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Nov. 11, 2004 Bryan, my new boyfriend, was in a really, really good mood this week and he decided, hey, I'm going to do something special for my favorite girlfriend so he took me to one of those really nice hotels that I never really got to go to as I am poor and cannot afford it. Anyway, he took me out and I got to experience something I haven't had in a long, long time... CABLE. I wish I never watched it, cause now I am mad again. I know I don't have the most normal life in the history of man, in fact, I don't even have a REMOTELY normal life. But it's my life and I like it anyway, abnormalcies and all. I have a mother and father who are getting divorced, an ex- fiance who is in jail, an ex-husband who every once in a while I wish a pox upon, and cousins and aunts and uncles who will forever be involved in every aspect of my life from who I date to what I eat. And my dad's a homosexual. He doesn't like being called "homosexual", he prefers "gay" or even "fag", but not "homo" or "homosexual" or any dervitive of that word. So I respect him and don't say it. Gay is fine by me. Now, I like gay men, and I like my dad, so having a gay father is like a two for one special. It's awesome and I am very proud of my father for having the bravery to come out of the proverbial closet after thirty some odd years. I am not ashamed of this new found revelation, if I were, I would not be writing it down for all the world to see. It is my firm belief, and I have very few beliefs, that homosexuality or "gayness" is not something that someone chooses to be, it's something you are born with, or rather born like. So anyway, my father is gay, and that doesn't bother me. Nor does it bother anyone I know who is directly involved in the situation. Well, maybe it bothers my little sister a little, but to each their own I say. But this is just a new way to look at the same old dad. Unfortunatly, not everyone looks at this the same way I do. I didn't notice it until now, but alot, ALOT, of people in the world are very homophobic or judgemental or very set in their ways and unable to comprehend the lifestyle that gays and lesbians live. And it makes me crazy. From what I gathered from the news (i.e. Daily Show), there were quite a few senators and representatives that were elected solely on their anti-gay marriage stance. Get over it people. If you're not gay, then gay marriage really doesn't affect you, now does it? In fact, if you are not gay, then the whole gay marriage thing doesn't even touch on your world. And if this is true, then why does everyone get in such a tizzy when it is mentioned as an option? If no one has a problem with gay men and women working and paying taxes like everyone else, then why does ANYONE have a problem with them getting married? You can't say that pre-marital sex is against anything if you're preventing people who want to get married because they LOVE each other from getting married. You are not in their homes and bedrooms, you can't tell people what to do when their doors are closed. This is not "1984", we are not living in a big brother society. What would anyone of these people do if they were told that they couldn't marry who they love because I didn't like how it looked. You can't yell for separation of church and state and then turn around and use the Bible in state deicsions. You can't use the Bible to endorse hate when it was written with the SOLE purpose of preaching the ultimate love and forgiveness. It's not fair to anyone in the world and it's not fair to anyone in the Bible itself. You can't watch something like "The Passion of the Christ" and weep at the violence and then turn around and use the same stories to commit acts of violence against anyone... homosexual or not. It's not fair. Christianity is based on a belief structure of love and forgiveness. The same love and forgiveness that was bestowed upon mankind by Christ when he died for everyone. He didn't get to pick and choose who he died for... he just did it, for every MAN and WOMAN. He didn't get to pick and choose and neither do you. Anyway, I have had my rant. I feel much better. I'm not really one to preach about anything, because I am not the purest soul in the world. I'm just trying to offer a seperate perspective. I am a living breathing child of two flower-power- loving hippies. I am the birth of two souls in one. And if one of those souls is gay, then so be it. That makes me no better nor worse than any one person. I am the same and so is my mother and father. I am not ashamed, and neither are my parents. It is not for anyone to cast judgement on anyone else. It's just not fair... but as my father said about the world I live in "if you want fair, take a cab". Such is life. And such is the world we live in. I just hope that one person can see the world in a new light from what I have written tonight. Perhaps my off the wall rant will have showed one person a new way through it. ------------ About the author L.J. Chapman: I am a twenty-four year old mother of two and self-proclaimed, practicing "Christian-Buddhist" from Massachusetts. I am going to be going to college for journalism and I am hoping to complete my yet to be titled novel by early Spring 2005. Email: bipolar_bear80@hotmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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