Since the beginnings of civilization there have been gay people. And since that time people in power ‘chose’ to proffer that homosexuality is outside the ‘norm,’ simply because only a select few practice it. I won’t comment on whether the bible holds homosexuality in contempt or not. The Brother’s Grimm chose not to comment on it either so we will just leave scripture in its just classification of contrived fiction.
But what threat have gays ever posed to the world?
Because historically, since we’ve been sidelined and therefore unable to fully participate in the direction of our societies and so called, ‘civilizations,’ we aren’t responsible for the hateful ways neighbors, communities, towns, cities, states, countries, and nations treat even the people they consider EQUAL.
So I fail to see what threat gays, and our fight for equal rights, really pose to society as the haters would like us to believe. We haven’t been part and parcel to the religious bigotry towards other beliefs that have contributed to just about every mass genocide or any other cide throughout history. By proportion, we are still relegated to the role of Stepin Fetchit in the machines that administer our daily lives. Yes, we are increasingly holding a great many elected offices. But how many openly gay CEO’s are there in companies that they didn’t create? If we do run for office, our primary identity is that we are gay. Nevermind our ideas for communal betterment. Nobody runs for office for fear they will have to defend that they are heterosexual or worse; married.
When you think about it, our struggle is more of a comparison to that of women’s rights. We are capable of decisive action and working toward the common good without worrying about our decisions affecting our hold on power. Our insight as that of outsiders renders a thoughtfulness while making progressive plans for governing that take into account how those plans will affect those who may not be fully represented.
The argument that gay marriage will bring about the downfall of traditional marriage or society in general is a fallacy. Non-gays have been in control from the beginning and from all accounts, our past and our future are pretty much fucked. Gays are the salvation not the problem.
Maybe, just maybe, if the world could embrace the concept that gays are just another facet in life overall, our opinions, our gentility, our creative processes, and our love could very well be the answer to what ails what is so casually called, ‘humanity.’
The entire species is in a battle to survive from war for its primitive, and primarily sectarian, reasons, the greed that drives the few that possess it to never relinquish it and its power, that greed and how it has threatened the environment which miraculously manages to sustain us in spite of it, and the pain and separatism inflicted in the name of heterosexual dominance.
Yes, those of us who are gay are not in the sexual majority but if you consider the amount of time out of our daily lives that sex really occupies, we should be more fearful of people who sleep less than others. Who knows what they are doing while we sleep? Are they plotting against us? Are they going to steal our livestock? Are they going to kill me in my sleep? Are they going to destroy the idea that I deserve my dominant position of sleeping 8 hours a night?
So who is the real enemy here? Not gays. Gay people are identified because of who we love. What’s wrong with love? Non-sleepers are not normal. To not want to sleep is evil and you know how you get when you don’t get enough sleep.
