear, if it were there wouldn't be so many different sects of Christianity, along with the same-bible based Judaism and Islam. It should also be noted that these self same Christians used the same bible based argument against blacks as a justification for their bigotry there.
Homosexuals are like everyone else. There are good people who are gay and bad people. There are smart homosexuals and dumb homosexuals. The act though, of being a homosexual hurts no one, certainly not more than being a heterosexual.
Do you really think gay marriage is a danger to your marriage? Honestly, when was the last time someone else's marriage affected your own? Other than if someone else's husband or wife cuckolded them with your spouse, it just doesn't happen.
What about when gays adopt children or even have children of their own? What's the worst thing that can happen? Raise them from birth to believe their dogmatic rhetoric about a certain lifestyle being superior to every other lifestyle? Have those terrible gays teach them that people who believe differently from them should be told to either change their belief system or face certain rejection from general society. Or worse yet, teach their children that they best way to deal with a group of people they believe are living a bad lifestyle is to use their superior numbers to legislate against them? The worst thing gays have done in my neighborhood is force me to make my house nicer so it's not the worst one on the block. Damn them for that. I can't recall a time when the gays have rode up to my house on their bicycles at six in the morning to share with me their views on the world. They don't leave their paraphernalia in laundry rooms.
There are those who argue that being gay is a choice. Without any scientific data back me up, I think I can say with some confidence that such a statement is just stupid. For one, it would also stand to reason then that being heterosexual is a choice. Now, unless there are more natural born martyrs than we ever could have imagined, the idea that these people would chose a lifestyle that would garner them little but scorn, hatred and isolation strikes me as silly.
There is no choice when it comes to sexuality. But there is choice when it comes to hatred, when it comes to accepting something because it is what you have been told. In my mind those Christians who, instead of choose a righteous path of tolerance, chose the goose stepping march of bias preached by so many, are cowards. Preachers who offer their flocks nothing but the talk of hate are no better than those who justified actions against blacks in the south during segregation.
There was a special recently on PBS about a integrated commune Georgia in the 50's and 60's and how the community leaders came to ask them to stop. They accused the leader of stirring up trouble and causing frictions between brothers by creating this situation that was so against what everyone believed to be right. He said he believed in nothing more than peace on earth and goodwill towards men, but what this commune was doing was wrong and the divisive nature that it fostered was unchristian.
Of course, had they read their bible, I don't remember Jesus being particularly regarded as a guy who had everyone loving his actions. This was simply their way of justifying their hatred and so it happens again.
This is fear. Fear of an unknown. Fear of change. It's the same fear that binds all terrible things together. As always it's the cowards who speak up the loudest, their screams piercing the shadow of reason and sanity.
