"I got gaps; you got gaps; we fill each other's gaps." - Rocky Balboa
Sit round my brothers and sisters,
The more things change, the more they stay the same. As people age, the less hope they have for this life and the more hope that they have for the afterlife. In book after book from this century to centuries past, old people have complained that young people pay too little attention to God (or 'the gods').
Pious Americans of protestant persuasions are so certain in their interpretation of both Old and New Testaments of the Bible that they are unashamed in their condemnation of homosexuality. This hostility and fear of toward homosexuality has extended to the political realm where these loving Christians have gone so far as to interfere in gay relationships.
Those same caring people who would describe frozen human embryos as 'human beings' will from the same mouths call for the denial of basic human desires of their gay brothers and sisters. Oddly enough, their oft desire is to get married... the least fun thing to do on earth.
For my part, if gay people, provided that they are consenting adults want to live together and drastically harm their sex lives... let it be done. Same-sex marriage is allowed in my native Canada, various European nations and a few states in the US. The haters should note, this has not brought about the Apocalypse.
Overly dramatic gays will liken this dual standard in America to that experienced by American blacks who were shipped over from Africa as slaves. To this I say, "ummm... no". Of course when a proponent of gay marriage overdramaticizes a point, their Christian counterparts step up their rebukes. This has never been more evident than in the recent political clash in California over what is called Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage.
Proposition 8 has brought out all the worst in Americans and American politics in which the government has allowed the tyranny of the majority to triumph over this marginalized group. Christian author C.S. Lewis put it best when he said,
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
Be kind to one another my brothers and sisters,
Sir Robyn
References:
- Older Americans fear gay marriage - http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/04/samesex.marriage.poll/index.html
- Mormons fear gay marriage - http://blog.beliefnet.com/mormoninquiry/2009/04/mormonism-and-politics.html
- African-Americans fear gay marriage - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/04/EDR217EBV5.DTL
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