Gay in your Face.
Is it just me or does EVERYTHING current at the moment revolve around being gay? I mean, I recognize and own that it's an important topic and that I have been talking about it lately but I feel like I cannot turn on CNN or the Today Show without seeing the topic pop up. Whether in regard to the number of tragic recent suicides of gay youth, the number of celebrities endorsing the "It Gets Better" campaign, Joel Burns or the mentally unbalanced tea party candidates, GAY is everywhere. It's in your face.
So don't blame me or go pointing the finger that my posts recently have focused on the topic. It's a trending topic. So what's new? Joel Burns. Who? Joel Burns. He's a City Councilman from Texas. After hearing that a teen in Oklahoma committed suicide after a city council meeting, he said ENOUGH. He told the mayor he needed the floor at the next city council meeting. And when given the floor, he began his powerful, uplifting, touching account of growing up gay, of nearly giving up, and of the future he always dreamed of that is now his reality. Have you seen it? 1.5 million others have when it went viral on YouTube and facebook. At 12 minutes long, you might think you don't have time to watch it. You do. And I encourage you to do it. Because it's powerfully emotional and a step in the right direction.
And then comes politics. With elections right around the corner, Democrats are fighting like hell to keep control of the House and Senate, while Republicans and those in the g-d awful tea party are fighting back to take over. And with a tanking economy, an unemployment rate staggering around 9.something% and a health care crisis, gay rights seem to be the focus of so many debates. Christine O'WretchedDonnell from Delaware doesn't want DADT repealed; she says it's equivalent to saying adulterers should be allowed to serve openly (do you see the connection? nope. me neither). Carl Paladon'tevengetmestarted is running for Governor of New York. He publicly shamed his opponent for taking his daughters to the Gay Pride Parade because he is "disgusted at the thought of two men grinding on each other," would never take his own children to witness that, and feels that such a lapse in parental judgment makes Cuomo a bad candidate for Governor. He was quoted as saying he didn't approve of homosexuality, then tried to backtrack and was left looking like an ignorant bigot.
And just this morning, I overheard some other candidate in some other election say that he doesn't believe you're born gay; he believes you're born with a gay predisposition in the same way you're born with an alcoholic predisposition. It's up to you to be an alcoholic. It's up to you to be gay. And I guess to an extent he's right if you believe that you're only gay if you act upon it, engage in gay behavior and become dependent. In the same way you're only an alcoholic if you drink and become dependent. Make sense? Of course.
Where are we? What year is this? What on God's green earth is GOING ON???
So don't blame me or go pointing the finger that my posts recently have focused on the topic. It's a trending topic. So what's new? Joel Burns. Who? Joel Burns. He's a City Councilman from Texas. After hearing that a teen in Oklahoma committed suicide after a city council meeting, he said ENOUGH. He told the mayor he needed the floor at the next city council meeting. And when given the floor, he began his powerful, uplifting, touching account of growing up gay, of nearly giving up, and of the future he always dreamed of that is now his reality. Have you seen it? 1.5 million others have when it went viral on YouTube and facebook. At 12 minutes long, you might think you don't have time to watch it. You do. And I encourage you to do it. Because it's powerfully emotional and a step in the right direction.
And then comes politics. With elections right around the corner, Democrats are fighting like hell to keep control of the House and Senate, while Republicans and those in the g-d awful tea party are fighting back to take over. And with a tanking economy, an unemployment rate staggering around 9.something% and a health care crisis, gay rights seem to be the focus of so many debates. Christine O'WretchedDonnell from Delaware doesn't want DADT repealed; she says it's equivalent to saying adulterers should be allowed to serve openly (do you see the connection? nope. me neither). Carl Paladon'tevengetmestarted is running for Governor of New York. He publicly shamed his opponent for taking his daughters to the Gay Pride Parade because he is "disgusted at the thought of two men grinding on each other," would never take his own children to witness that, and feels that such a lapse in parental judgment makes Cuomo a bad candidate for Governor. He was quoted as saying he didn't approve of homosexuality, then tried to backtrack and was left looking like an ignorant bigot.
And just this morning, I overheard some other candidate in some other election say that he doesn't believe you're born gay; he believes you're born with a gay predisposition in the same way you're born with an alcoholic predisposition. It's up to you to be an alcoholic. It's up to you to be gay. And I guess to an extent he's right if you believe that you're only gay if you act upon it, engage in gay behavior and become dependent. In the same way you're only an alcoholic if you drink and become dependent. Make sense? Of course.
Where are we? What year is this? What on God's green earth is GOING ON???
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