Does a person’s sexual orientation matter? Recent suicides of gay teens would suggest that on some level, it does. Tragedies such as these show that regardless of how smart, hilarious or genuine a person is, they may face discrimination based on which gender they are attracted to. This shit honestly blows my mind and it needs to end.
“But the bible says-”
No, shut the fuck up. If you are basing your world views on “what the bible says” then somebody probably needs to remind you that the bible was written thousands of years ago, when shitty and homophobic behaviour was somewhat more acceptable. I don’t hate the bible, but I just wish people took the important things from it. I’d say ‘Love thy neighbour’ sends out a much better vibe than ‘Homos are living in sin’ (I may have paraphrased a little there). It also includes stories about a man who put two of every animal on a boat (because yeah, that really happened) and a couple who supposedly populated the entire world. In summary, don’t believe everything you read.
I’ll make some concessions for old people, as I find that they are generally pretty homophobic. But whatever, they were raised in a different era with a different values. Give it twenty years and they’ll all be dead anyway. But the rest of us, we have no excuses. We might live in a country with two semi-homophobic fence-sitting political parties who refuse to legalize gay marriage, but the rest of us can rise above that conservative bullshit. Gay, straight, bi, whatever, we’re all people. I have gay and bisexual friends who are all awesome and interesting. I’m as proud of them as I am of any of my other friends and I would get all ‘psycho bitch’ on the asses of anyone who thought they had the right to belittle them.
Homophobia is dying, but it’s not dead yet. Let’s kill that son of a bitch. And then let’s get drunk and party.
Amen sister!
ReplyDeleteAnd as the for Noah and his ark of discrimination - he left out some pretty damn important animals (where do you think the unicorn ended up?)
Religious types have always been the excludin' types
For the record, it's debatable whether Christianity really condemns gays. Most Christians I know hate gay haters as much as you do. Personally I think gay haters just use the bible as an excuse. You can use the bible to argue for or against pretty much anything. Don't blame gay hate on religion.
ReplyDeleteLev. 18:22, "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."1
ReplyDeleteLev. 20:13, "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltness is upon them"
1 Cor. 6:9-10, "Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
Rom. 1:26-28, "For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. 28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper."
Seems pretty blame-worthy. Just sayin'.