Regarding all the negativity concerning the weddings
held at the Grammy’s Such behavior is certainly not a Christian act as Jesus
was a living example of love one another, and don't judge (ego) lest you be
judged. If you are pointing the finger, you are looking in a mirror. If you want to go Old
Testament then the 10 Commandments said to Love your neighbor as yourself -
there was no preamble, no "but only if they look like you, think like you,
believe like you . . ." The message
is simple and profound – Love one another.
People deserve the right to love whom they choose to
love. No, an adult having lustful, sexual feelings toward children, or animals
is not love. Love is caring, nurturing, protective, not psychologically and
physiologically destructive to one another, so don’t attempt to throw that foul
ball here. To suggest that is as if equating rape to love and it
isn’t; rape is about power, an ego trip of horrific proportion.
If all the extreme right wing people were really smart, instead
of fighting so hard against gay people wanting to get married they would have
moved heaven and earth to make sure that gay couples could have the right to
have their loved ones covered by their insurance, to have access to their loved
one when they are admitted to the ER and/or ICU, to be able to pay their taxes
together with the same benefits, to basically have all the rights, and
privileges that married couples enjoy. Just because they want to be together, and have these, and other rights, and privileges doesn’t mean they are
forming an attack on you, or your beliefs. It does mean they believe
differently than you, and that is their right under the law – freedom of
religion.
When you point your finger at the gay community, condemn them, and say
they are attacking my values; that is exactly what you are doing, and more. You
are attacking their values, their rights, and freedom to believe as they choose,
and you are oppressing them with “your religious beliefs”. For those of you who
may not realize this, that is called religious oppression.
All that being said here is my message to “gay groups”
and other “groups”. When I see
advertisements like, “Are you ready for a gay social network?” My first
response to this and all others like it is, “No.” Not anymore than I’m ready for
a heterosexual only social network. Don’t call it a gay wedding; it’s a wedding
– two (hopefully) loving, consenting, adults getting married. I didn’t call my
wedding, my heterosexual wedding. Jeeze, isn’t that a mouthful. Okay, now I’m
sure some of you are upset, but before you get your tail feathers in too much
of a ruffle, let me explain something that you may not have considered. When you
create things like the 'Gay Social Network' it conveys things like – separate, different,
exclusive as oppose to inclusive, etcetera. These are all things that you are
fighting against; being considered separate, and different from the rest of
society, and not worthy of the same equal rights, of being excluded because of a label, and not as who you are; a fellow human being who just wants to
love and be loved. If we want unity then we need to start working in that
direction.
NO! Please God do NOT think I’m saying we need to get
rid of individualism. How about instead of all these different cultural days we
have a, “Celebrate and share your culture week?” or “Celebrate the best of
humanity week?” or “Celebrate your freedom week” or here’s a great one,
“Celebrate love and kindness week”. When we separate ourselves we are falling
under the illusion of Ego, which is fear based. When we separate ourselves from
others and deny our connection to all (and I mean the frickin’ planet, plants,
animals, people, the land itself) that is when we are truly acting in an ‘Unnatural’
manner because, like it or not, when it comes to physics we are ALL connected
on an atomic level – everything pulls on everything else, just a bunch of
protons, neutrons, electrons, etc. So, for all your uniqueness, whether you believed that God(s)
made the universe, or nature/science did, your atoms are still no better than
mine, and as a ‘matter’ of fact, like it, or not, we are connected so why don’t
we try, and start acting like it.