The fight for gay rights is the latest in a long line of American social struggles. Even though public support for these rights is steadily growing, many people are still dragging their feet. You can help win them over by sharing these 16 aphorisms.
1) I am not sexually attracted to some women, those with particular physical traits. This is natural. Though I could have dated them, I would have always found them to be physically unappealing. Put differently, such pursuits would have been unnatural for me. We all make these "choices" when seeking a partner--and for a homosexual, the natural choice is never the unappealing member of the opposite sex.
2) Asking a homosexual to be heterosexual is like asking a dude who prefers beach babes to date only crippled, obese crones.
3) Even if homosexuality is a "choice," everyone has the freedom to choose their path in life--at least until the big government of the GOP interferes.
4) Many people are homophobic simply because any imagery of gay sex disgusts them. But I have a newsflash for each of these homophobes: imagery of you having sex disgusts a majority of Americans. Are you ready for us to vote on your sexual rights?
5) From the Revolutionary War through World War II, black soldiers served within segregated units. Opponents of integration maintained that many white soldiers would never live and fight beside black ones, that morale would suffer, and that the military should not be a tool for social experimentation. Now the newest generation of bigots is regurgitating the same idiocies to prevent the open integration of gay soldiers. Let us again assure Chicken Little and his fretful animal friends that the sky is not falling.
6) Actually, it is quite easy to implement the repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy: simply discharge the homophobes who do not make the ordered lifestyle changes.
7) Until 1967, many states banned interracial marriages. One judge ruled that "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix." This insane reasoning echoes now in the voices that argue to keep the ban on same-sex marriages. If President Obama will not condemn this discrimination, perhaps it would be proper for the government to prohibit his daughters from marrying outside their own race.
8) Religions often oppose same-sex marriages on the grounds that homosexual couples cannot procreate. How would we react if the same argument led religions to ban all marriages of infertile heterosexuals? Furthermore, would we permit the state to follow suit?
9) Bear in mind, even if we legalize same-sex marriages, a church is still free to decide which couples it will wed.
10) Divorce--not same-sex marriage--presents the gravest threat to conventional marriage. Maybe we should outlaw divorce.
11) By insisting that gay couples be as good as the typical straight couple is at parenting, one is setting an extremely low bar.
12) Though legalization of same-sex marriage cannot lead to people marrying objects, animals, or children--for they can never give consent--it could lead to the acceptance of polygamy. I see no problem with this: if more than two persons wish to share their marital "bliss" with one another, it is none of our business.
13) For centuries, Christians have persecuted differing peoples. As soon as it falls out of vogue to crucify one group, Christianity targets another. Its current victims are homosexuals. For good or evil, Christianity is America's main ethical engine--and the driving force behind anti-gay bigotry. Will Christians prove to be any better than Muslims are at policing their own terrorists?
14) Christians should embrace men who love other men rather than men who hate other men.
15) If God had truly wanted to discourage homosexuality, he probably should not have placed the male prostate next to the rectal wall--creating a G-spot. He completely screwed up that design.
16) The surest way for us to move our country past the persecution of homosexuals is to promptly give them equal rights. It is but a question of time before they get these rights; yet, until then--as we go on debating subjects like the "don't ask, don't tell" policy and same-sex marriage--emotions will remain intense. We must legally acknowledge homosexual equality, get this issue out of sight and out of mind, and begin societal assimilation.
With each victory we achieve in the civil rights arena, we lessen society's prejudices until there are no more. Hence, let us strive to win the fight for gay rights so decisively that it becomes the last of its kind.
Kenneth Rotar recently introduced his first book, Bricks of Truth, a collection of 1000 aphorisms. In 1965, when he was nine months old, he was diagnosed with a severe form of muscular dystrophy. Though it was unlikely that he would survive past his teen years, he has lived a full life. Throughout that time, he steadily lost most of his muscles and is now nearly paralyzed; nonetheless, he completed this book of philosophy at the age of 46.
Visit http://www.bricksoftruth.com to discover more of his insights.
Copyright © 2011 by Kenneth David Rotar
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