What the Straights are Saying About Gay Marriage

I ran across this exchange of thoughts on same-sex marriage at MercuryNews.com. I found it interesting, yet amusing to a certain degree. Here’s an excerpt that sums it up nicely however:

I am straight and I find physical contact between same sex disgusting (except between two hot lesbians), but how is their marriage affecting you? Just think about it. What did they ever do to you? Why are you so afraid of their relationship. And what is this crap about them “choosing” to be gay. Just think about that? Can you “choose” to be gay? I know I can’t. And why would anybody in their right mind “choose” to be gay? That’s like “choosing” to be discriminated against, “choosing” to be shun by your family, “choosing” to be the butt of everyone’s joke. Jesus freakin’ christ - nobody in their right mind to would “choose” to be gay in this society where there is so much hate against them. The only reason they are gay is because that’s the way they are and they have no way out! I was born straight and I can’t change that. If you were born gay, you can’t change that either. Because, trust me, in this society, if anybody gay can choose to change, they would’ve done it long time ago. Wake up people! Get educated and let these people live their lives. They’re not asking you to BE gay - they’re just asking that they be what they were born to be. Do you tell a chinese person not to be chinese? It’s the same thing, nobody can choose their DNA.

Check out the entire exchange by clicking here.

LGBT People Are Just That…..People

Every now and them it’s good to be reminded of the basics. For this blog, one of those is the fact that LGBT people are not deserving of being cast off into a lesser class of citizens. They are full fledged members of the human race and should receive all rights that go along with it.

Here’s an excerpt from a passionate essay from The Huffington Post by Sara Whitman that serves as a reminder of that fact:

I don’t want pity. I am stronger than most people. I can haul wood or groceries or laundry endless distances. I can stay up all night and rub a sick child’s back until they can fall back asleep again. I can cook dinner for my family every night or for 50 people on Superbowl Sunday.

I can hold unbearable past experiences and still breathe in the joy of my life today.

Read the entire post at Straight, Not Narrow!

Just Don’t Call Me Gay…Or Straight

You think you are so different from those who kill innocent people elsewhere in the name of a jihad? You think you are so different from those policemen who killed Biko? You think you are so different from the Christians who murdered during the Crusade? You think you are so different from those who flew those planes? You think you are so different from those who kept slaves on the plantations? Who burned people at stakes? You think you are better than a Hutu or a Tutsi? You think you are better than the priests leading Jesus to the cross?

You are not. You are no better. You are separated only by the degrees of action. You speak the same language. You spew the same hatred. You can cloak it in nice words. But so did Hitler. So did Pontius Pilot. So did PW Botha. So did Mao. So did Stalin. So did everyone who believed they were better than “the others”.

You are no better than those who killed and murdered. You are them. Separated by a small degree of heat. A small step. One action separates you. Just one. They are your brothers. Your keepers. In thought and prayer.

Read the rest of this beautiful post at AngryAfrican!