Morning Thought
I started my day by reading this over on Straight, Not Narrow. It set a good tone for my day.
You’ve got to love a writer who uses the word “poppycock,” but I wish Mr. Pimentel had not focused on the word “tolerance.” Sure, that would be a major improvement over the attitudes he derides in his column, but is that the end goal we’re seeking with the GLBT community? Should I walk up to the gay and lesbian members of my church next Sunday, hug them, and say, “I tolerate you.” I know at least with a couple of them, I’d better plan on ducking if I pulled something like that.
Tolerance is an incremental step, much like civil unions are in the issue of same-sex marriage, but acceptance of GLBT people as full-fledged members of society needs to be the end result. A bad rash, you can tolerate. Traffic at rush hour, you can tolerate. Gay and lesbian people should be accepted.
Why? Because they’re people and God made them.
0 TrackBacks
Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Morning Thought.
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://billandkent.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/2226
2 Comments
Leave a comment
Thanks for the comment Dave. I was going to answer it, but the comment got so long, that I just turned it into a new entry.
I was onboard until the last line. But why is it we need to justify equality in the words of our enemies? Fact is there will never be agreement when you introduce God into your argument. Because God does not and never did exist, there can never be agreement about who God made or what God said or what God wants (though from all appearances, God is desperate to be worshipped, how sad is that?).
Until God is taken out of the argument about basic human rights, there will always be a place for hatred and irrational persecution in the name of God. Read the Old Testament - God is breathtakingly psychopathic.